Rules of Play
1. Document Purpose
The main purpose of this document is to give a detailed overview of Esports Fantasy League rules of play for each individual gaming discipline.
2. General Rules
The general ESFL rules of play set out below, must be read in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions and ESFL Policies and Procedures documents. If any inconsistencies do occur between the three documents, the Terms and Conditions would take precedence.
The main aim of any Esports Fantasy League tournament is to collect more fantasy points than your competitors. It is your responsibility to ensure the details of players and fantasy teams selected are correct, at each stage of the tournament.
After completing your account registration and activation process, you can use any of ESFL services. You can also browse our website to research upcoming tournaments, athlete statistics, game schedules etc even as unregistered user. In order to gain access to our Fantasy League, you must first: activate your subscription or complete a one-off payment process and meet our age and identity verification process requirements.
It is your responsibility to understand the fantasy points technology, points calculations and terminology used on the ESFL website, as well as the mechanism for selecting players for your fantasy team. If you have any queries regarding the tournament processes, please contact us via Customer Support form, or go to our forum for more information. We cannot accept any responsibility if you have entered a tournament or selected a team/player which you don’t fully understand.
2.1. Accessing the Platform
To access Esports Fantasy League platform, open the web-browser on any of your devices and go to https://efantasyleague.com and click on “Log In” or “Register” buttons in the website header. Please note that ESFL does not support any third party software providers and will never ask you to download any additional software to any of your devices.
2.2. Customer Registration
Before any customer can participate in any of ESFL tournaments, they must complete a simple registration form and verify their age. In order to register, navigate to the top right corner of your screen and press the “Registration” button.
2.3. Account Activation
Once you have successfully completed the registration process, we will send you a confirmation email with an account activation link. Click on the link to direct you back to ESFL website, where you will be asked to login for the first time, using your credentials. The activation link is active for 24 hrs. If you are unable to activate your account within this period, you will need to request a new activation link via the ESFL website.
2.4. Customer subscription
ESFL is a subscription-based service, where monthly fees will be deducted from your account depending upon the type of subscription. See the subscription types below:
- Bronze Tier – The bronze subscription, allows you to participate in any given tournament, at any given time and a single discipline only i.e. League of Legends. The fee start from £15.99 per calendar month.
- Silver Tier – This subscription tier allows you to participate in any given tournament at any given time in two different disciplines i.e. Dota 2 and Counter Strike, fees start from £24.99 per calendar month.
- Gold Tier – This subscription allows access to all tournaments currently supported by our platform and for any eSports discipline. Fees start from £29.99 per calendar month.
2.5. One-off participation
If you do not want a monthly subscription, you can participate in any of ESFL supported tournaments for any discipline, by making a one off payment of £9.99 for any individual tournament entry.
2.6. Tournament registration
Only registered, activated and verified account holders are eligible to participate in any ESFL supported tournaments. You must register for each individual tournament by clicking on the available tournaments via the website. You will be redirected to a tournament specific page. There you will be able to view teams and players, tournament schedules and basic player stats. All tournaments and registrations times are displayed in GTM+0 format. Registration closes 3 hours before the first game of the tournament. To participate in an ESFL tournament, press the “Register” button, displayed against each tournament
2.7. Selecting Fantasy Team
After successfully registering for a tournament, you will be prompted to the participating teams and player’s page. The player selection process for MOBA will be different to FPS and Battle Royal games.
MOBA games have 5 unique positions per each game, which are:
- Pos 1 – Carry
- Pos 2 – Mid lane
- Pos 3 – Hard/Off Lane
- Pos 4/5 – Supports
Every team must have these 5 dedicated roles. You will not be able to select carry player for position 5 and vise-versa. A pool of players are created for each position; from all participating teams and each tournament that day. The player’s average performance statistics will be available at the point of player selection.
For MOBA games, the following players stats will be displayed:
- Average Last Hits
- Average Denies (not applicable for League of Legends)
- Average Kills
- Average Deaths
- Average KDA
- Average Damage per game
- Average Heal per game
- Average Fantasy points per game (AFP)
For FPS/Battleroyale games, the following statistic will be displayed:
- Average Kills
- Average Deaths
- Kill-Death Ratio (KDR)
- Average Damage per Round (ADR)
- Headshot Ratio (HSR)
- Average Fantasy Points per game (AFP)
Once you have selected 4/5 players for the first tournament day, you must confirm your choice by pressing the “Confirm” button.
For FPS and Battle Royal games there are no restrictions on player’s positions. You can select any player in any order at any given time for your fantasy teams.
Whilst the tournament registration window closes 3 hours before the first official game starts, fantasy team selection, for any tournament day closes 2 hours before the first official game of the day starts.
Two hours before the tournament starts, eFantasy team selection will be locked until the first tournament day has finished. After the fantasy points for day one have been calculated and your fantasy score will be updated. You will be able to either select a new fantasy team for day two or keep the same team. In the event you have not made any changes between days one and two, then day one roster will be locked for day two. Any day two team amendments must be completed two hours before the beginning of the first tournament game on day two. This process will be the same throughout the whole tournament.
2.8. Calculating your Fantasy Score
Depending on the eSports discipline chosen, the process of calculating fantasy points may differ. However, the processes for allocating points to each player, updating players statistics and calculating customer’s daily fantasy points, will be the same regardless of the discipline.
Each team can have a maximum of two substitutes and a coach. These are not compulsory, however. Therefore, when a team plays with a substitute player, the player needs to have been chosen at the beginning of the tournament, during the player selection stage.
For your convenience, all disciplines have been combined into 3 categories. These are:
| Category | Description | Disciplines |
| 1 | Multiple Online Battle Arena (MOBA) | Dota 2, League of Legends |
| 2 | First Person Shooter (FPS) | CS:GO, Rainbow Six, Overwatch |
| 3 | Battle Royal (BR) | PUBG, Fortnite |
Each category has its own unique set of players, performance indicators and separate fantasy point calculation patterns. At the beginning of each game, each player will have zero points. When the game is finishes, an updated athlete score will be calculated and added to your fantasy score.
2.8.1. Category 1 Points Calculation
| Num | Performance Characteristic | Action | Formula | Additional Information |
| 1 | Kills | + | Kills x 2 | Always start with 0 + Number of kills multiplied by 2 e.g. if player made 10 kills per game then calculation would be 10 * 2 = 20 fantasy points |
| 2 | Deaths | - | Deaths x 1 | Take away from current fantasy points count number of deaths multiplied by 1 e.g. If player died 6 times, then remove 6 points from overall points count |
| 3 | Assists | + | Assists x 1 | Every assist generates 1 fantasy point |
| 4 | KDA Ratio | + | (Kills + Assists) / Deaths | Number of kills + number of assists divided by number of deaths rounded to 2 significant figures. If number of deaths is 0 then add number of kills and assists only |
| 5 | Damage Done | + | (Kills + Assists) / Deaths | Number of kills + number of assists divided by number of deaths rounded to 2 significant figures. If number of deaths is 0 then add number of kills and assists only |
| 6 | Building Damage Done | - |
If Damage Dealt <= 100 then Damage dealt / 10 If Damage Dealt <= 100 then Damage dealt / 10 If Damage Dealt > 1000 and <15000 (Damage Dealt / 1000) * 2 Else Give 35 points |
Result rounded to 2 significant figures. If this ratio is less than 1, give 1 point. |
| 7 | Damage Received | + |
If Damage Received <=100 then Damage received / 10 If Damage Received > 100 and <=1000 then (Damaged Received / 100) * 1.5 If Damage Received >1000 and < 15000 then (Damage Received / 1000) * 2 Else Remove 35 points |
Result rounded to 2 significant figures. If this ratio is less than 1, do not remove any points. |
| 8 | Allies Heal | + | Total heal * 0.001 | |
| 9 | Number of wards placed | + |
Add 0.5 points for each observer ward Add 1 point for every sentry ward |
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| 10 | Number of wards destroyed | + | 10 Number of wards destroyed + Add 0.5 points for every ward destroyed | |
| 11 | Gold Per Minute | + | Current GPM / 100 | Result rounded to 2 significant figures |
| 12 | Experience Per Minute | + | Current XPM / 100 | Result rounded to 2 significant figures |
| 13 | Number of Creeps Killed | + | Num of creeps / game duration | Average number of creeps killed peer minute Result rounded to 2 significant figures |
| 14 | Number of Creeps Denied | + | Num of creeps denied / 10 | Number of creeps denied divided by 10 and result rounded to 2 significant figures |
2.8.2. Category 2 Points Calculation
| Num | Performance Characteristic | Action | Formula | Additional Information |
| 1 | Kills | + | Each kill grants 1 points | If player made 10 kills, then 10 points must be added to overall score |
| 2 | Headshots | + | Each HS grants 1.5 points | Add 1.5 fantasy points for every headshot |
| 3 | Deaths | - | Deaths x 1 | 100% of total number of deaths should be subtracted from overall score |
| 4 | Assists | + | Assists x 0.5 | Every assist generates 0.5 fantasy point that would be added to overall score |
| 5 | Flashed Assists | + | Number of flashed assists x 1 | Every flashed kill grants 1 points |
| 6 | Kills Deaths Ratio (KDR) | + | (Num of Kills / Num of Deaths) x 10 | Number of kills divided by number of deaths result rounded to 2 significant figures. If number of deaths is 0 then add number of kills only |
| 7 | Headshots Ratio (HSR) | + | (Number of Headshots / Number of Total kills) x 10 | Number of headshots kills over overall number of kills multiplied by 10 and result rounded to 2 significant figures |
| 8 | FK Difference | + | First Kill difference x2 | Number of Entry kills multiplied by 2. If FK difference is less then 0, then it should be subtracted from total number of fantasy points |
| 9 | Average Damage Per Round | + | (Total Damage / Number of Rounds played) / 10 | Total damage done per 1 game divided by total number of rounds played, further divided by 10 and result rounded to 2 significant figures |
| 10 | KAST | + | KAST / 10 | Percentage of rounds in which player had a kill, assist, survived or was traded divided by 10 and result rounded to 2 significant figures |
2.8.3. Category 3 Points Calculation
| Num | Performance Characteristic | Action | Formula | Additional Information |
| 1 | Kills | + | Each kill grants 1 points | 1 kill = 1 point |
| 2 | Knocks Given | + | Each enemy knock grants 0.5 point | 1 knock = 0.5 point |
| 3 | Knocks received | - | Each knock taken removes 0.5 point | 1 knock = - 0.5 point |
| 4 | Kills stolen | + | Each stolen kill adds 0.5 | Every killed made against knocked player, that was knocked by other team grants 0.5 point |
| 5 | Team mates revived | + | Each revive grants 1 point | 1 teammate revive = 1 point |
| 6 | Assists | + | Assists x 0.5 | Every assist generates 0.5 fantasy point that would be added to overall score |
| 7 | Headshots Ratio (HSR) | + | (Number of Headshots / Number of Total kills) x 10 | Number of headshot kills over overall number of kills multiplied by 10 and result rounded to 2 significant figures |
| 8 | Team Kills | - | Number of Team kills x 5 | Number of team mates killed multiplied by 5 |
| 9 | Grenade Kills | + | Frag grenade kill x 2 | Each frag grenade kill grant 2 points |
| 10 | Suicide | - | Removes 10 points | Removes 10 points |
| 11 | Transport destroyed | + |
Every car destroyed grants 1 point Every motorbike destroyed grants 1.5 points Every boat destroyed grants 2 points IF by destroying the vehicle enemies were killed, then multiple each kill counter by 2 |
If athlete has destroyed a car with 2 enemies in it, they will get 1.5 points for destroying car 2 enemies x 2 = 4 points Therefore, overall score is 5.5 |
2.9. Review and Understand My Fantasy Score
At the end of each tournament day you can review your fantasy team and view the number of points that you have scored with your team selection, number of points generated by each athlete, your daily and overall tournament standing and other tournament statistics. In order to do so, click on “My Fantasy” link in website header and select the tournament you are taking part in, you will be redirected to the main fantasy review and selection page. All fantasy statistics can be reviewed for every participation day.
2.10. Identifying Tournament Winner
When the tournament is completed, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place runners will be identified, based on the total number of fantasy points they’ve managed to score during the whole tournament. In cases when 2 participants have the same number of points, the winner will be identified based on their last tournament day performance. If two players have the same amount of points gathered during the last day, the previous days will be used until a clear winner is identified.
Where multiple bets, involving identical or very similar selections are reserved by different customers at approximately similar times, or within short timeframes, we reserve the right to disqualify such accounts from the competition and no subscription fee will be refunded.
2.11. Prize fund distribution
The process of prize money distribution must be the same for each tournament and discipline. The overall tournament winnings will be split as follows:
| Placement | Winnings share |
| Top 1 | 60% of overall tournament prize pool |
| Top 2 | 25% of overall tournament prize pool |
| Top 3 | 15% of overall tournament prize poll |
Prize pool will be determined by a number of customers who have registered for the tournament and by tournament classification i.e. major, minor or league championships. Tournament prize pool will be updated every time when new customer registers for this tournament.
The chance of any customer winning a fantasy tournament will be purely determined by the number of customers registered for this tournament. For example, if a single fantasy tournament has 10 customers then chances of winning this tournament will be 1 to 10 or 10%. This information will be clearly displayed to the customer at the point of registration for fantasy tournament.
2.12 Fees and Charges
TrustPayments is ESFL’s trusted merchant provider that provides all financial services on behalf of ESFL. All monthly fee payments are free of charges. All payouts from ESFL to the customers will include a service fee charge, imposed by ESFL trusted merchant provider TrustPayments. Service fee charge is set to 1% of the payout amount. All payouts can be requested via ESFL customer Dashboard once fantasy tournament have been finished and tournament winner identified.
