Omnifantasy 2025 Rules

How to play the game.

Overview

Omnifantasy is a fantasy sports game that requires picking teams (or individuals, in individual competition leagues, like golf) in a draft only format that will reward points for those teams or individuals placing in the top 8 of the post-playoff rankings of their own sport/league. For those so inclined, you may think of this game as drafting futures from each sports league. Each manager drafting a roster in this league will have to select at minimum one team from every league in play, but will have a number of flex spots where they may choose any additional number of teams from any of the leagues. This allows you to use your knowledge of specific sports leagues, or perhaps just select more teams in ones that you enjoy watching, and only have to take one team in a league you do not know or care much about. Last year’s pick board looks like this.

Format and Draft

Omnifantasy consists of one draft, beginning the moment the Super Bowl ends. The league year of Omnifantasy spans from the moment the Super Bowl ends to the close of the next year’s Super Bowl. After the draft finishes (usually in 3-4 weeks), there is no more activity required of any manager in the league than to watch the results come in. The joy, as it were, is in the sweat. 

Omnifantasy combines fifteen different sports leagues (and one silly one, specific to only the A and B leagues on the pyramid): the NFL, NCAAF (college football), NBA, WNBA, NCAAB, NCAAW (men’s and women’s college basketball), MLB, NHL, MLS (American soccer), LOL (the League of Legends World Championship), a rotating international soccer spot (World Cup/Women’s World Cup/Euros/Club World Cup), PGA (golf), ATP (men’s tennis), WTA (women’s tennis), NASCAR, Formula 1 (open-wheel racing), and the Omnifantasy A/B League (again, only to worry about if you’re in the A/B league). More details on scoring these leagues can be found below.

The draft occurs in the middle of the regular season for some leagues. For this reason, here is a list of which league years count for the current 2025-26 Omnifantasy season:

• The 2024-2025 league year is used for: NHL, NBA, NCAAB.

• The 2025 league year is used for: MLB, MLS, LOL, Euros, PGA, NASCAR, F1.

• The 2025-26 league year is used for: NFL, NCAAF.

• ATP/WTA are a special case, as they will use the 2025 editions of the French Open, US Open, and Wimbledon, and the 2026 edition of the Australian Open.

The draft is a serpentine draft, meaning that the draft order will be reversed every round. For our 12 team leagues, this means that the person with the 12th pick will also have the 13th, and the 1st pick will have the 24th (and 25th, for that matter). 

The draft is a slow draft, meaning that each pick will have an 8 hour clock that pauses from 12am (midnight) to 8am in your local time. If you live a nocturnal lifestyle, we will also accommodate that. Your pick timer starts immediately after the person before you has picked, and if you are drafting from the first or last slot, you will get a combined 16 hours for your two picks, but it would be cool if you just used 8 like the rest of us. You will get an email notification when it is your turn to pick. 

If you miss your pick, you may fill it in retroactively at any time, but the next manager after you will also be able to pick at that time. The same rule applies if you try to select a team that has already been selected, though we will try to notify you about both those occurrences ahead of time.

You do not have to select one team from each league before drafting a second (third, fourth, etc) team from a league you have already selected a team from. The only time you cannot do this is if your selection would make you have more unfilled leagues than you do draft picks remaining, resulting in an invalid pick, governed by the paragraph above. 

You are only allowed to make one Omnifantasy manager pick (again, only if you are in the A/B league does this league apply), and there may only be one manager in each draft that can take two WNBA teams—all other managers must only take one.

Scoring

The top 8 finishers in each league receive Omnifantasy points. The manager with the most Omnifantasy points at the close of next year’s Super Bowl wins the Omnifantasy league. The scoring for all leagues is the same, and is as follows:

• Champion/1st place: 80 points

• Runner-up/2nd place: 50 points

• Semi-finalists/3rd and 4th place: 30 points

• Quarter-finalists/5th through 8th place: 20 points

Should there be a tie at the end of the season for Omnifantasy points, the tiebreaker will go to the manager having the most teams with the most 1st place finishes. Should that be tied, we will look to the most 2nd place finishes, then 3rd, etc, through 8th. Should all be tied, the tiebreaker will go to the team that scored the most points in the 1st round of the draft, then the 2nd, then the 3rd, etc. Should all still be tied, the winner is the person who scored points closest to the end of the league year (the Super Bowl). Should all STILL be tied, the winner will be determined by a coin flip.

Most leagues resolve in some sort of playoff format that delineates a clear top 8. Starting in the 2023 season, this includes all leagues besides NASCAR, LOL, ATP/WTA, PGA, and F1. The specific scoring rules for those leagues are listed below:

• F1: The top 8 drivers in regular season driver points will score Omnifantasy Points.

• NASCAR: The NASCAR playoffs eliminate four drivers at a time from 16 down to the Championship 4. Some post-championship points can still change because eliminated drivers still race in the postseason. For our purposes, the four drivers eliminated to close the field from 8 to 4 stay in 5th-8th place, regardless of post-championship reshuffling, and the four drivers in the Championship 4 will receive 1st-4th place points in the order of their final finish after the Championship Race within those four, again, regardless of post-championship reshuffling.

• LOL: The top 8 teams at the League of Legends World Championship will score points. (This is a normal bracket, it’s just a specific tournament and not a domestic league, which is why it’s included here).

• ATP/WTA/PGA: Tennis and golf are each scored individually by a sub-scoring method using the major tournaments of each sport. For tennis, these are the four grand slams (Australian Open, French Open, US Open, Wimbledon) and for golf these are the four majors and the Players Championship (The Masters, The PGA Championship, The US Open, and The Open Championship). Each participant will receive sub-scoring points--which are NOT Omnifantasy Points--for placing in the top 16 of each of these individual events, and at the end of the last major, those sub-scoring points will be totaled, and the male and female tennis player and golfer with the most sub-scoring points will each, in their individual league, receive 80 Omnifantasy Points. The sub-scoring points system is listed below, along with an example.

  • Sub-scoring Points (awarded for each tournament)

    • 1st place: 8

    • 2nd place: 5

    • 3rd/4th place: 3

    • 5th-8th place: 2

    • 9th-16th place: 1

  • Ex. Imagine there are only three male tennis players: A, B, and C. Let’s imagine that A finishes 1st, 3rd, 2nd, and 3rd at the four majors; B finishes 2nd, 4th, 1st, and 11th; and C finishes 3rd, 1st, 15th, and 29th. Here is what their sub-scoring points and Omnifantasy Points would look like at the end of the season:

In the event of a tie, points will be distributed evenly between all tied positions. For example, if there are four golfers all tied for 7th at the end of the season, they will each receive 10 points (the 40 points between 7th and 8th place divided over four players).

Promotion and Relegation

Ted: The teams that get relegated, they can get un-relegated, yeah?

Rebecca: They can get promoted.

Ted: So then, next year we get ourselves a promotion, which looks good on any resume. Then we come back to this league and...we do something that no one believes we could ever do. Win the whole f***ing thing.

--Ted Lasso, S01E10 “The Hope That Kills You”

As of the 2025-26 season, the Omnifantasy league consists of many separate leagues: the A league, B league, C league, and D league. All leagues operate independently of each other, meaning that each league has its own draft and its own individual league competition. At the end of the season, the top three finishers in any non-A league will be promoted to the next higher league, and the bottom three finishers in any non-D league will be relegated to the next lower league.

Payment

The league has an optional $10 buy-in, with an additional $20 add-on to be eligible to win a series of unique props that relate to your team doing well. If you choose not to pay either, your only loss is that you are ineligible to win prizes. Payment info can be found by reaching out to Hunter or in the Signal group chats. 

The prize distribution is as follows for the normal $10 buy-in:

• 1st place in each individual league: 55% of your league’s prize pool

• 2nd place in each individual league: 25% of your league’s prize pool

• 3rd place in each individual league: 10% of your league’s prize pool

• The overall highest scorer among all leagues: The remaining 10%s of all leagues’ prize pools combined

And for the $20 prop pool:

• Each of the five props: 18% of the total prop pool across all leagues

  • Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Most teams drafted that finish in the top 16 but not the top 8 of their respective leagues.

  • Last Dance: The latest round draft pick to score points. Ties broken by how many points they scored.

  • Streaker: Most consecutive round draft picks to score points. Ties broken by the later last round of the streak.

  • Snowflake: Most points that were not claimed by any other league, i.e., uniquely drafted teams. Ties broken by total number of unique teams scoring points.

  • Twins: Most points scored in conjunction (meaning you both drafted the same teams) with a manager in another league. Ties broken by total number of same teams drafted that scored points.

• The Dynasty Prop: 10% of the total prop pool across all leagues

  • This prop pool rolls over year to year until someone who bought into the prop pool fulfills any one of these three conditions:

    • Scores Omni points in every league

    • Breaks the all-time Omni high score (530)

    • Their last three draft picks all score Omni points

Communications

We use Signal for the group chat. We also use email to notify people when it is their turn to pick in the draft and you can opt in to receiving turn notifications on Mastodon, Discord, or Bluesky.

Rule Changes/Leadership

This league is run by some conglomeration of myself (Hunter) and the rest of the league. With most decisions in the league, I try to send out a poll and discuss with individual members of the league their preferences before making a decision. We’re a pretty chill crew so there haven’t been any issues with this method of governance so far, and if you ever have suggestions or want to make changes, you’re always more than welcome to bring them up for consideration. 

Prohibition on Canine Participation

Dogs cannot play Omnifantasy.