The 5th round of Proleague is starting tomorrow night, and in the 36 hours before that, sick nerd ballers everywhere are filling out their Fantasy Proleague teams. I highly recommend that you all play.

If you’re unfamiliar with Fantasy sports, the idea is that you put together a team of players, and based on their performance in real games, you get points based on their statistics. For Fantasy Proleague, each player has a value. At the beginning of the round, you put together a team with a value up to 30 for your main team, and at least 13 points on your anti-team. When players on your main team wins, you get points. When players on your anti-team win, you lose points. Each week, you can make a few trades, and player values fluctuate based on their performance. That’s it.

Is this nerdy? Tremendously. But if you watch Proleague, it will definitely enhance your knowledge of the games, and if you don’t watch Proleague, you should. In the Americas, it’s conveniently on in the evenings over the weekend. You will pay a lot more attention to individual players and follow their performance much more closely, which hopefully enriches your StarCraft knowledge. And fantasy in itself is fun.

To get started, you just need to sign up at http://www.teamliquid.net/fantasy/proleague/Entry.php. If you want to do additional research, here are a few more resources:

• Rules for this round
• Starting lineups for week 1 of round 4
• Fantasy lineups other users have posted
• Statistics from last round (round 4)
• Statistics from the last all-kill round (round 2)
• Sortable list of players for this round
• Liquipedia statistics from all rounds (not up to date)

I hope you play this round and enjoy!

P.S. Here’s my team right now. I might change my mind multiple times in the near future:

Main Team

• 8 – Innovation – might be the best SC2 player. Also can win a lot of games against EG-TL this week
• 6 – SoS – people seem to think he’s undervalued, and I would agree. He’s good, and he’s on Woongjin Stars
• 6 – CJ herO – he didn’t do so well last round, but he’s still the CJ ace and should bounce back
• 3 – Brown – he starts in week 1, is on SKT1, and did well in his first Proleague round in round 4
• 2 – Mekia – he starts in week 1 and is on Woongjin Stars. Good enough for me
• 1 – Bear – I didn’t see any 2 point players I wanted, and he’s on STX Soul, so that’s worth something
• 4 – SKT1 – They have Rain, Fantasy, and Parting. And then they have the rest of their lineup

Anti-Team

• 5 – Crazy – I wanted to go 5-4-4, and had a really hard time picking a 5 point player. I went with Zero, but WJS are just too deep, so Crazy and KT seem safer
• 4 – Hitman – KT hasn’t looked good recently, and Hitman is pretty deep on their lineup (5th best player, behind Hydra who I already don’t like)
• 4 – Mini – again, he’s deep on their lineup (maybe 5th best player, 3rd best Protoss)