IPL Fantasy League: History, How To Play And All You Need To Know

Kaushik Kashyap

IPL Fantasy League Is Live. [Source: iplt20/x.com]IPL Fantasy League Is Live. [Source: iplt20/x.com]

The 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is just around the corner with the new season set to commence from March 22. With less than 10 days remaining from the first match at the Eden Gardens, the excitement amongst the fans has reached new heights with the official season long IPL Fantasy League going live on Tuesday.

What is the Official IPL Fantasy League?

The official IPL Fantasy League is a virtual cricket league where cricket fans can make their own fantasy teams using real IPL players, earn points from live match performance and compete with friends and fans from around the world.

With an updated squad of teams, enhanced player transfers, and unique scoring system, the fantasy league provides an engaging and thrilling way to stay connected.  It is currently powered by MyCircle11 ahead of the forthcoming IPL 2025.

When did the IPL Fantasy League start?

The history behind the IPL Fantasy League goes back to the year 2013, when IPL took a groundbreaking step by starting their own official fantasy league in collaboration with Tententen Digital who created and ran the platform back in the day.



They also launched an official website “fantasy.iplt20.com” dedicated to it which is still active to this day, where fans could create their fantasy team, join contests and track their progress throughout the tournament.

How To Play?

Here is how you can play and enjoy the IPL Fantasy League in the official IPL Fantasy website “fantasy.iplt20.com” or in the IPL Fantasy App.

Team creation

  • The first step is to Team Creation where you need to select 11 players from the given teams using 100 credits. The team value cannot exceed 100 credits.
  • It is mandatory to pick at least 1 Wicket-Keeper, 3 Batters, 1 All-Rounder, and 3 Bowlers in your team.
  • You must check player's availability before selecting them to avoid non-playing players which will add zero points to your tally.
  • You can check a player's availability by the colour of dots shown adjacent to players' name before the match. There will be Green Dot ahead of the players announced in the playing XI, Red Dot for the non-playing players and Blue Dot for the players listed as impact substitution.
  • You must then pick a Captain who will give you 2x points of the points scored by that player and a Vice-Captain who will give you 1.5x points of the points scored by that player.
  • The maximum number of players that can be selected from each team is 7 and the maximum number of overseas players is 4 for the same.

Transfers

This feature is one of the most important feature of the season long fantasy league which is nothing but a format where participants draft a team with players at the beginning of the IPL season and manage that team throughout the season by analyzing the game, making strategic decisions and transfer of players anticipating their future performances to accumulate maximum points.

  • A participant can make as many changes to their teams before the first match, but make only 210 transfers until the end of the league stage.
  • Players can once again make unlimited changes to their team after the end of the league stage, but make only 10 transfers between Qualifier 1 and Final.
  • Notably, there are no limitations on the change of Captains and Vice-Captain throughout the season.

Join Contests

  • Users can join the season-long league once they make their first XI.
  • When it comes to Private Leagues, players can create and join up to 20 private leagues ahead of a game.
  • You can share the league link or its unique code to invite your friends and compete with them.

What's The Points System?

For Batters

Criterion
Points
Per Run1
Per Boundary Bonus1
Per Six Bonus2
30 Runs Bonus4
Half Century Bonus8
Century Bonus16
Dismissal For Duck-2

Note: Players who score a century will not get the bonus point for half-century. 

For Bowlers

Criterion
Points
Per Wicket25
Maiden Over Bonus
12
LBW/Bowled Bonus
8
3-Wicket Haul Bonus4
4-Wicket Haul Bonus8
5-Wicket Haul Bonus16

For Fielders 

Criterion
Points
Per Catch8
3 Catch Bonus
4
Per Stumping
12
Per Direct-Hit Run-Out12
Per Run-Out6

Based On Economy Rate

This is only applicable to bowlers who bowled minimum of 2 overs.

Economy Rate
Points
Less Than 56
5 To 5.994
6 To 6.992
7 To 9.990
10.00 To 10.99-2
11.00 To 11.99-4
12.00 And Above-6

Based On Strike-Rate

This is only applicable to batters who faced a minimum of 10 balls.

Strike-Rate
Points
Less Than 50
-6
50 To 59.99-4
60 To 69.99-2
70 To 129.990
130 To 149.99
2
150 To 169.994
170 And Above6

Moreover, Each and every player announced in the Playing XI of the two teams will earn 4 points each.

Additionally, as mentioned earlier, Captain and Vice-Captain will earn 2x and 1.5x of the points they earn from a match, respectively.

New Features

There are some new features ahead of the new season that will act as boosters for players to enhance their rate of scoring points and dominate the leaderboards.

  • Triple Captain - which will allow the captain to make 3x the points he earns in a match.
  • Wildcard - through which a player will get unlimited transfer within 100 credits for one match.
  • Game Changer - which will allow a particular player other than captain to earn double the points he earns in a match.
  • Double Power - it will double the team's points for a match.
  • Overseas Stars - it will allow all the overseas players to earn double the points they earn for one match.
  • Indian Warrior - it will allow all Indian players to earn double the points they earn for one match.

Prize

The participant finishing on Rank 1 in the season long fantasy will win a Grand SUV, autographed IPL team jersey, Toss Coin from the IPL 2025 Final and an opportunity to meet and greet the IPL 2025 captains. You can go through the Fantasy articles of One Cricket ahead of each IPL game to get a better idea of making your Fantasy XI.