How do I create a Fantasy Competition?

Before you start

Ambition Fantasy Competitions are highly structured competitions. There's only a little bit of setup, but a lot to understand. If you haven't already, read up on What is an Ambition Fantasy Competition?

Create a Fantasy Competition:

1. Open the left navigation and click Administration > Competitions > Fantasy.

2. Click the green + Add Competition button.

3. Create your Fantasy Competition by filling in the following fields:

Name

Name your Fantasy Competition. We recommend sticking with Season-Based titles such as Sales Season 1 Fantasy League

Start Date

Select the Monday you want your Competition to start. Since weekly matchups always start on Monday, your season must as well. 

Regular Season Weeks

How many weeks of regular season play? At least 1 week of regular season play has to occur.

Note: Remember that 2 weeks are always reserved for playoffs.

Days Per Game

How long does each weekly matchup run? It can be as short a 1 (Monday's only), up to 7 (All week long, great teams with contribution over the weekend).

Game End Hour

Does your team focus in the morning and save meetings for afternoons? Maybe consider half-day games? 

Do your teams work multiple shifts? Maybe a 24 hour window is better to cover all competitor's schedule? 

Time Zone

Which Time Zone are your competitors in?

Most Customers choose to pick the timezone of their most western players (e.g. 5 pm pst). This allows those eager East coasters the ability to stay late to clinch the victory

4. Click the green Next Step button to continue creation.

5. Select the Metric to be used as the basis of scoring.

Competition Metric

Select a metric for your competition. This metric will determine each competitor's weekly score.

Best Practice: It's important to choose a metric that's updated frequently enough to drive team behavior. We recommend that a metric which is updated at least hourly with real-time metrics.

Our multi-metric, normalized aggregates Activity Score & Objective Score allow you to compete across cross functional roles (e.g. AEs & BDRs) or with unbalanced teams.

If you wish to compete on Objective Score you can only do so if the Objective Score time frame is set to Weekly.

This is the metric that your teams will compete on. We recommend using our multi-metric normalized aggregate; Activity Score. 

If you choose to use another metric, we strongly encourage you to use real-time metrics. Lagging metrics undermine the spirit of competition and make it hard for contributors to stay engaged. 

Lastly, if you chose to use Ambition's Objective Score, you must ensure that the Objective Score Timeframe (Set in Organizational Settings) is set to "Week". Since this setting applies to your entire Ambition instance, only Administrators have access to change it. 

6. Select the Competitors.

Hierarchy Level

What level of competition will you create?

• User v User?
• Team v Team?
• Division v Division?

Read more about Ambition's Hierarchy Levels here

Competitor Selection

Now, choose your competitors. Available competitors are listed on the left. Existing participants are on the right. Use the Add All or Remove All buttons to make this process faster. 

7. Click the green Next Step button to continue creation.

 8. Fill in if desired, the prizes to be awarded for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place as well as Best of the Rest and Season MVP.

Prizes (optional)

9. Click the green Submit button to create your Fantasy Competition. 

Note:It may take ~5 minutes for the competition to process and appear across the site