Creating an Ambition Fantasy Competition

Things to know 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. Create a new fantasy competition via the quick actions button or through the left-hand navigation (Administration > Competitions > Create).

 

2. Click the green Create button on the Fantasy tile.

 

3. Complete the Create New Competition Form. Fill out the following fields:

1. Name and Time Frame

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.

 

# Season Weeks

How many weeks of regular season play?

At least 1 week of regular season play has to occur.

Max # of weeks is 40.

Things to Note:

Remember that 2 weeks are always reserved for playoffs.

Selecting a negative # of weeks will not create a Fantasy Competition that begins in the past.

 

Weekly Game End Day

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).

 

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?

While one-off Challenges support 30 minute intervals, Fantasy Competitions must end at the top of the hour.

 

End 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 will allow those eager East coasters the ability to stay late to clinch the victory

 

Click the green Next Step button to continue creation.

 

2. Choose Competitors

Hierarchy Level: 

What level of competition will you create?

• User vs User?
• Team vs Team?
• Division vs Division?

Read more about Ambition's Hierarchy Levels here

Competitor Selection:

Select whether all of the chosen hierarchy or just specific members of User / Groups will compete in the Challenge.

If a Custom or Within grouping is selected, pick specific Users / Groups to compete in the Challenge.

 

3. Scoring

Scoring Best Practice: It's important to choose metrics that are updated frequently enough to drive team behavior. We recommend metrics which are updated at least hourly for real-time results.

We recommend our multi-metric, normalized aggregate Activity Score. Using the Activity Score allows you to compete across cross functional roles (e.g. AEs & BDRs) or unbalanced teams.

If you wish to compete on Objective Score you can only do so if your Organization's Objective Score time frame is set to Weekly.

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.

Note: 

• Multi-Metric Competitions cannot exceed combining 5 metrics.
• The same Metric cannot be utilized more than once in a single Challenge. ie. Cannot utilize both points and value scoring for the same metric.

 

Click the purple Add Score Parameter button to begin compiling your competition Metrics.

  

Select a Metric from the Metric drop down.

 

Select the Scoring Type

 

If Points is selected as the Scoring Type, complete adjust the Points Per Value selections to fit your needs.

Example above showcases where 5 points will be given per 1 Appointment Set

 

Determine and set options for the Scoring Parameter.

Use Per-User Average - Recommended for when competing groups are not the same size

Sum Daily Averages - Recommended for long durations where affecting the average becomes increasingly difficult

Exclude Weekends - Do not include weekends in the scoring calculation

Allow Benching - Benching will not apply if toggled off

Min Value - The floor that must be reached before score contribution is made

Max Value - The ceiling at which no additional score contribution is made

Note about Thresholds and Multi-day Challenges

A minimum or maximum threshold will be applicable to the Challenge's duration as a whole.

 

Repeat the above steps for each desired Score Parameter.

Multi-Metric Competitions can combine up to 5 different metrics.

 

4. Set Prizes (optional)

Prizes are not required, but if appropriate 1st, 2nd, 3rd place prizes can be listed here.

Depending on the make up of your Competition, Best of the Rest and Season MVP prizes can be awarded as well.

A "Best of the Rest" title will be awarded to the winner of the consolation bracket if more than four competitors are involved. 

A "Season MVP" title will be awarded if the Fantasy is a Group Based competition. User vs User competitions will not award a Season MVP as the Winner of the entire Competition will equate to the MVP.

 

To include a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Place based Prize:

1. Select Playoff from the Type dropdown.

2. Select which Place (options for 1st-3rd) you'd like to input a prize for in the Place dropdown.

3. Fill in the Prize that will be awarded in the Description field.

4. Click the blue + Add button.

 

To include a Best of the Rest or Season MVP based Prize:

1. Select Best of the Rest and/or Season MVP from the Type dropdown.

 As noted above:

A "Best of the Rest" title will be awarded to the winner of the consolation bracket if more than four competitors are involved. 

A "Season MVP" title will be awarded if the Fantasy is a Group Based competition. User vs User competitions will not award a Season MVP as the Winner of the entire Competition will equate to the MVP.

2. Fill in the Prize that will be awarded in the Description field.

4. Click the blue + Add button.

 

 

5. Once you've completed the Fantasy Form, click the green Create Competition button in the bottom right.

 

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