The Perfect Fantasy Team
The Fantasy LCS’ initial drafting phase made and broke countless teams during its inaugural season. Some participants showed foresight by picking “sleepers” such as Kerp and leapt to the front of their respective leagues, while others opted for safer, more traditional picks like YellOwStaR and were equally rewarded. On the other hand, some owners simply chose players they liked.
But what about the perfect draft? Without the gift of clairvoyance, predicting the most valuable players during the pre-season draft proved a difficult feat. Now, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we’ve done the work for you and drafted the perfect fantasy team based on players’ points per game (PPG) for the season.
Here are the results:
Top: Kev1n [18.13 PPG]
Jungle: KottenX [17.11 PPG]
Mid Lane: Kerp [22.72 PPG]
AD Carry: Rekkles [23.49 PPG]
Support: YellOwStaR [18.63 PPG]
Flex: Creaton [22.60 PPG]
Team: Fnatic [15.75 PPG]
The Fnatic duo of YellOwStaR and Rekkles received MVP in the EU LCS three times between the two of them, giving Fnatic more MVPs than any other team in Europe this split. Meanwhile, Millenium’s Kerp, Creaton, KottenX, and Kev1n simply proved consistent point generators throughout the season, symbiotically feeding off each others’ success. (Millenium’s support, Alexander “Jree” Bergström, trailed his teammates slightly as the third highest support).
The members of Millenium enjoyed a highly successful Fantasy season.
Fnatic decisively won the team pick, as they came within the Top 3 of all point-generating categories; they had the most towers destroyed; second most first-bloods, dragons, and victories; and third most Baron kills.
If you were clever (or lucky) enough to draft any combination of these players, you definitely enjoyed a lucrative fantasy season. But while these six players and Fnatic have proven themselves extraordinary individuals both on the Rift and in the realm of Fantasy, observant fans may notice an unexpected theme to our team.
Europe vs. North America
Rekkles and YellOwStaR garnered more than 1100 points together and helped spur Fnatic’s mid-season rise.
Many fans considered Europe the “weaker” LCS region this split, especially in the opening weeks, with inconsistent results by even their most talented teams. But in the Fantasy League, Europe completely ran over their North American counterparts, outright winning every conceivable head-to-head matchup.
Let’s start with each region’s highest individual players for each role:
| Europe | North America | |
|---|---|---|
The top European players scored more points than the North Americans in every single position. North America came closest to their trans-Atlantic rivals in the team category, where Cloud9 trailed Fnatic by only 1.32 PPG, while we found the largest gap in the support role, where YellOwStaR trounced the North American supports with a 3.02 PPG lead over Mor.
Once we expand to the Top 3 for each position overall, Europe’s success becomes even more apparent.
North America only appears twice on the Top 3 list, and both times in the third place position. Top North American teams like Cloud9 and LMQ, have been unable to convert their strengths into points relative to the top European teams.
Other Notable Accomplishments
These are just a few of the highlights from the very first Fantasy season, and below we’ve included a couple more. But if you consider yourself a stats aficionado, then delve into the post-season Fantasy Stats Tab and share below what intriguing trends or factoids you discover!
We’ll drop a couple more stats below and leave you to explore the rest on your own.
Most Points in a Single Game*
| Place | Player | PPG | Position | Team | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
*This ignores the chaotic Alliance vs. Millenium game at the end of the season which featured Froggen, Nyph, and Wickd with 68.36, 66.94, and 64.63 points respectively (also omitting the other players in this game).
Most Points in a Single Week
| Place | Player | Points | Position | Team | # of Games | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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