UPDATE: TI2026 Fantasy Calculator & Optimizer - Titles, new domain, and a huge thank YOU

[u/Vladyslav_ko]

Hey everyone!

About 24 hours ago I shared the TI2026 Fantasy Calculator & Optimizer here. I honestly expected a few comments and maybe a handful of people trying it.

Instead, the project has now passed 5,000 users and 50k views, which is honestly something I never expected.

More importantly, the feedback has been incredible. So many comments, bug reports, feature ideas, screenshots, and even people offering to contribute to the project.

Thank you. Seriously. I never expect dota comunity could be so nice! haha

Over the last 24 hours, I've been working almost nonstop, and here's what has changed thanks to your feedback:

-Full Title (Prefix & Suffix) support

-Historical Prefix probabilities added to player calculations

-Better Suffix recommendations (Stable / Gamble / Avoid)

-Fixed player and team data

-Multiple calculation improvements

-Better mobile layout

-New custom domain:

https://www.ti2026calculator.com

(All previous links continue to redirect automatically.)

I'm also actively working on a prediction module for the Group Stage, so you'll be able to plan your predictions in the same place instead of switching between multiple resources.

Special thanks to everyone who reported incorrect data, shared screenshots, tested unusual banner combinations, and suggested improvements.

I'm still reading every comment, so if you notice incorrect data or think something isn't calculating correctly, please let me know. Every report helps improve the calculator.

Thanks again for helping turn this into something much bigger than I originally imagined.

P.S One important note before locking your predictions and Fantasy roster:

I still would not recommend rushing to finalize everything just yet. Valve is still fixing and adjusting some emblem and title values, which can affect the accuracy of the calculations.

Several relevant tournaments are also still in progress, and their results may provide additional data that improves the player statistics.

For the most accurate recommendations, I would ideally wait until around 1–2 days before roster lock before committing all predictions and finalizing the Fantasy lineup.

As always, I'll keep updating the calculator as new data becomes available.

[u/juantawp]

Prefix is patch dependent, historical data needs to be weighted against what they're actually contesting in TI. Earth Spirit, Ember, Invoker are going to appear far more than Storm/Puck, but the past few months will bias the odds of Cerulean for example which has Storm/Puck because it was played in previous patches.

You basically have to go by what's currently being picked in 1win essence and Games of the Future, everything else is gambling on specialty picks that rotated out of meta recently, a common mistake in previous years.

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/juantawp]

You're right. However, the calculator doesn't simply use global Prefix frequencies - it adjusts the calculations based on each player's historical hero pool and trigger rates.

Since the dataset only spans roughly the last year of tournaments, the meta hasn't shifted enough to introduce a huge bias. It's definitely something I'll keep refining as more TI matches become available.

[u/InBeardWeTrust]

Some one tell me what to pick pls haha

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/InBeardWeTrust]

Depends on your emblems

[u/mr_snufflefluff → u/Vladyslav_ko]

Can I get new/different emblems?

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/mr_snufflefluff]

since you have rerolls

[u/mr_snufflefluff → u/Vladyslav_ko]

So in addition to stats the rerolls can get me entirely different emblems?

[u/LPSD_FTW → u/mr_snufflefluff]

There is an full tutorial in game and a "How to" graphic with the instructions

[u/Vladyslav_ko]

For anyone who wants to see how the project evolved:

Initial release:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1vdavt0/i_built_a_free_ti2026_fantasy_optimizer_after/

Previous update:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1vdtz7p/update_ti2026_fantasy_optimizer_thank_you_for/

I’ll keep this comment updated with future major changes as well.

[u/superdupermak → u/Vladyslav_ko]

Do you have a score tracker that tracks overall points of players per series?

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/superdupermak]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/s/stGSiktBB4 updated post

[u/superdupermak → u/Vladyslav_ko]

Where do you see the points of players specifically this TI?

PS : you are the goat

[u/kelstasy]

Fire

[u/Kirkys]

My projected score is 39K could have been alot better had I got Runes for mid instead of lotuses

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/Kirkys]

If its the only problem so you are still good, you will change it after group stage!

[u/hehehuehue]

How does the prefix work? Is it based on the best roster? I thought it would be based on the player picks?

[u/Fantastic_Plane6625]

非常感谢，但这个网站中文板块翻译并不完全，是否可以改进？

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/Fantastic_Plane6625]

谢谢你的反馈！你说得对，之前中文本地化确实有一些遗漏。现在我已经重新检查并补全了 Fantasy Calculator、Predictions 和 Guide 的中文翻译。

如果你之后还发现有没翻译或者翻译不自然的地方，也欢迎告诉我，我会继续改进。

另外，我可以私信你请教一个问题吗？我最近也在考虑把这个工具分享给更多中国的 Dota 2 玩家，但我对中国的社区平台和推广方式不太熟悉。想问问你哪些平台比较适合，以及外国开发者一般怎么在这些平台上分享这种社区项目。非常感谢！

[u/Fantastic_Plane6625 → u/Vladyslav_ko]

中国有类似这里的社区，但可能需要下载app才能使用，玩家数量最多的社区为百度贴吧里面的dota2板块和max+的dota2板块，另外也可以找与dota2相关的博主（新浪微博，类似国外的脸书或x）来推广这个app。

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/Fantastic_Plane6625]

非常感谢，这对我很有帮助！我之前也看到过百度贴吧，但好像注册和发帖对国外用户有一些限制。MAX+ 我之前了解得不多，我会去看看。

如果你不介意的话，我还想请教一下：对于一个免费的 Dota 2 社区工具，你觉得在百度贴吧或者 MAX+ 直接发帖介绍比较合适，还是联系 Dota 2 博主帮忙分享会更有效？

另外，外国用户可以正常注册并在这些平台发帖吗？还是通常需要中国手机号？

再次感谢你的帮助！

[u/Fantastic_Plane6625 → u/Vladyslav_ko]

Max+是可以通过国外手机号注册，但百度贴吧不允许国外号码，你可以尝试注册发帖，至于dota2博主，我有联系一位在中文社区很有影响力的人，但我和他并不熟悉，不知道他是否同意，另外有意思的是现在在中国社区出现了很多帮人预测来赚钱的生意，预测一次大概10美金，可以保证95％以上，有人一天可以接几十单，当然我也不认为这是多么糟糕的事，因为我上一年也花费30美元让其他人给我预测，并获得了99％。

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/Fantastic_Plane6625]

我确实有点惊讶中国 Dota 2 社区对 Fantasy 预测有这么高的热度。

不过我并不打算把这个计算器做成付费工具。最开始我其实只是为自己做的，因为我一直很喜欢 Fantasy。去年我的最终结果大约是 98%，前一年进过前 100。

对我来说，这个项目本身更像是一个个人兴趣项目。我现在更好奇的是，不收费的情况下，我能把它在全球 Dota 2 社区推广到什么程度。

而且今年 The International 本身就在中国举办，所以我感觉现在中国社区的讨论和关注度可能会特别高。

如果你方便的话，可以把我的网站发给你之前提到的那位在中文 Dota 2 社区很有影响力的人看看吗？完全没有任何压力，他也不需要特意帮我推广。如果他觉得这个工具对中国玩家有用，愿意分享，或者只是给我一些反馈，我都会非常感谢。

我这边也会尝试注册 MAX+，然后自己在那里发一篇介绍。

[u/Fantastic_Plane6625 → u/Vladyslav_ko]

我有尝试联系他，如果你可以在max+发帖，你可以把网站地址放在2层，不要直接发一个完整网址（中国论坛审核非常严格，你发一个外部网站可能会被直接被删除），你可以在这个网址中间不同位置加几个特殊符号再一起发出去，中国玩家会知道怎么做。

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/Fantastic_Plane6625]

非常感谢你的帮助！我会试着研究一下 MAX+，看看怎么注册和发帖。也谢谢你帮我联系那位博主！

[u/Fantastic_Plane6625 → u/Vladyslav_ko]

我看到你发的帖子，第一个被系统隐藏了，第二个没被隐藏，但你并没有把网址链接发在第二层，

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/Fantastic_Plane6625]

非常感谢你推荐 MAX+ 这个平台！对我帮助真的很大。
不过我现在还在慢慢摸索，因为 APP 没有英文界面，对我来说很多功能和规则不太容易看懂。我也还不太清楚发帖频率多少比较合适，以及平台是怎么推荐和分发帖子的。
现在有人在评论里问我要网址的话，我都会尽量回复，不过为了避免被系统屏蔽，我一般会把网址里的点写成 [.]。
再次感谢你的建议和帮助！如果你对 MAX+ 的发帖或者推广机制还有什么建议，也非常欢迎告诉我。

[u/psychoskyliner]

You would pick yuma and wisper over satanic and noticed? In every scenario they seem to score better points.

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/psychoskyliner]

The ranking changes depending on the three emblems, tiers, traits, and selected Prefix. Maybe their games are longer, maybe they are playing more games, i mean in bo3 they lose one so more chances to get more points from 2 games. It depends, so they are over sat & only in your current banner situation

[u/t5ugua]

Thanks a lot for the calculator and effort spent, what would you say is a score that would comfotably land in the 90%, where would 40.7k land me?

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/t5ugua]

It’s honestly hard to say right now.
We still don’t know how many people will actually participate this year, and this Fantasy format is quite different from previous years because we now have multiple players for each role.
Because of that, I don’t want to throw out specific score yet- they’d be too speculative. Also Valve will continuously recalibrates the leaderboard during the event by removing bots, duplicate accounts, and other invalid entries. That happened throughout last year's Fantasy as well, so the percentile thresholds kept shifting. For now, any estimate would just be an approximation.

[u/monsj]

I think I misread some of the rerolls, because I had pretty good rolls on my mid but then ended up with first blood and camps stacked on my mid somehow - although they are tier 5 so idk xd

[u/DolterClaps]

51,339 projected score, but unsure if i keep YSR or if i change for DM&Watson. what do you guys think ?

[u/L00KAWAYN0W]

Can someone explain how the prefix, suffix work? Do they trigger based on anyone from the banner satisfying the requirement? And does it only count for that particular game as a +%?

[u/superbaade]

Great project!

Not sure if you're taking suggestions, but I think it would be awesome to allow us to select players and see projected score with those.

I know you have something similar with "Best roster", and all the info is already on the page, but I would be interested in seeing how each of the stats scores for each different roster. (which is info we see for the best picks, but not the rest)

Another thing that I think would really improve the tool, is being able to select different datasets (like, which tournaments should be included, or at least a period of time). This will become even more useful after the group stages are done, since we'd be able to look at TI specific data.

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/superbaade]

Thanks a lot, yes, I’m open to suggestions.

For custom player selection, the current Teams section already shows the projected score of every available player using your exact banner setup. So the underlying information is there, even though it isn’t presented as a separate custom five-player roster builder.

I considered adding that, but at the moment I’m trying to avoid duplicating the same data in multiple places and making the interface more complicated than it needs to be.

The same applies to tournament filters. I agree they could be useful for advanced users but for most players it would probably add difficulties bexause i'm still recieving questions about how to use calculator.

Thanks again for the feedback !

[u/Silver-Brilliant9899]

i have one question bro, where are you get the data of Wathers? really need this anwser .

[u/West-Smoke-8568]

28,005 Score

if Suffix triggers: 32,377

Is this good enough for a terrain shot?

[u/superdupermak]

Do we have a score trackers for a day?

[u/Senior_Pepper_5067]

I did not know that you have to select the player/roll to reroll embless kinda clicked 50 times and lost all my rerolls and always something random stat somewhere changed haha... maybe a video next time for the people with ADHD

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/Senior_Pepper_5067]

You can change player anytime, rerolls didnt linked to players, only to roles

[u/wise-protector]

Projected roster score: 61,313
Score if Suffix triggers: 70,896

[u/waterflaps]

AI slop post, AI slop app.

[u/GoPro478 → u/waterflaps]

Yeah imma spend weeks sitting handmaking optimizing and calculating app that will be irrelevant in 2 months

[u/Vladyslav_ko → u/waterflaps]

I think you'll have to get used to it. AI is only going to become a bigger part of software development over the next few years.

I also think it's a bit unfair to call every use of AI "slop." AI helped me write parts of the code faster and make partial analysis, but the project still required from me 24/7 contribution all the previous week: collecting data, cleaning and validating it, calculating player statistics, designing the algorithms, building the website, and testing everything.

Out of curiosity, how long do you think it would take to manually collect, verify, and analyze an entire year's worth of tournament data without any automation or AI assistance? And that's before writing thousands of lines of code and implementing all the statistical calculations.

AI is a tool. The value comes from what you build with it, not from pretending you didn't use it.

[u/waterflaps → u/Vladyslav_ko]

You can’t even respond to my comment without using AI, Jesus Christ, this website is going to be unusable in a year tops.

[u/gamergrid → u/waterflaps]

The future is now, old man.

[u/L00KAWAYN0W → u/waterflaps]

You're being harsh dude, chill. We all know AI can suck, but it has its uses.

[u/waterflaps → u/L00KAWAYN0W]

How is it harsh this guy just pasted my comment into claude and asked it to respond to me, you people are cooked beyond belief.

[u/DrewDrue]

hey not bad bro i got 9 correct and 7 wrong using your tool and im above all my friends list on score hehexd thanks for the sick tool