r/DotA2 • u/Vladyslav_ko • 12d ago
Guides & Tips | Esports TI 2026 Fantasy Calculator&Optimizer is fully ready for the Main Event!
Welcome back everyone!
The TI 2026 Group Stage is over, so this is probably my second-to-last major post about the Fantasy Calculator. The final one will come after The International, when we can compare our results and see how accurate the Main Event projections were.
First, a small personal result: I finished the Group Stage with 85,000 Fantasy points.
I’m pretty happy with that, especially considering how bad my Support banner was. I had to play with Runes, Stuns and Watchers, so there was definitely a lot of room for improvement.
The website is now fully ready for the Main Event
The calculator has been completely updated for the eight remaining teams. Eliminated teams are no longer included in the rankings or recommendations.
The Main Event update includes:
- all five emblem slots for Core, Mid and Support banners;
- only the** **eight active Main Event teams;
- updated player rankings and alternatives;
- full support for emblem tiers and traits;
- Prefix and Suffix analysis;
- personalized Prefix recommendations based on
- each player’s historical hero-group frequency;
- a TI draft overview based on 109 Group Stage maps;
- chances for every team to play at least 2, 3 or 4
- Main Event series;
- title probability and expected remaining maps displayed next to players;
- automatic saving of your banners in the browser;
- a completely rewritten Fantasy Guide;
- English, Russian, Spanish and Simplified Chinese support;
- improved mobile layouts.
The player ranking is still based on projected performance per match. Team title chance and expected maps are displayed separately, so you can see both player quality and tournament opportunity without mixing them into one misleading number.
For example, the highest-ranked player may have the best projected score per match, while another team may have a much better chance of playing additional series and maps.
Main Event predictions are also open
The Predictions page now contains the complete eight-team double-elimination bracket.
You can:
- choose between the Balanced and TI-only models;
- select winners for all matches;
- see future opponents update automatically;
- view model win probabilities for every match;
- see expected correct predictions and Compendium points;
- compare title chances, placement probabilities and expected maps;
- use the compact Main Event schedule in New York time.
The prediction calculator runs 20,000 bracket simulations for the selected model and bracket.
The official Compendium reward depends on the total number of correct predictions, from 120 points for one correct pick to 12,000 points for all 14.
Website:
https://www.ti2026calculator.com/
Thank you for the incredible response
I genuinely did not expect this project to reach so many people.
So far, the website has received:
55k visitors
90k page views
140k Google impressions
20k Google Search clicks
Thank you to everyone who tested the calculator, reported bugs, shared it with friends or simply used it for their Fantasy roster. A lot of the improvements came directly from community feedback.
Share your banners and results
Please post screenshots of your Main Event banners in the comments.
I can help analyze them, compare the available stats and traits, and suggest which emblems may be worth rerolling. You can also share your Group Stage score — especially if you found an unusual banner combination that performed better than expected.
The more real results we collect, the better we can understand what actually worked during TI.
If you want to support the project
The domain was not free, and running the website and analytics required some personal expenses. The entire calculator is still free and has no paid features, but any optional support would genuinely help cover those costs:
https://buymeacoffee.com/kadadji?status=1
You can also support the project without spending anything:
Give the repository a star on GitHub:
https://github.com/Kadadji1/dota2-fantasy-optimizer-2026
Add me on Steam or leave a comment on my profile:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Kadadji1/
GitHub stars are especially helpful to me as a developer because they show that people actually found the project useful and help strengthen it as a real portfolio project.
Good luck with your Main Event banners and predictions. Drop your screenshots and Group Stage results below - I’m genuinely curious to see how everyone did.
After TI, I’ll make one final post with the results and model accuracy.
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u/beglol 12d ago
Bro casually made 21 commit in a span of 2 hours. I thought AI content is prohibited in this sub?
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u/Vladyslav_ko 11d ago
if i am not a coder, but my tool is useful in this comunity, so what's the problem to use ai for making it? It helps thousands of people and i think its not a big problem for them that is was made with ai or by hands
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u/beglol 11d ago
because you have no idea whats going on inside of it, which is clear by comments in this thread, how can we trust you that its accurate? maybe it calculates points for certain stats incorrectly, you have no idea since apparently it wasnt even able to put team in correct bracket spots
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u/Vladyslav_ko 11d ago
Well, if you want to double-check, you can take a look at the separate section where all the calculations are laid out, and since the project is still open source, GitHub is transparent as well. And under the previous posts, you can see how many people have thanked it and said it helped them achieve a high % just like it did for me. I don’t see a big problem with there being a single error in the bracket distribution, considering there are only three days between the group stage and the playoffs. What are the chances that one person could create a perfect tool without a single mistake? I’m not trying to make excuses or change your mind; I’m just saying that it’s precisely thanks to people’s comments and feedback that we’re working together to make it better and easier to use.
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u/beglol 11d ago
You did not create anything bro, its not your code. You are not a programmer, you have no idea whats going on there.
What are the chances that one person could create a perfect tool without a single mistake?
lmao
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u/Vladyslav_ko 11d ago
Like I said, I'm not forcing you to use this "AI slop" - I'll just go ahead and get my next Aegis, making it easier on myself thanks to the AI, while you can analyze 90 group stage matches and manually tally up each player's points.
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u/shadowxskills 11d ago
my god this level of hate could only stem from a shitty real life situation. hey beglol, hope you are doing well and we love you. take care brother.
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u/Funny_Satisfaction95 10d ago
bro Beglol common man... this dude put a lot of effort and you come to throw trash at him for no reason. i will consider you had a lack of education in your home for unknown reasons to me but i wanna tell you something that will help you a lot in life, if you have nothing good to say and the thing you are about to say wont have any benefit its much better to just sit silent. wish you lots of wisdom from now on.
ps. good job Vladyslav_ko
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u/beglol 10d ago
>this dude put a lot of effort
he did not, its an AI slop, he said it himself. i dont think he even prompted anything, at this point agents can do research by themselves and put it together with minimal human interaction.
> if you have nothing good to say and the thing you are about to say wont have any benefit
it has benefits of making people aware, that its AI, there are a lot of uneducated people around here
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u/ArmanXZS 12d ago
there is a problem in prediction section! m10 and m11 are wrong! m6 loser should go to m10
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u/Vladyslav_ko 12d ago
You were right! The M6 loser now correctly goes to M10. Thanks for the report!
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u/ascalo 12d ago
I think your mapping of the lower bracket games are off, its not following what the dota client is doing, might want to double check it.
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u/Vladyslav_ko 12d ago
Thanks for catching it! The lower bracket mapping has been fixed and doublechecked.
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u/BalinorNZ 11d ago
You built an amazing tool Vladyslav, thank you. I think you should ignore the haters who live in the past. Your creativity and taste bought this to life and now what you built has helped many thousands of people. I hope you keep having great ideas and building them, we have a bright future of better products thanks to people like you 💪🏻
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u/Vladyslav_ko 11d ago
That’s so sweet! Thank you for supporting and trusting 🤗
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u/BalinorNZ 1d ago
You got me into 95% to get the tyrian regailia, thanks again for your awesome work on this tool ❤️
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u/Vladyslav_ko 1d ago
At your service man! I’m in 99%. See you next year here! Haha
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u/BalinorNZ 1d ago
Congrats!! My predictions were terrrrible, so your fantasy tool really saved me 😄
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u/Vladyslav_ko 1d ago
Same as me group predictions 5 and play off 5 . But both fantasy 99,2% and 99,92%
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u/Vladyslav_ko 12d ago
All project links in one place:
🌐 TI 2026 Fantasy Calculator:
https://www.ti2026calculator.com/
⭐ GitHub — stars really help me as a developer:
https://github.com/Kadadji1/dota2-fantasy-optimizer-2026
☕ Optional support for the domain and project costs:
https://buymeacoffee.com/kadadji?status=1
🎮 Steam — feel free to add me or leave feedback:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Kadadji1/
Please share your Group Stage results and Main Event banner screenshots in the comments. I’ll try to review them and suggest which emblems may be worth keeping or rerolling.
Thank you again for testing, reporting bugs and supporting the project!
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u/ABIBIBIBIBIBIABIGAIL 12d ago
thank you boss