Ottoneu Prestige League is a game that is played on top of Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball. If you enter, your team is shared between both games. All roster management and transactions that happen in your Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball leagues will eventually be reflected in OPL. Your OPL team will require no direct management, but will be indirectly managed by your decisions in your Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball league.

Ottoneu Prestige League is the only Ottoneu contest that teams will need to qualify for in order to compete. In order to qualify, a team must:

• Play in an active 12-team Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball league in which every team is paid for and managed. The scoring format and other settings of this league do not matter, but it must be an active 12-team league.
• Play in a league that has completed a full season of Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball; teams in first-year leagues are not eligible to participate in OPL
• Play in a league that does not have any custom rules, including but not limited to arbitration/inflation adjustments, any kind of coupon system and/or extended MiLB-only rosters
• Finish top-6 in the season prior to the OPL season

If a team qualifies for OPL, one of their managers will need to pay the entry fee to reserve one of the 240 OPL spots for the upcoming season. The entry fee will be $50 and is separate from any Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball fees. With the limited number of spots in the contest, be sure to enter as soon as possible.

If fewer than 150 teams enter in this season's OPL, it will be canceled and all entry fees will be refunded.

OPL is the only Ottoneu game to utilize best-ball FanGraphs points scoring. What this means is the platform will determine a team's most possible total points on a given day given its roster and will set its lineup accordingly. These points will be aggregated and displayed on the OPL-wide leaderboard. The best-ball system will not mandate a full lineup, so players that score negative points will never count towards totals.

OPL points for a given day will accumulate from official MLB games played on that day. Points from the resumed portion of a suspended games will not count. If a player plays in both ends of a MLB doubleheader on a given day, their total points for the day will be considered when calculating the best possible lineup.

Ottoneu will do its best to include any official MLB scorekeeping changes. However, changes made after the relevant OPL round is over will not be considered when optimizing OPL lineups and calculating team point totals.

The best-ball algorithm will use current positional eligibility to place players in the lineup such that each OPL team's points are maximized for the day and the OPL team plays a legal H2H lineup with C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, MI, 5 OF, Util, 2 SP and 5 RP slots.

However, a team's OPL roster will not exactly mirror its Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball roster. There are key dates through the OPL season in which rosters are updated and teams are eliminated from the contest.

• Opening Day (1st round)
• OPL rosters updated to match Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball rosters as of Opening Day at 4am ET
• April 25 (snapshot only)
• OPL rosters updated to match Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball rosters as of April 25 at 4am ET
• May 16 (2nd round)
• Bottom 70 teams eliminated
• Remaining 170 teams scores reduced by 75%
• OPL rosters updated to match Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball rosters as of May 16 at 4am ET
• June 13 (3rd round)
• Bottom 70 teams eliminated
• Remaining 100 teams scores reduced by 75%
• OPL rosters updated to match Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball rosters as of June 13 at 4am ET
• MLB All-star break (4th round)
• Bottom 68 teams eliminated
• OPL rosters updated to match Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball rosters as of one day after the All-Star Game, 4am ET
• OPL rosters are frozen
• OPL Tournament begins

Starting with the 4th round, team rosters no longer update. At this point, OPL switches to tournament mode from an overall leaderboard contest. In 2024, the OPL knockout tournament will start on July 17 and have the following key dates:

• July 17 (Final roster update)
• July 17 - July 28 (round of 32)
• July 29 - August 11 (round of 16)
• August 12 - August 25 (quarterfinals)
• August 26 - September 8 (semifinals)
• September 9 - September 22 (finals)

The H2H tournament is a 2-week best-ball matchup and has no carryover in points from round to round. Winners move on and losers are eliminated. Matchups are generated randomly at 4am at the start of each round. The OPL champion is crowned at the end of the final H2H game.

Any ties will have the winner determined by coin-flip.

Ottoneu Prestige League will give cash prizes for the top 16 teams in the contest.

Every team that enters OPL will receive a coupon for a $25 OPL t-shirt for that season

Every team that survives the first cut will receive a coupon for a $20 OPL t-shirt for that season

Every team that survives the second cut will receive a coupon for a $15 OPL t-shirt for that season

The 32 teams that qualify for the H2H tournament will receive a coupon for a free OPL t-shirt for that season

OPL champion will receive a custom wooden bat engraved with that season’s OPL logo, as well as automatic entry into next season’s OPL

You must be 18 years of age or older.

If you reside in an ineligible state, you are permitted to make a purchase and play in OPL, but you are not eligible to win any prizes listed herein. The ineligible states are: Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Washington State.

At each roster update date, the OPL system will take a snapshot of a team’s Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball roster at 4am ET and update the OPL roster accordingly. If an Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball roster is over 40 players in that moment, the OPL system will discard the team’s latest transactions until they are at 40 players. Any pending trades or outstanding auctions that are not completed in time for this snapshot will not be reflected in the updated OPL roster.

Interested and want to play? Visit the OPL home page and see if your teams are qualified. Once the OPL and Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball seasons start, you’ll have to be clever with roster moves to keep your team competitive in both contests through the season.