The Basics: How Points Are Earned
Fantasy Fights uses a scoring system built from the ground up for boxing. Unlike daily fantasy apps that reset every week, your fighters accumulate points across an entire season, and every bout they compete in adds to your total.
At its core, the system rewards five things: winning, finishing, fighting for world titles, being in big fights and colliding with other managers. Every fighter’s value on the platform can be read through those five.
The Default Scoring Table
Every league starts from the same default table, and every commissioner can tune these values. Your league’s own numbers are always on its League Settings page. The defaults are:
- Win: +3 for every win, whether it comes by decision, stoppage or disqualification.
- KO Bonus: +1 on top of the win when your fighter wins by KO or TKO. A corner retirement goes on the record as a TKO.
- KO’d Penalty: −1 when your fighter loses by KO or TKO. It is the only way to lose points, and it matters.
- Belt Points: +1 per belt at stake for each WBA, WBC, IBF or WBO world title on the line in the bout. Both fighters earn them, win, lose or draw.
- Star Rating: +1 per star from the bout’s 0 to 5 star rating, which grades the quality of the matchup. Both fighters earn them too.
- H2H Multiplier: 2× when two managers’ fighters face each other in a real bout. The winning side’s entire night is multiplied, and the losing side scores its normal total. Commissioners can set this to 1.5×, 2×, 3× or off.
A draw or a No Contest earns no win points, and both fighters still collect their belt and star points.
One Fight, Worked Through
Take a four-star fight with no belts on the line. A decision win scores 3 + 4 = 7, a KO win scores 3 + 1 + 4 = 8, and the fighter on the wrong end of that KO scores 4 − 1 = 3.
Now put three world titles on the line in the same four-star fight. The KO winner scores 3 + 1 + 3 + 4 = 11, and the fighter who gets stopped still takes 3 + 4 − 1 = 6. If the two fighters belong to different managers, the winner’s 11 doubles to 22 while the other side stays on 6. Belt stacking and head-to-head collisions are where the biggest scoring nights live.
Your league’s specific numbers may differ. When you’re evaluating a fighter, ask whether their next fight is for a title, whether they finish, how big their fights tend to be and whether they are a likely H2H target, then let the exact point values shake out against your commissioner’s settings.
Why World Champions Are the Most Valuable Assets
Belt points follow the belts on the line, which is why world champions matter so much. A titleholder almost always boxes with at least one belt at stake, so they carry a floor into nearly every appearance that no other fighter has, and a three-belt titleholder who draws a defence still banks three belt points plus the stars. The challenger across the ring collects the same belt points on title night, even in defeat, and a titleholder who takes a non-title fight earns no belt points at all because nothing is on the line.
That is also why weight division matters on draft night. A world champion at 154 who defends three times this season is almost certainly more valuable than an unranked heavyweight who fights once, even if the heavyweight’s single win is spectacular.
Why the Size of the Fight Matters
Stars are the other part of the floor. Every bout’s star rating grades the matchup itself, rising with the quality of both fighters in it, and both corners earn the stars whatever the result. A fighter who loses a five-star fight on points still earns 5, as much as a fighter who wins a two-star mismatch on the cards. The system rewards fighters who keep getting into big fights as well as fighters who win.
Advanced Strategy: What Separates Good Managers From Great Ones
Activity Is King
The single most underrated factor in Fantasy Fights is how often your fighters actually fight. A talented boxer who sits on the shelf for six months earns you zero points during that time. Meanwhile, a busy mid-tier fighter who competes every 8–10 weeks is quietly compounding points. When building your draft board, look at scheduled fights and historical activity — not just talent.
Engineer the H2H Collision
The H2H multiplier is the signature mechanic. When two managers’ fighters face each other in a real-world bout, the winning side’s entire night gets multiplied (2× by default) and the losing side’s does not. That asymmetry is the whole point: a collision is a swing, not a shared bonus — one manager’s night doubles while their opponent’s stands still. This is where week-winning scoring lines live — a premium finish in an H2H collision is the highest-leverage event in the game. Smart managers don’t just draft fighters in isolation; they draft with the schedule in mind, targeting fighters who are booked against other rosterable names.
Play Your Tactics
The scoring table is not the whole picture. Leagues can also run Tactics — thirteen power moves that sit inside the scoring engine itself, not beside it. Each manager can play each Tactic once per season, on a fight before it locks, one Tactic per fight. Double Down doubles a fighter’s total haul; The Finisher pays on a stoppage; Poetic Prediction pays if you call the exact round. Your commissioner decides whether Tactics are on at all and which ones are in play, so check your league’s settings before you plan around them. Note the triggers: the biggest multipliers are solo-fight only, so you cannot stack one on top of an H2H collision. See all 13 Tactics →
Respect the Downside
The KO’d penalty is the quiet one, and new managers forget it. A fighter stopped in a two-star fight with no belts on the line scores just 2 − 1 = 1, and a stoppage loss in a fight with no star rating is a negative night. Title fights cushion this, because the belt points still bank on a loss, but unranked punchers with defensive question marks carry real downside. Factor the floor as well as the ceiling.
Trade Market Timing
The transfer market is a second phase of strategy, and it runs on two locks. A fighter who has already fought in your league’s season can’t be traded, dropped or claimed, and a fighter with a bout booked can’t move either. That rewards managers who move early: the time to trade for a fighter, or claim an undrafted one, is before their next fight is announced. Commissioners set how many trades and free-agent claims each stable gets, and the full rules are in the How It Works rulebook.
Getting Started
The beauty of Fantasy Fights is that you don’t need to be a boxing expert to compete. If you know the big names and follow the sport casually, you have enough knowledge to draft a competitive stable. The scoring system is designed so that common sense, picking good fighters who fight often and prioritising world champions, gets you 80 percent of the way there. The last 20 percent is where title-fight timing, the trades and reading the H2H schedule come in.
Ready to put your boxing knowledge to work? Start a league with your mates, or start one on your own against the bots, and either takes a few minutes. Everything above is draft-league scoring. The Promoter League, where you sign twenty fighters to a $100M purse and face the whole world instead of a league, earns the same default fight points without the head-to-head multiplier and adds bonuses of its own.