Best Ball Mania VI is officially here, signaling the transition from NFL Draft to best ball as we inch closer to the 2025 season.

Before diving head-first into Best Ball Mania VI, let's lay the groundwork for what to expect.

What is Best Ball Mania VI?

Best Ball Mania VI is Underdog's annual flagship tournament with a $25 entry fee per team and a 150-team limit per player.

Hundreds of thousands of entrants will compete for millions of dollars (yes, millions) playing fantasy football … with zero in-season roster management. Sounds like a dream come true, right?

You can sign up for Underdog with promo code LIFE to get a first-time deposit match, essentially doubling your initial deposit (up to $1,000). Deposit $25 for a draft? You get two. Deposit $100 for four drafts? You get eight. Pretty, pretty sweet deal, if you ask me.

Let's dive into the payout structure and what the schedule for the season looks like for BBMVI.

Best Ball Mania VI Payout Structure

As mentioned above, BBMVI players have the opportunity to turn $25 into millions of dollars. The biggest difference in the payout structure this season compared to seasons past is that there will be not one, but two players crowned as millionaires.

See below for the BBMVI playoff payout structure:

Additionally, Underdog will be running back regular-season payouts based on team performance from Weeks 1 through 14.

Schedule Format For BBMVI

• Regular season: Weeks 1 through 14
• Playoffs Round 1: Week 15
• Semifinals: Week 16
• Best Ball Mania VI Finals: Week 17

Early Best Ball Strategy Ahead of BBMVI

While specific strategy for Best Ball Mania VI will look different than the Big Board and other pre-draft contests, given where we're at in the offseason and the size of the contest itself, Pete Overzet has been hard at work the last couple months cranking out early-offseason draft strategy:

• Lessons to apply from high-stakes best ball drafting
• Taking a barbell approach to the TE position
• Late-round QB targets and fades
• Cheap stacks to target in early drafts

Obviously individual ADPs have shifted since these have come out, but the foundational analysis stays true. For the latest ADP, click here. 

Stay tuned over the next several weeks at Fantasy Life for Best Ball Mania VI streams, strategy articles, and coverage in the free Fantasy Life Newsletter.

How To Win Best Ball Mania VI

Listen, with all due respect, if I really had the answer to this question, do you think I'd give it away to anyone? Absolutely not. I also likely wouldn't be here, as I'd be a multi-millionaire by way of fantasy football at this point.

While I can't give you the exact answer on how to win Best Ball Mania VI, what I can do is lead you down the right path, starting with our Best Ball Hub.

Our Best Ball Hub is the premier best ball companion in the industry, letting you drill deeper than ever into tracking your best ball portfolio to make the most educated decisions possible.

Use the “My Players” element, for example. The example below outlines how you can delineate not only by position, but by a specific tournament to view your player exposures, exposure to their team, and your ADP you've drafted them at relative to the current market ADP on Underdog.

You can also analyze specific players in your portfolio, integrated with Fantasy Life projections, schedule notes, rankings, builds you have that include the specific player, teams you have them on, and more.

This gives you a level of control that has never been available with a best ball portfolio before (unless you're a sicko who enjoys tracking everything manually in a Google sheet).

You can access the Best Ball Hub as part of FantasyLife+ below and give yourself a massive leg up on the competition in the biggest tournament of the season.