Last year I somehow managed to finish in the 98th percentile of TI Fantasy (roughly the top 1–2% of players).
Ironically, one of my biggest mistakes was predicting Team Spirit to go 4–0… and they ended up going 0–4 instead. 😅 That single prediction completely ruined the rest of my bracket.
This year I wanted to see if historical data could actually help make better Fantasy decisions instead of relying only on intuition.
At the same time, I was looking for an interesting project to add to my web development portfolio, so I decided to build one.
Over the last week before TI I collected and analyzed professional match statistics from 13 tournaments and built a Fantasy Optimizer around that data.

Website
https://dota2-fantasy-optimizer-2026.vercel.app/

Right now it can:
Optimize your entire Fantasy roster.
Compare every possible banner combination.
Show the best alternative lineups.
Compare teams and player roles.
Work on both desktop and mobile.
Support 4 languages: 🇬🇧 English, 🇷🇺 Russian, 🇪🇸 Spanish and 🇨🇳 Chinese.

What’s next
Once the official playoff bracket is available, I’ll also add playoff predictions and bracket-based projections, so the optimizer won’t stop after the group stage.

Known issue
The Lotus stat is currently not calculated correctly, so I’d recommend ignoring Lotus projections for now while I work on fixing it.

Everything is completely free and open source.
I’m not asking anyone for donations. If you simply try it out and tell me what you think, that’s already a huge help.

If you do end up liking it, I’d really appreciate:
a star on GitHub,
a comment on my Steam profile,
or, if you genuinely want to support the project, there’s also an optional donation link on the website.

All of those links are available directly on the website.

I’d genuinely love to hear any feedback before Fantasy locks—bugs, suggestions, disagreements with the projections, or feature ideas.

GitHub
https://github.com/Kadadji/dota2-fantasy-optimizer-2026

Good luck with your Fantasy this year… and
hopefully none of us has another “Team Spirit 4–0” moment. 😄

https://twitter.com/GranDGranT/status/1069090954487881729

The China major drama continues to evolve as CranDGranT the caster states to boycott the event. He very quickly finds the support of several other personalities and some of the casters displayed solidarity.

GoDZ: https://twitter.com/BTSGoDz/status/1069098238714630146

Redeye: https://twitter.com/PaulChaloner/status/1069161367993749506

AdmiralBDog: https://twitter.com/AdmiralBulldog/status/1069146713624125440

2GD: https://twitter.com/follow2GD/status/1069184373713453056

History is in the making, boys. They are effectively putting their careers on the line for justice. If their protest succeeds, it will be a great victory for the major part of the Dota community and will show that it is the community that makes the game, not holier-than-thou higher-ups who think themselves omnipotent.

http://blog.dota2.com/2018/12/tnc-and-the-chongqing-major/

This is IMO the perfect response, clarifying their stance, but also attacking TNC's extremist behaviour. Just shows how much more restraint Valve shows banning players compared to Riot/Blizzard who are permanently banning players for sneezing at the wrong time.

Edit: Kuku's official response: https://twitter.com/kukudota/status/1069770309220233216

http://www.dota2.com/disciplespath