One of fantasy football’s most prestigious tournaments is back for its sixth iteration. Underdog Fantasy’s Best Ball Mania VI is live for the 2025 NFL season.
There aren’t many fantasy football tournaments where you could turn a modest entry fee ($25) into life-changing money.
Best Ball Mania VI: 2025 Fantasy Football Details
What exactly is best ball, and how does it differ from traditional fantasy football? How many other contestants do you have to beat to win prizes in Best Ball Mania VI?
Let’s dive into some of the important information to know when signing up at Underdog for a crack at $15m in prizes for this year’s tournament.
BBMVI Tournament Structure
Best ball eliminates the traditional headaches of fantasy football management. There are no weekly lineup decisions, no waiver wire scrambles, no trade negotiations. Your optimal lineup is automatically selected each week based on your players’ actual performances.
The contest went live in May, and drafts will remain open until Week 1 of the NFL season kicks off (or until the contest is filled). Users can select a fast draft (with 20- or 30-second timers) or a slow draft, which features an 8-hour timer. Each draft features 12 total users and 18 total rounds.
The tournament follows a clear progression that mirrors the NFL season structure:
- Regular season: Weeks 1 through 14
- Playoffs Round 1: Week 15
- Semifinals: Week 16
- Best Ball Mania VI Finals: Week 17
This creates multiple checkpoints throughout the season where early draft decisions can impact your tournament life. Teams must survive the regular season gauntlet before advancing to the high-stakes playoff rounds.
After the best ball regular season (ending Week 14), two users from each original group of 12 will advance. Those users will be placed in new “pods” of 13 total users for Round 1 (Week 15) of the playoffs, and only one user will advance from that stage. The semifinals feature groups of 16 users, and only one fortunate survivor will make it to the Best Ball Mania VI final, which has a total of 539 seats.
BBMVI Prize Pool Breakdown
Anyone who makes the final is guaranteed to win at least $3,750. The top 20 finishers will earn a minimum of $70,000! Ultimately, the winner will take home $2 million, and second place will collect a cool million. Here is the breakdown of prizes for the overall top 10:
- 1st – $2,000,000
- 2nd – $1,000,000
- 3rd – $504,370
- 4th – $400,000
- 5th – $300,000
- 6th – $250,000
- 7th – $200,000
- 8th – $175,000
- 9th – $150,000
- 10th – $125,000
Best Ball Mania VI Draft Strategies
Best Ball Mania VI is a combination of drafting ability and roster construction philosophy. Success requires understanding not just individual player value, but how different combinations of players might perform across various game scripts, weather conditions, and matchup scenarios throughout an entire season.
There are plenty of draft strategies, and there is so much information to absorb throughout the summer. Training camp news, rumors, and injuries all affect the average draft position of the players, which is constantly changing.
More on Best Ball Mania VI
- Roster composition: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 FLEX, 10 Bench
- Draft size: 12
- Rake: 10.8%
- Max entries (per user): 150
- Total number of possible entrants: 672,672
- Entry fee: $25 (per entry)
- Prizes: $15 million
Sign up at Underdog Fantasy today for a chance to compete for your share of a $15 million total prize pool! You’re just one draft away from taking home a $2 million grand prize!
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