Bach Fantasy

Friends, Romans, countrymen and women! Lend me your ears and your chalices of wine! Welcome to what is sure to be another face-melting season of BachFantasy. If you’re new, allow us to roll out the red carpet. Thank you for joining us. Read more below about how to draft a winning team, what we award points for, and general rules of the game.

If you’re a grizzled vet who has played BachFantasy before and laughs heartily in the face of reality love, allow us to scooch a bit on the couch and make room for you. We’re so glad you’re back. How you doing, my babies? Do you want a snack? What you’ve been up to? Come in for a hug, ahhh, there we go. We missed you.

HOW OUR BACHELORETTE FANTASY LEAGUE WORKS

1) Gather your “Bachelorette”-loving friends and coworkers, and choose a League Commissioner. The Commissioner is responsible for tallying league members’ points each week and sharing the standings with the league.

2) Choose how your league is going to run your draft (read more on that below) and submit your contestant picks to your league commissioner.

3) Watch “The Bachelorette” every Monday night, beginning May 23 on ABC.

4) Visit this blog every Tuesday morning to see how each of your contestants scored. The league commissioner should add up the point totals for each team in order to figure out the weekly rankings. You can use our BachFantasy Scoring Template to keep track of your league members’ scores.

THE DRAFT

You have a few options when it comes to drafting your Bachelorette fantasy league team team of five contestants. Click here to read more about how to draft your team.

POINTS CATEGORIES

When picking contestants, you’re the team owner. So you do you. Crazies earn a lot of points (and they’re the very lifeblood of the show’s existence), but you’ll be most rewarded for picking contestants who go the distance. (You can read our opinions on this season’s drafting pool here.)

Points are divided into Phrases, Actions, and Roses. We’ve added a few new points categories this year during Ben’s season and a couple more for JoJo’s season; look for bolded points below to see the newbies. We post a new wildcard points category on Twitter every Monday before the episode airs, so be sure to follow us there for the latest info.

There will also be a mid-season draft after Episode 5 in which you’ll be able to add one player to your team if it’s no longer intact. Don’t worry about that for now; there will be more deets later. Onto the points!

Phrases

• Talking about his parents’ relationship (5 points)
• Mentioning his kid (5 points)
• Mentioning a deceased loved one (10 points)
• Mentioning a previous fiancee or wife (10 points)
• Expressing fear of a date activity (10 points) NEW IN 2016
• Discussing his virginity (15 points) NEW IN 2016
• Saying “I’m not here to make friends” (20 points)
• Saying “I’m falling for you” to the Bachelorette or “I’m falling for her” to the camera (20 points)
• Saying “I love you” to the Bachelorette (30 points)
• Telling the Bachelorette that someone in the house “is not here for the right reasons” (30 points)
• Being told “I love you” by the Bachelorette (50 points) NEW IN 2016

Actions

• Interrupting someone’s one-on-one time (5 points)
• Bonus: using the phrase “steal [the Bachelorette] away” during said interruption (5 points)
• Dancing (5 points)
• Wearing a helmet (5 points)
• Singing or playing an instrument for the Bachelor (5 points)
• Hot tubbing (5 points)
• Giving the Bachelorette a gift (5 points)
• Going on a picnic (5 points)
  • Must be sitting on the ground
• Wearing a costume or clothing native to another culture/country (5 points)
• Attending a concert (10 points) NEW IN 2016
• Riding in a helicopter (10 points)
• Riding on a boat (10 points)
• Kissing the Bachelorette on the lips (10 points)
• Being apart of the “team” who wins alone time with the Bachelorette on a group date (15 points) NEW IN 2016
• Appearing visibly drunk (15 points)
• Meeting the Bachelorette’s family and/or friends (15 points)
• Interrupting a rose ceremony to ask to speak with the Bachelorette alone (20 points) NEW IN 2016
• Needing medical attention at any point (20 points)
• Crying on camera (25 points)
  • Must actually see moisture fall. We’re sticklers on this. 
• Having a secret girlfriend at home (25 points)
• Having a body part blurred out any point (30 points)
  • Only for nudity; having your mouth blurred for profanity doesn’t count
• Leaving the show early on his own accord (30 points)
• Drafting the next Bachelor on your team (40 points)
• Coming back to the show to beg for another chance (50 points)

Roses

• Getting the First Impression Rose (35 points, only available first night)
• Being selected to go on a group date (10 points)
• Being selected to go on a one-on-one date (20 points)
• Being selected to go on a two-on-one date (30 points) NEW IN 2016
• Getting the rose to stay another week (25 points)
• Getting the rose on a group date (now worth 35 points) NEW IN 2016
• Getting the rose on a two-on-one date (40 points)
• Making it to Hometown Dates (50 points)
• Accepting the Fantasy Suite (75 points)
• Refusing the Fantasy Suite when the Bachelorette is game (-75 points)
• Proposing or being proposed to (85 points) NEW IN 2016
• Winning the Final Rose (100 points)

WILDCARD POINTS

Each week, we’ll announce the upcoming wildcard category for the week on Twitter (so follow us to see what it is). It will change weekly and is only awarded to one dude per episode. For example, one wildcard category might be: the first man to dance this week gets 20 points.

SCORING

We’ll score each episode for you and post each contestant’s scores every Tuesday morning. Be sure to check back every Tuesday to see how your teams are stacking up against one another. We’ll also be posting an episode recap for those of you just can’t get enough Bach.

Will you be joining us this season? Let us know your league or individual team name in the comments! (We heart puns.)

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Did you know we’re on Facebook and also on Twitter? We live-tweet every episode, often while drinking wine and yelling at the TV. It’s a good time. Come tweet with us!