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The Little Albatross Rules
The Little Albatross Rules
Underdog contests are governed by our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and the rules listed below.
Entrants into Underdog contests compete to accumulate points based on athletes' statistical performance in sporting events. Contest results are determined by the total points accumulated by each individual lineup entry according to the relevant scoring rules.
General Contest Information
General Contest Information
Entrants select players through a snake draft. In a snake draft, the pick order is reversed each round. In other words, the entrant with the first pick in round 1, will have the last pick in round 2 and the first pick in round 3.
Entrants are required to pay an entry fee of $50 per entry to enter The Big Albatross (the "Tournament").
The tournament has a total prize pool of $200,000
Entry to the Tournament will be closed 2 hours before the 1st tee off of The Masters. This means that the Tournament closure time would move, if the timing of the first tee were to change for any reason.
Entrants are only allowed to enter a maximum of 10 entries in the Tournament.
Teams are made up of 10 total players with a starting roster of 6 players.
Entrants draft a team of players who accumulate points throughout the duration of the contest period.
Once entrants draft, their rosters are set—there are no waivers, substitutions, or trades during the contest period.
At the end of each PGA Tournament, Underdog automatically selects the entrant's highest scoring players at the designated positions to be "starters" and only those players' statistics over that tournament are counted towards the entrant's accumulated score. This means entrants do not need to set their lineups.
Entrants compete in groups ("Groups") over the course of multiple rounds ("Rounds").
The Tournament will have 4 Rounds, with each round consisting of player groups as seen below:
Round 1 - 6 person groups
Round 2 - 6 person groups
Round 3 - 5 person groups
Round 4 - 25 person group
The Tournament will consist of 4,500 total entries in the first Round, and a total of 750 6-person Groups.
At the end of Round 1, the top one (1) performing entries in each Group will advance to Round 2 and be awarded a prize (as described below). Round 2 will consist of 750 entries in 125 6-person Groups.
At the end of Round 2, the top one (1) performing entries from each Group will advance to Round 3 and be awarded a prize (as described below). Round 3 will consist of 125 entries in 25 5-person Groups.
At the end of Round 3, the top one (1) performing entry from each Group will advance to Round 4 and be awarded a prize (as described below). Round 4 will consist of 25 entries in a single 25-person Group.
At the end of Round 4, the top one (1) performing entry from the Group will be the Grand Prize winner and prizes will be awarded to all entries in Round 4 (as described below).
Rounds
Round 1 – The Masters
Round 2 – PGA Championship
Round 3 – US Open
Round 4 – The Open Championship
Roster Makeup
Roster Makeup
The roster makeup and scoring will follow the details below.
Roster | Position Count |
Golfer | 4 |
Bench | 6 |
Tournament Prize Breakdown
Tournament Prize Breakdown
1st $2,000
2nd $1,000
3rd $800
4th $700
5th $600
6th $500
7th $400
8th $300
9th $250
10th $200
11 - 20th $100
21 - 50th $60
51 - 100th $25
101 - 500th $8
501 - 2500th $3