Common FAQs
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What is Bach Bracket?
If fantasy football and The Bachelor franchise had a love child – its name would be Bach Bracket. You can join a league with fellow Bach lovers, and make choices each week about which contestants will get a rose. Throughout the season, leagues are automatically scored, and winners can earn prizes and/or bragging rights, depending on the league they choose.
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What are the different league types?
We have 3 different league types for you to choose from on the site.
- First Impression
- Rose to Rose
- Advanced
You can learn more about how each league type works here.
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Why can I only join an Advanced league for Clare's season?
Because this season is going to be weird, with potentially multiple Bachelorettes, all Bach Bracket leagues for the 2020 season of The Bachelorette will be *Advanced Leagues* only.
You’ll win/lose points based on the guys you pick each week – regardless of which Bachelorette is involved!
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How do I join a league?
You have a few choices: create your own league, browse public leagues, or join a private league through an email invitation.
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What is the difference between a public and private league?
A public league can be joined by anyone, while a private league requires a special invitation to join. If you’re creating the league, you get to choose, so decide how exclusive you’re feeling and go for it.
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When can I start making picks?
Picks will be available as soon as the current season’s contestants are officially announced by ABC.
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How do I make picks?
We’re glad you asked. This is the most important part of the game. Before each rose ceremony, you will be given a certain number of picks. This number may vary depending on your league type. Simply navigate to the My Picks page and select your favorites. Once you’ve chosen the right number of contestants, be sure to select Save.
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When do brackets lock each week?
Brackets will lock immediately when the episode begins on the East Coast to avoid spoilers for anyone. West Coast – this means you need to make sure your picks are made a few hours before each episode.
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For Advanced Leagues, do Commissioners create the rules or are they determined by Bach Bracket?
To allow for automated scoring, all rules for the Advanced league will be chosen by Bach Bracket. These rules will be solidified and announced prior to the beginning of new season. You can see the rules for the current season by navigating to your League Scoreboard and clicking on the Rules tab.
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Where can I see a breakdown of points awarded each week?
We post a scoring recap every week that lets you know what points were awarded & why for each league type. You can find it under the Extras section on the navigation menu.
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When are episodes scored?
Scores are posted an hour or so after the episode ends on the west coast.*
*Rose to Rose & First Impression leagues are updated only after episodes which contain a rose ceremony.
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It's Week 2 & everyone in my First Impression league has zero points. Why isn't my First Impression league scored?
First Impression leagues do not score until RC2. No points are awarded until after the second rose ceremony airs.
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I couldn't get my picks in on time. What do I do?
Ask your commissioner to reopen your league by following the directions below.
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Is it too late to join a league?
You can join a league any time throughout the season!
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Your site isn't working. Should I email you about it?
Please don’t! We promise we are on top of any issues as soon as they occur. If the site is experiencing a major outage, check our Twitter feed (@bachbrack) for the latest updates!
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Why are there 2 rose ceremonies open? Should we make picks for both?
For Advanced Leagues, the site is scored by episode so only one set of picks needs to be made for each new night the show is aired. For Rose to Rose leagues, we always recommend you set & save two brackets at a time – just in case there are 2 ceremonies in one night.
If only one ceremony ends up happening, we will unlock the second ceremony & allow you to edit your picks before the next week’s episode airs.
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Why did more people got roses than we were able to pick? How will this affect the scores?
Unfortunately we do not know in advance exactly how many people will receive roses, so we base these picks off of historical data (e.g. in the majority of previous seasons, nine people received roses in rose ceremony 5), but sometimes the producers shake it up a little bit. While we won’t re-open the rose ceremony for people to make an additional pick, the good news is that everyone had the exact same number of picks, so it’s still an even playing field for everyone in your bracket.
Commissioner Questions
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What are my responsibilities as a league Commissioner?
The best part about Bach Bracket, is that you really don’t have any. Your biggest focus should be inviting people to join your league! Once the season has started, all leagues will be automatically scored for your members and scoreboards will be updated.
You can also help keep your league members up to date by following @bachbrack on Twitter, where we post the latest info and updates about scoring and site features.
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My friend is unable to join my (public or private) league. How can I add them?
There are four ways to add a person to your league. The first, and easiest, is by navigating to your league & copying the league’s unique link. You can send this link to the user. Your link should look something like:
https://bachelorette.bachbracket.com/leagues/2684/
You can also share your league via Facebook, Twitter or by email.
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Help! I've unlocked a ceremony's brackets, but my members still cannot make picks.
If no other ceremonies are active on the website & you’ve unlocked brackets, players can still make picks, but it will not be under the “My Picks” area in the main navigation.
Instead, users will need to navigate to the league itself, click on the Info tab, and click the “Make Picks” link next to the Rose Ceremony # that you’ve unlocked.
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Can I give players custom point awards?
At this time, we do not have this feature. We are working on adding in custom point awards in the future, though, so stay tuned and let us know if you have questions in the meantime.
As a workaround, you can unlock past ceremonies and have a player select correct/incorrect contestants accordingly.
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Someone didn't save their picks/forgot to make them on time. What can I do?
The easiest way to fix this is for you to re-open the rose ceremony (Info Tab > Unlock Ceremony) then let them choose their picks from the missed RC. Once they’re done, go ahead & hit the Lock Ceremony button & their points should be automatically updated!
Keep in mind that this will temporarily open picks for everyone, so make sure they make the picks quickly & you relock it right away if you’re worried about other people changing their picks! -
Can I input picks for members of my league?
No. Everyone must enter their own picks on their own account.