The 2026 season of MLP offered by DoorDash is simply across the nook, and it guarantees to be greater and higher than ever. However, earlier than followers and gamers alike can flip their full consideration to the upcoming season, it is very important word that there might be various adjustments by way of how issues might be finished within the MLP, the occasions that might be performed, and even the format of the playoffs.
So, to maintain you within the loop, take a look at the next for a hen’s-eye view of the assorted adjustments that to take impact this season on the Premier Stage:
Premier Free Company Draft
- The 2026 Draft will function equally to the 2025 model
- The draft is not going to be damaged into two elements, groups will be capable to draft their full roster of six (6)
- Per regular, ONLY UPA-signed gamers might play MLP
Lineups
- Groups might set a beginning lineup for a match that makes use of greater than 4 gamers so long as it’s a part of the lineup submission (i.e., groups might use a distinct male participant for males’s doubles and blended doubles)
- If vital, DreamBreaker™ lineups might be decided by groups following the second Combined recreation, and groups might select any 4 gamers from their roster—two males and two ladies—no matter any substitutions used throughout doubles
Common Season Occasions and Standings Factors
- Common season occasion codecs will function 10 complete groups, break up into two teams of 5, taking part in spherical robin Thursday to Saturday with the highest 4 groups in every group advancing to Sunday
- Group standings might be decided by standings factors earned throughout group play, with every match price a complete of three (3) factors (regulation win = 3; DreamBreaker™ win = 2; DreamBreaker™ loss = 1; regulation loss = 0)
- The identical seeded workforce in every group will play one another on Sunday (i.e., Group A #1 vs. Group B #1, and so on.), with occasion standings factors on the road, primarily based on Sunday match outcomes
- Occasion Standings Factors for every occasion might be 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-1-1, primarily based on last outcomes (winner of the #1 vs. #1 match will obtain 25 occasion standings factors with the loser incomes 18 factors, and so on.)
- Standings factors might be earned primarily based on total efficiency at every occasion, NOT from every match
Waivers
- Premier Stage groups might be allowed to take part in a single waiver wire interval to swap out as much as one in every of their gamers ONLY for one UPA-signed, MLP non-rostered participant through the 2026 season on Wednesday, 1 July 2026, following common season occasion #6, which ends Solar, 28 June 2026.
Playoffs
- Playoffs will develop to a few weeks and 12 groups for 2026, permitting for a further spherical of high-revenue, high-quality, high-stakes occasions
