diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/bradley_terry/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/bradley_terry/__init__.py
index 849d84e45..4457c50be 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/bradley_terry/__init__.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/bradley_terry/__init__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import logging
 
 from axolotl.prompt_strategies.user_defined import UserDefinedDatasetConfig
 
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.prompt_strategies")
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.prompt_strategies.bradley_terry")
 
 
 def load(strategy, tokenizer, cfg, ds_cfg):
diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/bradley_terry/chat_template.py b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/bradley_terry/chat_template.py
index d3cd5c2f5..fa85cdcb2 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/bradley_terry/chat_template.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/bradley_terry/chat_template.py
@@ -2,13 +2,18 @@
 Bradley-Terry model with chat template prompt strategy.
 """
 
+import logging
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
 from axolotl.prompt_strategies.chat_template import (
     ChatTemplatePrompter,
     ChatTemplateStrategy,
 )
-from axolotl.utils.chat_templates import get_chat_template
+from axolotl.utils.chat_templates import get_chat_template_from_config
+
+# Configure the logger
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.prompt_strategies.bradley_terry.chat_template")
+LOG.setLevel(logging.INFO)
 
 
 class BTChatTemplateStrategy(ChatTemplateStrategy):
@@ -27,18 +32,24 @@ class BTChatTemplateStrategy(ChatTemplateStrategy):
         # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
         prompt[self.messages] = []
         if prompt["system"]:
-            prompt[self.messages].append({"from": "system", "value": prompt["system"]})
-        prompt[self.messages].append({"from": "user", "value": prompt["input"]})
-        prompt[self.messages].append({"from": "assistant", "value": prompt["chosen"]})
+            prompt[self.messages].append(
+                {"role": "system", "content": prompt["system"]}
+            )
+        prompt[self.messages].append({"role": "user", "content": prompt["input"]})
+        prompt[self.messages].append({"role": "assistant", "content": prompt["chosen"]})
         chosen_tokenized = super().tokenize_prompt(prompt)
 
         self.messages = "rejected_messages"
         # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
         prompt[self.messages] = []
         if prompt["system"]:
-            prompt[self.messages].append({"from": "system", "value": prompt["system"]})
-        prompt[self.messages].append({"from": "user", "value": prompt["input"]})
-        prompt[self.messages].append({"from": "assistant", "value": prompt["rejected"]})
+            prompt[self.messages].append(
+                {"role": "system", "content": prompt["system"]}
+            )
+        prompt[self.messages].append({"role": "user", "content": prompt["input"]})
+        prompt[self.messages].append(
+            {"role": "assistant", "content": prompt["rejected"]}
+        )
         rejected_tokenized = super().tokenize_prompt(prompt)
 
         return {
@@ -53,15 +64,18 @@ class BTChatTemplateStrategy(ChatTemplateStrategy):
 
 def load(tokenizer, cfg, ds_cfg: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None):
     ds_cfg = ds_cfg or {}
+    chat_template_string = get_chat_template_from_config(
+        cfg=cfg, ds_cfg=ds_cfg, tokenizer=tokenizer
+    )
 
     prompter_params = {
         "tokenizer": tokenizer,
-        "chat_template": get_chat_template(ds_cfg.get("chat_template", "chatml")),
-        "message_field_role": ds_cfg.get("message_field_role", "from"),
-        "message_field_content": ds_cfg.get("message_field_content", "value"),
-        "message_field_training": ds_cfg.get("message_field_training", "training"),
+        "chat_template": chat_template_string,
+        "message_field_role": ds_cfg.get("message_field_role", "role"),
+        "message_field_content": ds_cfg.get("message_field_content", "content"),
+        "message_field_training": ds_cfg.get("message_field_training", None),
         "message_field_training_detail": ds_cfg.get(
-            "message_field_training_detail", "train_detail"
+            "message_field_training_detail", None
         ),
         "roles": ds_cfg.get("roles"),
         "drop_system_message": ds_cfg.get("drop_system_message", False),
@@ -74,8 +88,8 @@ def load(tokenizer, cfg, ds_cfg: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None):
     strategy_params = {
         "train_on_inputs": cfg.train_on_inputs,
         "sequence_len": cfg.sequence_len,
-        "roles_to_train": ds_cfg.get("roles_to_train", ["gpt", "assistant"]),
-        "train_on_eos": ds_cfg.get("train_on_eos", "turn"),
+        "roles_to_train": ds_cfg.get("roles_to_train", []),
+        "train_on_eos": ds_cfg.get("train_on_eos", None),
     }
 
     strategy = BTChatTemplateStrategy(