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🏆 How Fantasy Player Prices Are Generated

💰 1. Players Are Priced Within Their Division

Players are grouped within their own division. This means the best performers in each division sit towards the top of the price range, rather than being compared against every player across the entire league.

🔥 2. Current Form Matters

Each player's current-season form is calculated using their win rate, average winning margin and total wins.

Players need at least 5 matches to qualify. This prevents someone with only a handful of games from suddenly becoming one of the most expensive players.

📈 3. Career Rating + Current Form

A player's career rating provides the foundation for their price, while current form can push their value higher or lower.

Form gradually becomes more important as a player builds up matches, reaching its maximum influence after 12 matches.

This means a short hot streak won't instantly send an unproven player to the top of the market.

🏅 4. Players Are Ranked Into Price Bands

Players are ranked against others in their division and placed into percentiles.

The very best players receive an elite pricing band, with meaningful gaps between closely matched stars. This prevents managers from simply picking a team full of almost-identical elite players.

B-team players also receive a ranking adjustment so that they are priced below similarly-rated A-team players.

💷 5. The Ranking Is Converted Into a Price

The player's percentile is then converted into their fantasy value using a pricing curve.

The result is a price range of approximately £4m–£18m.

The curve deliberately creates bigger gaps between elite players while keeping the middle and lower tiers affordable — meaning there are genuine bargains to be found.

⚽ THE RESULT: £100M BUDGET

With a £100m budget for a 10-player squad, the very best players cost around £18m each.

That means you can't simply buy all the biggest stars.

Instead, managers have to balance their squad between elite players, reliable performers and potential bargains.

🎯 The aim is simple:

Build the strongest team possible — but make your £100m budget work harder than everyone else's.»