How points work.
The official scoring rules for every Fantasy Rivals game mode. Every number on this page mirrors the settlement engine that grades your league — no surprises, no small print.
🎯 Pick 'Em
Live nowCall every fixture on the matchday. Each match can earn up to 18 points: the result, plus two optional bonus picks.
Predict the match result — win, draw, or loss.
Bonus for nailing the exact scoreline in regulation time.
Bonus for picking the match's first scorer. Own goals don't count.
In knockout rounds a pick never settles as a draw — your outcome pick is graded on who goes through, extra time and penalties included. The exact-score bonus is always graded on the 90-minute score.
The player scoring matrix
Classic Points, Best Ball and Transfer Budget all score players from the same matrix, based on real match performance.
| Action | GK | DEF | MID | FWD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Played 1–59 minutes | +1 | +1 | +1 | +1 |
| Played 60+ minutes | +2 | +2 | +2 | +2 |
| Goal scored | +10 | +6 | +5 | +4 |
| Assist | +3 | +3 | +3 | +3 |
| Clean sheet (60+ min) | +6 | +4 | +1 | — |
| Every 2 goals conceded | −1 | −1 | — | — |
| Every 3 saves | +1 | — | — | — |
| Penalty save | +5 | — | — | — |
| Every 4 tackles won | — | +1 | +1 | — |
| Every 6 clearances | — | +1 | — | — |
| Every 4 key passes | — | — | +1 | — |
| Every 4 shots on target | — | — | — | +1 |
| Yellow card | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 |
| Second yellow (further) | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 |
| Straight red card | −3 | −3 | −3 | −3 |
| Own goal | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 |
| Penalty missed | −2 | −2 | −2 | −2 |
A player who doesn't come on scores zero — no points of any kind without minutes. A second yellow stacks with the first yellow (−3 total) and replaces the straight-red deduction.
Captains, benches & transfers
How your squad's player points become your matchday total in each mode.
🏆 Classic Points
Live now- Pick a squad of 15 (2 GK · 5 DEF · 5 MID · 3 FWD), then set your XI and captain each matchday.
- Your captain scores double. If they don't play a minute, your vice-captain steps up automatically.
- Bench players sub in automatically for starters who don't play.
- Extra transfers beyond your free allowance cost −4 points each.
🎩 Best Ball
Live now- Pick your 15 — then relax. No weekly lineups, no bench calls.
- After every matchday your best XI is selected automatically: your top keeper, your three best defenders, two best midfielders and best forward, plus your four next-highest scorers.
- Your highest scorer is auto-captained and counts double.
💰 Transfer Budget
Live now- Build a 15-player squad under a salary cap (typically $100m) with a limit per real club, from a priced player market.
- Captain scores double; the vice-captain steps up if the captain doesn't play. Bench auto-subs apply.
- Domestic leagues give 1 free transfer per matchday; tournaments set free transfers per stage, with bigger rebuild windows between rounds.
- Every transfer beyond your free allowance costs −4 points.
- Exact budgets, squad limits and free-transfer counts vary by competition and stage — the app shows them before every deadline.
⚔️ Challenges (1v1)
Live now- Go head-to-head with a rival over a single matchday.
- Winning a challenge earns a 🏆 trophy on your rivalry record — challenges are about bragging rights, never league points.
⏱️ Deadlines & settlement
- Picks, lineups and squads lock at the matchday deadline and stay locked until the matchday is fully settled.
- Live points during matches are provisional; official points settle shortly after the final whistle and are the ones that count.
Survivor & Snake Draft
Two more ways to play — an elimination game and a live draft. Update to app version 1.2.0 to create them.
💀 Survivor
New in 1.2.0- Pick one team each matchday to avoid defeat.
- A win or a draw keeps you in. A loss knocks you out.
- Each team can only be used once. If every team playing that round is already used, the pool resets.
- Miss the deadline and we pick your best-placed unused team for you.
- Postponed or cancelled matches don't count — you survive and keep the team.
- Last one standing wins. If the final survivors fall in the same round, most matchdays survived wins; still level, the title is shared.
- Domestic leagues only — no knockout rounds.
🐍 Snake Draft
New in 1.2.0- A live draft room. The order is drawn at random and snakes: 1 to last, then last back to 1.
- 30 seconds per pick by default — the commissioner can set 60, 90 or 120 seconds, or a 12-hour slow draft.
- Every player can be owned by one manager only.
- 15 rounds to fill 2 GK · 5 DEF · 5 MID · 3 FWD.
- Run out of time and your queue picks for you — or the best available player at a position you still need.
- Squads lock after the draft. From then on it scores exactly like Classic Points: the player matrix, weekly XI, captain 2×.
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