Championship · League One · League Two
Fantasy EFL picks, fixtures and form
Find the best player, club and captain picks across the Championship, League One and League Two.
This round’s picks
Seven decisions, one card each: a player in every position, a differential, one of your two club picks and a captain. Every card shows the reasoning behind it — these are modelled ratings, not predictions.
Build your seven
The cards above pick the best player in each position. This picks a team — seven players in one of the game's three legal formations, no more than two from any one club, with the armband on the highest-rated player in the side. Those constraints are the hard part: the top of any form list clusters into two or three clubs having a good month, and that side cannot be entered.
Fixture snapshot
The next three rounds for the best-rated clubs in each division. Blank and double rounds are marked, because both change what a squad should look like. See all fixtures →
Tools
About these tools
Fantasy EFL tools for weekly picks
Fantasy EFL asks a different question from a Premier League fantasy game. You are picking seven players and two clubs from three divisions at once, which means holding seventy-two teams and several hundred plausible players in your head every week. Nobody does that from memory. These tools do the comparing so you can spend your time on the judgement calls.
Everything here is built on the same four things that actually decide a Fantasy EFL round: recent form, the fixture in front of a player, whether they are starting and finishing matches, and whether they are fit to play at all. The player finder ranks on all four at once and lets you cut by division, position, club and availability. The fixture ticker shows six rounds ahead so you can see a good run coming rather than reacting to it a week late. The club picker does the same job for the two club selections, which are the part of the game most managers set once and forget.
Cross-division comparison is the hard part, and it is where a tool earns its place. A forward on a hot run in League Two and a Championship midfielder with three assists in four are not obviously comparable — so every input in the model is normalised within a player's own division before anything is ranked. A fixture rated 2 in League One means the same thing as a fixture rated 2 in the Championship: comfortably better than average for that division.
There is no budget here, no player prices and no transfer market, because Fantasy EFL does not have them. What it has instead is a weekly selection problem, and that is the only thing these pages try to help with. Ratings are modelled from results to date and described as such throughout — they are a starting point for a decision, not a forecast of one.