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Port Vale in Fantasy EFL

Port Vale sit 16th in League Two. Below is the model's read on them as a club pick, their fixture run, and which of their players is worth one of your seven.

How settled these numbers are

The official feed is not yet publishing league tables or goals scored and conceded this season. Fixture difficulty is built from the opponent's points per game, attack and defence, so with none of those published it cannot separate one opponent from another and is currently driven by home advantage alone. The club and player ratings still read recent form, so they carry more than this does.

Club rating
51.9
League position
16th

6 points from the last 3 — steady. 1 blank round in the next 3. 2 double rounds in the next 3.

Next fixtures, with modelled difficulty

RoundOpponent
Round 154 Barnet (A)
3 Northampton Town (H) Double
Round 163 Newport County (H)
4 Crawley Town (A) Double
Round 17Blank round

Lower is more favourable. On this round's data the rating only takes the values 3 and 4, not the full 1 to 5, because the feed is not yet separating the clubs. Difficulty is modelled from the opponent's points per game, attack and defence, measured within their own division so a League Two side is not flattered against Championship opposition. The fixture ticker has every club.

Port Vale players, best rated first

PlayerPosRatingMinutesStatus
K. DempseyMID82.5100%Available
J. Lawrence-GabrielDEF73.7100%Available
O. HernándezFWD73.2100%Available
O. LynchFWD70.6100%Available
J. HeadleyDEF70.092%Available
C. HallDEF69.292%Available

A modelled 0-100 rating from minutes, form, output, fixture and home advantage. Minutes is the share of the club's available football played, and it is the strongest single signal in this game: across 83,698 real appearances, a player averaging under 30 minutes in his last five returns 0.59 points the following round, one averaging 75 or more returns 4.25. The player finder has the rest.

Unavailable

Build a side around them

The Fantasy EFL dashboard picks a legal seven across all seventy-two clubs, rates the side you already hold and names the one change worth making. The game lets you take no more than two players from any one club, so Port Vale can give you at most two of your seven unless you play the One Club chip.

Championship, best rated first

League Two, best rated first

League One, best rated first