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Has anyone else seen it? And has it swayed you away from making PSG transfers before MD1?

Somehow managed to get Kane, Mbappe, Haaland, Kvaratskhelia and Raphinha into one team! Not for those that are playing it safe. This is out of the box fantasy football.

The definitive UCL Fantasy Chip Strategy guide is here 🃏

I explain how the Wildcard and Limitless work, reveal the best Matchdays to activate each booster and analyse the fixtures to help you plan ahead ⚡️

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sp3KUz70gHAK33VWCTvT1 🎙️

Zechiel is currently my 4.5m enabler, I was wondering what people think/reasons to not have him/who else you are going for instead. With four goals and three assists in five games as a CM for Feyenoord, he has been both their best performer so far, and the Eredivisie's best performer as well.

He is as differential as they come, not even being in the top 100 owned 4.5 mids.

My thought process is that this price point is perfect for taking a gamble, especially because I'm not sure there's any standout 4.5m mid.

He doesn't have perfect starting fixtures, but as a pretty much nailed CM for Feyenoord he should have a lot of potential for ball recovery points. He's had a relatively low avg of four recoveries per game in the Eredivisie, albeit against bad opposition, so there is potential for more once he plays better opposition.

What are your thoughts and who else are you considering at this price point?

After getting some feedback from the community, I’ve made a number of updates to my UCL Fantasy FDR tool.

Link will be in the replies.

New features:

- Matchday Split: easily see fixtures by Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday

- Away Difficulty: adjust the difficulty of away fixtures for individual teams

- GK Rotation: find goalkeeper combinations that complement each other well

The goal is still to keep it simple: a useful fixture overview that helps with planning and decision-making without overcomplicating things.

Would love to hear what you think and if there’s anything you’d still like to see added.

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Completely unrelated to any and everything, Stuttgart kits are on really low resolutions on the app.
Picture added with other kits for reference.

Here are 10 of the best budget gems for UCL Fantasy 2026/27. Do you have any in your squad?

Just launched a fixture difficulty tool covering all 36 Champions League teams for MD1-8.

What it includes:

• Team strength ratings

• Fixture difficulty per matchday

• Best fixture runs to target

• Side-by-side team comparison

You can rate teams yourself and adjust based on your own view — not locked to a fixed algorithm.

Feedback welcome!

Best 18/36. Some interesting picks emerge when you sort purely on "easiest" games.

And of course, elite teams are always fixture proof and don't necessarily need a generous run of games to do well.

Good morning/day/evening!

Some of you might remember my post from last year and today I’m back with a similar breakdown of the league fixtures as I did last last season! Last season I used it frequently and I found it very helpful when identifying team clashes, high coeff. matchups to avoid and when to use Wildcard, Limitless etc.

I’ve opted to use the clubelo.com rating for any more nuanced color coding and difficulty rating formulas. I personally find it much more accurate than the UEFA pots or coeff. rating.

Using the clubelo rating I mathd out a column (P) to grade the opponents and weigh in the teams own rating.
In this column an on paper perfectly even matchup would score 1.0, anything above 1 is considered an easier game and anything below a more difficult game.
And as you’d expect - it matches the UEFA coefficient points and pots quite closely but has some outliers such as Man United, Stuttgart who have easier draws than their pot reflect and in the opposite end you could argue that Atletico, Feyenoord or Shakhtar have gotten more difficult draws than the rest of their pot.

Sheet available here - UCL Fantasy 26/27 Planner (copy)

In case you don’t want to open it yourself and look directly in Google Sheets, I’ve attached the following three images.

1) Fixture planner by UEFA pots
Colour coded by the UEFA pots (1,2,3,4)

2) Fixture planner by Elo difficulty
Colour coded using the Elo ranking system from Clubelo.com where the clubs Elo and the opposition is matched against eachother to gauge the difference in Elo. In theory - anything less than 1.0 is a hard fixture and anything more than 1.0 is considered an easier fixture.

3) Matchday helper
This helper simply visualises the different matchday a fixture is played. This is especially helpful and important as you map out your goal keeper rotations.

Below I have extracted some calculations based on the data which can give us an idea of the difficulty of the draw for teams.

Draws ranked by average UEFA Coefficient of opponents

5 Easiest
Sporting CP 60.66
Liverpool 61
Feyenoord 61.01
Manchester United 61.82
VfB Stuttgart 62.13

5 Toughest
Real Betis 73.79
Arsenal 73
Inter 71.66
Lille 71.47
Roma/Galatasaray 69.88

Draws ranked by weighted Clubelo.com Coefficients of club and average elo of opponents

5 Easiest
Bayern München 1.1218
Arsenal 1.1089
Barcelona 1.1
Real Madrid 1.0924
Manchester City 1.087

5 Toughest
Sabah 0.8334
Slovan Bratislava 0.869
LASK 0.9064
Viking 0.9259
Feyenoord 0.9297

Whew. Thanks for reading through all that.
Hopefully you find it useful in any way, please keep an eye out for any errors - I'm sure there are quite a few but remember it's all for fun!
Best of luck in the new season and I'll see you in the rant threads!

Not the official UEFA fantasy game. I built a club-level predictor for the 2026/27 league phase because I kept wanting to see how many points a side might actually bank, especially when I'm deciding whether a defender from a pot-4 club is worth the gamble.

You pick up to 8 clubs, tap W/D/L on each of their 8 games (optional score), and it totals projected points. If two of your clubs play each other, that fixture is one call, not two. There's also a frozen hardest-draw ranking for all 36.

Free. Independent, not UEFA. Share link needs an email. https://gamecall.lol

Do any of you actually use club-level projected points when picking defenders/keepers from minnows vs giants, or is this useless next to the official game?

When I search for Roma players, I can't find him

Has anyone seen him?

Thanks