How to play fantasy football - Easy Read instructions

Fantasy Football is a game where you pretend to manage a football team of Premiership football players.

Fantasy means something that is not real.

You pick a team of players using a pretend budget of £100 million.

When real Premiership matches take place, you get points for how good your players have played.

The person who managed the team which scored the most points by the end of the real football season is the winner.

Mencap are asking anyone who would like to play Fantasy Football, to think about supporting Mencap at the same time.

1. Sign up 
    
2. Consider donating £10 to Mencap. 
   
   You can still join the Mencap league without donating by sending an email to: [email protected] 
    
3. Use the code you get in an email to join the Mencap league
    
4. Choose your team.

1. Go to the Fantasy Premier League website at https://fantasy.premierleague.com/en/  

2. Click on 'Register now'.

3. Fill in your personal details.

4. Click to say you read and agree to the terms and conditions.

You will be sent a code to join in an email.

5. Join and sign in with your email and password.

You need to pick a squad of 15 players using a pretend budget of £100 million.

Squad means team.

Your squad must have:

• 2 goalkeepers
• 5 defenders
• 5 midfielders
• 3 strikers.

You can only have 3 players from any one football team in your squad.

For example: If you were choosing Manchester United players for your squad like Shaw, Maguire and Fernandes, you can not also add Cunha to be another member of your squad. 

This season, Fantasy Premier League has come up with a new tool that helps you pick your squad. 

It asks you 3 questions and then it will build a squad for you. 

See: https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4680793/whats-new-in-202627-fantasy-picking-your-team-is-now-easier  

If you use this tool and want to change the whole squad, you can select 'Auto pick' which builds a squad for you. 

If you are not sure, you can answer the questions again or choose the squad by yourself. 

When you are happy with your squad click on the 'Enter squad' button.

Look at the Premier League fixtures to help you decide the teams that have the strongest fixture. 

Fixtures show all the dates of each football match that is going to be played.

Choose your team before the deadline.

Each week you are allowed 1 transfer per game. 

Transfer means to change a player.

After you choose your squad, make sure you click on the 'Save your team' button so you don’t lose any changes. 

If you pick a player like Haaland to be your captain, it can get you double points. 

If your main captain does not play then it will go over to your other captain. This is your vice-captain. 

In your Bench, if the player that does not play in your main team, the first player after the goalkeeper gets subsituted in.

The Bench are extra players that you can use.

Subsituted means swapped.

Chips are like bonus's or boosters that you can play on certain weeks to get extra points or help.

You get 2 lots of chips of each half of the football season. 

Your first set of chips must be played before the game week 19 deadline. 

The second set of chips will then be available for the second half of the season.

1. Bench boost – The points scored by your benched players will be included in your total for that one game week.
    
2. Wildcard – You can make unlimited transfers by changing your whole squad if you are not happy with it.
    
3. Triple captain - Your captain points will get tripled instead of doubled.
    
4. Free hit – You can make any amount of free transfers in any one game week but at the next deadline, your squad will go back to how it was. 

In Fantasy Premier League you can earn points from players:

• If one of your defenders scores a goal you can get 6 points.
• If one of your midfielders scores a goal you can get 5 points.
• If one of your strikers scores a goal you can get 4 points.
• Any player who assists a goal can get you 3 points. 
  An assist is when another player passes the ball to a person who then scores a goal.

To find out more about how scored visit: https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/2174909/fpl-basics-explained-scoring-points 

For more information about how to pick your Fantasy Football squad visit:  https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4682360/everything-you-need-to-pick-your-202627-fantasy-squad