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Custom Fantasy Leagues vs FPL Draft
FPL Draft is the official draft-format game: free, and built around unique player ownership, so within a league each player belongs to exactly one manager. You draft a squad rather than buying one, and manage it through waivers and free agency instead of a transfer market.
What FPL Draft does better
Putting this first because a comparison that finds no merit in the alternative is an advert.
- It is free.
- Unique ownership genuinely solves the duplicate-squad problem — nobody can mirror your team, and the draft itself is an event your league will look forward to.
- It has drafting and we do not. Draft and auction formats are designed and planned here, but they are not built. If drafting is the point for your league, this is the honest recommendation today.
Where they differ
| FPL Draft | Custom Fantasy Leagues | |
|---|---|---|
| The core idea | Unique ownership. The scoring is fixed; scarcity is what makes it interesting. | Custom rules. Ownership is shared; the scoring system is what makes it interesting. |
| Scoring | A fixed scoring system, close to the classic game. | Whatever you design, across a catalogue of match statistics. |
| Squad building | A live draft, then waivers and free agents. | A priced market and a budget, with prices computed from your rules. Draft and auction are on the roadmap. |
| Cost | Free. | Free to join. One credit per gameweek to create a league, once. |
Choose FPL Draft if…
- The draft night is the thing your league actually enjoys.
- You want unique ownership more than you want custom scoring.
- You want it to cost nothing at all.
Choose Custom Fantasy Leagues if…
- You care more about what scores than about who owns whom.
- You want a league where defensive midfielders are worth buying.
- You are happy with shared ownership for now, and want drafting when it arrives.
Details about FPL Draft last checked 9 August 2026, from publicly available information. Products change; if something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Custom Fantasy Leagues is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to FPL Draft.
Free for the founding season.
Leagues cost credits, and we are giving founding managers 100 of them — enough to run a full 38-gameweek season for up to twenty managers. No card, no trial timer.
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