<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Custom Fantasy Leagues — Blog</title><description>Writing about fantasy football scoring design, how FPL rules actually work, and what we are building.</description><link>https://customfantasyleagues.com/</link><language>en-gb</language><item><title>The commissioner&apos;s season-start checklist</title><link>https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/commissioners-season-start-checklist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/commissioners-season-start-checklist/</guid><description>Everything worth settling before you publish a league — and the handful of decisions that cannot be undone once managers start picking squads.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category></item><item><title>Defensive contribution, explained</title><link>https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/defensive-contribution-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/defensive-contribution-explained/</guid><description>The newest scoring concept in fantasy football rewards defensive work directly for the first time. Here is how the threshold works, and why per-match matters.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>FPL</category><category>Scoring Explained</category></item><item><title>Design your own scoring system</title><link>https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/design-your-own-scoring-system/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/design-your-own-scoring-system/</guid><description>A working method for building fantasy scoring that rewards what you actually want — the four rule types, position weighting, and the usual traps.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category><category>Custom Scoring</category></item><item><title>How the bonus points system actually works</title><link>https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/how-fpl-bonus-points-work/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/how-fpl-bonus-points-work/</guid><description>BPS is not a mystery, it is a ledger — around thirty weighted components ranked per fixture. Here is what is on it, and why the top scorer does not always get three.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>FPL</category><category>Scoring Explained</category></item><item><title>How live scoring works</title><link>https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/how-live-scoring-works/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/how-live-scoring-works/</guid><description>What happens between a goal going in and your total changing — match windows, per-fixture scoring, and why live and final must mean the same thing.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Engineering</category><category>Scoring Explained</category></item><item><title>How to create your own fantasy football league</title><link>https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/how-to-create-your-own-fantasy-football-league/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/how-to-create-your-own-fantasy-football-league/</guid><description>A practical walkthrough of building a custom league — the decisions that matter, the ones that do not, and the mistakes worth avoiding.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Guides</category><category>Custom Scoring</category></item><item><title>Introducing Custom Fantasy Leagues</title><link>https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/introducing-custom-fantasy-leagues/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://customfantasyleagues.com/blog/introducing-custom-fantasy-leagues/</guid><description>A fantasy football platform where the scoring rules, the player prices and the squad economy belong to the league playing them.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Announcements</category></item></channel></rss>