Fantasy Sports League Team Building: Points Rules, Value per Price, Budget-Constrained Squads, Captain Picks & Transfer Planning

What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

• Turn round 7's match stats for Mara's eight players into appearance points, event points from a position-based scoring table and match points, then add up the team total.
• Compare a simple average with a weighted form score over five rounds, look up a difficulty factor for each player's next opponent and combine both into expected points for round 8.
• Turn price and expected points into points per credit for twelve players, rank them across the pool and within their position, and highlight the best-value picks.
• Check Mara's draft squad against the budget and the position limits, find the money left and pick the best forward she can still afford for the last slot.
• Compare six captain candidates by their average, their spread from round to round and their expected captain points, and label each pick as steady or risky.
• Turn fictional start chances into expected points for five starters and their bench partners, add up each slot and work out how much of the team's expected points the bench delivers.
• Evaluate five transfer ideas: the expected gain over the next three rounds, the net gain after the points penalty for extra transfers, the break-even horizon and how many of them are worth making.
• Build the season's running points total, sum the points won or lost per decision type, name the worst decision and chart the cumulative points.