Me and my mates spent a year building a Fantasy Football platform that fixes what FPL never could and we’re looking for investors
If you’ve played Fantasy Premier League, you already know the pain: by Gameweek 3, half your mini-league has the same three forwards, the same keeper, and the same captain. There’s no skill in that — it’s just luck.
So me and a few mates decided to actually do something about it.
Our platform is a draft-based fantasy football platform we spent a full year building from the ground up. No VC backing, no big team — just a group of football-obsessed developers who were fed up with the same old FPL experience and gave up evenings, weekends, and probably way too many late nights to build something better.
A year of work. A year of iterations. A year of playtesting with our own leagues, fixing bugs at midnight, and obsessing over every detail — because we genuinely believed the Premier League audience deserved a proper draft experience.
Here’s the core idea: Instead of picking freely from the full player pool, every team in your league drafts their squad — meaning once a player is taken, he’s gone. No two teams are ever the same. Every decision matters. Every trade counts.
What we built over that year:
• Two draft formats — Auction (bid with a budget) and Snake (strategic pick order), both proven formats from American fantasy sports, now built properly for football
• Head-to-head competition — you play a direct fixture each gameweek, not just a points leaderboard
• Super League support — scales up to large groups, not just 8–10 mates
• Real money mini-games — Score Predictors and Last Man Standing run alongside your league for cash prizes
• Custom team & league branding — logos, identity, the full experience
• Transfers, waivers, lineups — full in-season management just like the pros
What’s coming next — AI Integration
This is where it gets really exciting. After a year of building the foundation, we’re now planning AI-powered features that will take the platform to the next level:
• AI Draft Assistant — real-time recommendations during your draft based on your league’s pick history and player form
• Personalised Transfer Suggestions — AI that analyses your squad weaknesses and recommends the best waiver/transfer targets each gameweek
• Opponent Scouting Reports — AI-generated previews of your head-to-head opponent before each fixture
• Predictive Scoring Models — machine learning models trained on historical Premier League data to forecast player points
• Smart Notifications — AI alerts for injuries, fixture difficulty changes, and price rises before deadlines
Why this is a multi-million dollar opportunity?
Let’s talk numbers. The global fantasy sports market is valued at $8B+ and growing rapidly, yet draft-format football in the UK is almost entirely untapped. Platforms like Sleeper and ESPN Fantasy have proven the draft model works — Sleeper alone reached a $325M valuation purely on the back of NFL draft fantasy. There is no equivalent built natively for the Premier League, the most watched football league on the planet with 3.2 billion fans globally.
The Premier League already has 11 million+ FPL players — a ready-made audience that is frustrated with the same stale format year after year. Capturing even 1% of that audience with a subscription or entry-fee model puts this firmly in multi-million dollar territory. Add real-money competitions, AI premium features, and potential expansion to the Champions League, La Liga, and beyond — and the ceiling here is enormous.
This isn’t a passion project anymore. It’s a scalable, monetisable sports-tech platform sitting on top of one of the biggest untapped gaps in the fantasy sports industry.
We built that platform. From scratch. Because we wanted it to exist.
We’re a small passionate team, the product is live after a year in the making, and we’re now looking to speak with investors who understand the sports-tech and AI space. If you believe in founder-led products built out of genuine passion and real graft — and you can see the same massive opportunity we do — we’d love to chat.
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