How to run a cricket fantasy league for your club: rules, points and weekly transfers

You do not need a spreadsheet and a group chat to run club fantasy cricket. Get The Game On already has an internal Fantasy League: six-player squads from your own members, points from stats you enter, weekly transfers, optional entry fees. It is cricket only, and it is not a public FPL-style game.

Who it is for

Squads are picked from active club members in the app — not a national player pool. Managers set the season dates, optional entry fee and prizes, and enter batting, bowling and fielding stats under Stats and results. Players pick a team, pay the fee if there is one, and follow leaderboards inside the club.

If you charge an entry fee, Stripe Connect must be set up first (minimum £2.00 if you charge at all). Once anyone has paid, fee and prize settings lock so commitments stay fair.

How points are earned

Points are not awarded just because a fixture exists. They come from stats entered for that match. Correct a scorecard later and the table updates. Join late and earlier matches in the season are not backfilled — scoring starts from the day after the fantasy team is created. Transfers saved today apply from tomorrow.

Platform scoring (the values in the app’s Rules screen):

• Batting: +1 per run; +10 for 50+ (once per innings); +20 for 100+ (once; does not also stack the 50 bonus).
• Bowling: +20 per wicket; +10 for a 3-wicket haul; +20 for a 5-wicket haul (once per innings each).
• Fielding: +15 per catch, run out or stumping (keeper included).

There is no “playing” bonus. A selected player with no scoring actions scores 0. This is not a head-to-head draft league — it is a season-long points table with batting / bowling / fielding splits and those tie-breakers if totals match.

Weekly transfers

Clubs set a weekly limit of 1 to 4 player changes (Monday–Sunday). Unused changes do not roll over. Once you hit the cap, the team is locked until the next week. Changes apply from the next day, so you cannot swap around a known result the same evening.

What managers actually have to do

Define the fantasy window. Enter stats for fixtures in that window. Without the scorecard, nobody scores. The rest — six-a-side squads, leaderboards, optional prizes — runs in the app. See the Fantasy League feature page for budgets (30m purse, 4.5m defaults) and prize copy.

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