Welcome back for another session of Alpha about Football.Fun, your next favorite fantasy sports game. If you missed last week's piece, check out What is Football.Fun?, where I broke down the basics of the platform: how the game works, how to build your portfolio, what rewards you can win and how you have to spend hours on end each week to decide who is in your lineups can win those rewards without spending endless hours researching and setting lineups.
This week, we're focusing on the real reason we all play games: winning rewards.
To participate in FDF tournaments, you need to own shares of individual players and make sure they have active contracts. It's as simple and as complicated as that.
Each tournament rewards two different prizes:
- Tournament Points (TP): used to open player packs
- Skill Points (SP): used to promote Development Squad players to your Active Squad (or cut them for a small TP refund)
At first glance, TP is straightforward, while SP adds a layer of strategy. But both are essential to long-term success on the platform.
Before we dive into that, let's take a look at the scores for the 14th-19th August Gold Tournament to give you an idea of what that looks like (At the time of publication, one match remains: Real Madrid v. Osasuna, so the final scores will likely look different if Kylian Mbappe, Federico Valverde, Vinicius Junior and Co. have their way):
As mentioned in last week's article, the top five highest-scoring players at each outfield position (and top three goalkeepers) earn TP, and the amount you earn is based on your share of the active supply of those players. Using the example above, you can see that I am in line to win 188.7 TP from Lamine Yamal, who is currently the highest-scoring forward of the tournament.
Why that amount? Because I own 5,400 of the 3.6 million active supply of Yamal (0.015 percent). Since the total prize pool is 1,250,000 TP, I get 0.015 percent of that pool (the numbers are a bit different due to rounding).
That's why owning a popular player like Yamal doesn't always mean massive rewards since you're competing against a lot of other shareholders. The real upside comes from spotting undervalued or overlooked players who end up performing well.
As noted in the FDF wiki, "The amount of rewards in a Tournament Reward pool is driven predominantly by the amount of volume traded on the platform. As more people play and trade, the reward pool grows." Or, to put it simply: more players, bigger rewards.
Skill Points (SP) are a bit different and are derived from your Tournament Score (TS), which is designed to measure your effectiveness of owning shares of players who perform well in tournaments, and not just the top five finishers at each position. Your 11 highest-scoring players contribute to your TS, so there's no need to constantly trade or micro-manage your portfolio since your best players are automatically counted, while underperformers are ignored.
The key conditions:
- Players must be in your Active Squad
- They need an active contract
- You must own their shares before they play in a tournament
SP matters because it unlocks the next stage of the cycle: promoting Development Pool players into your Active Squad so they can start competing for TP and SP themselves.
(We haven't touched on contracts yet, but that's mostly because there's nothing overly complicated about them. When you initially buy shares of a player they come with four contracts, which means they are eligible for four fantasy tournaments. If a player doesn't actually play during a tournament, his contract isn't used. You can extend a player's contract up to eight matches, with a minimum of four, and the price per match is based on both the player's current share price and how many shares you own. You can always sell shares of active squad players if their contracts have expired, but they're just not eligible for fantasy tournaments.)
That's a lot of jargon, but I promise it's not nearly as complicated as it may seem now.
TP is spent on packs: Pro, Epic and Legendary. All packs contain four players, but the number of shares (and value) scales up with each tier. Legendary packs give the most shares, but they also carry the biggest risk.
Consider:
Legendary Pack A
- 4000 shares of Lamine Yamal
- 3500 shares of Vitinha
- 4000 shares of Trent Alexander-Arnold
- 3000 shares of Virgil van Dijk
Legendary Pack B
- 4000 shares of Pau Cubarsi
- 3500 shares of Fabian Ruiz
- 4000 shares of Dean Huijsen
- 3000 shares of Milos Kerkez
Same structure, very different outcomes. That's the tradeoff. You're paying for a shot as something incredible, but the variance is real. Some players prefer volume across Pro or Epic packs to diversify, while others chase the upside of Legendary.
Here's the full cycle:
Buy player shares → compete in fantasy tournaments → win Tournament Points (TP) and Skill Points (SP) → use TP to get packs → open packs → use SP to promote players to your active squad (or cut for additional TP) → compete in fantasy tournaments or sell shares → extend contracts → repeat until the end of time.
It's a simple loop, but the decisions you make along the way – who to buy, when to promote, who to extend, which packs to choose – create endless layers of strategy.
Football.Fun blends the excitement of fantasy sports with the economics of trading and the strategy of long-term portfolio building. Winning rewards isn't just about chasing the biggest names; it's about identifying opportunities, managing risk, and using your TP and SP wisely.
The game rewards both planning and luck, which means every manager can find their edge. Whether you're going for Legendary packs or building a balanced squad through smaller buys, the fun is in the cycle: compete, win, reload, repeat.
And that's the beauty of Football.Fun, you're not just playing fantasy, you're building something that grows with every decision.
