FPL glossary

Mini-league

A mini-league is a private league inside Fantasy Premier League that you join with a league code, usually made up of friends, family or colleagues. In the standard classic format everyone is ranked by total points, and the table updates after every gameweek.

Classic and head-to-head

A classic mini-league simply sorts managers by cumulative points, so the winner is whoever scores most over 38 gameweeks. A head-to-head mini-league instead pairs managers against each other each gameweek, awarding three points for a win and one for a draw, which rewards consistency and produces very different tactics.

You can be in up to 30 private leagues at once, and most managers use a handful: one with friends, one at work, one for a club or a podcast.

Why the small table matters more than the global one

Overall rank is measured against millions of strangers and moves slowly. The mini-league is measured against people who will bring it up at lunch, and a single captaincy call can flip it. That is the table FPL Butler covers: a written verdict after every gameweek, awards for the best and worst decisions, and a record of who did what across the season.

Example

Twelve colleagues join the same league code in August. By March the table is decided by two managers who own nearly identical squads, and the gap between them is one differential and one armband.

From the archive

The median score in a typical mini-league in 2025/26 was 1,974 points. Figures as of 24 May 2026.

Updated: Season: 2025/26

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Source: the final standings of the mini-leagues in FPL Butler's 2025/26 season archive, covering over 2.7 million managers. The sample leans towards active managers, so the rates sit slightly above the global average.

Method

Percentiles use the nearest-rank method and medians the classic midpoint method. The headline number is the median of the per-league median scores, which answers what a typical mid-table total looks like in a typical mini-league. Season points percentiles, league winner totals and league sizes are read straight from the final league tables, which are season-end totals for everyone still listed in them. The per-gameweek medians come from gameweek history instead. Figures cover managers whose gameweek history runs from the opening gameweek to the final gameweek of the season, so managers who joined after the season started, and managers who stopped early, are excluded. The sample skews toward active mini-leagues, so averages sit slightly higher than for the full global player base.

Final 2025/26 standings of the classic mini-leagues in FPL Butler's season archive, with managers deduplicated across leagues. Leagues were selected for crawling based on size and activity, so dormant leagues are underrepresented.

Derived from publicly available Fantasy Premier League data. FPL Butler is not affiliated with the Premier League or Fantasy Premier League. The figures may be reused with attribution to FPL Butler.

Now check your own league

Benchmarks are one thing. The Butler applies them to your own mini-league: a verdict after every gameweek, awards for the heroes and the blunders, and a season archive that never forgets. Enter your league code and see where your table really stands.

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