Fantasy Football Payout Calculator: Split the Pot

Your league

Teams in the league

Entry fee per team (£)

Weekly high-score prize (£)Paid every gameweek from the pot. Leave at 0 for none.

Gameweeks with a weekly prize

Places paid

1st place %

2nd place %

3rd place %

4th place %

More options

Taken off first: trophy, app fees (£)

Payouts

Total pot–

Weekly prizes over the season–

Left for the final places–

1st place–

2nd place–

3rd place–

4th place–

Winner gets back, per £1 entry–

Pot = teams × entry fee. Weekly prizes and any costs come off first; the rest is split by the percentages. If the percentages don't add up to 100, they're scaled so the whole pot is paid out.

Maths reviewed by Josh Miller
Tested by Diana Westfield

Updated 10 Nov 2026How we calculate →

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Twelve teams at £20 is a £240 pot, and the argument starts when someone asks how it’s split. The fantasy football payout calculator above settles it: with the classic 60/30/10 split, £144 to the winner, £72 to second and £24 to third. Add weekly high-score prizes or a trophy and the free CasinoCalcs calculator takes them off first, then shares out what’s left.

Fantasy football payout structure ideas

Structure	Split	£240 pot	Best for
Winner takes all	100	£240	Small, competitive leagues
Top 2	70 / 30	£168 / £72	8 to 10 teams
Top 3 (classic)	60 / 30 / 10	£144 / £72 / £24	10 to 14 teams
Top 4	50 / 25 / 15 / 10	£120 / £60 / £36 / £24	Big leagues

The bigger the league, the more places it’s worth paying. A 20-team league paying only the winner means 19 people are playing for nothing by Christmas.

Weekly prizes

A small prize for the top score each gameweek keeps the bottom half logging in. £1 a week over a 38-gameweek season is £38, which leaves £202 for the end-of-season places. Set the weekly prize and the number of gameweeks, and the calculator shows how much it eats into the final payouts before anyone agrees to it.

Collect up front, pay out at the end

The one rule that saves friendships: get every entry fee in before the first deadline. Chasing £20 from someone in 11th in March never ends well. The horse race name picker is a fair and fun way to set the draft order, and the league table generator works for leagues you run yourself.

Before the season starts, the fantasy draft order generator draws a fair pick order and builds the draft board.

Frequently asked questions

What's a good fantasy football payout structure?

For a 12-team league, 60% to 1st, 30% to 2nd and 10% to 3rd is the most common. With £20 entries that's £144, £72 and £24.

Should we have weekly prizes?

They keep people interested after a bad start. Keep them small: £1 a gameweek over 38 weeks is £38 of a £240 pot, which still leaves a decent prize for the winner.

Should last place get anything?

Most leagues give the last place a forfeit, not money. If you want a consolation prize, add it as a place and give it a small percentage.

What if our percentages don't add up to 100?

The calculator scales them so the whole pot is still paid out, and tells you it did.