I’ve been playing fantasy football for years, mostly Serie A, and every single week I go through the same routine of checking who my players are facing before deciding who to captain and who to bench. I got tired of doing this by eyeballing fixture lists and trying to remember which teams are strong at home or weak away, so I built myself a little tool to do the thinking for me.
It turned into Fantatools.com, and I figured other fantasy managers deal with the exact same headache every week, so I decided to make it public and free for anyone to use. It covers Serie A and Premier League right now, with more on the way.
What Fantatools.com Actually Does
The core idea behind Fantatools.com is fixture difficulty. Every team in a league plays a mix of easy and hard opponents throughout the season, and if you’re managing a fantasy squad, that mix matters a lot when you’re picking who to start, who to captain, and who to transfer in or out. Instead of scrolling through a fixture list and guessing, Fantatools.com scores every upcoming match and shows you at a glance how tough each team’s run of games looks.
I built it because I wanted the answer in a few seconds, not after ten minutes of comparing league tables and recent form in my head. The site pulls fixture data automatically and keeps it updated, so you’re always looking at the current matchday and beyond, not stale information from last week.
The Tools You Can Use Today
Right now there are seven tools live on the site, covering pretty much everything I check before setting my lineup each week:
- The FDR grid gives you a full-season view of every team’s fixture difficulty, matchday by matchday, so you can spot the easy patches and the brutal ones at a glance.
- Next 5 ranks every team from easiest to hardest based on their next five matches, and it’s the one I use most when deciding who to bring in.
- Form shows which teams are playing well right now
- Clean Sheet Odds tells you who’s most likely to keep the opposition off the scoresheet.
- Goals & Assists, which tracks attacking output for every player in the league
- Goalkeeper Grid, which pairs up keepers with the fewest overlapping away matches, handy if you’re rotating two goalkeepers
- Low Cost Picks, a hand-picked list of budget players worth a look rather than something an algorithm spits out.
All seven tools work for Serie A and Premier League, and the site is available in Italian and English.
Who It’s For
Fantatools.com is for anyone who plays fantasy football and wants a quicker, clearer way to plan their transfers and captaincy picks. If you already track fixtures in a spreadsheet or in your head, this just does that work for you and presents it in a way that’s easy to scan before a deadline.
It’s also for people who are newer to fantasy football and don’t yet have a feel for which teams tend to have tough runs. The tool levels the playing field a bit, since you don’t need years of following a league closely to make a well-informed decision.
What’s Coming Next
This is just the start. I’ve got more ideas in the pipeline and I’ll keep adding tools as the season goes on, so it’s worth checking back every so often.
Go check it out at Fantatools.com and let me know what you think. If there’s a feature you’d want to see, I’d love to hear about it.
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