Premier Punt was one of the early daily fantasy football platforms to offer both traditional multi-match contests and innovative single-match fantasy games.
The platform combined straightforward gameplay with flexible contest formats, making it suitable for both newcomers and experienced fantasy football managers.
Contest Formats
Premier Punt offered several ways to play, including:
- Weekly fantasy football contests.
- Daily fantasy football contests.
- Single-match fantasy games.
- Head-to-head contests.
- Guaranteed Prize Pools (GPPs).
- Freerolls.
- Private leagues.
Players could compete against friends or enter larger public tournaments for cash prizes.
Team Selection
For the main daily and weekly contests, managers selected an 11-player squad using a £100 million salary cap.
Available formations included:
- 4-4-2
- 3-5-2
- 3-4-3
Managers could select a maximum of three players from the same club and were required to nominate both a captain and vice-captain.
The captain earned double fantasy points, while the vice-captain automatically took over should the captain fail to start.
Single-Game Fantasy
One of Premier Punt’s standout features was its single-match fantasy format.
Instead of building a full 11-player squad, managers selected just five players from one fixture.
This quicker format removed salary cap restrictions and introduced a more detailed scoring model that rewarded a wider range of statistical actions.
Scoring System
Premier Punt’s traditional contests rewarded familiar fantasy football actions such as:
- Goals.
- Assists.
- Clean sheets.
- Saves.
- Yellow and red cards.
- Own goals.
The single-match contests expanded the scoring system further by rewarding actions including completed passes, tackles, interceptions and other Opta-recorded statistics.
This gave managers additional opportunities to identify value beyond simply selecting goalscorers.
Live Scoring
Live scoring was powered by Opta data, allowing managers to follow their team’s performance in real time as matches unfolded.
The constantly updating leaderboard made every tackle, pass and assist meaningful throughout the contest.
Premier Punt Today
Although Premier Punt is no longer active, it played an important role during the early growth of daily fantasy football in the UK.
Its blend of traditional fantasy contests and innovative single-match formats helped demonstrate how flexible daily fantasy football could become, influencing many of the products that followed.
