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UnderPar
Fantasy football and daily quizzes
Who we are
We're Journeyman: a small, independent football games team, made up of fans who watch too much football and argue about it even more. UnderPar is our main game.
We got tired of fantasy football where everyone has the same team. Same Haaland, same João Pedro, same points. So we built UnderPar: football scored like golf. Every player gets a PAR, the match rating we expect from him. Pick a new XI every week, beat their PARs, and the lowest score wins.
Play your mates in private leagues. Join a league by entering its code, or start up to three leagues of your own. Each one gets its own unique code to send to your mates.
Alongside it we run six daily puzzle games for anyone who knows their football.
How to play
- The player's senior career is shown one spell at a time, in order. You get the years, and a Loan sticker if it was a loan.
- Name the club first. Get it right and the shirt changes into that club's kit.
- Then you get one guess at his league goals for that spell. Exact counts as 1, 1–3 off is 2, 4–6 off is 3, 7–10 off is 4, and anything further is 6.
- Every club guess counts as one, and you get 5 tries. Miss all five and the club appears automatically, counting as 6. The Reveal button does the same at any time.
- Aim for the lowest score you can. A new player arrives at midnight (UK time).
Past days
Catch up on the last ten careers. Each day keeps its own progress.
Today's leaderboard
Gameweek
Players
Gameweeks
Every published Gameweek is kept exactly as it was. Draft PARs can change once before the deadline; final PARs never change.
How UnderPar works
Pick any 11 players for the Gameweek, plus a bench of 4: one goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and forward. There's no budget, and you can build a completely new team every week.
- Exactly 1 goalkeeper, at least 3 defenders, at least 3 midfielders and 1 to 3 attackers. Choose any formation that fits these rules, such as 4-3-3, 4-4-2 or 3-5-2.
- Players from at least 6 different clubs. One club can supply 3 players; every other club is capped at 2. These club limits are for your XI only.
- Your bench is one of each position: a goalkeeper, a defender, a midfielder and a forward (from Gameweek 11). A sub comes in for a starter who doesn't play, same position first.
- Change your team as often as you like until the deadline, 90 minutes before the first kick-off. The XI you've saved at the deadline is your entry.
Every player has a PAR: the FotMob rating we expect from him in that fixture. Stronger players and easier fixtures carry a tougher PAR. The next Gameweek opens as soon as the current one locks, with draft PARs, so you can pick straight away. Once the current Gameweek is finished we update those PARs from the latest performances, and if any of your players' PARs change we tell you on your team page. From then on PARs are final.
Scoring is like golf. Each player scores his PAR minus his final FotMob rating, so beating PAR gives a negative score. Your Gameweek score is the total of your 11. Lowest wins.
- PAR 7.9, rating 8.5: −0.6
- PAR 7.2, rating 7.2: 0.0
- PAR 7.5, rating 6.8: +0.7
- Didn't play, or played without getting a FotMob rating: +0.3 (up to Gameweek 8)
- Match postponed: 0.0
From Gameweek 9, only starters count. Each PAR is set for a player who starts, and only a rating earned as a starter scores. When the Gameweek is finished, any player in your XI who didn't start is replaced by the first player on your bench who did, as long as your team still has 1 goalkeeper, 3+ defenders, 3+ midfielders and 1 to 3 attackers. Your bench goalkeeper can only replace your goalkeeper.
- A player your bench couldn't cover who came off the bench: +0.3 (his rating doesn't count)
- A player your bench couldn't cover who didn't play at all: +1
- A starter who didn't get a FotMob rating: +0.3
- Bench players who aren't needed don't score.
Private leagues. Go to the Leagues tab to play your mates. Enter a code to join a friend's league, or start up to 3 leagues of your own. Each league gets its own unique code to share.
- Everyone in a league sees the table: each team's Gameweek score and season average. League tables rank you by your average score per Gameweek (lowest leads). You get a place once you've played at least 3 Gameweeks and at least half the Gameweeks so far (or all of them, while fewer than 3 have been played). Until then you're listed under Not yet ranked.
- Each league also has a monthly table: the total for that month's Gameweeks, for everyone who had a team in all of them. Tap the month's name above the table.
- Other teams' XIs stay hidden until the deadline, then anyone in the league can tap a team to see it.
- A Gameweek you miss counts as +11 towards your average (+1 for each of your 11 places, the same as a player who doesn't play). Weeks before your first team don't count.
Anyone can pick an XI. To save it, enter your email and we'll send you a code (no password). Your XI is then saved to your account, so you can pick on one device and check on another, and play your mates in a league.
Who are they?
How to play
- You see real results from one Premier League club's season, from 2016–17 to 2025–26. The club is hidden as ???.
- Pick your mode first: Easy shows 5 results, Medium shows 3 and Hard shows just 1. The results stay hidden until you pick. If you get stuck you can switch to an easier mode, but you can never go back to a harder one.
- You get 5 guesses at the club, picked from the list. Fewer guesses is better.
- Once it's over, the club is revealed on the results you played with. A new season arrives at midnight (UK time).
Past days
The last ten mystery seasons. Each day keeps its own progress.
Name the player
How to play
- Every day there are three footballers to find: one with a 6-letter surname, one with 7 letters and one with 8. They can be from anywhere in the world, past or present.
- Type any guess with the right number of letters and press Enter. It doesn't have to be a real name, so you can use guesses to test letters.
- Green means the letter is in the right spot, gold means it's in the name but somewhere else, and grey means it isn't in the name.
- Accents are dropped, and names like Van Dijk are written as one word: VANDIJK. You get 6 guesses for each name. New names arrive at midnight (UK time).
Past days
The last ten days of surnames. Each length keeps its own progress.
Who's this?
How to play
- Today's player is one of our 8-bit faces, shown as big blurry pixels. He plays in the Premier League this season.
- You get 6 guesses, picked from the list. Every miss makes the picture sharper. You see his position from the start, and his club after 2 misses.
- Fewer guesses is better. A new face arrives at midnight (UK time).
Past days
Catch up on the last ten faces. Each day keeps its own progress.
Rate the Game
How to play
- You see five real Premier League performances from this season, with the player's match stats.
- Guess each one's FotMob match rating out of 10. These are the same ratings that set UnderPar's PARs.
- Every 0.1 you're out is a stroke. Par is 8 strokes a player, so 40 for the round. Lowest wins.
- Clr/blk/int counts clearances, blocks and interceptions. A new round arrives at midnight (UK time).
Past days
Catch up on the last ten rounds. Each day keeps its own progress.
Club Hop
How to play
- Get from the first player to the second through teammates. Each player you add must have played in the same Premier League match, for the same club, as the one before.
- Only matches from 2016–17 onwards count, so older partnerships (like Rooney and Cleverley at Manchester United) don't.
- Finish by adding the second player once you reach one of his teammates. Each link is a stroke, and each wrong name costs a stroke too.
- Par is one more than the shortest possible route, so the perfect route is a birdie. Any route counts. A new pair arrives at midnight (UK time).
Past days
Catch up on the last ten hops. Each day keeps its own progress.
Leagues
Play your mates. Join a league with a code, or start up to 3 of your own and share the code.
Who are they?
How to play
- You see a club's final league position one season at a time, starting in 2016–17. Every club spent all ten seasons in the top four divisions, from the Premier League to League Two.
- Guess whenever you like. You start on 10 points, and each extra season you look at costs 1.
- A wrong guess shows the next season too, so it also costs 1. Miss with all ten seasons showing and you score 0.
- Aim for 10 out of 10. A new club arrives at midnight (UK time).
Past days
The last ten mystery clubs. Each day keeps its own progress.