This week in Fantasy Challenge, the first of a new series in collaboration with Sports Interactive's Football Manager, after Football Manager 26 was released on Tuesday, all bonus points will be DOUBLED.
Managers will need to pick a 6-a-side team using an unlimited budget, with a limit of one player per club. You can enter a team any time before 14:00 GMT on Sunday.
Here, The Scout assesses the best picks.
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What is the best formation for Gameweek 11?
This week's challenge lends more weight towards a 1-1-3 or 1-2-2 formation.
As midfielders and forwards are far more likely to pick up bonus points than defenders, it stands to reason to prioritise attacking players.
How are bonus points awarded?
The Bonus Points System (BPS) utilises a range of statistics to create a BPS score for every player. The three best performing players in each match will be awarded bonus points. Three points will be awarded to the highest-scoring player, two to the second-best and one to the third.
Players are awarded or deducted baseline BPS for a variety of actions including a successful dribble, a shot on target and winning a foul. Most significantly for Fantasy Challenge managers in Gameweek 11, scoring a goal provides the most BPS. Forwards receive 24 for a non-penalty goal, midfielders 18 and defenders 12.
Goalkeepers and defenders pick up 12 BPS for keeping a clean sheet, while an assist (in any position) registers nine BPS.
The full breakdown of how the BPS is calculated can be found here in the rules section of the Fantasy Premier League website.
Which players are best for receiving bonus points?
As shown in the table below, 11 players have returned eight or more bonus points across the opening 10 Gameweeks of the season.
Just one of these is a defender, Arsenal's Gabriel. The Brazilian is currently on an incredible run of form, scoring 55 Fantasy points over the last five Gameweeks, including 12 bonus points.
Erling Haaland is in a league of his own, notching 10 more bonus points than any other player. The Norwegian has picked up at least one additional point in eight of his 10 starts.
| Player | Club | Position | Bonus pts |
| Haaland | Man City | FWD | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gabriel | Arsenal | DEF | 13 |
| Joao Pedro | Chelsea | FWD | 11 |
| Rice | Arsenal | MID | 10 |
| Gravenberch | Liverpool | MID | 10 |
| Semenyo | Bournemouth | MID | 9 |
| Caicedo | Chelsea | MID | 9 |
| Bowen | West Ham | FWD | 9 |
| Fernandes | Man Utd | MID | 8 |
| Mbeumo | Man Utd | MID | 8 |
| Palhinha | Spurs | MID | 8 |
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Which teams concede the most goals?
As highlighted earlier, goals are the biggest underlying contributor to a player picking up bonus points.
The table below shows the worst teams for underlying defensive data across the last six Gameweeks, sorted by big chances conceded.
| Club | Big chances conceded | Shots on target conceded | Expected Goals Against (xGA) |
| Burnley | 13 | 25 | 8.49 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bournemouth | 12 | 22 | 7.92 |
| Spurs | 12 | 17 | 7.42 |
| West Ham | 11 | 20 | 7.16 |
| Everton | 16 | 20 | 6.86 |
| Nottingham Forest | 10 | 26 | 6.82 |
| Chelsea | 10 | 9 | 5.71 |
| Liverpool | 14 | 21 | 5.50 |
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With all of this in mind, these players below look like the best picks for Gameweek 11.
Goalkeeper: Jordan Pickford (Everton)
Only two goalkeepers, Robin Roefs and Guglielmo Vicario, have registered more than three bonus points. Unfortunately, both players have tricky fixtures this weekend, against Arsenal and Man Utd respectively.
Consequently, Pickford looks to be a good option as Everton host Fulham. Both of the Toffees' clean sheets this season have come at Hill Dickinson Stadium.
Encouragingly, across the last four Gameweeks, Fulham's offensive data is nothing to write home about. The Cottagers are comfortably in the bottom half for Expected Goals (xG) and rank second-worst for big chances created, with five.
Defender: Gabriel (Arsenal)
Selecting the only defender to have picked up more than six bonus points in this week's Fantasy Challenge seems like a smart play. Gabriel is the top-scoring defender in the game with 80 points, 14 more than the next best.
After shutting out Slavia Prague in midweek, the Gunners have kept a club record eight consecutive clean sheets in all competitions. In the Premier League, Mikel Arteta's men have allowed just one shot on target across the last four Gameweeks.
Despite their impressive start to the season, Arsenal's opponents Sunderland rank in the bottom five for xG this season.
Midfielder: Bruno Fernandes (Man Utd)
Fernandes edges out Bryan Mbeumo as the Man Utd midfielder of choice.
Both players have picked up eight bonus points in total, but the Portuguese midfielder impressively ranks fifth for Expected Goal Involvement (xGI) among all players in the last six Gameweeks, recording five big-chance involvements and 15 shots.
Weekend opponents Spurs are without a win across their last four home league matches. During that period, only two teams have conceded more xG than Thomas Frank's men.
Forward: Erling Haaland (Man City)
The inclusion of Haaland needs little justification. The top-scoring Fantasy asset of 2025/26 has racked up 13 goals, one assist and 23 bonus points at an average of nearly 10 points per match this season.
Man City's Gameweek 11 opponents Liverpool have struggled on the road this season. No team has conceded more big chances in away matches than Arne Slot's side, who have tasted defeat in each of their last three away from home in the league.
In truth, there is little argument to make the Norwegian your captain as he goes in search of his sixth double-digit haul of the campaign.
Forward: Jarrod Bowen (West Ham)
Impressively, in the context of this week's Fantasy Challenge, Bowen has returned maximum bonus points on all three occasions that he has found the back of the net this season.
The Englishman ranks first for shots among all West Ham players. His tally of 23 goal attempts is 10 more than any of his team-mates.
No team has conceded more xG or more big chances than the Hammers' opponents, Burnley. The Clarets are also yet to keep a clean sheet away from home.
Forward: Joao Pedro (Chelsea)
Chelsea's summer signing returned to form in the Blues' victory at Spurs last weekend, scoring and returning maximum bonus points.
In that match, Joao Pedro posted an impressive xGI of 1.99 and had five shots on target, all of them from inside the box.
A home fixture against a Wolves side that sit bottom of the table and are currently without a manager should provide plenty of opportunities for the Brazilian to produce a big points haul.