Best XI and Wildcard draft for Round 6
The strongest starting XI is a 3-5-2 projecting 44.97 xPts, wrapped in a 100.0m legal 15.
The strongest starting XI this round is a 3-5-2 projecting 44.97 combined xPts. Built out to a full legal 15 — 2 goalkeepers, 5 defenders, 5 midfielders, 3 forwards — for wildcard and rebuild managers, the squad spends 100.0m of a 100.0m budget.
The bench is deliberately the cheapest legal one available — Gessime Yassine, Redouane Halhal, Mike Penders, Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal are enablers, not picks: their job is to exist within the rules so every spare pound goes into the XI, not to contribute points themselves.
The most expensive picks are Kane (10.5m), Lionel Messi (10.0m), Lamine Yamal (10.0m). The standout value pick is Dayot Upamecano at 0.75 xPts/m (5.3m).
The data
| # | Player | xPts | Price | Captain EV | Ceiling | Owned % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lionel Messi Argentina | 5.58 | 10.0 | 11.16 | 8.18 | 40.4% |
| 2 | Kane England | 5.45 | 10.5 | 10.90 | 7.95 | 40.6% |
| 3 | Lamine Yamal Spain | 4.50 | 10.0 | 9.00 | 8.38 | 39.3% |
| 4 | Dayot Upamecano FranceDifferentialSafe floor | 3.97 | 5.3 | 7.94 | 3.97 | 4.9% |
| 5 | Dani Olmo SpainDifferential | 3.85 | 7.7 | 7.70 | 8.64 | 1.9% |
| 6 | Bellingham England | 3.84 | 8.3 | 7.68 | 8.88 | 17.0% |
| 7 | Ousmane Dembele FranceSafe floor | 3.83 | 10.0 | 7.65 | 3.83 | 22.9% |
| 8 | Jules Kounde FranceDifferentialSafe floor | 3.79 | 5.4 | 7.57 | 3.79 | 6.3% |
| 9 | Pedri SpainDifferentialSafe floor | 3.76 | 8.1 | 7.52 | 3.76 | 7.8% |
| 10 | Aymeric Laporte SpainDifferentialSafe floor | 3.61 | 5.5 | 7.22 | 3.61 | 9.2% |
| 11 | Gregor Kobel SwitzerlandDifferentialSafe floor | 2.79 | 4.7 | 5.59 | 2.79 | 3.9% |
| 12 | Gessime Yassine MoroccoDifferentialSafe floorBench | 0.66 | 4.0 | 1.33 | 0.66 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Redouane Halhal MoroccoDifferentialSafe floorBench | 0.44 | 3.5 | 0.87 | 0.44 | 2.3% |
| 14 | Mike Penders BelgiumDifferentialSafe floorBench | 0.14 | 3.5 | 0.28 | 0.14 | 0.6% |
| 15 | Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal MoroccoDifferentialSafe floorBench | 0.10 | 3.5 | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.0% |
Bottom line
Field this 3-5-2 — 44.97 xPts from a 100.0m squad, with 0.0m left in the bank.
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How we get these numbers. Market odds (de-vigged) → Dixon-Coles scorelines → 50k Monte-Carlo simulations, scored on the official FIFA World Cup Fantasy points table. Ceiling = the 85th-percentile outcome across our 50,000 simulations — the score when a player's best realistic game happens, not a fantasy cap. Every figure here is machine-readable at /api/round/6/wildcard.json.