Can AI Beat Humans at Fantasy Football? European edition

If you didn’t see my previous post, I’ve built a fantasy football league where you have 70 units to spend on English teams (picking at least two per division in the top four tiers), aiming to rack up points based on their on-field performance.

Friends and family are playing along and competing against AI LLMs and I’ve now devised a European version where players (AIs and human) are invited to select at least three teams from each tournament (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League) with a maximum spend of 90 units.

Can we beat the AI? For what it’s worth, my Premier League team is currently doing just that with a total of 67 points. Llama is next best with 61, but how well will they do when it comes to European football?

Let’s meet the contenders and see what they’ve come up with:

Gemini	Dortmund, Barcelona, Benfica, Ajax, Porto, Slavia Prague, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Gent
Poe Assistant	Real Madrid, Benfica, Leverkusen, Ajax, Lyon, Braga, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Gent
Claude	Liverpool, Atalanta, Benfica, Man Utd, Frankfurt, Galatasaray, Copenhagen, Gent, LASK
JP (that’s me!)	Barcelona, PSG, Leverkusen, Frankfurt, Porto, Olympiacos, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Real Betis
ChatGPT	Man City, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Roma, Real Sociedad, Nice, Fiorentina, Molde, Lugano
Llama	Bayern, Barcelona, Benfica, Roma, Rangers, Lazio, Chelsea, Gent, LASK
CoPilot	Man City, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Man Utd, Braga, Ludogorets, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Vitoria
GPT4o	Bayern, Inter, Arsenal, Roma, Fenerbahce, Union Saint-Gilloise, Gent, LASK, Pafos
Mistral	Man City, Liverpool, Juventus, Roma, Lazio, Frankfurt, Gent, Fiorentina, Legia Warsaw

Fancy a crack at beating the AI?

Here are the teams and values – remember your budget is 90 units and you must have at least three teams from each competition. They’ll earn three points per win, and one point per draw throughout the tournament – so for this I’m excluding extra-time, penalties and any bonuses for reaching a certain stage or winning the tournament, so choose wisely!

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	EUROPA LEAGUE	CONFERENCE LEAGUE
Bayern Munich 13.2 Manchester City 12.4 Real Madrid 11.7 Borussia Dortmund 10.7 Barcelona 10.3 Liverpool 9.8 Paris Saint-Germain 9.6 Inter Milan 9.6 Atlético Madrid 9.6 Atalanta 9.5 RB Leipzig 9.5 Bayer Leverkusen 9.4 Benfica 8.8 Juventus 8.6 Arsenal 8.3 Milan 8.2 PSV Eindhoven 8.1 Shakhtar Donetsk 8.1 Club Brugge 7.9 Dinamo Zagreb 7.8 Celtic 7.8 Young Boys 7.2 Sporting CP 7.2 Feyenoord 7.1 Red Bull Salzburg 7.0 Red Star Belgrade 6.8 Lille 6.6 Aston Villa 6.6 VfB Stuttgart 6.4 Slovan Bratislava 6.1 Monaco 6.1 Bologna 6.0 Girona 5.9 Brest 5.6 Sturm Graz 5.5 Sparta Prague 5.2	Roma 12.6 Manchester United 12.5 Ajax 11.1 Porto 11.1 Eintracht Frankfurt 11.1 Tottenham Hotspur 10.9 Rangers 10.8 Olympiacos 10.8 Lyon 10.4 Galatasaray 10.4 Slavia Prague 10.4 Lazio 10.3 Real Sociedad 10.2 Qarabağ 10.1 PAOK 9.9 Braga 9.8 AZ 9.8 Maccabi Tel Aviv 9.7 Ferencváros 9.5 Malmö FF 9.1 Midtjylland 9.0 Fenerbahçe 9.0 Dynamo Kyiv 8.8 FCSB 8.8 Nice 8.8 Athletic Bilbao 8.7 Union Saint-Gilloise 8.7 Viktoria Plzeň 8.7 Bodø/Glimt 8.7 RFS 8.7 Anderlecht 8.4 TSG Hoffenheim 8.4 Beşiktaş 8.4 Ludogorets Razgrad 8.3 Twente 7.9 IF Elfsborg 7.1	Chelsea 10.8 Copenhagen 8.6 Gent 8.3 Fiorentina 8.1 LASK 7.9 Real Betis 7.7 İstanbul Başakşehir 7.5 Molde 7.4 Legia Warsaw 6.9 1. FC Heidenheim 6.9 Djurgårdens IF 6.8 APOEL 6.7 Rapid Wien 6.7 Omonia 6.6 HJK 6.6 Vitória de Guimarães 6.6 Astana 6.6 Olimpija Ljubljana 6.5 Cercle Brugge 6.5 Shamrock Rovers 6.5 The New Saints 6.4 Lugano 6.4 Heart of Midlothian 6.4 Mladá Boleslav 6.4 Petrocub Hîncești 6.4 St. Gallen 6.3 Panathinaikos 6.3 TSC 6.3 Borac Banja Luka 6.3 Jagiellonia Białystok 6.3 Celje 6.2 Larne 6.2 Dinamo Minsk 6.2 Pafos 6.2 Víkingur Reykjavík 6.2 Noah 6.1

Enter a team via the form below and I’ll let you know how you get on!