This is the heart of the game. While real fixtures take place, Touchline watches what your players do and turns every contribution into fantasy points for your team. A goal, a tackle, a clean sheet or a goalkeeper's save all score you points and your overall score for the matchweek is the total of the players in your starting lineup.

Every action on the pitch is worth a set number of points depending on your league's settings and a player's position. Below are some examples of how some of the main metrics may differ from position to position.

Your commissioner will pick one of 3 ready-made scoring styles, or they can build their own custom. Pick a position to see how the Balanced, Explosive and Technical preset systems treat a few key player actions. Custom starts from Balanced, so you can fine-tune from there.

A positive number means the action earns you points, and a negative number takes points away. Some points are fractions, such as half a point per tackle, which add up across a match, so a busy defender can quietly pile up a score.

Positions are valued differently on purpose. A defender who scores is worth more than a forward who scores, because goals are rarer from deeper positions. And a clean sheet, which means a team concedes no goals, only matters to goalkeepers and defenders by default, as do goals conceded.

Commissioners can add some extra spice in a league's scoring settings. These bonuses are all off by default, so check your league's scoring page to see which ones, if any, your league uses.

• Captain: name one starter each week and their points are multiplied. You'll see a C beside your starters on the Squad page, and the pick locks when that player's club kicks off.
• Vice-captain: a back-up for your captain. The bonus passes to them only if your captain doesn't play.
• Bench boost: a limited-use boost that adds your bench's scores to your total for one matchweek.
• Man of the match: extra points for the highest-rated player in each real match.