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Your guide to FPL-speak. FPL acronyms, slang and abbreviations. Talk the Fantasy Premier League talk.

• ASM - Allan Saint-Maximin.
• Bang - A player bangs when he scores a decent number of FPL points. c.f. haul.
• BB - The Bench Boost chip.
• BGW - See blank (gameweek).
• Big At The Back - Investing high resources in your defence, at the expense of other positions. e.g. A back 4 or 5 of high-budget defenders. Particularly popular around 2018 (TAA, Robertson, Alonso, Digne etc.).
• Blank (gameweek) - In a blank gameweek, one or more teams do not play. Navigating blanks and doubles is key to FPL success.
• Blank (player)- A player blanks when he does not achieve any points above his appearance points, other than maybe a bonus point or 2.
• Bus Team - The team you set early in the gameweek in case you get hit by a bus before the deadline (or you didn't realise it's an early deadline, or it slips your mind cuz you're out on the lash). Always a good idea to set a bus team before you forget.
• Chip - Free Hit, Wildcard, Triple Captain & Bench Boost are chips.
• CS - Clean sheet. When a team concedes no goals.
• DCL - Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
• DGW - See double.
• Differential - A player of low ownership who may help you climb rank if he bangs.
• Double - In a double gameweek, one or more teams plays more than once. Navigating blanks and doubles is key to FPL success.
• EO - Effective Ownership. The ownership percentage of a player when captaincy is taken into account. Owning or not owning players with high EO is critical to your rank. If a player has >100% EO at your rank, you cannot gain rank due to his points, no matter how many he scores, unless you captain him. EO for the top 10k is often quoted.
• Eye Test - Never mind the stats. Does the player actually look any good?
• FH - The Free Hit chip.
• FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out. Which is why you signed Timo Werner with no idea whether he'd actually perform in the EPL or not.
• GOAT - Greatest Of All Time. Messi? Ronaldo? Pele? Maradona? Or how about the GOAT FPL manager?
• Haul - A player hauls when he scores a lot of FPL points, typically more than 10. That's a haul.
• JWP - James Ward-Prowse.
• Nailed - Nailed on. Guaranteed to start.
• In the mud - Things ain't going well. Your captain blanked, your double Brighton defence condeded in the 95th minute, your new signing got a straight red and your bench hauled.
• ITB - In The Bank.
• ITK - In The Know. Those with prior, inside knowledge on team selections. Beware of fakes!
• ITM - See in the mud.
• OR - Overall rank. Your rank in the league of every manager playing FPL.
• Pep Roulette - The phenomenon whereby Pep Guardiola screws the entire FPL community over by seemingly random and unpredictable rotation. Good for the game though.
• Rage Transfer - The act of impatiently making reactionary transfers early in the gameweek without a rational decision-making process. Often involves alcohol or other drugs.
• TAA - Trent Alexander-Arnold.
• Template - A template team is the same as "everyone" else's, based on a consensus around the best current combination of players. To win FPL you need to break the template and be very, very lucky.
• VVD - Virgil van Dijk.
• WC - The Wildcard chip.
• xA - Expected assists. A performance metric representing the quality of assist opportunities.
• xG - Expected goals. A performance metric representing the quality of a player's scoring chances. When referring to a team, it means the total xG for the players in that team. xG and xA can be found on sites such as Understat.com and FPRef.com.
• xGA - Expected goals against. Refers to total xG scored by the opposition team.
• xP - Expected points. A measure of FPL points that a player or team can be expected to score. I call it PP (predicted points) on this site.