FPL Resources
Resources to help you enjoy and succeed in the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) game.
- FPL Podcasts & YouTube Shows
- FPL Twitter
- FPL Price Change Predictions
- FPL Live Rank
- FPL Manager Rankings
- Data-based FPL Points Predictions / Team Optimisers / Transfer Suggestors
- FPL Transfer Planners
- FPL Season Review
- FPL Mobile Apps
- FPL Browser Plug-ins
- Football Statistics & Score Predictions
- Resources for FPL Developers
- FPL Forums
- FPL Discord Servers
- Other FPL Websites & Resources
FPL Podcasts & YouTube Shows
There is a ton of FPL-themed streaming content these days. See my separate listing of FPL podcasts and YouTube shows.
FPL Twitter
There is a strong community of FPL enthusiasts on Twitter, with plenty of insight, banter, humour and support. My FPL manager ranking links to the Twitter accounts of some top managers. My page of FPL podcasts and YouTube channels has links to all the creators' Twitter accounts. Otherwise look out for accounts with "FPL" in the name, but be selective if your goal is to get quality tips. Follow me at @fplform and take a peek at who I'm following. Here are a few great FPL-related Twitter accounts to get you started.
- @OfficialFPL - The official Twitter account of the Fantasy Premier League.
- @BenCrellin - A fine FPL manager and king of the FPL spreadsheet. Follow Ben for the best information on fixture schedules, including forthcoming blank and double gameweeks.
- @BenDinnery - Go-to source for Premier League injury news and updates.
- @Jumpthewave - Predicted team lineups from Emma, based on the predictions of serious fans.
- @insider_fpl - Real player FPL transfer alerts.
- @FPLStatus - An automated service for #FPL providing lineups, live match updates, provisional & confirmed bonus points, injuries, status updates, price changes & statistics.
- @BigManBakar - In-depth gameweek reviews from one of the panel of The FPL Wire podcast.
- @FPL_Swe - Threads, tips and advice on FPL.
- @FPL_Rockstar - FPL Twitter legend, thanks to rock-solid ITK ("in the know") team news. When the Eddie van Halen gif dropped 10 minutes before transfer deadline, pandemonium ensued. Sadly now more difficult since the transfer deadline was moved 30 minutes earlier, but still definitely worth following.
- @FPL_Partridge - FPL is a game. It's meant to be fun. Follow this guy.
- @ElfFpl - Ditto.
- @Benny_Blanco40 - Dodgy FPL-related jokes.
- @FPLMarcin - FPL memes.
- @FPLFledgling - More FPL memes.
- @pig_fpl - Serenading us through the gameweek highs and lows. Well, he doesn't do that so much anymore, but still well worth following.
- @LukeJerdy - Shakespeare meets FPL. Check out his YouTube channel too.
FPL Price Change Predictions
See my page on FPL price change predictions to find sites that give you a good idea of when players' prices are likely to rise or fall.
FPL Live Rank
See my page on FPL live rank websites to find out where you can track your gameweek performance in real time.
FPL Manager Rankings
- FPL Form - FPL manager ranking - Interactive table allowing you to rank FPL managers by multiple seasons or by their number of top 1k or top 10k finishes. Discover the greats of the game, peek at who they have in their teams, and find them on Twitter.
- Fantasy Football Scout Career - Hall Of Fame
- Premier Fantasy Tools - All-Time Manager World Rankings
- FPL Research - FPL Manager Ratings
- Live FPL - Best 1000 Managers Of All Time
Data-based FPL Points Predictions / Team Optimisers / Transfer Suggestors
Besides my own FPL Points Predictions and Transfer Suggestors, here are some other sites that forecast points, and/or advise you on your team selection.
- FPL Review - Highly recommend site that provides free FPL points predictions using either a free model or the premium Massive Data model. Well worth checking alongside my own FPL points predictions. The Elite Data page gives you insights into the behaviour of the world's 1000 best managers, including player ownership and captaincy.
- Fantasy Football Scout - Long-established site with lots of articles, stats and other in-depth FPL-related information. A paid subscription gives you access to the Rate My Team feature, which offers points predictions for players. Note that annual subscriptions auto-renew, and they do not notify before taking payment.
- Fantasy Football Fix - Feature-packed site that offers some prediction tools for free, and more for premium members.
- FPLOptimiser - Runs a zero-one linear optimisation program to construct a first 11 and subs bench within the budgetary and squad constraints of the Official Fantasy Premier League game.
- The Transfer Algorithm - Algorithm for Patreon subscribers from Tor Mikkel Tokvam that helps you choose the best attacking assets. Used by some of the game's top managers.
- The FPL Kiwi - FPL projections for expected points and expected minutes from @theFPLkiwi.
- Draft Hound - FPL player rankings, fixture analysis and predicted lineups.
- FPL Poker Player - FPL predicted points, expected goals, clean sheet probabilities etc.. Spreadsheets available to purchase with a season pass. Some previews on Twitter.
- FPL Otimization Tool - Nathan J's spreadsheet-based planning tool. Links can be found in the description of this YouTube video. Deep in the bowels of FPL Form, you can find a page that will generate you a CSV file for it based on my own predicted points.
- FPL_Optimiser - python scripts that optimise a lineup based on some constraints and a given objective. We have a page for generating a CSV file for Optimisers A & B, and one for the "with_transfers" optimisers.
- Fantasy Overlord - Several FPL helper tools including Player Point Forecasts and a Rate My Team feature.
- Albert's FPL Model - FPL points predictions from Albert Edwards, based on expected goals and assists data from fbref.com.
FPL Transfer Planners
Tools to help you map out your future FPL moves. Better than scribbling them on the back of a fag packet.
- FPL Team - Use Planning Ahead tool for plotting future transfers, Looking Up to see how far you are from benchmark ranks, and Captain Fantastic to beat yourself up about past captaincy choices.
- PLANFPL.com - Simulate the rest of your FPL season using an interface similar to the Fantasy Premier League itself.
FPL Season Review
Take a look back at where it all went right or wrong.
- FPL Optimized - Season Highlights - Detailed analysis of your players. Great use of graphics.
- FPL Review - Season Review - The Season Review and Gameweek Review features charts showing how lucky or unlucky you were compared to expectations for your players, and comparisons with an Elite selection of 1000 FPL managers.
- Live FPL - Save Your Season Data - Download an Excel spreadsheet that includes an analysis of each gameweek and a rating of which players helped and hurt you the most over the season.
- MyFPLAnalysis - Season & Gameweek Summary and Analysis - Includes Excel downloads.
- FPL Statistico (anwepla.net) - Stacks of stats about your season.
- Playmaker App - Season Highlights - Get a slideshow-style review in the app if you join before the end of the season. Fun but not for in-depth analysis.
FPL Mobile Apps
There are a lot of FPL mobile apps now. Here's a sample of them.
- Premier League - Official App - Android | iOS - Many experienced users prefer to use the website rather than this offical app from the FPL.
- Fantasy Football Manager (FPL) - Android - Many prefer this to the official app for making transfers etc..
- FPL Fantasy Football Manager - iOS - Similar functionality to FFM for Android, but actually a different app and developer.
- FPL - Premier Fantasy Tools - Android | iOS
- Fantasy Football Fix for FPL - Android | iOS
- Fantasy Manager - Android | iOS
- Fantasy Football Hub: FPL Tips - Android | iOS - FFH suffered a data breach in October 2021, but remains popular.
- Playmaker - Fantasy Football - Android | iOS - FPL discussion, stats, live rank, community, season highlights.
- FPL Station - Android
- Fantasy Football Controller | Android | iOS
- FPL Mini League Arena | Android | iOS
FPL Browser Plug-ins
- FPL Tools - Chrome | Firefox | Edge | Twitter - Great little plugin that adds opponent teams, fixture difficulty ratings, last 5 GW points, net transfers etc. to the regular FPL pages. Very helpful when planning transfers. It also adds extra information to league tables. Recommended!
- Better FPL - Chrome - Adds color-coded fixture difficulty ratings (but no opponents names) and extra information to league tables.
- FPL Genius - Chrome | Firefox - It integrates recommended transfers into the Transfers page of the FPL website. It also integrates recommended formation, captain etc. into the Pick Team page. It uses predictive analysis to make logical suggestions.
- FPL Analytics and Optimization - Chrome - A package to help you to evaluate your team picks in Fantasy Premier League (FPL) game from an analytical perspective. It provides links to simulate your team's EV (effective value) and to show a live gameweek tracker for your team on fploptimzed.com.
- FPL Away Kits - Chrome - A tool to access other shirts on FPL - if a player is playing away, they play in their away shirt!
Football Statistics & Score Predictions
- Understat - Statistics including xG and xA data.
- FBRef - Detailed player statistics including xG and xA.
- Transfermarkt - Detailed player statistics including historical injuries.
- FiveThirtyEight Club Soccer Predictions - Forecasts and Soccer Power Index (SPI) ratings. Team ratings are usefully split by offense and defence.
- FootyStats - Loads of football statistics. Friendly interface.
- WhoScored - General football statistics. Nice for an overview of a team's recent form.
- FotMob - Data for players and teams, including xG and xA, and apps for live scores etc..
Resources for FPL Developers
- FPLdev Discord Server - For FPL developers to get help and discuss ideas. Set up by Amos Bastian, the man behind the FPL and Understat libraries.
- https://github.com/amosbastian/fpl - Python package for the FPL API.
- https://github.com/amosbastian/understat - Python package for Understat.
- https://github.com/ChrisMusson/Football-Datasets - Historical Understat stats and FPL ID to Understat ID map.
- https://github.com/ChrisMusson/FPL_Optimiser - FPL lineup optimizer.
- https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/soccer-spi - Data behind the FiveThirtyEight predictions.
- https://github.com/Randdalf/fplcache - Repository containing 6-hourly caches of the FPL API bootstrap data.
- https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data - StatsBomb Open Data repository.
- https://github.com/vaastav/Fantasy-Premier-League - Library of historical FPL data.
- https://github.com/theFPLkiwi/theFPLkiwi - Hindsight data for FPL players, and a dictionary for cross-referencing player names between FPL, fbref & FFScout.
- AlpsCode YouTube Channel - Tutorials on Optimization for FPL using Excel and Python.
- Mathematical Modelling of Football YouTube Playlist from Friends of Tracking.
FPL Forums
- Fantasy Premier League Reddit - Very active. Look out for the weekly captain poll.
- FISO Fantasy PremierLeague.com (FPL) forum - Great for those who prefer a traditional forum format to discuss FPL.
FPL Discord Servers
- Elite FPL - A public Discord server featuring useful tools and bots as well as FPL discussion etc..
- FantasyPL - A public Discord server stemmed from the r/FantasyPL Reddit.
- FPL Focal - A public Discord server featuring a strong community and several automatic alerts.
- FPL Analytics Community - A private Discord server for discussion of analytics in FPL.
- The FPL Gameweek Lounge - A private Discord server for FPL stuff, from @TheFPLGameweek.
Other FPL Websites & Resources
There are stacks of FPL-related websites, ranging from simple blogs to subscription-based prediction and stats resources that aim to give you an edge. Here are some of the better, active ones.
- Fantasy Football - Alexa skill for FPL. Hands-free updates and planning for your FPL team. Doesn't do transfers or team selection.
- Fantasy Football 247 - FPL articles, fixture tracker, set-piece takers etc..
- Fantasy Football Community - Weekly "Last Minute" blog of FPL gameweek tips.
- Fantasy Football Fest - Real-life parties and meet-ups for the Fantasy Football community.
- Fantasy Football Hub - OPTA Stats, FPL player comparison, fixtures, predictions, articles, team reveals etc.. The site suffered a data breach in October 2021, but remains popular.
- Fantasy Football Pundits - Weekly team selection and "Who should I captain?" blogs.
- Fantasy Football Robots - Tracks the progress of fully-automated FPL teams that make decisions on different bases.
- FFGeek - Prolific blog divided into multiple FPL-related categories.
- FFStuff - Useful statistical tools including player comparisons and players' FPL points by match in past seasons.
- FNTSY PL - Live Mini-League Tables, League Selections, & More
- fplAnalytics - "Tools for FPL pros" - Data, stats, analytics, history. Lots to delve into here.
- fplbot.app - An unofficial Slackbot for Fantasy Premier League. The search engine is useful for finding FPL managers and leagues, and they maintain a list of Premier League players' verified FPL accounts.
- FPL Guru - Team view, captain stats, transfer stats, transfer market, rivals, upcoming fixtures, season stats.
- FPL Hints - A free magazine devoted to FPL. See @FPLHints Twitter for other ways to access it.
- FPL Tools - Live FL bonus points, FPL statistics, live team lineups, live league viewer.
- FPLephant - FPL-tailored player and team stats to help you with your transfer choices.
- GameChange FPL Tools - Includes the What-if Machine that tells you how many points you would have had if you hadn't changed your team since the first gameweek. Sit and weep at all your wasted hours of research and tinkering.
- Jumpers For Goalposts - An interactive stats dashboard, along with updates for a number of their popular mini-leagues, and other useful FPL tools.
- My FPL Analysis - Analysis of elite managers' and top 10k managers' teams, stats, and downloads of your FPL data.
- Penalty Takers & Set Piece Takers from benchboost.com - With so many penalties being given these days, and penalties worth as many points as goals from open play, it's important to know which players are in the pecking order to take them.
- Premier Fantasy Tools - A collection of FPL tools including a detailed team analyzer.
- Premier Injuries - Table of injured players by team, including their potential return dates.
- Football Content Awards - Includes "Best In Fantasy Football" Editorial, Podcast & Video categories.
- Fantasy Again - Ever dreamt you could play FPL, knowing the whole season's data in advance? Now you can! Play last season's FPL all over again, with the benefit of hindsight.