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 Extensions
- Football Statistics
- Club Ratings
- Resources for FPL Developers
- FPL Forums
- FPL Discord Servers
- FPL Newsletters
- 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 (X)
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.
- @BenCrellin - If you only follow 1 account, follow Ben, a top FPL manager and king of the FPL spreadsheet. He provides invaluable information on fixture schedules, including forthcoming blank and double gameweeks.
- @Jumpthewave - If you only follow 2 accounts, follow Emma. She posts tables of predicted team lineups, based on the predictions of serious fans.
- @OfficialFPL - The official Twitter account of the Fantasy Premier League.
- @BenDinnery - Go-to source for Premier League injury news and updates.
- @FPLStatus - An automated service for #FPL providing lineups, live match updates, provisional & confirmed bonus points, injuries, status updates, price changes & statistics.
- @robtFPL - Shares spread market data for fantasy football with nice graphics.
- @FPLPriceChanges - Warnings and news of FPL player price changes.
- @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.
- @Benny_Blanco40 - Dodgy FPL-related jokes.
- @FPLMarcin - FPL memes.
- @pig_fpl - Serenading us through the gameweek highs and lows. Well, he he barely does that these days, but still well worth following.
- Also check out @fpl_tactician, @FplToni, @SmuelMartinFPL, @FPLProp, @ZhouFPL, @FPLfrasier, @MattyhFPL, @FPL_Bateman and @FPL_JianBatra.
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 Suggestions, 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.
- Drafthound - FPL player rankings, fixture analysis, player comparison and predicted lineups. Drafthound PRO required to access all the features.
- Check The Chance - Free predictions each gameweek for top players' FPL points and goalscoring probability, and teams' clean sheet probability, based on betting odds. From @chance_check. Also has a Discord server (see below).
- 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.
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.
- FPL Statistico (anwepla.net) - Stacks of stats about your season.
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.
- FPL Team - Android | iOS - FPL planning tool (see FPL Transfer Planners above).
- FPL Station - Android
- Fantasy Football Controller | Android | iOS
- FPL Gameweek | Android - Shows you your FPL points and rank in real time, like their website (below).
- Drafthound | iOS - FPL Assistant Manager that offers player rankings, transfer suggestions, lineup suggestions etc..
- FPL Mini League Arena | Android | iOS
FPL Browser Extensions
These extensions integrate useful extra functionality right into your desktop browser's FPL page.
- FPL Tools - Chrome | Firefox | Edge | Twitter - Great little browser extension 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. Unfortunately it does slow the FPL pages down a lot.
- Better FPL - Chrome - Adds opponent teams and their difficulty, players' points scores, expected points, and extra information to league tables. No longer free and requires sign-up on betterfpl.com, but it is maintained and may not slow the pages down like FPL Tools does.
- Enhanced FPL - FPL on steroids - Chrome | Firefox | Reddit - Integrates with your team's Points, Pick Team and Transfers pages, showing extra data for each player: Upcoming fixtures and their difficulty, player form and expected points. There is also a useful tool for comparing 2 players and a button to copy your team to a text file for use in Reddit's Rate My Team thread etc.. Unfortunately it's no longer maintained, so some of the features are not functioning or buggy. But at the time of writing it still works for showing forthcoming fixtures and their difficulty, along with expected points for the next fixture.
- 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 Plus by fantasyfootballfix.com - Chrome - Adds lots of features to your FPL page, including a tab displaying a table of player price change predictions (unfortunately with no player search feature), a Planner tab, and extra information on your team sheets. It requires signing up for a free account, and features such as projected points require a premium subscription.
- FPL Insights - Chrome - Adds a section to your Transfers page to compare players on various criteria, but sadly no predicted points. Under the settings it can show the difficulty rating of upcoming matches (but no team names) and, nicely, photographs of the players in your squad. It will co-exist with either of the above extensions.
- FPL Upcoming Fixtures - Chrome - Allows you to click through the upcoming fixtures for all the players in your squad, and adds a rudimentary fixture difficulty table under the extension's button, if you pin it. Personally I prefer an extension that shows a number of forthcoming fixtures under each player.
- FPL Away Kits - Chrome | Firefox - A fun extension that changes a players' shirts on your Pick Team tab to his teams's away shirt if he's playing away in the next fixture.
Football Statistics
- Understat - Statistics including xG and xA data.
- FBRef - Detailed player statistics including xG and xA.
- Transfermarkt - Detailed player statistics including historical injuries.
- 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..
Club Ratings
Some sources (besides FPL Form, of course) provide better metrics of team strength than the FPL's Fixture Difficulty Rating (FDR).
- ClubElo - English Football club ranking based on the Elo rating system. Not split into offense and defence. Nothing to do with the Electric Light Orchestra.
- FiveThirtyEight Club Soccer Predictions - Forecasts and Soccer Power Index (SPI) ratings. Team ratings are usefully split by offense and defence. Not regularly updated.
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/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/soccer-spi - Data behind the FiveThirtyEight predictions.
- https://github.com/vaastav/Fantasy-Premier-League - Library of historical FPL data.
- https://github.com/Randdalf/fplcache - Repository containing 6-hourly caches of the FPL API bootstrap data.
- https://github.com/probberechts/soccerdata - SoccerData is a collection of scrapers to gather soccer data from popular websites, including Club Elo, ESPN, FBref, FiveThirtyEight, Football-Data.co.uk, SoFIFA and WhoScored.
- https://github.com/oseymour/ScraperFC - ScraperFC is a Python package to scrape data from FBRef, Understat, FiveThirtyEight, ClubELO, Capology and Transfermarkt
- https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data - StatsBomb Open Data repository.
- AlpsCode YouTube Channel - Tutorials on Optimization for FPL using Excel and Python.
- Mathematical Modelling of Football YouTube Playlist from Friends of Tracking.
- https://github.com/theFPLkiwi/theFPLkiwi - FPL projections (no longer maintained) and maps for cross-referencing player names and IDs between FPL, fbref, FFScout and FanTeam.
- https://github.com/ChrisMusson/FPL-ID-Map - A map relating footballers' FPL IDs with IDs from Understat, FBRef & Transfermarkt. His other older libraries such as Football-Datasets and FPL_Optimiser are no longer maintained but can also be useful references.
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.
- FPLTALK forum - Another Fantasy Premier League forum in a traditional format.
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. Phone verification required.
- FPL Analytics Community - A private Discord server from Sertalp of fploptimzed.com. Has channels for discussing many aspects of FPL, with an emphasis on analytics in FPL.
- Fantasy Football Casuals - A private Discord server for FPL stuff, from @FootFBall.
- Predict FPL - A private Discord server sharing price changes, availability changes, and FPL points predictions, from @Predict_FPL. You can request predictions for a player but you must verify your phone number before you can post.
- CheckTheChance - A private Discord server for FPL discussion, including Check The Chance's odds-based predictions (see above).
FPL Newsletters
If I was a more casual FPL player, with little desire to scour Twitter, YouTube, Discord etc. for information, I would subscribe to these email newsletters to find out what I need to know before each gameweek.
- Lazy FPL - Free FPL newsletter emailed 24 hours before every deadline, telling you the stuff you need to know. Just the right amount of info, delivered with humour.
- Bigman's FPL Brief - Answers to your most pressing Fantasy Premier League questions before each GW deadline.
- Premier Fantasy Tools - Press Conference Summaries - Create a free account to receive their weekly newsletter, which links to an easy-to-read page that tells you who is ruled out, who might play, and who is now available for each Premier League team, based on what the manager said in his pre-match press conference.
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.
- All About FPL - FPL blog. Won gold in the 2023 Football Content Awards Best In Fantasy Football - Editorial category.
- 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.
- 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, that can be installed on a Slack or Discord server. It shares lots of useful notifications and updates about FPL. The search engine is useful for finding FPL managers and leagues, and they maintain a list of Premier League players' verified FPL accounts.
- FPL Gameweek - Nicely presented FPL live dashboard for tracking your points, rivals, leagues, ranking, EO etc..
- FPL Tools - Live FL bonus points, FPL statistics, live team lineups, live league viewer.
- 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.
- Mini League Mate - An email newsletter for your FPL mini-league, sent after every gameweek with your league's stats, charts, leaderboards and more. Requires Patreon membership.
- 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 planner and a detailed team analyzer.
- Premier Injuries - Table of injured players by team, including their potential return dates. Essential!
- Football Content Awards - Includes "Best In Fantasy Football" Video, Written & Podcast 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.