About FPL Core
What it is, what each tool does and how the numbers are worked out.
FPL Core is a free set of tools for Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers. It shows your team and points live during a gameweek, and gives you player and team statistics, fixture difficulty, price change predictions, mini-league tables, a report on every gameweek and a planner for the transfers and chips ahead.
What you can do
- Dashboard
- Your FPL team on a pitch with live points, the gameweek’s fixtures, the top performers, the most transferred players, your leagues, tonight’s expected price changes and the latest injuries.
- Matches
- A match centre for every Premier League fixture: live scores, goals and assists, bonus points (BPS), defensive contributions and team stats, and before kickoff the projected goals, win chances and top projected players.
- Player Statistics
- Every FPL player’s points, goals, assists, xG, xA, defensive contributions and more, over any range of gameweeks, sortable and filterable.
- Stats Per Gameweek
- One stat for every player across every gameweek, side by side, to spot consistent scorers and one-week wonders.
- Team Statistics
- Every Premier League club’s attack and defence in tables and charts: FPL points, xG and xGC, shots and big chances for and against, clean sheets, form and next fixtures, over any gameweek range, home or away.
- Player Comparison
- Two or more players side by side on every stat, as a table or a chart.
- Fixture Difficulty
- Each club’s upcoming fixtures coloured by difficulty, with double and blank gameweeks marked, sortable by the easiest run.
- Price Changes
- Which players are likely to rise or fall in price at the next update, how close each one is, and a history of every change.
- Leagues
- Live standings for your classic, head-to-head and custom mini-leagues, with each manager’s captain, chips, transfers and players still to play.
- Gameweek Reports
- A written and charted review of each gameweek: results, top performers, team and player analysis, and what to watch next.
- Manager Report
- A season review of your own FPL team: rank journey, captaincy, transfers, chips, bench points and team value.
- Team Planner
- Plan transfers, captains and chips across future gameweeks against your budget and free transfers, with expected points for each gameweek.
Questions and how the numbers work
Is FPL Core free?
Yes. The dashboard, statistics, fixtures, price changes, leagues, match centre, planner and the latest gameweek report are free and need no account. A membership ($4.99 a month or $29.99 a year) removes ads and adds last season’s statistics, CSV exports, the full archive of gameweek reports with their Looking Ahead chapter, and unlimited saved plans and custom leagues.
Where does FPL Core’s data come from?
Player, fixture, price and manager data comes from the official Fantasy Premier League game, refreshed through the day and every minute or so while matches are being played. Expected points, expected minutes, predicted lineups and match projections come from a prediction model supplied by FPL Copilot.
How are FPL price changes predicted?
FPL changes player prices once a day, at midnight UK time, based on transfers in and out. FPL Core tracks each player’s progress towards a change as a percentage: at +100% the price rises by £0.1m and at −100% it falls by £0.1m. A player is listed as expected to change tonight only when the projection for the next update reaches 100%.
How is fixture difficulty (FDR) worked out?
Every fixture starts from the Fantasy Premier League difficulty rating, from 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest), given separately for the home and away side. On FPL Core you can replace any club’s rating with your own and choose the colour scheme, and those choices carry through to the planner and player profiles. Clubs can be sorted by their easiest run over the next 2 to 10 gameweeks.
What are defensive contributions (DefCon) in FPL?
Defensive contributions are clearances, blocks, interceptions and tackles, plus ball recoveries for midfielders and forwards. A defender who reaches 10 in a match, or a midfielder or forward who reaches 12, earns 2 FPL points. Goalkeepers cannot earn them. FPL Core shows each player’s count against that threshold in every match and how often he reaches it over the season.
What is expected points (xP)?
Expected points is a model’s estimate of how many FPL points a player will score in a coming gameweek, built from his expected minutes, goals, assists, clean sheet chance, saves, bonus and defensive contributions against that opponent. FPL Core shows the FPL Copilot model’s figures in the planner, the match previews and the lineup, and never uses the game’s own ep_next value.
What is the Core XI?
The Core XI is the best 15-man squad that £100m can buy for one future gameweek, as if playing a Free Hit: the starting eleven with the highest expected points, the captain counted twice, within FPL’s rules of at most three players per club. It is the same for everyone and is recalculated when the projections change.
What is the Team of the Week?
The Team of the Week is the highest-scoring valid FPL eleven of a finished gameweek, as picked by the game itself, with the top scorer marked as the player of the week.
Do I need my FPL Team ID?
Only for the personal views: your live team, your leagues, the Manager Report and importing your squad into the planner. Your Team ID is the number in the address of your Points page on the Fantasy Premier League site (fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1234567/event/1). Everything else works without one.
Is FPL Core affiliated with the Premier League?
No. FPL Core is an independent site and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Premier League or Fantasy Premier League.
Contact
Questions, ideas or a bug to report? Get in touch.