Frequently Asked Questions

No, absolutely not. We only require your public FPL Team ID. We will never ask for your email or password. Your Team ID is a publicly accessible number — anyone can look it up.

Go to the official fantasy.premierleague.com website, click on the “Pick Team” or “Points” tab, and look at the URL. Your Team ID is the number in the middle of the URL (e.g., .../entry/123456/history). You can also find it on the FPL app under the “My Team” section.

Ensure you are entering just the numerical ID, not the whole URL. Also, ensure the official FPL game isn’t currently updating, as their API goes down briefly before gameweek deadlines. If the problem persists, try refreshing the page or clearing your browser cache.

None on our side. EasyFPL has no accounts, no cookies, no analytics and no database. Your Team ID, draft plans and settings are saved in your own browser’s local storage and never leave your device — clearing site data erases all of it instantly. Full detail on the privacy policy.

Yes, all tools and features on Easy FPL are completely free. We believe every fantasy manager deserves access to data-driven insights, regardless of budget. If you find value in what we offer, consider supporting us via the “Buy me a coffee” link in the footer!

No account creation is needed. Simply enter your FPL Team ID and start exploring. Your Team ID is remembered locally in your browser so you don’t have to re-enter it every visit.

Player prices, injuries, and ownership stats are updated multiple times a day, catching the overnight price changes and late-week press conference news. Live bonus points and match stats are refreshed during active gameweeks.

We utilize the official FPL API for all baseline game data (prices, ownership, points), which is then processed by our custom algorithms to generate projections, form ratings, and fixture analysis.

Data updates depend on the official FPL API. After a gameweek finishes, there can be a short delay while the Premier League processes bonus points and final scores. Our system picks up the new data as soon as it becomes available. Try refreshing the page if you notice stale data.

Yes. Blank and double gameweeks are automatically reflected in fixture calendars, FDR ratings, and transfer recommendations. The tools will highlight players with double fixtures and flag those with blanks so you can plan accordingly.

The Transfer Wizard is a step-by-step guided flow that walks you through gameweek preparation: checking injuries, evaluating fixtures, finding the best transfer targets, optimizing your starting XI, and picking the right captain — all in one streamlined process.

No. The Wizard is a planning tool that suggests optimized transfers based on your current squad and bank balance. You still need to log into the official FPL site to finalize and confirm your moves. We never access your FPL account.

My Team Analysis gives you a full squad audit including sell/hold/star verdicts for every player, injury and suspension flags, fixture outlook with FDR ratings, rotation risk alerts, and suggested transfers. It also includes a GW Draft planner and Lineup Wizard.

The Player Explorer lets you search and filter 700+ players by form, xG, xA, bonus points, value, and more. You can compare any two players side-by-side, view rising form charts, see “Routes to Points” breakdowns, and get personalized recommendations based on your squad needs.

Team Ratings provides FDR (Fixture Difficulty Rating) data, attack and defense power rankings, clean sheet probability, and a fixture calendar for every Premier League club. You can spot the best fixture swings to plan transfers weeks in advance.

League Rivals lets you compare your squad against your mini-league opponents. It shows ownership differentials, captain race analysis, squad strength comparisons, a head-to-head matrix, and actionable insights on which players could swing your league ranking.

xG stands for Expected Goals — a measure of attacking threat based on the quality of chances created. xGA stands for Expected Goals Against — a measure of defensive vulnerability. We use these metrics to produce “Traffic Light” verdicts on whether a fixture is favorable or tough for your players.

FDR is the Fixture Difficulty Rating, on a scale of 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest). It’s used throughout the site to color-code fixtures. Green (1–2) means favorable fixtures where your players are more likely to return, while red (4–5) indicates tough matchups. Use FDR to plan transfers and captaincy picks over multiple gameweeks.

The Captain Score is a custom metric that combines a player’s recent form (Points per Game over the last 5 matches) with the FDR of their upcoming opponent to project their explosive potential. Higher scores indicate players who are both in form and facing favorable opponents.

Star players are in top form with great upcoming fixtures — keep and consider captaining. Hold players are performing adequately or have improving fixtures ahead. Sell players have poor form, tough fixtures, or injury concerns and should be prioritized for transfer out.

Every projected-points figure on the site comes from one model, built from the actual FPL scoring rules rather than fitted as a black box. It adds up appearance points, goals and assists from expected goals and expected assists, clean sheets, saves, defensive contribution and bonus, then subtracts goals conceded and cards — each term scaled by how likely the player is to start and how long he is likely to last. The methodology page breaks down every term with the formulas.

Because they should be. After one match, a striker who scored twice is not a two-goal-a-game striker. Every rate is regressed toward a sensible prior — what a player at this price, or with this record last season, normally does — and the player’s own record only takes over as evidence accumulates, typically over four to five matches. Early on the projections are deliberately clustered. That is the model being honest about how little it knows yet, not a fault.

Usually one of three reasons: the model is still leaning on priors because the sample is thin; it is pricing a fixture run you have not looked at yet; or it is charging for something invisible on a scoreboard, like a low chance of starting. It also cannot see team news before it is published. The limitations section is explicit about what it cannot do — and if a number still looks wrong after that, please tell us.

The health score used to judge the official form figure raw. Form is average points over the last 30 days, so one gameweek into a season it is that one gameweek — and on that basis 52% of every player who got on the pitch counted as “out of form”, which is really just “did not score three points once”. Form is now regressed toward each player’s own points per game from last season, reaching the raw figure at four gameweeks. See how squad health is built.

Because holding is a real answer. A free transfer has option value — banked, it becomes two next week — so a marginal edge is not a reason to spend one. A move has to clear a meaningful margin across the whole five-gameweek horizon, not merely beat zero. If nothing clears it, the honest recommendation is to do nothing.

Because a player’s expected points are not the points you receive. Only eleven of your fifteen score in a normal gameweek and exactly one goalkeeper plays, so improving your second keeper from 16 projected points to 23 is worth almost nothing in practice. Every candidate transfer is scored by rebuilding the squad, re-solving the best eleven, and measuring what actually reaches your score. More on the wizard.

Yes, all three. Published penalty order feeds the projection as a prior, so a newly appointed taker gets credit before he has taken one — without double-counting the penalties already inside his expected goals. Cards are charged at −1 for a yellow and −3 for a red. Defensive contribution uses thresholds read directly off the official live endpoint’s own explain blocks: 10 for defenders, 12 for midfielders and forwards, 2 points, and goalkeepers never qualify. Details here.

FDR is a useful shorthand and a poor model — it is a single integer from 1 to 5, and it puts twelve different defences in the same bucket. EasyFPL builds its own continuous attack and defence ratings for all twenty clubs, split by home and away. Two fixtures the official rating calls identical can differ by a hundred per cent once the actual opponent is priced in. See the opponent model.

Honestly: good enough to be useful, never good enough to follow blindly. Expected goals is not goals — finishing, deflections and luck move real scores a long way over a single gameweek, though the gap narrows over a season. The model also cannot see rotation or a late fitness test before the official data reflects it. Treat every recommendation as a strong starting point for your own decision, and read what it cannot do.

On the How EasyFPL Works page. It documents every tool on the site and every model behind it — the points engine term by term, the opponent ratings, squad health, the transfer recommender, where the data comes from, and an explicit list of the things the model cannot know.

Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page. If the issue persists, the official FPL API may be under heavy load (common around deadline time). The site works best on modern browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.

Yes! All pages are fully responsive and optimized for mobile devices. The mobile navigation bar at the bottom of the screen gives you quick access to every tool. Tables and charts adapt to smaller screens automatically.

Yes, your Team ID is saved in your browser’s local storage so you don’t need to enter it again. If you switch browsers or clear your browsing data, you’ll need to re-enter it. No data is sent to any server — everything stays on your device.

Currently, Easy FPL is designed for the classic FPL game mode. Draft league support is not available at this time, but the Player Explorer and Team Ratings tools can still be useful for finding in-form players and evaluating fixtures in any format.