Imagine if an anonymous genius condensed over 40 match event stats into a singular metric, designed solely to measure a player’s #FPL quality.

Mate - that’s the ICT Index.

Here’s a thread on a powerful FPL performance indicator that managers almost NEVER talk about ⬇️ Before that, you can hire a virtual PA to update you with all the key FPL news 24h before every gameweek deadline.

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Here's the important stuff from every #FPL game in Gameweek 2 including:

🧮Important Stats
🤼‍♂️Team Formations
🌶️Heatmaps
⚽️Shotmaps
👀Eye test report

It’s the “I can’t watch every game but still wanna know what happened” thread 👇 Liverpool 3 - 1 Bournemouth

Jota ⚽️
Salah ⚽️
Diaz⚽️
Szaboszlai 🅰️
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Semenyo⚽️
Sokanke🅰️

“The FDR (fixture difficulty rating) is based on a complex algorithm developed by #FPL experts”.

Cool…but is it any good?

Here are five weird features of this season’s official #FPL FDR that you ought to know before you start using it.

🧵⬇️ 1: you can already download an entire season’s worth of fixture difficulty ratings…in July.

There’s a PDF you can download on their site, complete with 380 fixture ratings.

Apparently their algorithm is powerful enough to predict every team’s form for a whole campaign. Decent.

How did #FPL derive from one bloke’s hobby to over 11 million players?

From Tony Blair’s school initiative to sports cars as prizes, welcome to the crazy, corrupt and often comical growth of online fantasy football... From 1991 to 1994, Andrew Wainstein's "Fantasy League" rapidly progressed from 500 initial users to partnering with the Daily Telegraph and being promoted on the “Fantasy Football League” TV show presented by Baddiel & Skinner.

The less said about that show the better...