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Aug 20, 2023 14 tweets 8 min read
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

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Jul 19, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
“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.

🧵⬇️ Image 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. Image
Jun 21, 2023 20 tweets 8 min read
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... Image 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... Image