Performance benchmarks
Two reference points for a gameweek's scoring: what the whole market earned, and what a passive manager tracking it would have earned.
FPLdaq SWAPPI, the Selection-Weighted All Player Points Index, takes every point scored in the Premier League and weights it by how much of the average manager's squad was invested in that player. Weights are frozen at each deadline, because squads lock then, so it measures what the market was holding when it locked rather than what it bought afterwards. It counts all 577 players, so it is not a score any manager could achieve: no eleven, no captain, no bench. It does reflect aggregate market behaviour, and serves as a guide to what a less engaged or disengaged manager might score.
The FPLdaq Template is a more realistic demonstration of what a manager could achieve by simply following the crowd. It is the affordable fifteen that overlaps most with what the market owns, picked under the real rules: two goalkeepers, five defenders, five midfielders, three forwards, no more than three from any club, and within the average manager's own budget. It starts the eleven most-owned of those fifteen in a legal formation and captains the highest-owned outfielder. Nothing is chosen with hindsight, so it is a benchmark that could actually have been followed.
The gap between them is the cost of playing the game as it is really played: a budget you cannot exceed, a bench of four, and one armband.
Most owned players
The most invested-in players in each position, on the same measure as the index: price multiplied by % ownership, read as the money the average manager holds in each player. A solid line means the player was in the FPLdaq Template at that moment; dotted means the market held them but an affordable template could not fit them in.
Investment per player slot
What the average manager holds in a single player of each position. Dividing by the number of slots, two keepers against five midfielders, is what makes the four comparable: it answers where the expensive places to be are, not simply where the most money sits.
Bought and sold today
Change over the last 24 hours in the money the average manager holds in each player. Each figure is that player's price multiplied by their ownership percentage, so it is both the average investment across every manager and that player's slice of the whole SWAPPI index, expressed in pounds of a squad. Price rises count as money in, as well as new owners.
FPL manager investment by team
All twenty clubs, most heavily invested in first. Each line tracks how much of the average squad sits in that club's goalkeepers and defenders, midfielders and forwards, so the shape shows sentiment shifting between positions at a club rather than the club's total rising or falling.
Your team against the benchmarks
Enter your team ID to see how your season compares with SWAPPI and the modelled template, and where the difference came from.
Sign in at fantasy.premierleague.com, open Points, and read the number out of the address bar: fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1234567/event/1. That number is your team ID. Nothing is stored anywhere but your own browser.
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How your squad's money is distributed against the benchmark, in percentage points of squad value. Positive means you hold more there than the benchmark does.
By position
By club
Every player you own now or have owned, most expensive first. Bar height is the points they scored that gameweek, shaded by what those points did for you.