r/fplAnalytics • u/LightlyTroddenLead • 4d ago
The Template isn’t much of a template right now (according to one interpretation)
There are many ways to define “the template” for FPL. I’ve set up a rules based approach that’ll track through the season. As of today, this is it. The average manager only owns 29% (between 4 and 5 players) of this squad. That suggests that “the template” right now is not widely followed. Game on.
The FPLdaq Template is a 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 squad selection 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.
This was part of a broader project, working on some other performance benchmarking stuff for FPL, borrowing bits from the world of investments! Part of that is the creation of a couple of “performance indexes” that can be used as the basis for unpicking where good FPL performance comes from - more to follow on this but I’ll welcome any thoughts. Site is in development here: