xP (expected points)

What our model thinks a player scores on average in a gameweek. Any single week will differ. How reliable is it?

FDR (fixture difficulty rating)

FPL's own rating of how hard a match is for a club, from 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest). We always print the digit beside the colour.

FT (free transfers)

Transfers you can make in a gameweek without losing points. FPL doesn't show us your real number without a login, so we estimate it, and you can set the real one on the Transfers page.

Hit

The 4-point cost of each transfer beyond your free ones.

GW (gameweek)

One round of Premier League matches. The deadline is the moment before the first kick-off when your changes lock.

WC (Wildcard)

A chip that lets you rebuild your whole squad without hits. There are two sets: GW2 to 19 and GW20 to 38.

FH (Free Hit)

A chip that lets you make unlimited changes for one gameweek, after which your squad goes back to how it was.

BB (Bench Boost)

A chip that makes your bench players score points for one gameweek.

TC (Triple Captain)

A chip that makes your captain's points count three times instead of two for one gameweek.

DC (defensive contributions)

A scoring category for defensive actions such as tackles and clearances, worth points once a player passes a threshold.

RMSE (typical error)

A single number for how far projections miss on average, in points. Lower is better. Around 2 for one player in one gameweek.

Provenance chip

A figure in the briefing that you can trace to the computed result it came from.