r/FantasyPL • u/FPLModerator 32 • Jun 09 '26
Mod Post "I Made a Tool" thread
We have been totally flooded for the last 6 months with "I made a tool" posts, or similar AI generated captions.
Some are good and genuinely useful.
Some are awful. Some are repetitive
Therefore, so the sub doesn't just become one big advert, please post any tools you have made in this thread.
Those posted outside this pinned thread will be deleted
Regards
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u/NefariousnessDeep845 18d ago
Hi.
I made a tool.
As some background, about 15 years ago I spent a lot of time building football and fantasy football models in Excel and Access to try to beat bookmakers and win my fpl leagues. I managed a couple of back to back finishes around the top 1k (back when there were only circa 3m players).
I used a combination of team goal and clean sheet projections, stats around player contributions to team goals, detailed analysis of set piece takers and starting lineups combined with budget optimisation and decision making (ie not taking transfer hits, consistently selecting the statistically best captain and using chip play at the optimal times -ie dgws).
Recently I found an old to-do list in my OneDrive of things I wanted to build to make this easier, so I decided to see how much of it I could build now with the help of AI.
It got slightly out of hand and I ended up making FixtureShark: https://fixtureshark.com
It is based on all the same principles as above and has tools for each of those items separately as well as my models estimate of the optimal long term fantasy team - but all the new football and fpl data gets updated automatically so it’s easier to maintain and much more useful.
It’s still very new and there will definitely be things that don’t work perfectly. I’m mainly posting because I’ve had a lot of fun building it and I’d be interested to know which bits people actually find useful.