N2
YOUR NO.2

Most FPL managers make captain picks in an information vacuum.

This is the briefing room.

Every gameweek, eight specialists analyse your squad and deliver one verdict. Not generic advice. Your team. Your decisions.

Free general briefing every gameweek. The full 8-character squad-personalised backroom is the Squad tier.

Join the Backroom
The backroom staff gathered around the tactical table

The FPL community runs on the same data. Fantasy Football Scout, Reddit, Twitter — same xP numbers, same differential threads, same consensus picks that finish mid-table. Your No.2 doesn't replace those sources. It synthesises them through eight specialists who only care about your squad, not the field.

What happens when you enter your team ID

Steps 01–04 describe the Squad tier experience. The free tier gives a general AM briefing without squad personalisation.

Step 01

Your squad is pulled

We read your current squad, captain history, chip usage, and upcoming fixtures direct from the FPL API.

Step 02

The engine makes the calls

A deterministic scoring model ranks your captain options, tests every legal starting eleven, and prices the transfer case. The staff do not decide anything. See The Model for the weights.

Step 03

The room argues about them

Eight specialists take the engine's call apart from their own remit: fitness, fixtures, value, ownership. The Assistant Manager rules. Conflicting signals get flagged, not smoothed over.

Step 04

You get one verdict

Captain pick, transfer recommendation, bench order. Justified, not hedged.

Who's in the room

Dr. Rachel Okafor

Medical Officer

Dr. Rachel Okafor

"Gordon trained Thursday. I would not describe it as full training. The armband should not be on Gordon."

Jimmy MacLeod

Chief Scout

Jimmy MacLeod

"A've watched him three times this week. He's got the thing. Cannae explain the thing. Pick him."

Klaus Brandt

Sporting Director

Klaus Brandt

"My fixture-adjusted ownership model projects a 34.2% differential by GW33. Nobody requested this model. I am presenting it anyway."

Meet the full backroom →

What you actually get

Illustrative excerpt

Squad tier output

The Morning After — Janet Moorhouse

HAALAND DOES WHAT HAALAND DOES AND THE TITLE RACE FEELS IT

The Assistant Manager — Captain Pick

Haaland. Double armband. Home fixture, title mathematics. Ferretti flagged the motivation angle on Wednesday. Sharma's underlying numbers agreed. Okafor cleared him medically on Thursday morning. Green arrows by Sunday, or Klaus gets to file the memo.

Dr. Rachel Okafor — Medical Flag

Gordon trained Thursday but I would not describe it as full training. Flagged as captaincy risk last week. Log updated. The armband went on Haaland regardless. For the record.

Join the Backroom

Before you ask

No. A decision engine makes every call from the FPL data: captain, transfer, bench order. The eight specialists explain that call in character. Strip the personalities out and the verdict is identical. The comedy is the delivery, not the maths.

It runs on the same public data everyone has: the FPL API, expected points, fixture difficulty, betting odds, injury and minutes signals. The difference is what it does with that data. A deterministic engine weighs it all into one call per decision, ranks your captain options, flags the transfer cases, and orders your bench. It is not trying to be the cleverest optimiser in the market. It is built to be sound, transparent, and accountable. Every verdict ships with a confidence level, and from GW1 we log whether the calls were right so you can judge it for yourself. The full breakdown, including what the engine is bad at, is on The Model page.

There is a free briefing every gameweek. The full backroom unlocks on the Squad tier. See the pricing page for the current numbers.

Read the full engine breakdown on The Model →

The advice is sound. The staff are not okay.

Get your squad briefed before the next deadline.

Join the Backroom