How is FPL fixture difficulty calculated?

Each fixture gets a 1-5 difficulty rating based on the opponent’s team strength rating, home/away, and recent form. Colour-coded so easy runs (green) and tough stretches (red) are obvious at a glance.

What is a fixture swing in FPL?

A team’s fixture difficulty changing sharply over the next few gameweeks. Spotting upcoming easy runs early is one of the highest-EV transfer signals in FPL.

When are FPL fixtures updated?

Within one hour of any change from the official Premier League schedule. Postponements, double gameweeks, and blank gameweeks are reflected automatically.

FPL Fixture Difficulty Ticker

A fixture difficulty ticker built on team strength ratings, not the official FDR

The ticker shows every Premier League team's upcoming fixtures, colour-coded by fixture difficulty for the gameweeks you choose. Unlike the official FPL FDR - which updates rarely and rates every match on a coarse 2-5 scale - our ratings come from continuously updated team strength ratings, so a side on a winning run gets harder in the ratings within a week, not a month. Home and away matter too: the same opponent is rated easier at home than away, which a single team-level badge can't show you.

Fixture swings are transfer signals

The most valuable thing this page shows isn't any single rating - it is the swing: a team whose fixtures flip from red to green (or back) over the next three to six gameweeks. Getting ahead of an easy run before the crowd piles in is one of the highest-value transfer moves in FPL, and it is also how you time wildcards and bench boosts. Sort the ticker by the gameweek range you care about, look for the sharpest colour changes, then check the ratings of that team's key players before committing a transfer.

Double and blank gameweeks appear automatically as the schedule changes, and the team planner uses these same difficulty ratings when it optimises your transfers over the coming gameweeks - so what you see here is exactly what the optimiser sees.

Frequently asked questions

How is FPL fixture difficulty calculated?: Each fixture gets a 1-5 difficulty rating based on the opponent’s team strength rating, home/away, and recent form. Colour-coded so easy runs (green) and tough stretches (red) are obvious at a glance.
What is a fixture swing in FPL?: A team’s fixture difficulty changing sharply over the next few gameweeks. Spotting upcoming easy runs early is one of the highest-EV transfer signals in FPL.
When are FPL fixtures updated?: Within one hour of any change from the official Premier League schedule. Postponements, double gameweeks, and blank gameweeks are reflected automatically.