Fantasy Premier League Companion gives managers a new tool for success

How did the Premier League's wealth of data help inform the Companion?

Selby: There are two buckets. There's match data. That is, goals, assists, appearances, cards, minutes on the pitch, number of tackles, number of shots, which is, what is happening in the matches, what has happened in the matches historically, etc.

That is information which you can access already, but you need to know where to look for it. You need to know how to navigate the tables. That being accessible through Companion is a bit of a game changer to quickly finding and digesting that information.

Then there's game data, the game being FPL in this instance. That is data which only exists because FPL exists as a game. And so that could be the number of transfers that a player has had, the number of managers that have captained a certain player, the number of managers that have played certain chips.

That stuff you can only get through Fantasy Premier League. You are taking those two data sets and pulling that together to give recommendations. When I'm asking, "My player is injured, who should I bring in as a replacement?" Companion is able to bring together those two data sets and say, here is the performance of the last six game weeks, which players are popular and which players may have the best fixtures.