The Arena

How the Arena works

Through GW8, FINAL in both divisions. Arena analysis, never the official table: promotion, relegation and fines are decided on the Premier and Championship tables.

The rules every number follows

Settled results only

Every ranking reads FINAL Gameweeks from the archives. A Gameweek still being played is never counted, and a cross-division comparison waits until the Gameweek is FINAL in both divisions.

Score basis

A team’s Gameweek score is its FPL points after transfer deductions, as published. Captain points include the armband’s multiplier.

AVERAGE (synthetic)

A division with an odd number of teams pairs one team each week with FPL’s average score. It is not a team: it ranks nowhere and wins nothing, but its score still counts against the team that played it.

Absent is not zero

A week that was not recorded is shown as missing and left out of averages and runs. It is never treated as a score of 0. Known zero, unknown and not published are kept apart.

Ties

Level scores share a rank, and “level” is said only for an exact tie. Leaders are decided on unrounded values; figures are printed to one decimal.

What-ifs

Swapped schedules, a bench without substitutions and the best available captain are hypotheticals, labelled as such. They use each team’s real published scores and change nothing in the tables.

Names

Teams are named by their FPL team name only. No manager names are published.

What the data covers

Arena analysis captured 26 Oct 2026, 21:05 (UK time).

Corrections

1. 2026-10-27 · Tables & form · Division war

   Before: GW8 read "Level" (41.7 v 41.7).

   Now: Premier leads by less than 0.1: 834 points over 20 teams (41.70) against 625 over 15 (41.67). The leader is now decided on unrounded averages. See it

2. 2026-10-27 · Tables & form · Form trend

   Before: Teams level on score in a Gameweek were drawn at different ranks (three teams on 111 in GW2 showed as 1st, 2nd and 3rd).

   Now: Level scores share a rank. See it

3. 2026-10-27 · Team dossiers · Form and history

   Before: A team's form left out the Gameweek being viewed (Coké Athletic FC showed seven of its eight results).

   Now: Every captured result is listed, the selected Gameweek included. See it

4. 2026-10-27 · Privacy notice

   Before: Said no squad or transfer detail is published.

   Now: Describes the squads published after each deadline: the eleven, bench, captain and vice, any chip, any transfer deduction, automatic substitutions and player points. See it