FPL 2026/27: Building the Champion Engine

The new Premier League season is here, and the FPL buzz has already begun. Erling Haaland, Bruno Fernandes, Cole Palmer and the new Arsenal signing Christos Tzolis are among the names attracting plenty of attention, while players such as João Pedro, Dominik Szoboszlai and Bruno Guimarães are also creating interesting FPL conversations ahead of Gameweek 1.

But are these really the players we should own? Or are we simply getting carried away by the early-season hype?

That is exactly what this series is going to find out.

Fantasy Premier League is full of opinions.

Every week there is a new “must-have” player, a differential, a captaincy pick, and a fixture swing that supposedly changes everything.

This season, we are going to try something different.

We are going to treat FPL as a long-term decision-making experiment.

First, we go back to the winners Before building our 2026/27 squad, we will study the last five FPL champions.

Not just who they owned, but how they played the game.

We will look at their Gameweek 1 squads, transfer patterns, captaincy choices, differentials, use of chips, willingness to take hits, fixture planning, and how their teams evolved throughout the season.

The idea is simple:

What can the champions teach us about winning FPL?

We won’t blindly copy them. We will look for patterns.

Then we build our own model Those lessons will become the foundation of our FPL Champion Engine.

The engine will evaluate players through multiple factors:

Form + Fixtures + Minutes + Role + Underlying Numbers + Price + Value + Ownership + Team Strength + Captaincy Potential

But we will also look beyond the current Gameweek.

Every major decision will be evaluated against the next five Gameweeks.

A player who looks brilliant this week may not be the best investment if his next four fixtures are poor. Conversely, a player with an average fixture today could become extremely valuable if a favourable run is approaching.

Chips will be part of the plan Wildcard, Free Hit, Bench Boost and Triple Captain won’t be treated as emergency buttons.

We will think about them as season-long strategic resources.

The question won’t simply be:

“Should we use a chip?”

It will be:

“Is this the moment when using it gives us the greatest advantage?”

And we will keep ourselves accountable This is perhaps the biggest difference.

We will publish the reasoning behind our decisions and then revisit them.

If a player succeeds, we’ll examine why.

If he fails, we’ll examine why.

If our model gets something wrong repeatedly, we’ll change the model.

Because the purpose isn’t to pretend that we can predict football.

It is to become better at making decisions under uncertainty.

By the end of the season, we want to have more than a final rank.

We want a tested framework for building, managing, and adapting an FPL squad over 38 Gameweeks.

Five previous champions. One season. 38 Gameweeks.

£100 million. One Champion Engine.

Let’s see if we can turn the lessons of the winners into a system of our own.

Next Update on 21st August, Friday 2026, before the FPL Window Closes. We are also building the platform for you to use it which will be available soon and in such a way that it becomes Customizable for each user as per their teams.