This script picks the opti­mum team for the Pre­mier League’s Fan­tasy Foot­ball game, com­bin­ing player stats with online injury lists. Use­ful so that peo­ple like me, who know noth­ing about foot­ball, have a chance! Note that it is only as good as the data it has access to, so it’s prob­a­bly a bad idea to change your team accord­ing to its sug­ges­tions within the first few weeks of the sea­son — wait until it has more data before trust­ing it.

It’s hosted here, and should run auto­mat­i­cally every 24 hours. You can see the team it’s cur­rently pick­ing here:

Cur­rent Opti­mum Team

You can also get the source code from GitHub (pro­vided under the terms of the GPL v3 licence)

Look­ing for my team picker for the Daily Tele­graph game instead? It’s here.

Issues with this appli­ca­tion are tracked on Github’s issue tracker. Please sign up and report any issues you find!