Reading the gameweek calendar, the player list and the fixture schedule from the FPL API.
Reading the gameweek calendar, the player list and the fixture schedule from the FPL API.
Reading the gameweek calendar, the player list and the fixture schedule from the FPL API.
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Who is likely to start for Chelsea, who takes the set pieces, who is a rotation risk, and what the next 6 gameweeks ask of them.
Predicted eleven
The side that maximises the summed chance of starting GW2 inside a legal formation: the keeper most likely to start, then outfield players by start chance with each position's minimum filled first.
Settledness
The mean start chance of the eleven — how settled the side reads.
Projection · basis: The mean of the eleven start chances above. Each player's chance of starting, from the same minutes model behind every xPts figure on this product: the share of the season he has started so far, read with FPL's availability flag and the chance of playing it publishes, and pulled toward players of his position and price where his own record is short. xPts for GW2 and the GW2-GW6 window. Built from FPL’s own published season data — the player list, the fixture list and the points table — read together as one snapshot of the 2026/27 season and its 38 gameweeks. Points are counted with FPL’s published values rather than with a copy of them. A player's rate of scoring, assisting and keeping clean sheets is pulled toward a fixed population of 279 players with a completed season, independent of which individual records this screen fetched, so a short record is not read as confidently as a long one. Everything FPL does not publish is at this product’s own stated default. Player rates come from the season totals FPL publishes on each player, which for 2026/27 are this season's and still in progress. Every player is projected from his full record of completed seasons, read for all 609 of them at once and shared by every screen. Those cohorts are the same for everybody, so what one player carries cannot move another player's figure. 279 of 609 players have appeared so far in 2026/27; the rest have no minutes yet and are projected from a price-and-position cohort prior instead. · updated 7 min ago · confidence: low
A projection, not a result. It states the most likely outcome, and football regularly disagrees.
Bands: Nailed from 85%, Likely from 65%, Rotation risk from 40%, Fringe below that.
Set pieces
First and second choice on each routine, as FPL publishes the order. Nothing here is inferred from who has taken one.
Availability
FPL’s own words, newest first within each status. The link, where FPL gives one, is its pointer to the club’s own press-conference page. A player who has joined another club or gone on loan is listed last: he is out of the game, not out of a match.
Suspended until 30 Aug
added 31 days ago
Hamstring injury - 25% chance of playing
added 4 h ago
Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing
added 3 days agoPress conference notes on chelseafc.com (opens in a new tab, outside this product)
Wrist injury - 75% chance of playing
added 14 days ago
Has joined RC Strasbourg on loan for the rest of the season
added 11 days ago
Has joined Como permanently
added 13 days ago
Rotation
Starters under the likely floor, and the players outside the eleven whose start chance reaches the rotation risk floor.
Schedule
Each fixture with FPL's own difficulty rating, 1 easiest to 5 hardest. The Fixture Lab has a scoring rate for 0 of 20 clubs at the moment, so its attack and clean-sheet reading cannot tell one fixture from another and is not shown; FPL's own difficulty rating stands in its place until it can.
No stretch of three league matches inside nine days in the next six gameweeks. Cup and European fixtures are not in FPL's data and are not counted.
Relevant FPL players
Ranked on xPts over the Players screen's horizon, the same figure the ranked list prints. Price and ownership are FPL's own.
Record
Matches played, won, drawn and lost this season, counted from the results in FPL’s fixture list — a match counts once FPL marks it finished and publishes the score. A count, not a form rating.
Every Chelsea fixture in FPL’s list is still to be played, or has no score published yet. The record starts counting with the first one FPL marks finished.
Tactical roles
Who plays where inside the formation, and how a manager uses him, is not published by FPL and is not inferred here. The eleven above is a ranking by start chance inside a legal shape, not a tactical reading.
Press-conference text
FPL publishes a pointer to the club’s own press-conference page on some flagged players, and nothing of what was said. The pointer is linked above where it exists; the words are not scraped and not invented.
Cup and European fixtures
Not in FPL’s fixture list, so the schedule counts league kick-offs only and says so every time.