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The four areas the page is built from — the central breakdown, the two side columns, and the season strip along the bottom.

Entry08 / 22 Revised2026-08-25 AuthorJosh Bailey Words372

There are four main areas providing different perspectives, to give the user every tool needed to find the information they're seeking for the season ahead.

Central element: matchup breakdown

The central element is the deep dive into a specific matchup, allowing for a comprehensive breakdown of what makes a matchup sway one way and by how much. It shows decision weight, confidence, playstyle counters, and a score of the overall prediction. There are small info buttons that the user will see to elaborate on a metric in a way that isn't invasive on the design, allowing the user to understand exactly how a metric comes to show the decided integer.

Left column: matchups by gameweek

The left column shows all the fixtures that are happening for one specific gameweek, allowing the user to understand who is playing who on what specific weeks. The user can also click on a matchup and the matchup breakdown will appear in the middle. This solely aims to provide the user with a different way to explore what's coming up in the season.

Right column: fixtures by team

The column on the right shows all the fixtures that are ahead for the chosen team, meaning the user can see how strongly a team fares in its upcoming games. Similarly to the matchups by gameweek, the user can also click matchups to explore a deeper breakdown, and it serves the same purpose of providing alternative ways to filter what comes ahead.

Bottom: full season strip

The bottom strip provides the view with the best horizon, but this took the most work to get right, balancing interaction mechanics, animation, spacing, and graphic indications. This area is designed to highlight the notable matches when considering FPL specifically. It allows a view that highlights strong and weak gameweeks, matches with extreme one-sided predictions, strong captaincy predictions, double gameweeks, postponed fixtures, and suggested best times to use an FPL chip. The work taken to get the animations, spacing, colour coding and methods, general design philosophy, and presenting errors ironed out took roughly a million tokens of repeated tweaks, bug fixing, and testing to get right, but I think it's one of the most useful tools on the site for FPL users specifically.

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