A form table for gameweek 3, read straight from Fantasy Premier League: who is scoring right now, what they cost, how many squads own them, and the fixture that decides whether the run continues. These same ten players are the hot cards in DraftIcon PL, the free weekly draft game where a card in form burns in the packs.
Form in FPL is not a feeling, it is an average: the points a player has scored per match over the last thirty days. That makes it deliberately short-sighted, and two consequences are worth knowing before you read any form table, this one included.
First, one big haul lifts a player for weeks and then falls off a cliff when the thirty days pass, which is why someone can slide down the table without having played badly. Second, a blank gameweek drags the average down even when the player was rested rather than dropped. Form is a good quick answer to who is going well right now, and a poor answer to who will go well next.
That is why every row above carries the next fixture and its official difficulty beside the form value. The two numbers point in opposite directions in time, and reading only one of them is how people end up buying a player the week his run ends.
Often, but not because the form itself continues. Form is useful mainly as evidence of something slower moving: that a player is starting, is on set pieces, is being used in the final third, or has simply become his manager's first choice. Those things do tend to continue, and a jump in form is how you notice them.
Three checks are worth doing before you act on any row in this table, and all three sit on the player's own page:
Minutes and starts. A high form built on two substitute appearances is a different proposition from the same number built on three full matches. Price and ownership. Low ownership next to high form means the field has not reacted yet; high ownership means you are buying what everybody already has. The run of fixtures. One kind opponent is worth much less than a run of them.
And the part nobody enjoys saying: by the time a player reaches the top of a form table, the cheap moment has usually gone. The table tells you who is going well. It does not tell you that you are early.
Form, price, ownership, expected points and fixture difficulty all come from Fantasy Premier League itself, read fresh every time this page is rebuilt. The tier of each player, the Icon label and the pool they are drawn from come from DraftIcon PL. None of it is an estimate of ours, and where a value is missing the page says so instead of filling the gap.
The table is rebuilt every gameweek and always shows the current one, so the address stays the same while the names change. What it deliberately does not contain are the deeper attacking numbers, expected goals, defensive contributions and set-piece shares, because the data we work from does not carry them. For those, the specialist FPL statistics sites are better than we would be.
The ten players above are not only a ranking, they are the hot cards in DraftIcon PL for gameweek 3. It is a free draft game that lasts a single gameweek: you open packs, pick eleven players from what you are dealt, and the roster expires on Monday. A card in form burns in the pack, and a hot card that lands in a hard fixture costs you one weekend rather than a season.
That is the practical difference to the game these numbers come from. In FPL, acting on a form table means a transfer, possibly a hit, and a squad you live with for weeks. In a weekly redraft you decide again seven days later with the next fixture in front of you, which is also why arriving late costs nothing here. Plenty of people run both: FPL for the season, this for the week.
Free, in the browser, and the practice draft needs no account.