How To Check Whether An FPL Tool Is Any Good

1. Look for picks published before the deadline and scored afterwards, with the misses left in.
2. Ask each site whether it publishes an accuracy record. Scout and Hub do not list one.
3. Your FPL team ID is enough for any tool; none needs your password.
4. Every FFIQ Premium tool is free with an account, so you can test it on your own squad.
5. Judge a tool across many gameweeks, never on one good captain pick.

The best FPL prediction site is the one whose predictions you can check. Anyone can say their projections are sharp. What matters is whether the picks were published before the deadline and then scored afterwards, with the misses left in.

That is the test this guide is built around. It takes a few minutes, it costs nothing, and it works on any tool, including ours.

Fantasy Football IQ (FFIQ) publishes its record that way: picks made before each deadline and scored on FPL's results, misses included. Every FFIQ Premium tool is free with an account.

A useful record has three parts. The picks are dated before the deadline, so nobody can quietly rewrite them once the results are in. They are scored against FPL's own results, rather than against a measure the tool chose for itself. And the misses stay on the page next to the hits.

That last part is the one most easily skipped. A page that shows only the captain who scored twenty points tells you very little. A page that shows every pick, good and bad, lets you see how often the tool is right and how it behaves when it is wrong.

If a site shows screenshots, a highlight reel or a single standout week, you are looking at marketing rather than a record.

FPL is a game of small samples. One captain choice can look brilliant or foolish depending on a single goal, so a tool that is right once tells you almost nothing. You need a run of picks to see a pattern.

The timing matters too. FPL publishes every manager's picks only after the deadline passes, so between deadlines any tool reads the squad FPL last locked. That is normal and nothing to worry about, but it is a reason to look at what a tool said before the deadline rather than what it says it would have done afterwards.

It also helps to remember the basics of the game itself. You get free transfers each gameweek, extra transfers cost four points each, and the chips are the Wildcard, Free Hit, Bench Boost and Triple Captain. A tool's advice on any of these should be something you can look back on and score.

We read the top plans of two well-known paid services on their own pricing pages. Fantasy Football Scout's Mega Bundle is £100 a year, billed annually, with £95 on current offer (their pricing page, read 8 November 2026). Fantasy Football Hub's Ultra is £359.76 a year, £29.98 a month billed yearly, with 50% off on current offer (their pricing page, read 8 November 2026).

Both are substantial products. Scout is built around articles, a community, a podcast and data tools, and Hub is an AI and expert platform with AI transfers, a team rating and a planner. Hub lists an AI chat about your team; Scout does not list one.

On the specific question of this guide, neither company publishes an accuracy record. That does not tell you the tools are poor. It means there is no published record for you to read, so any judgement has to come from your own testing.

Start by looking for the record. If a site has a page that lists past picks with dates, open it and check that the dates fall before deadlines. If it has no such page, you can still keep your own log: write down the tool's captain, transfer and chip suggestions before each deadline, then compare them with what happened.

Keep the log for several gameweeks before you draw any conclusion. Note the misses as carefully as the hits, and note whether the advice suited your own squad rather than an average one.

Be wary of any tool that asks for your FPL password. None needs it, because your team ID is enough. That ID is the number in the web address of your Points page on the official FPL site. Fantasy Premier League itself is free to play, so you are only ever deciding whether extra tools earn their place.

Fantasy Football IQ is a free FPL app for the web and Android. Every FFIQ Premium tool is free with an account, including Expected Points for every player, the War Room's captain, transfer and chip calls, the Wildcard builder, Live Rank and Ask IQ. You shouldn't have to pay to follow the FPL bandwagon. So we've made every FFIQ Premium tool free. No card is needed.

The record is there to be read. FFIQ publishes picks made before each deadline and scores them on FPL's results, misses included, so you can see the hits and the misses for yourself rather than taking our word for it.

Tools that Fantasy Football Hub and Fantasy Football Scout sell in their paid plans, such as predicted points, AI transfer calls, team rating, chip planning, live rank and mini-leagues, fixture planners, player stats and team news, are free on FFIQ Premium.

Without an account you can still see a projection for every player for the next gameweek, predicted line-ups, the free team rater FPL Rate My Team, and every article and guide. FFIQ never asks for your FPL password, and a Scout member can run FFIQ alongside their Scout membership.

Open FFIQ's accuracy page and read the record before you rely on any of our calls. Look at the dates, the misses and the length of the run.

Then create a free FFIQ account, add your team ID, and open the War Room to see the week's captain, buys and chip. Compare what it says with your own plan before the deadline, and score both afterwards. That habit will tell you more about any tool than a sales page will.

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