> fpl guide · 2026/27 · updated 18 July 2026 · pre-season

FPL Statistics alternatives: what to use now the site is down

fplstatistics.co.uk — the original FPL price-change predictor, and for years the default tool for spotting overnight risers and fallers — has been unreachable for months. As of 18 July 2026 every request to the domain simply fails to connect: there is no working tool, no holding page and no redirect. If you used it to plan transfers before a price change, the honest replacements are LiveFPL for intraday price movement, and a rebuilt-nightly tracker like Bawler's price-changes page for the confirmed board plus a read on whether a riser is actually worth catching. The full, fair landscape is below.

This is an independent guide. Bawler is listed as one option among several, not as a successor to FPL Statistics — that site is not ours and we do not claim its name, mascot or place. The 2025/26 figures below are computed from the Official FPL API for the completed season.

Is FPL Statistics dead? What we saw on 18 July 2026

We can only report what we observed, and only for the day we checked. On 18 July 2026, the domain fplstatistics.co.uk still points at a server, but that server does not answer: secure (HTTPS) requests are refused and plain (HTTP) requests time out, on both the www and bare-domain versions. In practice that means a visitor sees a browser error rather than a price tool. There is no maintenance notice, no “we'll be back” page and no forwarding to another site — the connection just does not complete.

We do not know why, and we are not going to guess — outages can be temporary, and a site can return. What we can say is that anyone relying on it for the 2026/27 pre-season price reveal cannot currently load it, and that it has been in this state long enough that its community has been asking where to go instead. If FPL Statistics comes back, use it. Until it does, here is what fills the gap.

What FPL Statistics did — and what a replacement actually needs

FPL Statistics was not just a price predictor. It did four distinct jobs, and most managers used at least two of them. A single tool rarely covers all four now, so the honest advice is to match each job to the best current source rather than look for one drop-in clone.

The fourth job is the one most sites quietly drop. FPL Statistics used to publish a prediction-accuracy page — a public record of how often its calls were right. Almost no living tool does this. It is worth insisting on: a predictor you cannot check is just an opinion with a progress bar.

The honest alternatives landscape (2026/27)

These are the tools actually worth pointing people at, each with one real strength and one honest limitation. No affiliate links, no rankings-for-sale — just what each one is good and less good at.

Access reflects the price/prediction features specifically, as observed in July 2026; membership tiers and pricing change, so check each site before committing. LiveFPL is the closest live-feed successor for pure price movement; the others add stats, planners or editorial around it.

Before you chase a price: what the 2025/26 data actually shows

A price predictor is useful, but it answers the wrong question if you let it run your team. Here is the whole 2025/26 price system in three numbers, computed from the Official FPL API. Of the 841 listed players, 579 saw their price move from its starting value — but only 55 rose while 524 fell. Price drift is overwhelmingly downward: the average player quietly leaks value all season, and rises are reserved for a small group of genuinely popular, in-form assets.

That small group is where price and points line up. The 55 risers averaged 148 points across the season; the 524 fallers averaged just 40. A predictor that gets you onto a riser a night early is, most of the time, getting you onto a good player early — the price move is a lagging echo of the transfers chasing his points. But the reverse is not reliable: 26 players who scored 120+ points still saw their price fall at some point — West Ham's Bowen posted 187 points on a net price drop. Price tells you what the crowd is doing, not what a player is worth.

And the ceiling is small. The single biggest riser of the whole season, Bruno Fernandes, gained £1.4m — and because you only bank half of a rise when you sell, that is £0.7m of usable budget for holding the game's hottest asset all year. The mechanics behind that are in how FPL price changes work. The takeaway for choosing a tool: value a predictor for getting you ahead of the crowd on players you already rate, not for turning price moves into a strategy of their own.

Where Bawler's price-changes tracker fits

Bawler is one of the options in the table, so here is the straight version of what it does and does not do. The price-changes tracker is free with no login, and — unlike the browser-rendered tools — every number is written into the page, so it is readable by search engines and AI answers, not just by a human with JavaScript on. It gives you three things:

• Confirmed changes — the risers and fallers that actually landed, rebuilt from the Official FPL API after the overnight window closes, with the build time shown.
• Transfer momentum — the strongest public signal of tonight's likely movers, labelled as a signal rather than a certainty, because FPL never publishes the trigger threshold and no tool can honestly guarantee an overnight move.
• A model “worth catching?” read — the column the old tools never had: whether a riser is actually worth the transfer on expected points and fixture difficulty, not just whether he is about to tick up £0.1m.

What it deliberately is not: a live intraday feed. It rebuilds once a night after the price window, so it says “rebuilt daily” and shows the timestamp — it never labels anything “live” that could render stale. For minute-by-minute price movement through the day, LiveFPL is the better call; Bawler is for the confirmed board, the explanation and the verdict. How the model is built is on the methodology page, and — picking up the one job almost no living tool does — its calls are settled against real results, including the misses, on the public track record.

Rebuilding your FPL Statistics workflow

If you want a like-for-like routine, split the old one across current tools:

• Watching a move through the day? LiveFPL for the intraday predicted risers and fallers.
• Checking the morning after? The Bawler price-changes tracker for the confirmed board and whether each riser was worth catching.
• Trying to understand a decision? How FPL price changes work for the thresholds and the 50% sell rule.
• Deciding whether to trust a predictor at all? Ask to see a public, measured accuracy record — and treat any tool without one as an opinion, not a forecast.

Site-status observation dated 18 July 2026; all 2025/26 figures computed from the Official FPL API for the completed season. Bawler is statistical analysis for entertainment — model reads are projections, not guarantees, and this is pure fantasy-points analysis. Start at the FPL hub, or open the price-changes tracker.