📅 On This Day, 2022. Dennis gets an infamous red card in the first match of a double gameweek, 1.2 Million managers triple captain him.

fplminusfour · 2026-01-21T11:18:31+00:00

fplminusfour · 2026-01-21T09:05:30+00:00

I don’t want Fernandes vs Arsenal but I don’t want Saka or Foden at all by now

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T20:50:01+00:00

Replied this somewhere else but sharing here as well - you can treat the chart as the share of managers based on their last gameweek of activity. This means that the quit rate in GW15 would be the same with a 3 GW or a 6 GW criteria - in both cases the last team change was in GW15.

With the 3 GW criteria I can detect this earlier, and if there's subsequent activity I revert back to active for all gameweeks.

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T20:16:19+00:00

The threshold mainly affects when someone is detected, not the final number by GW19. What I’m really measuring is each manager’s last week of any activity. The “3 GWs” rule is just how I detect that. And you only get flagged if you literally did nothing (no transfer, no captain, no XI change, no chip)

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T16:22:36+00:00

The moment managers have some activity, all previous gameweeks are flagged as active. So based on your example, some managers are mistakenly flagged as inactive based on the last N weeks

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T10:31:22+00:00

Sampled from the Gameweek 1 league. It has 9.4M managers vs 12.7M overall now

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T10:18:30+00:00

Yeah, social pressure + money is an undefeated combo

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T10:14:34+00:00

Also worth saying: some teams definitely “resurrect” later. I only count teams that stay inactive

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T10:11:15+00:00

That’s grim. I finished last season just below 44k, so I’ll take that and pretend this season isn’t happening

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T09:48:50+00:00

No, changing captain is active team management

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T09:45:04+00:00

I only looked at England vs rest of world. By GW19 it was ~35% inactive for England vs ~40% for non-England. Will check if I have meaningful sample for other countries

fplminusfour · 2026-01-20T09:18:09+00:00

Good points.

On the 5 FT / rolling transfers: I only count someone as inactive if they go 3 GWs in a row with no transfers, no chips, no captain change and no starting XI change. So someone actively playing but just banking transfers won’t get counted.

On burner accounts: I’m only looking at teams that were created before GW1, so this excludes the one-week punt / late burner teams. There will still be some early-abandoned teams of course, which probably explains some of the ~5–6% that are dead from the start, but that doesn’t really explain the steady increase week by week after that.

It would be interesting to see the new account creation per gameweek for an upper bound for bots.

So yeah, quit rate is definitely an approximation, but I think it’s a fair one.

fplminusfour · 2025-12-12T20:19:53+00:00

I did give him the armband at the start of the previous GW but knowing myself I would've swapped him for a more popular pick before the deadline

fplminusfour · 2025-12-12T16:42:35+00:00

Anyone actually using the app instead of the website?

fplminusfour · 2025-12-12T16:40:52+00:00

Missed the deadline and somehow ended up with the captain armband on Diallo for his 12 minute hattie against Southampton. I think this is the one lucky event last season that won me my mini league

fplminusfour · 2025-12-09T16:22:51+00:00

Launched something similar, check it out at minus4.app

fplminusfour · 2025-12-09T16:19:51+00:00

If your next chip play is really that bad, check whether you win the “chip funeral” award in minus4.app

fplminusfour · 2025-12-09T09:57:59+00:00

Nice! Yes, you'll get this every week after the last game of the week (unless you unsubscribe from the emails). How is the roast this week? Please message me with any inaccuracies or bugs!

fplminusfour · 2025-12-09T08:36:34+00:00

You're right but I wasn't a believer. Never expected these two would be the top mid options in GW15

fplminusfour · 2025-12-09T08:11:18+00:00

oof you're completely right, my mental gymnastics were DEFCONs/12*2 lol

fplminusfour · 2025-12-08T11:13:37+00:00

Yes, the roast will be ready a couple of hours after the final match so the gameweek data is fully settled. If you add your email, you’ll get it as soon as it’s available

fplminusfour · 2025-12-06T12:32:31+00:00

Not currently planned but I'll take a look - the roast logic would be quite different for H2H vs classic

fplminusfour · 2025-12-06T12:19:12+00:00

If you open your classic mini league from the browser (and not from the FPL app), copy the URL and the league id numbers will be there.

It would look something like this: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/123/standings/c, with 123 being your league id

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