FPL to launch AI ‘assistant manager’ in 2025/26

2 July 2025 66 comments
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Artificial Intelligence’s (AI, as if you didn’t know) unstoppable march towards global domination continues.

Its tentacles look set to touch Fantasy Premier League (FPL) in 2025/26, too.

On July 1, the Premier League announced that Microsoft are to become their ‘official cloud and AI partner’ for their new digital platforms.

That partnership is already in evidence via the ‘Premier League Companion’ on the new official Premier League mobile app. 

And it sounds like FPL managers will now get AI assistance at some point in the upcoming campaign.

According to the Premier League’s statement:

“Microsoft AI will also be included within the app and website’s enhanced Fantasy Premier League experience, giving every fan their own personal assistant manager to help them steer their Fantasy squad to victory.”

We’re guessing that will take the form of things like transfer recommendations, which, of course, are nothing new in the FPL community. Many independent transfer planners or ‘solvers’, for instance, offer this already. Existing chatbots will take a stab at Fantasy transfer targets, too, should you ask them.

But the Premier League’s decision to absorb artificial intelligence into FPL shows that they’re moving with the times – and that AI is increasingly inescapable.

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  1. RedLightning
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    • 14 Years
    11 days, 19 hours ago

    Didn't Fantasy World Cup or Fantasy Euros have an artificial Assistant Manager a few years ago? I think it was pretty similar to Auto-select, and most serious players simply ignored it, so perhaps we have nothing much to worry about..

    Also, the Premier Fantasy Tools Pro Planner includes transfer recommendations, team reveals etc, and I was afraid that it might lead to multiple clones of a very strong squad, but it does not appear to have inspired as many clones as some other content creators.
    The Scout community team (Scout PFT), which made use of this, did finish 5th in the 'Beat The FFScout/PFT XI' mini-league and 8,372nd overall in 2023/24, but in 2024/25 it only came 103rd in the league and 462k overall.

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    1. Jimmy B
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      • 11 Years
      11 days, 18 hours ago

      I'm concerned about what will be driving the recommendations. I'm going to take a stab at it being a combination of good underlyings and fixtures according to their FDR because I think the underlying side is much harder for the novice or casual player to get their head round than the actual numbers. So if that happens we'll have the same players being churned out as recommendations on there, review and most content creators.

      I'm not that bothered by that bit though I'm bothered by what will happen from it on the weeks where it goes wrong. The biggest thing I hate about Review is this idea that its right and if you go against it and do well you are lucky and if you follow it and do bad you're unlucky. There's no accountability for any decision making.

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  2. yet to be named
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    • 5 Years
    8 days, 9 hours ago

    Hi

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  3. yet to be named
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    • 5 Years
    8 days, 9 hours ago

    Change the formation every gameweek by random.
    Evolve the game otherwise AI will kill it.
    Sometimes 433, 523, 343. Or even 253.
    All randomly generated.

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