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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. Botman and Robben
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    AI to tell you when to play the assistant manager and which manager to pick.

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  2. SM001
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    The end is nigh

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    1. Funkyav
      • 17 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Who would have thought The Terminator was a documentary and not a movie?

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      1. Skonto Rigga
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 9 Years
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Mission: Impossible – The Transfer Reckoning

        Mark Sutherns is sent to track down and destroy a rogue, trolling AI which has been recommending people bring in Sean Longstaff

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        1. Zalk
          • 15 Years
          1 year, 2 months ago

          Inevitable plot twist being it wasn't AI all this time, it was AZ.

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        2. Thomas Docherty
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 3 Years
          1 year, 2 months ago

          Surely to track down any pundit who recommended Barco?

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  3. Funkyav
    • 17 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    wont this mean that FPL becomes even more of an EO game? if AI is feeding everyone the same advice

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  4. Holmes
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    10 years down the line, they might start asking to pay for AI service...

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    1. Funkyav
      • 17 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      more like 10 months!

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    2. lilmessipran
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      The ability to create your personal AI agents for even the non tech savy folks will be ubiquitous by then.

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      1. lilmessipran
        • 14 Years
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Reply fail to 10 months*

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  5. The Hunt
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 17 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    The fantastic Tom Segal (Pricewise) wrote this in the Racing Post last week. Substitute "sectionals" and "stride patterns" for X this and X that and it applies to fantasy football...

    "I'm not a figures man. I take a little bit of notice of times but I'm not a slave to sectionals or stride patterns or stats. I like using my eyes, because they're my eyes and the bookmakers can't see what I'm seeing."

    Be damned AI, the eye test is the future! 😀

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    1. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      I like the cut of your jib!

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  6. lilmessipran
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Article about AI and we get AI slop from Charlene, fitting.

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  7. ritzyd
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    I really hate this, game is gone.

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    1. Conners
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      I'm just waiting to see FPL Virg's response.... 🙂

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  8. The Knights Template
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Skonto, this article reminds me of the time they forced Geoff to play Sorare and he got traumatised and jaded and left. You need to stand up and resist. C’mon John Connor, if you resist they will follow!

    Microsoft is so passe it’s embarrassing!

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  9. beerhockeyrock
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 17 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    "Artificial Intelligence’s (AI, as if you didn’t know)" unless you are the former Wrestling Federation CEO now Secretary of Education in the United States Linda McMahon who called it 'A-One' a steak sauce brand.
    I for one champion brown sauce helping me decide my managerial decisions, rather than SkyNet.
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6QL0c5BbCR4

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    1. Funkyav
      • 17 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      quite incredible the stupidity of those running the USA now (and their supporters!)

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  10. Make FPL Casual Again
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    So thats it then, further confirmation from Fantasy Football Scout; AI is inevitable, unstoppable and we should just pledge allegiance to our overlord and accept out future as energy battery slaves

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    1. Thicksolidtight
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      I, for one, welcome our new fantasy football AI overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted fantasy football scout member, i can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground data mining caves

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  11. Moon Dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 1 Year
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Just asked Microsoft's copilot AI to pick a team based on its price predictions and it gave me this: https://ibb.co/MDjD1gDp

    Nothing to worry about here 😀

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    1. chris81
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      AI will make your life easy by building you an awesome first 11. But leave you with a tricky task of building a 4 man bench for £8.9m.

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  12. THE Wild Rover
    • 16 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    According to this Reddit post, we will only be able to pick 4 defs, but can pick 4 fwds. Does it look legit?

    http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=6581308&u=https%3A//www.reddit.com/r/FantasyPL/comments/1lptkaa/small_insight_into_next_seasons_pick_team_view/

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  13. tisza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Bad enough with all the teams mimicking top content creators. Now throw in AI. Is independent thinking really dead?
    How about throwing in bonus points for low-owned players eg less than 10%? Do something to stop the algorithms taking over completely

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    1. Funkyav
      • 17 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      yeah this is what they do in CWC game, its really good and certainly encourages people to pick players that arent in the template

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  14. TheBiffas
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    It can't go on like this can it

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    1. Thicksolidtight
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Now is the winter of our discontent,
      The good times came and then the good times went,
      The college fund has gone to pay the rent,

      This is the day we thought could never come,
      The day a veil was drawn across the sun,
      To hide the darkness in the hearts of men,

      Dark days are here again.

      What happened to the world I used to know,
      Where people seemed to share a common goal?
      Now we're just numbers to be bought and sold,

      Now is the winter of our discontent,
      The good times came and then the good times went,
      And culture’s capital is all but spent,

      Dark days are here again

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      1. The Hunt
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 17 Years
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Is that the Pet Shop Boys?

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    2. Wolverine
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      It can

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  15. All Hail K
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 17 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    I guess it'll get to the point where I can just have AI automatically pick my team each week and leave me out of it.
    On the upside it frees up more time for me to spend on Fantasy Bowling.

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    1. 1justlookin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      10 pin or lawn

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      1. Thicksolidtight
        • 4 Years
        1 year, 2 months ago

        The sitting on the toilet and easing into a euphoric release type of boweling

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  16. Mr. O'Connell
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Tbf most of the "elite" managers were already doing this. Just levels the playing field a bit.

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  17. 1justlookin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Fook off AI.

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    1. All Hail K
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      What have you got against Alexander Isak?

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      1. Dubem_FC
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Allen Iverson.

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  18. MJF
    1 year, 2 months ago

    I miss the 1990s.

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    1. Charlie Price
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Ah yes. Telephone/postal transfers playing the Daily Telegraph game. Didn’t know how many points you’d scored until you bought the paper on Wednesday morning. Those were the days.

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  19. Andy_Social
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Doesn't FFHub promote a so-called AI-driven algorithm? I reckon it'll be like that. In essence, it'll be no different to copying your fav content creator. I chose to ignore all the Creators inc FFHub last season and got my best finish ever, inside 5K, beating nearly all the CCs. Keep your farcical AI thanks, I'll keep doing me.

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  20. FPL Brains
    • Has Moderation Rights
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Eye test is going to be even more fundamental now. AI can only go by data, it'll miss things you can see.

    Mind you it'll also understand trends at a faster rate than us.

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    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Hub, Review, Fix ... And now official FPL.

      Is anyone surprised that Scout is the last one to act given that it moves at such a glacial pace at all times?

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  21. Conners
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Someone needs to take out Miles Dyson before the launch date.

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    1. Rogue Todd
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Is he a 4.0 Sunderland defender?

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  22. Make FPL Casual Again
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Where can I pay for an AI Assistant Manager that copies/amalgamates the best "solves" by all the other AI models/content creators?

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  23. Make FPL Casual Again
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Just Say No to AI

    #JoinTheResistance

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    1. St Pauli Walnuts
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      AI just put together a cracking resistance plan if you're interested mate

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  24. El Presidente
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    How wonderful indeed, more spoon feeding the FPL masses....

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    1. Rogue Todd
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      If it gets rid of the serial question askers on here like Flynny and that Buffon grav guy, it won't all be bad.

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  25. Conners
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Next season's Scout interview with the overall FPL winner....

    Q. "You've never finished inside the top 1m before - What approach did you take this season?"

    A. "I used Auto-pick in Gameweek 1 and then transferred in players the Assistant Manager recommended to me."

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  26. MADCHESTER UTD
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    I hate A.I. That is all. Goodbye

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    1. The Hunt
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Jeez, I posted a negative comment about AI and it was deleted!! 😯

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      1. Ausman
        • 3 Years
        1 year, 2 months ago

        That'll be the Auto AI Negativity Detector (AAIND)

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  27. Mo Mane Mo Salah
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Everyday we stray further from the light

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  28. Dynamic Duos
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Doku nailed on City now?

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  29. Defcons are for Kinnear
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    The only solution is to reward picking players with low EO

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  30. Acer
    • 16 Years
    1 year, 2 months ago

    The only way to stop this nonsense is to decrease player numbers. Don’t play this season. Enjoy watching football without playing FPL and put the power back in the hands of those who really love the game. This AI nonsense was bad enough when pushed through sites like Fantasy Football Hub, with their ridiculous predicted points, but this is the final straw.

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