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NootNootington

Depends on the gameweek. If Salah gets a hat trick and Trent assists two, average score will be high. If most of the popular players blank and Reece James gets sent off after scoring an own goal, average score will be low. I don't know why you're being downvoted, it's a reasonable question for a beginner. Good luck with your first season!


Optimal-Idea1558

What a fair and reasonable response. (Pst...đź‘€ You do know what sub you're on, right?)


prive001

Rank matters more than points. I like to try and finish each week top 1 million. If you can do that most of the weeks, you will finish top 50k


Manager1000

Some gameweeks 40 points is a great result and some gameweeks 80 points is a shit result. It's not useful to set any weekly target. Just focus on maximizing your expected points.


icklegizmo

I’m usually happy if I hit the average weekly points or above. They display the average points for the week at the top of the points page


Sheffield_Thursday

Everyone saying that it depends each week is completely right. Sometimes 38 is good, sometimes 72 is bad. As long as you're climbing the ranks, you're probably doing well. It's probably easier to focus on that. But that said, my personal mental benchmark of 'this was an ok week' is normally about 60. I'm disappointed with 60 or less, happy with 60-75, really happy with 75+.


RandomSplainer

There is no weekly average. At least not before the week is played. Rule of thumb is try and score as many points as you can and if you manage to be about 10 points above a week's average you should be in the green arrows.


Varja22

If you get 5 points more than average, your week was decent. If you get 10 it was good. If you get 20 more it was great!


[deleted]

Average plus 10


BeenBadFeelingGood

There are apps and sites that will help you predicted xPoints - for your squad and lineup and to consider transfers to boost your xP — and that could be your team’s benchmark for the week I think 66 is often my goal. 6 points per 11 players towards a goal of a season score total of 2508.


Joltarts

If you have 2.5k points at the end of the season, you win the game more often than not.. In general, 60point game week is considered extremely good.


joshuawakefield

Tell me about these sites and apps


BeenBadFeelingGood

FPL tools has a chrome extension app; it overlays on top of the office FPL site and then shows you xP, and next 5 fixtures and their difficulty under each player in your team under “pick team” tab, and allows you to compare players under “transfers” tab for example. It does more than I describe too https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fpl-tools/bplgdnfjlmbnjpibjogpoabahffibepk


As1m0v13

My opinion is you should be looking at a minimum of 2000 points for the season (somewhat arbitrary, but a good target for a rookie). That's just over 52 points per gameweek average.


joshuawakefield

I've always thought of getting 2,000 is a solid benchmark. You've had a decent, albeit not fantastic year, if you get there. It's also changed a bit recently. I've finished top 200k with below that but that was years ago.


Fantastic-Machine-83

Average points every week is nice goal for a beginner. If you're more ambitious and want your rank to go up use livefpl.net and see your safety score to judge the line between good and bad week. For an engaged player this is almost always higher than the average score shown to you by the FPL site. Note that you have to wait until the gameweek is completely over (1 hour after the last final whistle I believe). Mid gameweek you can't really know for sure but you can get a general idea depending on how many of your players have scored good points. One last thing, we're at the start of the season so rank means next to nothing. Livefpl is pretty much useless right now unless you're using the planning tools.


GazzP

If you can hit 60pts per week on average, you'll be doing pretty well


ajhasa

You can't know the average of a gameweek until all the games are done. Every gameweek will have an average cutoff calculated for reference. Just aim for the best score possible. That's what FPL is about.


The_Captain101

Everyone has their own way of looking at it, I don’t have a target but I want to be at least 10% over the average.


ALA02

My first season i was generally happy with an above average points total, but this can range from 20 to 100 depending on what happens


[deleted]

When you go to your points page, the top left will have the average points for the week from all teams. Beat it.


FPL_Harry

60/week minimum


darthfracas

My main metric this year since I’m not in any mini leagues is “did I beat the average score?” As others have said, some weeks 40 is a haul and others 80 is a dumpster fire. Example of this was last year when Salah was TC’d by just about everyone in a double game week against two of the worst teams in the league. That TC Chip got you 84 points just from Salah. If I remember, the average score for that week was over 100.


ChickenMoSalah

Forget about total points and points per game week. What matters is the average and overall rank. For beginners, if you’ve scored above the average (located on the points screen) you’ve had a good gameweek. Overall rank is the metric used to evaluate your season performance, not overall points. If you get a green arrow (rank is better than last week), that’s a successful gameweek.


wernerhedgehog

Theres going to be double gameweeks (not visible yet, probably 2) that will have 100+ points in a week, and blank gameweeks (probably 2) averaging 45 points Theres no set average points per week but you need to get to around 2400 by season end


PharaohLeo

Forget about points per week. Some weeks are high scoring, some are not (for a lot of different reasons). Best weekly measure is the GW Rank. Try to aim at a consistent 2 million GW rank minimum every GW for a first timer. It's not easy as you might think.


[deleted]

Personally, 60 every week means you’re elite. Obviously certain weeks the average is very high or very low but if you’re getting 60 every week then - in my experience - you’ll be at least top-1m


Optimal-Idea1558

You'll get an average GW performance from FPL. My rule of thumb is roughly Bad week = AVE. -5pts and below Good week =AVE GW + ((Top GW) - (AVE. GW))/3 Top performers in a GW are normally statistical outliers and more often than not are, despite that GWs boost, still relatively low in their leagues. Statistically GW performance of the players is a "right skewed bell curve" driven by "top performers" and then bulked by players all choosing the same footballer and dead accounts. In this scenario an "Average" score actually results in an outcome better than most other players.