Position radar
Where they actually play
FPL gives every player one position. Some of them play somewhere else entirely — a defender pushed up like a winger, a midfielder anchored at the back. Heres who, and what its worth.
FPL lists them lower than they actually play — attacking upside the price may not reflect.
Shaded band = where their minutes fell across the pitch. The dot is their minutes-weighted position; the line marks the baseline FPL assumes for their tag.
| Player | FPL | Plays | Delta | xG+xA/90 | Mins | Signal | Available |
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Where a player plays comes from Understat. For each match we know the position they lined up in; we take the minutes-weighted average across the season and place it on a ladder from defender to forward.
Targets and Avoids are role drift. A defender playing higher than a defender usually does is a Target — attacking upside the price may not reflect. A midfielder sitting deeper than most is an Avoid. Small gaps arent flagged; we only surface players who play clearly higher or lower than their positions norm, over enough minutes to mean something.
Wrong position is different. When a player spends most of their minutes in another positions zone entirely — a defender who plays midfield, a forward who plays deeper — FPL has them in the wrong bucket. We flag that separately, and show the category jump instead of a drift number.
Bench appearances are excluded — they say nothing about where a player operates.