FANTASY DATABASE

An expected-goals fixture ticker and player database for Fantasy Premier League.

Live site: https://fantasydatabase.app

What it does

• Fixture ticker — replaces FPL's 1–5 difficulty rating with an expected-goals model. Attack and defence are rated separately, since scoring goals and keeping clean sheets do not track together. Home advantage scales with the opponent.
• Player database — points, minutes, defensive contributions, saves, clean sheets, non-penalty xG, xA and shots, with per-90 counterparts and a minutes floor so short cameos cannot fake a good rate.

How it stays current

update.py rebuilds data.json and players.json from the FPL API and Understat. A GitHub Action wakes every hour; cadence.py decides what each wake-up does. The site rebuilds every two hours (hourly in the six before a deadline). Bookmaker odds, which cost credits, are fetched about every seven hours, plus the day before and twice in the last three hours before each deadline. That is about 450 of The Odds API's 500 free credits a month; the balance is checked free of charge every hour, and cadence.json records each paid request so a failed build can never trigger a second one. Nothing needs to be done by hand; the Actions tab's "Run workflow" button forces a rebuild, with or without odds.

Files

File	Purpose
index.html	Fixture ticker
players.html	Player database
privacy.html	Privacy notice (linked from every page's footer)
fonts/	Self-hosted Barlow and Roboto Mono, so no page calls Google
update.py	Builds both data files
data.json / players.json	Generated — do not edit by hand