Team ELO

[markiemarkus]

Hello @olbauday
Is there a file which shows the updated / updating home and away team elo ratings ahead of the next matchweek?
i.e. each team starts with a base elo rating which may or may not differ between home and away
then improves as each gw goes by?

[olbauday]

Good question. So ELO doesnt change based if theyre playing home or away. There also isn’t a single direct file for this. But the ELO is updated on a gameweek basis. While a gameweek hasnt been completed, the values can change, but once that gameweek finishes, the ELO values are locked.

So, for example, if Chelsea’s ELO is 1950 today, it will appear that way in Gameweeks 2 through 38. But once Gameweek 2 is finished, its ELO for that round won’t update anymore.

What you can do is pull the matches.csv file from each gameweek:

https://github.com/olbauday/FPL-Elo-Insights/blob/main/data/2025-2026/By%20Tournament/Premier%20League/GW{gameweek}/matches.csv

Example for GW1:
GW1 matches.csv](https://github.com/olbauday/FPL-Elo-Insights/blob/main/data/2025-2026/By%20Tournament/Premier%20League/GW1/matches.csv

From there, you’d extract these fields:

• gameweek
• home_team
• home_team_elo
• away_team
• away_team_elo

If you combine that across all gameweeks, you’ll have exactly the dataset you’re looking for.

[markiemarkus]

Thanks