how the hell do you know check how many mins a player has played!

34 with captain Silva to play by the looks of things thanks to Cash and Staylor. If I'd have played Warnock over Gabbidon this would be looking like a very solid week.

FAO Entire Comminity and FFS admins.

What happens on double game weeks? The index seems to give out points at the end of the week and if you look at the team of the week link on the ppi page, you'll see it's dominated by man city players who had 2 matches.

Does it mean that there will only be one set of bp given for a team that plays in a dgw. Also does it mean that if a dgw team plays a team that has just one game that gw, the dgw team will hoover all the bonus points?

Currently 21000 people have bought in Cahill 😀

Anyone know why Given is doubtful?

"...Players receive points for positive influences on a winning performance (shots, tackles, clearances, saves etc). Players have points taken away from their score for negative actions such as shots off target and yellow/red cards..."

what are these points exactly? what is each positive and negative influence worth? why only positive influneces on winning performances, is a good save still not a good save just because the team lost???!!! Begovic made 7 saves in a clean sheet that kept it at a draw, Given made 5 (arguably better) saves against Fulham for another clean sheet and a draw, De Gea made a hash of the Long goal but purely because of a fortuitous own goal that had nothing to do with him he ends up 2nd top goalie, go figure?

EA have made a major f@&* up of the game, and this index seem seriously flawed, taking little account of personal performances within non-winning performances, sometimes stats do lie and a far better way is to have an expert panel and correlate ratings, human eyes can see when a player is having a postive influence on the games even if they dont make a goal-line clearance or score with an overhead bicycle kick

hmm... Any chance that our fears will be addressed, or will it be too late this season.

This game is just broken. They didn't test it at all, it's a disgrace.

I'm busy collating a list of interface miffs in no particular order, anyone want to add to the list.

1) slow loading each page
2) missing dream team
3) missing highest score of the week
4) hyperlinks from the gameweek fixtures which link nowhere
5) missing fantasy stats menu, for league of leagues, team value league etc.
6) gameweek points not viewable by default because the 'Latest points' menu item has been dropped
7) extra click to view other team scores because we're forced to click on gameweek number (previously it was a drop down option)
8 ) you can view other teams transfers
9) you can view whether other team has played wildcard (this is inadvertently a good feature)
10) have to page down just to view your team
11) Captains(c) and Vice Captains(v) icons bugged, doesn’t always show the vice captain icon
11) H2H fixtures not viewable
12) The forum messages are light grey on lighter grey, and have no pages.
13) missing drop down option to look at prices rises/falls
14) missing the 'end of day' updating of league tables
15) mobile app changed for the worse, cannot view latest points anywhere

Anyone in the know, know what the deal is with Bramble? I understand he wasnt fully fit / had a knock against Liverpool but do we reckon he will be back next week? I thought he was Bruceys favourite?

With suarez going up in price tonight is it worth doing carroll to suarez even though carroll had 7 shots on goal?

I think that there is too much of a PPI weighting to Goals, Assists and being on the winning team. It prevents random, standout performances from a losing player who tackled hard and completed a large amount of passes, (including setting up team mates that miss a load of sitters), to get any credit.

Players already get points for Goals and Assists; I think they should count SLIGHTLY towards PPI, but with the current system, a player that scores a winning tap-in from two yards out but was large anonymous otherwise, can often score more PPI in a match than someone that worked their socks off on the losing team...

If a player scores the winning goal AND plays brilliantly, then yes, they should get the 3 BP's also.

I really think Man Utd made a mistake in signing de Gea ahead of Stekelenberg, for over twice the money. Stekelenberg is already world class and could have another 10 years left. Whereas de Gea doesn't look the finished article. There really is no need to buy such a young keeper when they play on so long

Out of all the problems with FPL since Fri, surely the biggest long-term concern (apart from de Gea's EA index rating being higher than Given's!) is being able to see other peoples transfers as soon as they do them?
Changes the whole make up of the game as teams will get more and more similar and people wont 'gamble' on price changes etc?
Does anyone know if this is a bug, or an actual change?

fulham - villa ... wtf ... 0-0 and three strikers earn BP ... can some1 explain me please?

One thing from this week - low scores, plenty of clean sheets. Could this season be more of a return to past years rather than last year ? Expensive defenders and 4 or 5 at the back worthwhile? Too early to tell but if next 2 weeks continue the same I will wild card and change strategy

The whole essence of the bonus point element of the game is that it rewarded individual contribution, and therefore rewarded a player like Charlie Adam who was a huge influence in a struggling side. A system which now gives a huge weighting to being in a winning side is not only less logical, but also less enjoyable and rewarding to play.

I wish i doubled up on chelsea (terry and cole) and city defenders (lescott and kompany) doubled up on wigan midfield watson moses dammit I decided to change team from short term to long term...
ah well always next week

Did the info about number of transfers and wildcard just disappear?

One aspect that seems to be updating quicker this year is the "i" next to players indicating injuries etc.

Give n/Give t orange in my team. I Give up.

LOL

Message to FPL - Can we have our game back please, your new game is appallingly bad

Dirk Kuyt & Daniel Agger out - Sessegnon & Baines + £1.5m in? (4 pt hit worth it or not?)

RVP or Carrol out for Torres this week? 😕

What are we thinking about RVP? I heard he was poor on saturday. What with Malouda's poor showing as well, I'm thinking of switching RVP to Torres and captainnig him. Good idea?

Anyone tempted by making a few transfers this week, even including multiple hits to set them up for the coming weeks? I know it seems rash but it feels like it wont affect u as much now as it would do in later weeks or is right to just stay patient?

Klasnic scores 42 PPI, and Davies scores 16 PPI. Does this mean that Klasnic played almost three times as well as Davies?

They both notched an assist, but Klasnic fired in a cute turn and shot. Davies played the full 90 minutes and Klasnic played 86 minutes, so Davies had an extra 4 minutes to notch up some more PPI.

Am I the only one who thinks that the BP allocation from last seasons were pretty decent when you look at them over the whole season? Ok, there were some random incidents, but over a longer interval I thought they got them pretty much spot on. At least you could guess who would get the BPs when you watched the game... now it's impossible as they award stuff like short passing accuracy etc.

Ollson of Bburn down as a defender on fpl index. Seriously, this is becoming very unfunny.

On a side note, due to over (?) reliance on teams winning and getting the bonus points, this week is very much an anomoly with 5 draws in the PL over the game week so any extrapolations need to be done when we have a better spread

Klasnic. 2 shots, 2 on target, 1 goal. He's top of the Index. Sounds like a player has to barely be involved in the match as long as he scores and doesn't waste possession. Players like Taarabt, VDV, RVP will get negative points for attempting many shots and having some off target.

I have just checked out a mates team and seen all his transfers .. he used a wildcard... this is ridiculous..... big rush on friday night and saturday morning from now on with transfers will crash the system agian...help

Wouldnt bring in torres, But If needed would ship out RVP