Vigilant Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers will be more than aware that bonus points are now being awarded differently. For the third successive season, a new system was introduced which, to some extent, moved the goal posts when it comes to which players benefit from the post-match supplementary points.
It’s already evident that the new Bonus Points System (BPS) has had an impact on where and how the points are shared out compared to last term’s EA Sports PPI (and the “man in a stand” votes from the sesaons before). On examination of the points earned so far, we’ve been able to pick up on one or two key trends here and there but, despite transparency from the FPL as to how it is calculated, the science of just how they arrive at the final BPS number has largely remained a mystery. We hope to address that.
Over the last six weeks I have been tirelessly poring through all of the raw data provided to us by Opta in the Fantasy Football Scout Members Area to find out exactly how players are boosting their BPS tallies beyond the bread and butter rewards for the likes of providing an assist, returning a clean sheet or scoring a goal.
In the first of three articles on this theme, we’ll begin by examining what is arguably the most profitable and purest means for players to bump their BPS – a strong pass completion ratio.
