I'd like to see a members only forum, where we can discuss stats from the member's side 🙂

I'd like if the season-ticker team home/away ratings could have stayed up for a little longer.
Was going to copy down end of the season numbers but gone.

Can we get the stats tables in the members area working properly on an iPad in Safari, please? Can't sort personal stat tables more than once. Predefined stats tables can't be sorted at all.

The reply fail UX issue needs to be addressed once and for all. Happens far too often for it to be user error.

I used to like the match history between sides on the ticker - used to come up when you hovered over the fixture.

Was a great addition - eg looking at Lei and Spurs history as well as Lei Ars history would have screamed goals to those looking.

This is a little thing but I am a member of other sites (not FF related) where if you have paid to support the site in the past you get a visual indicator to say that you have done so, even if you haven't renewed for a particular season.

At the moment it's just divided into members and non-members and it's hard to tell at a glance whether someone is a long-term contributor to the site or brand new.

Also, yes, it would be great to have BF's suggestion of members' forums. There are too many reposted RMTs and 'LOL @s' on the boards and on match days it's not even worth coming on here, which is a shame. I appreciate that this might create a two-tier system but actually the quality chat is probably what I want to pay for most. I haven't really used the stats and RMT much this season in my first year of membership.

None of this is to say that I won't be renewing my membership in 18-19 - I will, but it will be for support/thanks rather than much else to be honest.

We are well aware that Ragabolly has a code which can perdict your OR rank, as well as rank movements in case of a player scoring, or a player getting a CS etc.
Can we have these as permanent features on FFS.
Can this be integrated into the side-bar maybe??

Another small point is a floating Fixture Ticker. Many time while answering questions and RMTs in the comments section, one need to look up the upcoming fixtures. It would be convenient not having to scroll all the way up. Just a collapsed fixture ticker moving along as you scroll, which pops out when clicked upon.

Sorry if that sounds like "Asking for too much" 😉

Please keep community team tournament for next season and not break up the teams though the initial bidding was good fun! There could be new teams added oc and perhaps transfers for teams who have lost team members?

Members section
- Sort matches by descending order.
- Functionality to export Ticker to Excel.

Mobile website
- Poor user experience on iOS. I always revert back to Desktop.

Things I dont want to see
- Members only forum
- Downvotes

Posting to gauge peoples thoughts

- Ignore/mute function

- Some kind of progression system or just a display of achievements. Examples could be:

Post counts
Number of seasons active
Number of hot topics
Number of upvotes
Community articles published
Maybe have rank names for reaching a certain number of posts or seasons active - "Casual", "Veteran", "Differential", "Big hitter"

A push notification system to see comments and upvotes on your posts would be useful, rather than having to rely on emails

The watchlist should be a standard top 10 players in each position i think. Sometimes there's less than 10 sometimes 15 or so.
post counts to spot the degens, or some kind of level badge that suggests how much someone contributes like the members badge.

Articles need a revamp imo. I don't think anyone really reads most of them they just jump straight to the comments which shows how good the community is but articles should be livelier/more interesting. the preamble is the only one i read atm.

Oh... and bring back the old smilies!

Need to upgrade RMT tool imo:

A) I want to be able to see scores if I plan to bench some other player then what RMT suggests.

B) Searching for players by their name instead of going to every team & position.

Could offer tags or flairs on posts ( a bit like reddit ) where you say whether a post is an RMT, a discussion, a joke post etc - may help with filtering

An equivalent to one of these when people make dodgy claims

https://www.geniegadgets.com/bullshit-button.html

Two things.

First, an indicator next to username to show rank and/or length of FFS membership. This is so you can decide whether the post is a troll or trusted advice.

Secondly, I would encourage you to offer a premium membership or paid consulting/advice from one of the “experts”. FFS could take a commission/fee for creating the marketplace. For example, someone may have GBP 1,000 riding on Mini-leagues and may be willing to pay GBP 20-30 for a 1 hour consulting session on the team / chip strategy / block rival differentials. Equally an “expert”, say Top 50 HOF, may have time and could offer his expertise for GBP 20-30 / hour.

The forum in general needs a revamp, the pages just fly by so it's hard to get discussion outside of a hot topic.
It ends up full of people trying to get heard with nothing to say.

Increased personalisation perhaps (leading on from Red Arrows proposal)?

When I see advice, I'd like to see the user's pedigree/credentials at a glance to identify if they're: New, A mod, Regular poster, Contributor, Have posted less than 1000 posts....etc, you get my drift.

Maybe a chat option if the other person agrees?
Also a separate RMT section.
Regardless of this FFS is the best 😀

I use sort by rating all the time but unfortunately the way people vote doesn't always reflect the quality of posts. Perhaps there could be another way to filter 'quality content' where such posts can be boosted above the occasional one liner that gets a lot of votes.

And just to push the boat right out.
The ability to enhance social interaction on site. Perhaps we can 'follow' certain posters and 'unfollow' others. Maybe there could be a way to create 'friend networks' where you can message each other. Almost turning it into a primitive social network.

Each PL team to be assigned it’s own FFS “correspondent” – someone who can keep an eye out specifically for that team in terms of information on fan forums, club twitter, players twitter, local press etc, and as they specialist they will learn where the best sources are. They could also post knowledgeable articles/HTs about the team on a regular basis, as well as field questions from the community via the forum or their own new FFS email address. They could receive free membership and an end-of-season booze-up as their payment.

The ability to remove a given week from a particular gameweek range in rate my team.

Would be handy to plan end of season strategy by removing the week that I would be thinking about free hitting in.

I support the members stats forum post. Plus maybe make the pre season section members only? It’s very useful.

I think the whole posting section needs a revamp.

Some ideas I had, When someone posts they should have to add a title, and on the page only the title appears unless you click a drop down. Also once questions have been answered you should be able to click ‘hide’ so that the post disappears.

On each page there should be a sticky with the commonly asked questions such as RMT and transfers opinions (only visible when you click a drop down besides the Title) This will keep them all in one space without clogging up every page.

I like the idea of having an icon to display your ‘credentials’
Also a ‘mark as spam option, so posts disappear after a certain amount of spam votes
And perhaps a report button, so you can report idiots.

One last one, Live correspondence, so when a match is Live one person is designated to posting ‘goal’ or whatever on the forum for that particular day or team or however you wish to categorise.

Just a few ideas. Love the way this place is heading, keep it up 🙂

How about a notification bubble with a 1 in it (like Facebook notifications) when someone has replied to or +1ed your post?

As long as it works on my symbian/java phone, not an issue... 😛

We could have badges or achievements n reaching FFS Milestones

I dont really know how without making it more forum based but i would like to see the comments section actually be related to the article rather than just a continuation of FPL RMTs / questions etc.

As a writer its sometimes disheartening to see your hardwork seemingly just ignored, don't get me wrong that's fine if you have no interest in the topic but then its very hard for the people who do have an interest to discuss it - the community article section does this much better - the comments are directed towards the actual article.

I also think its very off putting for new comers or just lurkers (im sure there are thousands) who simply dont want to talk/dont even understand why the comments seemingly make no sense in relation to the article and therefore dont bother, or do but see them lost in the ether very quickly.

In addition to this i think we simply NEED tagging in someway. Ie @d1sable (we discussed this maybe 5/6 years ago) - then i get an email or a notification.
I dont have the time anymore to spend all day on here scrolling comments but it would be nice on interact with people if i could simply be being notified - i could even flag a conversation im interested in and be kept abreast.

I think many of us more oldskoolers have taken to the realms of twitter for this reason, i can pick and choose my interactions more easily - i would prefer to do them on site and im sure many others would so i think anything FFS can do to bring people back to the site is a plus (for all parties) - the bottom line is the comments section right now is just a no go for me and i dont like that - i used to spend hours of my life here.

1) rid of up and down votes, they are used for bullying
2) The Rmt thing in the members area is good but not updated enough
3) The current forum only works off season when its quiet rest of time it goes to fast

Consider a forum like this one as an add on
http://forums.rotoworld.com/forum/4-fantasy-baseball-talk/

Much more condusive to proper discussion

I'd just like something simple like the tick to remain in "Notify me of replies"
I find it a bit of a ballache to be clicking it everytime it should be a simple fix where cookies remember the setting?

Please can we add the chips into RMT tool, and then we can play around with playing our chips in different gamweeks and see which chip/transfer strategy is predicted to yield the most points.
In the last few gameweeks of this season the tool was not very useful because for example the bench boost chip wasn't in the game so if I was transferring in a player to play in the week when I was playing my bench boost, the tool may put him on my bench and therefore not really use his points as contributing to my score, when in reality I would definitely be getting them.
Also, with the free hit chip not being included I was transferring in players with DGW34 which resulted in me having a lot of blank players in GW35. When I transferred in these players my score for GW35 was going down by almost as much as my DGW34 score was going up, rendering these transfers useless, when in reality they gained me lots of points because of the free hit chip which could be played in GW35.

Lots of great stuff in here thanks all. Keep it coming 🙂

I'm going to make a list of all the ideas posted here and give it a think, and see what's possible. I'll then prioritize and get stuff started so hopefully we have some changes (big and small) ready for next season.

Downvote button.

Like reddit, the down vote wouldn't be a "dislike" button, it would be a "this isn't relevant" button.

A way to be able to filter through what type of comments you want to see... maybe this can work by each post needing to select what type it is "rmt question," "chip strategy," "article related" so readers can easily find content/topics they desire

Some way to identify a commentors or posters 'prestige' or knowledge/experience level next to their user name other than membership

I also echo the suggestion having an area to discuss members stat. First year paid membership here and I'd love to discuss the numbers openly to get more out of them

Having notifications on the interface rather than through email may speed up and enhance interactions between people here

I’d like to see a FFS app for iOS.

Prefer to use an app instead of opening FFS through Safari.

Would it be possible to implement a 'key' or a 'legend' for the various comment smilies? I've searched for one but couldn't find it. At the moment I'm limited to the universal 🙂 and 🙁 but not sure how to do the more 'advanced' ones. Without the option to delete or edit posts, I'm not going to spam a ton of different punctuation combinations to try and find what works!

some sort of autoblocking of posts using the word "lol" on matchdays 🙂
It's just tedious seeing 100s of these lolling at player x or player y captaincies etc.

I would like to have more vote polls.For example-we could have vote poll to give our predictions for the games of each gw or vote poll for the highest scorer of the gw.We could also have a vote poll about the differential of the gw like Jonty's post.

Can I be a mod but do none of the mod work?

I promise to tone down my abuse of getting around the swear filter, slightly.

I'd prefer if the site restructured entirely. Only have comments on articles that actually relate to the articles and then have a separate 'forum' section for discussion.

At the moment so much discussion is repeated because it's impossible to find anything unless it's a hot topic. I'd prefer to have threads like any other forum. There can still be a RMT sub-section of the forum so people can still get opinions on their individual team.

Basically, Slack.

I'd like it for anyone to be able to set up their own favourite posters list.
it could work when we log in by an icon appearing by someone's grav/username if you add them as a favourite. would make their posts standout more when you're scrolling through posts.

Last Man Standing should be an official tournament with a good prize.

Allows us to edit posts, and show an edit history to stop people from taking advantage of it.

Some of these have been mentioned but will duplicate just to cover it in one post.

Season ticker -
Ability to export to excel was invaluable, flexibility to choose specific gameweeks as opposed to just a range to account for blank weeks would be useful. Previous results when hovering over a fixture was also useful.

Stats area - greater flexibility in looking at the data such as interrogating it based on minutes on the pitch with and without other players.
i.e. Kane’s performance when lamela on pitch v when Kane’s performance when lamela not on pitch (or for a certain mod to use to talk about his beloved dembele theory again...

Hey Geoff.

Been reading through some of the suggestions, I largely agree with some posters views on the comments section. Tbh, it's a disaster during match days, the chat is mostly spam and the RMTs just clog up the general forums.

I use reddit quite a bit and the system is pretty flawless imo.

The upvote/downvote system is brilliant.

Can sort threads by a number of different options

They implemented a feature recently whereby if someone writes 'thanks' under your comment, you get a number next to your name and this reflects your reputation as such.

Also users profiles are easily accessible, as is the upvote/downvote ratio.

I've been a member for 2/3seasons now but unless the forum sees a marked improvement this season, it's just not worth the money imo. Other sources of information are free and much more navigable. Too much good info is lost here and all I see to be scanning through are endless RMTs. Give these a separate thread, not the half winded attempt the mods do 4 or 5 times a season by setting up a RMT hot topic. Have a daily one and remove and RMT posted outside of this

Ultimetly people need to use the upvote feature more as this will help with your strategy of combating the problems people are mentioning. Maybe just designate a mod to up voting anything useful and we can follow this mod to what they are hulking

Finally there should be an inbox on the website, I never tick the reply box cause I hate getting emails saying 'someone replied to your comment'. It's very old fashioned.

Best of luck and enjoy the summer!!

"Bookmarked" - we all say it, but an icon that is a little bookmark by the chain and the flag at the bottom of each post. These bookmarked posts are then saved in a list you can access that only you can see on your profile page.

Not sure if you're still reading this, but i think a great idea would be the ability for mods to pin a post/hot topic to the top of every page, with it moving to the top of each article's page as new pages are created. This way Hot topics remain for longer in discussion, and a RMT post could be permanently stickied to the top, giving posters no excuse not to post brainless RMTS on the rest of the page, clogging it up.

Minimum number of words on a forum post before it is accepted. Say Twenty words.that would stop the pages going so fast, as many comments consist of only One or Two words

1. In the Injuries and Bans tab, I would like to be able to sort the table by the Last Updated heading.
This used to be possible once.

2. In the RMT tool, could the forecasts for the latest game-week (and perhaps also for earlier game-weeks) stay around a bit longer?
It would be nice to look back and see how the actual scores of my players, and the scores of other players that I could have chosen instead, compare with their RMT forecasts.

Not sure if this is part of your remit, but I’d like to be able to download stats from the members section more easily so I can play around with them in Excel. For example, a breakdown of the points Lukaku scored in each game of the season.

Ta

Great work this season, all.

On the Hall of Fame, would it be possible to make the teams clickable, rather than having to copy and paste their team id into your web browser manually?

I know how to do it, but if you want to see how the top managers in the world are performing, it's just a bit of a ball ache, that's all.

I think we should be able to block individual posters so we don't have to read some of the rubbish they spout. It would save moderators some bother as well.

You would probably be able to solve the issue of people wanting member only boards that way as well. There is nothing special about being a member or not but there are some people who always spout rubbish.

Not sure if it has been mentioned but it would be good to have an easily accessible price rise/fall box (top/bottom 15?) on the site.

Can you bring back What The Fans Say article please? I used to find it really helpful.

The ability to delete a comment.

What about bringing that match day chat room back?

I used to like that. What happened to it anyway?

as well as the watch list adaptable in some way to filter out and show differentials or fixtures bases , is suspect a lot of this goes on already but would good if that was more interactive maybe that's an add on in the members section

Each article serves the majority of posters just as a new platform to ask a generic question giving none of their own decision insight. Just endless"Mane to Sane? " with one or two replies one word replies. it's pretty empty content fuelled by confirmation bias.

I read the articles and then scroll through hoping to find a comment on what has been said. There aren't often too many! Sometimes I post a correction, as I did for the 2018/19 week 1 Arsenal lineup where the article was wrong. It just goes unacknowledged by the writer, and is lost in the piles of RMT template teams.

Last season 2017/18 i was a member as the extra stats looked really interesting. But i decided that i dont play the game in a way reliant on granular data about shots per minute etc, relying on my own understanding of tactics rather than statistics, so I didn't renew this 2018/19 season. I think the comment about members only threads to discuss the members only available statistics is sensible. After all you are paying for this extra information (so you don't need to collect it yourself) and so why would you want it openly shared through discussion?

I also didnt think the team rating system was accurate; as the article about it lays out.

They won't imo, United will. No bias obv

maybe, they have a young squad and the monetary backing

if Liverpool get the right players and can stay injury free
or
if united get the right manager (god I hope not)

Chelsea are capable of turning it on in one off seasons.

If Liverpool improve their squad they'll be close.

United have huge financial backing but don't seem to spend wisely.

I can see Man Utd spending hundreds of millions again and I think Mourinho will continue to get more right proportionally in the transfer market than LVG and Moyesy so I expect us to challenge.

I don't think Liverpool will be far off either. Keita will do well for them. Just need another 1-2.

think it'll be a tight two-horse race between City and Spurs for the title next season, just instinct (don't ask me to back it up haha)

Currently I can only see Liverpool potentially challenging them. Could change with transfers and if Arsenal/Chelsea get new managers

Think Arsenal might be a good outside bet to win the league next season if they sign about 5 world class players; keeper, 2 centre halves, Pogba and a defensive mid.

I see them dominating for 2 or 3 years at least. Think Liverpool will be their biggest thŕeat but they need to spend more money.