Fantasy Football Scout Cup – Winner

Well done Rupert, great cause-I already sponsor a child through World vision in Africa as well as the Children's society so this is music to my ears.

Rupert, most people who do good things don’t feel the need to tell everyone about it nor fund raise, particularly if said person already has a bit of cash to his name and could fund it themselves.

Not hating on you or anything but you are sounding like smashie and nicey

You would feel a lot better if you just did the good deed IMO

On another note the Guardian article was quite disturbing and having myself spent a bit of time in Uganda over the past 20 odd years I don’t think you can guarantee anything I am afraid

Lose the BB! It offers nothing in an age of increasing rotation. I like the simple approach they've taken with Eliteserien chips.

Make it a paid game with better cash prizes.

Assists and Key contributions combined to ensure 3pts is awarded for every goal, as far as possible (more pts = more fun).

One more chip, (4 in total), and 2 must be used first half, 2 must be used 2nd half but free to choose which 2. Would lead to great variation in chip strategy. Don't like the idea of simply doubling up the chips we currently have as this won't shake up the end of season run in at all, just make the first half slightly more interesting.

Find someway to make good defensive midfielders earn points.

I would like a chip time placement reshuffle the most.
Plus a one time bench reshuffle.
Have I said reshuffle?

Change bps system to one like telegraph/allsvenskan game, which spreads the +/- points across teams.
https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/18170724

i would like to see
a time limit to when you can join existing leagues and no new teams allowed to be created after 2 months
also 4 chips 2 before jan 2 after
bb chip to be replaced with park the bus chip

Proper prizes, get rid of chips. Have limit of 40 transfers anytime in season. Give a point for assisting the assister.

im not sure on prices Kane was not worth 12.5m

Salah was under priced esp as cheaper than Mane

Have to use a chip in the 1st half of the season...otherwise you lose it like the 1st half WC

Also penalty saves are rewarded to heavily...you get 5 points & then 3 bonus moat of the time

I'm totally against having to use chips in the first half of the year, btw. It would just increase the element of chance even more if we HAD to use bench boost in random single GWs - you'd have some people get amazing luck with random penalty saves, defender goals and freak results etc.

I'd rather see chips out altogether before it came to two sets of chips.

Personally, I’d prefer one set of chips as it is, not 2.

Perhaps having 2 free hit chips would be good.

Also I don’t think goal scorers are incentivized enough when it comes to baps. Salah could score couple then gets zero bonus, doesn’t make much sense to me

Price changes somehow linked to overall ownership % and/or performance, rather than simply net transfers.

E.g. Sanchez was clearly not an £11.5M player this season, but his price stuck around that level all year as there wasn’t enough transfer movement to drive it down.

A point for assisting the assister would be good way to inject more points into the game. Also think they should go back to the last player on the same team to touch the ball before the scorer gets the assist. Of course it would lead to some jammy points, but that's more fun than the intended target debate.

Wouldn't assisting the assister just end up with random sideways passes or hopeful hoofballs rewarded with points?

For every David Silva slicing the defence open with a pass, with Sane then assisting Sterling, there would be a Big Sam keeper kicking the ball as hard as he can before it's chester down into the path of a goalscorer. Or, say, Henderson making a sideways pass for Mane to dribble 30 yards and lay it on a plate for Salah. Wouldn't want to see that rewarded.

If anything I'd want fewer assist points, not more, just to clarify the confusion assists often cause.

No chips but instead as before 2 free transfers on 2nd week carried over, but increase to 4 free transfers on 3rd week carried over.

Some kind of special BPS recognition for man of the match?

Would like a chip that combines C and VC.
Would also like there to be some kind of block on folk forming one off 'one week wonder' teams.

Adding more chips is the last thing we want. The chips have somewhat ruined the game. FPL works because of it's simplicity, chips make it more appealing to the casual player.

1. Baps to be tweaked things like yellow cards get punished and you already have -1 for it. Can end up 4 points less than if he hadn't been booked. That booking could've just broke up an attack that saved the game.
2. Chips to be altered so they don't just get used in dgws. Maybe two lots like the wildcard, or none at all.

Go with OPTA will the lead to arguments over the OPTA definitions of assist.
But agree. Still do it to pass the buck.

I still argue to scrap the baps. Most times they go to someone who's scored, maybe assisted, or a clean sheet or pen save etc. But these things were already rewarded. It's just double rewarding. No need. Never been a fan of baps.

Obviously that won't happen so I'd go for this ... All chips can only be used on a regular gameweek where no side has 0 or 2 games.

+1 increase in transfer value = +1 increase in sale value too

2 points for defenders conceding 1 goal. Two sets of chips,or remove them altogether.

Very rare one but that Ederson -1 situation should be sorted.
Some actually got a -1 for that without him playing.

A chip that could only be used on an opponent's (of your choosing) team which meant they would not get that player's points for the coming gw. The opponent would not know until the gameweek had concluded. If used against the opponents captain they just get the points that player would have got if they hadn't been captain

Only 3pts for a penalty goal

No assist if you miss a penalty then it gets rebounded in

Keepers get 5 for a CS

2 Sets of chips a 'must' i think,cant stand 30+ GWs doing nothing.
It will bring more life in this game and make it more exciting in first half of season.

1) Agree on assists
2) Agree on BPS
3) Disagree on chips - get rid of the DGWs - make them single GWs (one weekend, one midweek). That will test when you use your chips
4) Disagree on prices - forwards need to be repriced to make them more competitive with midfielders

Quadruple captain

Similar in principle to triple captain but you get 4X your captain's points

I want to add another price change system to the game, that would act independently of the current price changes.

The issue at hand is the overpricing of players who there's simply no reason to own. Think players like Coleman, Rose and Sanchez. The big problem with increasing the price falls of unattractive players, is that people would experience a loss of value by taking their chances on these players. That would only punish the owners, rather than incentivise them to think differently.

The solution could be to introduce price falls between GWs that are refunded. Between the 36 GW changes, the players can fall in value by 0.1. The algorithm would be based based around price, ownership , value and transfer activity. The owners would see the value and price paid for their player decrease by 0.1. The same 0.1 is added to their bank. By doing the price change between GWs, this mechanism would not interfere with the strategy of the players, but contribute towards slowly bringing overpriced players towards an acceptable price.

Double or Quits

Can only be used in a single GW. You pick a number of points you think your team will achieve. If it achieves it you get double the number of points you picked (this encourages people to be ambitious because if you choose 40 in a gameweek where you score 75 you only get 5 points more than you would have anyway). If you don't achieve it (and this stops people getting too ambitious with it) you get no points.

When both teams score it's goals galore

Pick a week in which you think your team will score 6 or more goals. If they do score 6 or more goals in the week then all points received as a result of goals scored are doubled. If the team does not score 6 or more goals they get the points they would have in any other Gameweek but the chip is burned.

Park the bus ... All players get 4 for a CS if they get one (even forwards)

Fair Play

Play this chip in a gameweek when you feel your team will be well disciplined. If your players receive 2 or less yellow cards in that game week you won't be deducted any points as a result of cards for that gw or the next 5.

If they receive 3 or more cards then all players receiving a card in that gameweek ar frozen out of your team for the next gw. They cannot be replaced using transfers or substitutes.

Games of Jones .... -4 on any transfers back as a free hit if Phil Jones scores

Terry Butcher ... (This one relies on Villa getting promoted)

If John Terry gets a red card for fouling your player, that player gets double points

The Twelth man

Lick the manager you thinks team will win by the greatest margin. If that manager's team wins by the greatest margin you benefit from the twelth man and get 10% (rounded up to the nearest point) of your teams points added on. This must be a clear margin. For example if you pick Mourinho and Man Utd win by 3 goals but Brighton also win by 3 goals then you receive no benefit and your chip is gone

If a player wins a penalty or a free kick and then goes on to take that penalty/free kick and score, he should be awarded the assist.

It doesn’t make sense how the penalty taker is punished if he’s also the one who has drawn the foul.

Either that, or change the rule so that these are not ‘assists’, and instead, award 3 points for winning a penalty.

Free hit on steroids

Like the free hit but no budget constraints.

#MeeTwo

Double points for all your players if you captain Ben Mee and he scores

Fuchs the lot of you ...

Every player in your teams gets whatever points total Fuchs scores added to their total

The Playmaker

Play this card and nominate a player as your 'playmaker'. For every assist that player makes - you get double the points!

However, if you play this chip and that player plays over 60 minutes, doesn't get an assist AND has a pass conversion rate of less than 90%, all playing midfielders and strikers have 2 points deducted from their tally.

Oh My God, you killed Kenny

If Kenny scores and you post "OMG Kenny" before Bemba does, nobody gets those Kenny points

I would really like that FPL removes the feature where you can see how many transfers has a player done in current gmwk

Live updates in rank like the Norwegian and Swedish games.

At a very minimum, once the game updates after the deadline, the rankings will update based on hit deductions from transfers.

Would be absolutely awesome though, if like Norway and Sweden, rankings are absolutely live, meaning as soon as your captain scores and the points are added, your ranking will be updated to reflect that. Similarly, your ranking will go down in real time because a player that you don’t own has scored, or your defender conceded and loses his clean sheet.

The season keeper

Pick one player gw1 who you can't sell even if theyre sold abroad or injured ... But also, you can't bench.

Do you go cheap to limit risk of losing funds if they get injured?

Or go expensive since you have to play them every week?

Since the redesign two years ago, Holding the Ctrl key while clicking links doesn’t open a tab in a new window. Not on Mac at least. I have to right click and click ‘Open in new tab’.

Really picky, but when the game updates after the deadline, I like to check out all the teams in my mini league, or check out the overall top 20, and this small change would make it a bit easier.

combine bench boost with a Roll-back chip - usable only once

you either use BB as is, or can at any point before a new week's deadline opt to make manual subs for the previous gameweek (so can opt to bring bench points on but lose the boost option)

Transfers on the iPhone app are somewhat difficult. The transfers page on mobile version of the site is WAAAY better.

iPhone app forces you to make all your transfers in one swoop. Mobile site (and desktop site) allow you to remove a few players one by one, select their replacements, check your budget, info, redo, and keep on making amends. Just works a lot better. Using the iPhone app feels very restrictive.

John Infinity Stones

Play this in a gameweek when you're unsure of certain decisions such as captaincy and who to play. Play it in advance of the deadline and then once everyone's done scoring you can go back and change your captaincy and team selection based on who scored what as if you had the time stone

They do need to sort out the BPS system - it seems daft that Firmino got more bonus points than Salah this season.

I'd like to see the clean sheet points tweaked a bit. Instead of 4 points for 90 mins I'd rather have 2 points for the first 60 mins plus 2 points for the final 30. That way if a defender/goalie has kept a clean sheet for 89 mins at least they'd get 2 points instead of nothing.

I like all the chips as they are, but if they’re thinking about adding more:

Auto captain

For those weeks where you don’t know who to captain, use this chip and your highest scoring player’s points will be doubled.

You may be undecided between Salah and Kane, and the Van Aanholt ends up outscoring everyone on the team.

I’d like to see;

A) 1 extra point for a hat trick
B) Only half the points total awarded for players subbed in.

FPL Coefficient

Anyone who finished in the top 10k gets automatic qualification to next years game.

If they have it backed up, it would be great to see my teams and their points from previous seasons.

On the history page, the part that has my points and rankings is linked to my old team (and everyone else’s. Previous winners, etc), for a bit of nostalgia, and can see the team and their points for each gameweek.

More points for 'boring' positions ie. DM like Kante, Matic; and maybe the need to own one of these players.
More players in the squad, 17 (11+6 man bench), to match real life - would need a bigger budget.
...OR as most people play a 343 then you could have the option to own a 2-4-5-4 squad instead of the 2-5-5-3 atm.
Double Captain chip to captain two players in a gameweek rather than one player as Triple Captain.
The chance to win/earn free transfers - maybe if you get in the top 1%, or reach a high projected points target, then you get an extra FT for the following gameweek.
???

The priority has to be bringing more players into the game. Others have mentioned the pricing of the likes of Sanchez and others. But it’s clearly madness that Sanchez ended the season significantly more expensive than Salah.

Defensive mids need to have a bigger role, whether that’s through reweighting the bonus system (I think the better option) or forcing squads to have a couple (2 points for a CS?).

Linked to that, the mid/striker categorisation is becoming difficult. Should the likes of Sterling and Salah be classed as forwards alongside Kane and Jesus?

I’d also like FPL to stop revealing how many transfers you’ve made in a GW. It’s frustrating when a rival spends the last few weeks simply copying your moves.

Get rid of 3-2-1 bonus awards, use the Fantasy Allsvenskan system where all players earn as many bonus points as their performance merits. Would be fairer than the current system and also bring lots more players and roles into play.

Blocked/saved shots don't count as assists, or at least don't earn the full 3 assist points.

Ideally get rid of all chips, but if they stay then keep them as they are, don't limit them to certain weeks.

More detailed league tables would be good. (Showing what chips have been used, no of transfers etc)

Live scoring - all the NFL sites seem to be able to do this

I would like a way to make purely defensive midfielders more attractive. Either by categorizing them as defenders or by changing the bps system to give them an opportunity to become higher scorers. There are currently too many players that are just ignored. It would be good to make the pool of viable players bigger.

5 point bonus if everyone in your starting 11 plays at least 1 minute of the game.

Everyone's been in the situation where, let's say you've started Lingard, and he's been benched. You're hoping he doesn't come on for a 5 minute cameo because you have Mee, with a clean sheet, as first sub.

It doesn't seem right to me that you're being punished for a player you picked in your 11 to make an appearance in the match and get 1 sole point, whereas if he doesn't play at all, you may be rewarded for benching a player that's done well.

This will also encourage transfer activity which increases engagement.

A few blanks this gameweek? Taking a hit or two to field a full 11 is likely a decent strategy.

Phil Jones doubtful? Transfer him out, rather than stick him in your 11 even though he probably won't play, and collect your auto-sub's points. Starting a doubtful player because 'if he starts, he'll collect a clean sheet, and if he's out, I don't really care because my first sub will just replace him' is a cheap tactic. One that I use, definitely, but I'd much rather be rewarded for choosing a player that actually starts.

Not an FPL feature request, but a Fantasy Football Scout one.

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.

Instead of a bench boost, have a chip that allows you to pick up to 4-5 players from any one club for that gameweek.

Something implemented to try and bring defensive mids into the game. Would give more team variation...

Could use something from opta for defensive minded mids to get points for interceptions recoveries etc

double the chips may be too much. maybe add one more and use 2 before jan and 2 after jan at your discretion.

"On Loan Chips". One chip per position were you can swap a player out for another and the swap switches back next week with no loss of value. Just like the FH chip but for a player only. Ideal for a big week or when Salah is out for a just a week! Ultimate FPL had similar.

More points for partial cs like cs at half time = one extra point, only one conceded = 1 extra point so a 1-0 loss might mean 4pts for the defender providing his team concedes in the second half.

Personally I'm nit sure i like the way defenders are awarded points ie all get 4 points for a cs when some defenders have hardly done anything to get the cs. I think it might be worth looking at the bps system and trying to work out defender points based on actions. This would mean not all defenders in certain teams would be equal and the real good defenders in teams that don't necessarily get attacking points might be options.

Disagree that they nailed the prices. If any player has over 20% ownership, they are clearly underpriced.

Chips can't be used in DGWs or BGWs - shuffle the template a bit

I like the cumulative goals points suggestion mentioned

No lost BAPs for yellow cards, reduced BAPs for scoring a penalty (or even 1 less point for scoring a penalty)

Also, stop punishing players with price falls as well as poor performance. If you only get 0.1 of every 0.2 rise then you should only get 0.1 of every 0.2 fall as well.

One thing that drives me crazy is the points hit for an OG. More often than not, they come about through multiple failures and end up credited to the one person aware enough to get in position to make a desperate lunge.

Instead, why not dock a point for conceding a penalty? That gets at the same idea, but in that case, the player conceding the penalty directly and almost always intentionally contributes to the situation.

Maybe something like you can carry 2 free transfers twice a season, so you we could have two nice mini wildcards.

And no more then 3 chips in the season. Maybe to change the BB chip to a "park the bus" chip.

And I like the idea of two sets of chips, before and after Jan.

I'd like:

* OPTA assists (won't happen - would result in fewer points)
* Ditch the chips (won't happen - they're intended to attract/retain players, I'm unconvinced it's worked but hey ho)
* Remove assists for penalties scored and just award 2 points for winning a penalty. 2 points to be awarded regardless of the penalty outcome and even if the same player takes the penalty.

How about you have to buy a manager for your squad.

If they get a win it's 3 points, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss.

Extra 1 point for goal from outside the box

Mandatory midfield slot for a "defensive midfielder" who can rack up points for tackles and 2 pts for clean sheet.

chips not in DGWs. Not there to be some sort of "get out of jail card" at end of season. BB would probablt then need changing.
Potential for one decision (when 100s are made per season) to impact a 38 GW season is too much.

Plenty of points already on offer in a DGW.

Curious to see the average TC score - SGW vs. DGW for this season and last season.