Assessing the best FPL players from Man Utd

Roll more than 2 FTs

Roll more than one FT

Where it's clear that a player is responsible for first goal conceded, deduct points from that player. The keeper and defenders keep their CS bonus. If a forward misses an easy goal chance a the attacking players don't lose points, but if a player makes a stupid mistake why should all the defenders and keepers miss out on points?

There used to be a chip you could play to do that

Bonus points for each spin dribble move

-2 points if a player rolls around on the ground in agony holding his face after being touched lightly on the shoulder

AoA chip was binned for FH chip

I like the recovered ball idea. Would bring CB, CDM and CM positions into play.

A best 11 chip, best 11 scores form 15, and a best player captain chip, top point scorer double points including bench.

38 free transfers up front to bait the casuals.

no chips, no captain

makes it much more about team selection

I think the main problem with FPL's design (and something that sees engagement drop) is that it is a game that makes it easy for people doing well to pull away and difficult for people doing badly to catch up (hence so many dropping out early) because of player price changes among other things. It's the exact opposite of 'rubber-banding' in good game design (think Mario Kart in how rubbish drivers can still have fun, catch up and win).

The way around this imo would be a contract system. So every player in the game can be played for e.g. 20 games a season and then you are locked out from using them. It would make it more tactical for the engaged players like us, but would also mean casuals can still catch up with a bit less luck required.

Failing that, price changes made once a week at a set time, similar to what FanTeam does.

I think that giving us all unlimited transfers over the World Cup break was a big mistake.
They should have just had one Wildcard that could be used at any time of the season and another that could be used in GW17 or later.
We would then all have had a wildcard to use in GW17 if we needed one then, and the choice of using the other either before or after the World Cup break.
The Second Wildcard used to become available in January and could easily have been brought forward a couple of weeks.
It was quite unnecessary to have Unlimited Transfers in GW17 in addition to the two Wildcards.

Lifetime ban for anyone that has an identical team of a "content creator" (including banning the content creator themselves)

Centre backs getting an additional point for scoring a goal. Encourage less template defences.

More small sources of points as points is why we play.

1 point for a clean sheet half which increases to 4 as is currently the place at 60 mins / full time. This keeps it interesting on defenders after conceding and banks a point at half time (45 mins).

Other small additions:
1 point 2 or 3 shots on target
1 point per 2 or 3 tackles (have to check data)
1 point 90% pass accuracy for midfielders and attackers

Ideally we should be seeing more players getting 3-4 points as standard

Hate getting priced out of players midweek when I'm waiting for mid-week match.

So I'd want price changes to only happen one day a week

I'd like to see FPL come out and say anyone monetising FPL will have their team deleted. Put an end to the likes of Andy, Bakar ,FPL Salah etc once and for all

One month of free bassoon lessons for every player.

Lots I would change, but number 1 would be for price changes to apply only to the purchase price and not the selling price, and for this to be transparent, and preferably once per gameweek.

Players coming in off the bench get half points (rounded up). Vice captains coming in get 1.5x the score not x2.

Minus 1 for EVERY goal conceded.

Never fails to look ridiculous to me that when a team is thumped the scores of the defenders don't reflect this.

I agree with rolling Transfer.

Loans for a -2 point hit per player (when injured)

I really would like 2FH's instead of a BB, or at least a different chip

Just some basic touches and the game can be gold.

Change in the baps system + correct classification of players.
(Which I feel is basic)

For eg -
Salah should have been a fwd long time ago.
The game is all about midfielders.
A fwd scoring a goal should definitely be higher baps.

Also,
Haaland scored a hattrick against forest and got 17 . You know how difficult it is for a player to score a hattrick? (Maybe not haaland)
BUT the point is you kind of feel cheated only getting 17 in a hatty.
There should be some hattrick bonus as well, like +3 or double the baps player is on if he scored a hatty ... Something like that...
And fwds will also benefit coz they have higher chance of scoring 3 goals than a mid.
Think about it

Also,
Formation change, now managers play formations like 4-2-4
Fpl should/can add more fwd spots.

Wow! Huge response here.

I've loved reading all the ideas, some I agree with more than others but all ideas are valid!!

Also, what does it mean that my post has turned green? (Only been on here just over a year and it's not happened before....)

Extra point(s) for a goal line clearance. They're not celebrated as much as a goal, but may turn out to be as good as, and might just have saved your GK/defenders their clean sheet or points.

I think captain points are excessive, they can be reduced by perhaps awarding the armband wearer only minimal additional points for attacking or defensive returns only.

remove all chips and wildcards

to make planning more important without the added complexity

Rule changes

No 50% loss on selling price when in profit. This week is a perfect example where if i received the full 12.2m for Haaland i may have been tempted on a one week punt elsewhere but not worth it when i would lose so much value.

1. Remove the budget restriction from the Free Hit chip. Make it Unlimited Budget like the Limitless Chip. It is named Free Hit, so there should not be any restrictions to it.

2. Some people don't like chips. But since Fpl will keep it, give every 2 TC, 2 BB, 2 FH and they should be used in 2 slots. Slot 1 : GW 1 to 19. Slot 2 : GW 20 to 38. Just like the WC.
This will lead to a variety of different strategies and different teams.

maximum 2 players from any one team and they cannot be in the same position

Get rid of fixed deadline. Like fantasy NFL you should be able to change players in your team right up until 90 minutes before their particular game.

Obviously once a player has already played you can't swap them out.

What a cracking thread of ideas. Imagine you’re the team at FPL reading this list trying to find a way to build them all into one game - countless scenarios.

• Remove formation restrictions so you can play 2 defenders, 5 mids & 7 forwards
• Rollover more than 2 Free Transfers
• Penalise individual defenders for goals conceded rather than whole backline
• All out attack chip
• Best 11 chip where it picks your strongest 11 points
• Captain override chip where it picks your best player points
• 38 free transfers at start season to use across season as you like
• Max tenure for players selected or number of times you can pick them eg you can play a player for max 19 games and then need to move them on or if you sell Salah buy him sell again you can only transfer that player so many times
• Differentiate defenders points to stop teams of full backs, for example CB goal worth 1 pt more than full back
• Changes to 60 mins clean sheet or 2 pts per half for clean sheet
• Sell your chips for transfers or £m values
• Sell your accumulated transfers for another chip
• Half points introduction for players coming off bench
• VC only x1.5 the score or sub captains sees the score depreciate
• Injured player = free transfers
• Auto bonuses for things; 1 goal = 4 points, 2 goals = 9 points, 3 goals = 14 points, consecutive compound scoring
• 2 subs per position regardless of formation, bigger squad
• Unlimited players / budget chip so you could have a total team of just City or Liverpool and no budget cap for one week, Limitless Chip
• 2 player team limit and can’t be same position
• Can’t pick the same captain consecutively

The major problem I see specially in the last few years is that captaincy is not exciting anymore with Haaland/Salah perma caps having 180% EO week in week out.
One way to tackle it would be letting people also choose a couple more players.
One player gets 2x
Second one gets 1.75x
Third one gets 1.5x

Some people will opt for a threemium strategy, and a lot will have different players for 1.5x and 1.75x for sure. Also the order matters.

Currently, even If I feel Salah outscores Haaland, I am scared to cap Salah because the risk is huge. In the scenario mentioned above, I can go Haaland 1.75x to play safe and also go Salah 2x

I've been away for a couple of days, so I've only just gotten around to reading this hot topic. There are some fantastic suggestions for making the game better. My contributions are:

1. A maximum of two players can be chosen from each team.

2. You can't pick the same captain in consecutive weeks and need to rotate.