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The changes FPL could make in 2023/24

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With many of our Gameweek 38 captaincy and transfer decisions likely to be determined by early team leaks, instead of focusing on the final round of matches, I’ll use this week’s piece to share my thoughts on some changes FPL could make to the game for the 2023/24 season.

I think we can all agree that this season won’t live long in the memory. Most engaged managers ended up with eight or nine of the same picks for the majority of the campaign and there wasn’t much need for ‘content creators’ to share their teams on Twitter after each deadline as they all looked the same anyway.

Erling Haaland (£12.4m) became auto-captain, the Arsenal and Brighton and Hove Albion guys performed extremely well at bargain prices, Marcus Rashford (£7.2m) rediscovered his best form at just £6.5m and Kieran Trippier (£6.1m) made a mockery of the Bonus Points System. These all contributed to a very ‘samey’ FPL campaign.

This summer would be a good time for a shake-up, in my opinion, following the last few interrupted seasons.

 

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  1. Jkr150172
    • 2 Years
    11 months, 7 days ago

    I think subs coming off the bench should only get half points awarded as so often I see teams in my leagues not bother making changes and then the subs all come in for injured players giving them full, underserved, points

    1. dmfisher
      • 4 Years
      11 months, 6 days ago

      n'ah I do that on purpose sometimes to give my league opposition a false sense of winning, then watch those points role in at the end!

  2. Piksau
    • 9 Years
    11 months, 7 days ago

    Haaland could easily be 14-15m and still be in most squads. Salah, KDB, Haaland and Kane have all returned on their price points. The positive out of that would be most players would spend a little more time digging up the bargain players from other teams.

    Going for an option similar to Champions League Fantasy where you could sub in players between matchdays would make for a more engaged FPL audience. Although at the risk of a more template final 11.

    I find the limitation of only 1 player per position while still allowing 3 players per team intriguing. Would definitely shake things up.

    Captaincy this year was very boring. Any changes to the captaincy rule would be welcome!

    1 card that could be introduced could be 1 Super11 card. Where you could select your playing 11 from your full budget without subs. The budget could be a flat 100m or your squad's current valuation. So, in essence, the Anti-BB card. The trade-off being that if any player does not play that's just bad luck.

  3. Perrund
    • 2 Years
    11 months, 6 days ago

    The game becomes boring when everyone's teams are so similar. Most of this season I've had Salah but haven't cared if he scores, not knowing whether people who captained him outweigh people who don't have him. There have even been weeks where I wanted my captain Haaland to not score because others have triple captained him.

    So I like one wildcard, but most of all higher prices. Happy with no changes to bench boost, captaincy, visible percentages, and deadlines.

    Another way to make people's teams less similar is increase the excess transfer penalty to 5 or 6. Rolling transfers is a nice idea.

    As an aside, I'd take away bonus points for scoring a penalty.

  4. Mark007
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 1 Year
    11 months, 3 days ago

    It would be nice if bonus points reflected the player’s overall contribution to the game rather than just reflecting existing points. Loads of occasions where the man of the match gets 2 points only.

  5. Vrsic_Pass0
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 1 Year
    11 months, 2 days ago

    Give goalkeepers an extra 1pt for a clean sheet. Seems daft keepers getting 1pt for every 3 saves even if some of these saves are easy ones. Doesn't feel right getting 6pts for a GK if another goalie lets in 2, but makes 6 saves and gets bonus points just because they've been busier! Also, remove the Transfers In and Transfers Out this Gameweek menus as it's a too bigger clue to impending price changes and allows too many managers the easy option of just following the pack. Also, a rotatable Captain Chip would would be fun, similar to that in each game phase of the World Cup/Euro fantasy comps: Pick captain for Saturday's game, if he does rubbish you can gamble and change to another captain for Sunday's game, but obviosuly forfit the points for Captain from first game.

  6. paul1964
    • 13 Years
    10 months, 21 days ago

    They need to bring back the forum/message board in mini leagues so we can have some banter with people in our mini leagues.

  7. Zack124
    • 1 Year
    10 months, 5 days ago

    It would be nice if 4 points for hits has changed to:
    1st transfer FREE
    2nd 2 points
    3rd 4points
    4th 6 pints
    5th 8 points
    7th 10…….etc
    This would help us to deal with injured players.

  8. Andy_Social
    • 11 Years
    10 months, 5 days ago

    I hope they don't change anything. I'm sick of all these "influencers" - I'd rather just do my own thing and ignore them. But if there are subtle changes to points or baps or whatever, I'll need to flippin' read and listen to hours of blah blah blah to figure out how to take all the new stuff into account to squeeze out one more point in my season 🙁

    1. Mirror Man
        10 months, 5 days ago

        I also consume hours of content in order to squeeze one out.