5.0 Palmer was an exciting enabling feature last season.

sorry SW response below

There are 500 ish PL players to be picked, yet maybe we only picking not even 20% of it all season.
Time to maximize all the players on the list and make the game more interesting.
Remember how template is our team, all season maybe it just hover not lower than 70%. Lack of viable player have contribution on it.

Where is it said there would be "new position"? What I read was "position changes" which happens every season.

Have played FPL for 7-8 years now. Really enjoying it too.

But I do also feel like that a few changes could be made to make it less 'template' and more open.

I feel like a DM position with points for tackles/regaining the ball(like UEFA) could be fun.
I also feel like the pricing is generally too low. I guess it is too accommodate the 10m out of 11m playing the game. For them to pick more known players makes it more fun and easier to put out a decent side at the very beginning. But it does also remove many split decisions for the invested managers - since it is more or less safe and logic to go with 11/15 of the same players like everyone else.

I would like FPL to drop prices on players with 'zero to no' chance of time on the pitch. Third/fourth choice GK's, Why not make Cedric, Tomkins and Dummet even cheaper. Make it a viable strategy to gamble not to count on bench players? You could have a stronger XI but will pay heavily if your player is injured in warm up, make you stress if your players is yellow flagged with a knock(since you got no cover), and maybe even force you into a -4 or -8 to field XI since you got no value tied in your benchies?.
I feel like that would really divide how we would play differently (more or less risk averse players will win/lose at certain times throughout the season).

And they should price penalty takers higher than the last few seasons. I've opted for 6-7 penaltytakers throughout the entire last season. That would make me rethink how to set up the team.

Were not picking Salah over Kante. Were picking Olise over Kante

You'll see Spain's lineup before the deadline

A for me

I'm going 6 Spain 4 France, 3 England 2 Holland. 10 players in first semi so there's fewer players to be stuck with on 1 or 2 points

11 England here

You need to spread it out somewhat, but you can load up on 1 team and still be ok in the final.

A. I Would say

C

I don't understand the strategy here. Really don't see the point of having Palmer and Gordon?? Palmer has played in 3 games and has a total of 4 points; Gordon has played 1 minute in the entire tournament. To me, that's 2 wasted spots that could be used on players who are going to start. If you want to stick with England players Bukayo Saka is as nailed down as you can get and is Englands fourth highest scorer in fantasy, I would swap out Gordon for Saka for sure.

Your starters in SF1 are:
Mbappe;
Olmo, Ruiz;
Hernandes; Cucerella, Saliba;
Simon or Maignon.

SF2 you have:
Gakpo, Kane;
Rice;
DeVrij, Dumfries.

That seems like a big waste of assets on day 2 (Gordon, Palmer) when you could have Saka and Bellingham/Simons earning points.

Use it. Also you know if someone gets a RC in the Spain v France, you can't sub them off. If you want to pick a non-starter as a differential, why not go for a Spain attacker like Oyarzabal since they tend to use their subs earlier than England, plus the France game probably has a higher chance of going ET, and you get to sub them off if it doesn't work. Don't really like doing this with Gordon/Palmer so much.

Would you transfer out
A. Musiala -> Rice
B. Musiala -> Saka
C. Muslaia -> Olmo
D. Musiala -> Olmo
Fernandes -> Rice
Take a -4 ?