Rashford going to play?

Dalot mins v Chelsea?

Anyone think Ortega starts again v Brighton?

Arsenal, Newcastle and Man Utd representing England in the Champions League is just plain embarrassing! Sad to see how far standards have dropped

Rashford just illness...should play with chelsea right?...get the spot for UCL so ten hag can rest several players vs fulham for the fa final

At this point i dont care anymore who plays or not. What my rank is etc. It is what it is. Happy with 200k.
Just finish it and start a brand new season with more competition.

Morning everyone, hoping someone can help me. Does anyone have the team ID for Big Man Bakar please?

Good article. +1 for limiting the number of times a player can be captained, that would be a huge shake up.

I don’t like the idea of having more transfers, just means people can template their team quicker.

One more - have option of bench players sub in if players in starting 11 don’t start the match. That way the bench comes into play and adds another strategic component.

It is about time FPL Towers are more strict with entry rules. Their modus operandi is to keep more engaged through click bait rather than improve the product. It is touch and go whether I play next season as I have seen the gradual depreciation of what used to be fun.

More free transfers will only strengthen templates, making it easier to converge rather than diverge; premium differentials would be non-existent.

I think the one major change that would shake things up far more would be manual substitutions: the engaged players benefit more and it suddenly creates the need for a strong bench - players could afford fewer premiums.

anyone else praying Haaland doesnt play this week? Had to differentiate myself so went with Bruno (c) and everyone else in my ML is on Halaand C...

Some sensible and interesting ideas, but I can foresee database problems with allowing everyone to wait until the last hour before they make their changes. Nothing wrong with the idea, but there will be technical problems and loads of moaning from managers afterwards. A lot of it will be aimed at Barclays, despite it being a free game, and they won't want that.

Good morning!

Last FT of the year, close in my ML, would you

A) One of the mids to Eze
B) One of the forwards to Alvarez

DDG
Shaw, Estu, TAA
Salah, Mitoma, MacAllister, Rashford, Mahrez
Haaland, Solanke

Subs: Raya, Isak, Schär, Pinnock

1.6 in the bank

If 10 points leading in ML who would you captain last game ?
Haaland or Kane ?
Don’t own Salah
ML owner does not own Salah or Kane

free transfer team

Ramsdale
TAA-Shaw-Tarkowski
Salah-Fernandes-Gakpo-Eze-McNeill
Kane-Mitrovic
bench: Mbeumo-Mings-Faes-Iversen

have some benching headache. Start Mbeumo or not?

Get rid of chips, extend the deadline to at least 2 hours before or go radical & the day before.
Captains easy fix don’t allow same Cap week in week out.
Keep the game simple & remove the constant spoon feeding!

What to do here guys, 1 FT 0.1 ITB.. currently chasing 38pts.. hes got Haaland C and i've got Bruno C so could be a bigger gap by end of the GW...

*players are the ones the ML leader has got as well

Kepa Raya
Shaw* Tripp* White Veltman Mings
Rash* salah* Mito* Mac Bruno
Haaland* Wilson* Alvarez

Ortega

Mina - Castagne - Guehi

Eze - Doucoure - Ramsey - Maddison

DCL - Vardy - Watkins

50000billion itb
Would you make any changes?

Is there some article that explains how/why Trippier is such a bonus magnet?

I can't see the overall positions in the top 5 of FPL changing much.
1) They all have virtually the same team.
2) None of them have any chips left
3) Only #1 and #4 have 2FT
4) #1 is 18 points clear of #2

I’d like to see the captaincy limited to 10 uses per player in a season.
That would make us stop and think and take more captain punts.

Limited uses works well in Fantasy Golf. Means saving the star players for the Majors or courses they do well on.
So research can be rewarded rather than just having the captain stuck on one or two players all season.

Deadline the night before.

Prices a bit more spread out to avoid template teams.
Hard to plan for this though, when you have teams with cheaper players doing well like Arsenal and Brighton.

The rest is fine.

More prizes - top 100 get a t shirt, top 1000 get a keyring, top 10000 get a certificate to print out.

Id also remove pens against from counting for defenders , but just punish the defender more who gave away the penalty

More FH chips please.
2 or even 3 or 4.
It would allow managers the chance to look at the wider pool of players and bring in more obscure picks into their teams as punts

I would like to remove the rebound assists,assists for hitting the posts etc ridiculous points that is, rather give assist points to the same player who won a penalty and scored the goal.

Interesting takes by FPL general

the FPL game has become very static for the last few years and I don’t think the game has managed to adapt to the huge increase of numbers of players.

This results, as a player, in the feeling that there’s now so much inertia in moving ranks that it makes the game very slow and somehow discouraging. Differences between top 500K teams are so thin in terms of player selection that no matter what your transfer will be next gameweek, it probably won’t have any impact in your ranks.

When most sports have lately moved towards a more dynamic approach (for instance the introduction of super Tie-break in tennis), FPL, by not reacting to the late but significant increase of players, has frozen its dynamics and the number of ghost teams by the end of Christmas should be a red sign.

Another factor that has not been addressed by FPL is the current depth of PL squads. If you want FPL players to watch the PL games, you should enable them to enjoy their FPL picks and allow them to jump on short terms punts. One could argue you can use hits, but how many times have I found myself fancying a move for an in-form player (Ramsey, Garnacho, Trossard, Eze etc..) which I knew would be for a 2-3 weeks but are already almost nullified by the -4. There’s simply no room for fancy play and short-term agressive approach in the way the game is ruled at the moment.

That inability to make moves makes the game very static, very mainstream. Sport is entertainment. Sports needs remontadas, sports needs drama. I believe FPL should re-think itself.

To make the game much more dynamic, I think FPL players should get 2FT per GW without any possibility to bank another 3rd for the next one. With only one WC per year. 2FT is a big game changer because it also gives you the opportunity to act on two lines out of GK/DEF/MID/FW whereas at the moment it takes you two GW to make a move that will eventually turn out to be so standard that it will take all the fun out of it.

That feeling it’s impossible to turn things around in FPL lately is going in the opposite way most of sports are leaning towards nowadays. I miss the feeling to watch and enjoy my differential performance, I miss the captaincy swings, I miss the mind games between mini-leagues players in their transfer strategy. I don’t think it should be as extreme as « a chip and a chair » in poker but a balance has to be found to make it less mainstream and more personal.
I have been playing FPL for thirteen years

Great article... thank you.

I agree with everything, except :

I think the team selection dealine should be even earlier in the game week, after the first batch of manager press conferences.

Regarding the proposed deadline change, this statement isn't accurate: "Everyone has the information rather than just those who follow the right Twitter accounts." You need to add the qualifier "and who live in the right time zone." A more equitable arrangement for all would be to move the deadline earlier, not later.

I don't like a single one of these suggestions except the first one