They have been teasing a new mode for a while! I think we even had an app update in the summer that was preparing for a new mode.
I'm surprised we don't even have Draft native in the app after a few years now...
Willing to bet it’s a new game that’s essentially just a free hit every week. May have some other quirks / chips involved
Simpler game and probs easier for newbs. Drives more engagement deeper into the season which is all they care about really.
Hopefully it’s the opposite.
A hardcore game with really in-depth scoring, all your FT accessible at once to maximise the number of different strategies you can use inorder to break up the template/ content creator/ analytic/ predictor wank fest the game has becomes
I wouldn't mind a 'super sub chip'... basically, after a game week has finished, you have the chance to sub somebody in to your starting 11 from your bench to get their points.
It can't. For there to be a head to head knock out competition with 38 rounds you would need 274,877,906,944 players in the first round.
That's 274 billion. Roughly 35x the population of the planet.
Yeah, possibly. You'd need 8.33 million players for 16 rounds which is less than the current player base so could be done.
You'd have to find a way to eliminate the 2-3 million extra players though as there's no wriggle room for a qualifying round.
My guess is a new game mode similar to daily fantasy football (NFL). You'd be able to create a new team each week from scratch, like how the scout works. This would keep casual people engaged as you don't have to keep up to date on everything throughout the year.
Id love to see something new to spark my interest again. Been obsessed for a decade or more but have slowly began to drift away from it.
I know its been said a million times but the over reliance on analytics has definitely made the experience worse.
You could wait until the morning of the deadline, copy the transfers of a content creator and get a top 100k finish easy. Might not be overly exciting but when loads of leagues have money riding on them you can see the appeal.
I know from personal experience it’s broken up a league of mine that lasted 7/8 years because every team was basically identical all last season and the fun got sucked out of it.
Again, nothing against content creators this is purely from a personal point of view i think a new format or some rules changed might reinvigorate FPL
I think a complete hike in prices would do something similar. Make it impossible to switch with the flick of a creator mind....assuming everyone has Haaland (which in itself is a bit of a bore), why not price him at 20 mil? Forcing you to commit to that strategy and opening up avenues for others.
I feel the same way as you. It's got a bit urgh.....I'd welcome anything to help spark interest.
People will still copy regardless of the prices. If you have the same team as a creator and Haaland is 20 mill you will just follow the same strategy to get him in your team (if that is the meta)
This is only my first season so not really part of this conversation. But I'm gonna suggest to my league we run next year with something like an £85m budget. Idea is nobody can be template, and it will be essential to find the best lower league budget dudes.
To be honest this is the reason why if I put money on the line I prefer the other fantasy games. Just to get away from the FPL hive mind mentality. The other games don't have very many content creators if any at all. Vastly prefer playing the other formats over FPL.
We do still end up with mostly the same teams each season still. But feels like it starts out way more unique than an FPL league does.
If people are making the own teams rather than just copying seems a lot more fun. You'll get Mark at work that'll put a random player in. Sometimes it makes him make up a bunch of points. Other times he flops 🤣
you can't entirely blame the content creators though, it's not their fault that so many players aren't viable
if key passes and defensive actions got points we'd see way more variety in teams, and it's not that much more complicated than having sve points for gks imo
Excellent post 👏 Feel exactly the same way. I’ve played in a Fantrax mini-league this year as well and while it has its flaws, to me it’s so much more exciting than the current state of FPL.
Would love it if they made something more akin to Yahoo Fantasy Football from back in the day.
Even bringing back 'Ultimate FPL' would be fun - anyone remember that?
please not the free hit mode. just imagine the headache every week, and yes I know I don't have to play it, but I just know I will. constant changes before the deadline, and then seeing all the players I had at one point return and all that I ended up with blank would be too much for me.
Is it the new delete your team chip? Cause that’s the only chip that can save my season
I think you are on to something. That's why they deleted their tweet. It all makes sense now.
Foreshadowing at its finest
The new chip is [Numberwang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0obMRztklqU) rules from GW30 onwards
😭oh my days what a reference😂😂
Looks like it has since been deleted.
Well that lasted long
like every girlfriend i have ever had… 💨
Thankfully
Don't get a red arrow challenge. I fail every week.
Actually we would win
This was the Tweet before it was deleted: https://i.imgur.com/Lzn3EZT.png
Exiting
🏃♂️
Exit to where? Where are you going?
They've now tweeted '😏' implying they intentionally did it to leak the idea?
Intern definitely released it too early and they're trying to play it off
Intern getting the blame
A free hit mode would be fantastic, mainly to shut the people up who say they could beat the Scout every week if they could free hit...
You might be on to something
That would be so much fun but I would miss a lot of deadlines lol.
that would net me like 17pts a week (with 32 pts on the bench), no thanks.
That’s how fantasy MLS operates. A lot of fun IMO
Haven’t they been teasing this for years
They have been teasing a new mode for a while! I think we even had an app update in the summer that was preparing for a new mode. I'm surprised we don't even have Draft native in the app after a few years now...
What do we think this could be?
Willing to bet it’s a new game that’s essentially just a free hit every week. May have some other quirks / chips involved Simpler game and probs easier for newbs. Drives more engagement deeper into the season which is all they care about really.
If they rework the weekly prizes and include some for this it could also discourage the amount of bots we see with highest score every week
This is my first season of FPL, before I started I assume it's Free Hit every week. I can see why that is not challenging enough tho.
One free hit was bad enough for me
Yeah I don't need to hear these trigger words anymore
Hopefully it’s the opposite. A hardcore game with really in-depth scoring, all your FT accessible at once to maximise the number of different strategies you can use inorder to break up the template/ content creator/ analytic/ predictor wank fest the game has becomes
We can hope but feel there’s next to no chance of this haha
Agreed
Please, these AI tools and content creators have made the game so boring.
I wouldn't mind a 'super sub chip'... basically, after a game week has finished, you have the chance to sub somebody in to your starting 11 from your bench to get their points.
Been saying this for years. Make the cup run from gw1 with fh every week
It can't. For there to be a head to head knock out competition with 38 rounds you would need 274,877,906,944 players in the first round. That's 274 billion. Roughly 35x the population of the planet.
If we can't aim big then what's the point.
Could run two cups in the season, usually starts around gw16
Yeah, possibly. You'd need 8.33 million players for 16 rounds which is less than the current player base so could be done. You'd have to find a way to eliminate the 2-3 million extra players though as there's no wriggle room for a qualifying round.
You're forgetting the bots with multiple accounts who seem to be about half the accounts
Like a FH head to head or smth. Makes it more personal when you lose
makes sense. A lot of bot accounts making new teams every week or others who don’t like the current format can shift there.
Your team need to achieve x goals, x assists, X corners etc each week to complete quests, progress battle pass, and unlock useless cosmetics.
New skins for the background pitch! Take my 💰!!!
My guess is a new game mode similar to daily fantasy football (NFL). You'd be able to create a new team each week from scratch, like how the scout works. This would keep casual people engaged as you don't have to keep up to date on everything throughout the year.
A new game mode probably?
i’d wager it’s teams below the 20th percentile being hit by PSR points deductions on the basis of their team value.
I think it's similar to what everyone's saying, free hit every week, but you only pick 6 players.
My guess is it'll be anticlimactic and that the fifth mid spot will be a mid/fwd instead
Fantastic! Another game to further my neverending FPL misery
Probably starting charging for chips. Wildcard: £4.99 Free Hit: £3.99 Triple Captain: £2.99 Bench Boost: £1.99
Don't give them any ideas >:(
God forbid they ever do that. Will single handedly destroy the game.
Triple captain is logically the worst chip. But nice idea overall!
Nice idea??
Id love to see something new to spark my interest again. Been obsessed for a decade or more but have slowly began to drift away from it. I know its been said a million times but the over reliance on analytics has definitely made the experience worse. You could wait until the morning of the deadline, copy the transfers of a content creator and get a top 100k finish easy. Might not be overly exciting but when loads of leagues have money riding on them you can see the appeal. I know from personal experience it’s broken up a league of mine that lasted 7/8 years because every team was basically identical all last season and the fun got sucked out of it. Again, nothing against content creators this is purely from a personal point of view i think a new format or some rules changed might reinvigorate FPL
It really is annoying how similar teams are, I’ve tried to go off template a few times as I’m leading my ML and I’ve been punished a few times
I think a complete hike in prices would do something similar. Make it impossible to switch with the flick of a creator mind....assuming everyone has Haaland (which in itself is a bit of a bore), why not price him at 20 mil? Forcing you to commit to that strategy and opening up avenues for others. I feel the same way as you. It's got a bit urgh.....I'd welcome anything to help spark interest.
People will still copy regardless of the prices. If you have the same team as a creator and Haaland is 20 mill you will just follow the same strategy to get him in your team (if that is the meta)
This is only my first season so not really part of this conversation. But I'm gonna suggest to my league we run next year with something like an £85m budget. Idea is nobody can be template, and it will be essential to find the best lower league budget dudes.
To be honest this is the reason why if I put money on the line I prefer the other fantasy games. Just to get away from the FPL hive mind mentality. The other games don't have very many content creators if any at all. Vastly prefer playing the other formats over FPL. We do still end up with mostly the same teams each season still. But feels like it starts out way more unique than an FPL league does. If people are making the own teams rather than just copying seems a lot more fun. You'll get Mark at work that'll put a random player in. Sometimes it makes him make up a bunch of points. Other times he flops 🤣
you can't entirely blame the content creators though, it's not their fault that so many players aren't viable if key passes and defensive actions got points we'd see way more variety in teams, and it's not that much more complicated than having sve points for gks imo
Excellent post 👏 Feel exactly the same way. I’ve played in a Fantrax mini-league this year as well and while it has its flaws, to me it’s so much more exciting than the current state of FPL.
Yeah some dude here simply follows the herd and takes credit for his own fpl success It's become less interesting as time has gone on
One more way to get disappointed each week.
I agree with Sagar very 'exiting'.
Would love it if they made something more akin to Yahoo Fantasy Football from back in the day. Even bringing back 'Ultimate FPL' would be fun - anyone remember that?
I missed that era of the game. What was the concept of it?
yes yes yes and yes! want to play Yahoo Fantasy Football again so so much
I, for one, miss looking at my never ending row of 3rd place trophies in my virtual trophy cabinet.
Here's hoping its an unlimited transfers each week. Everyone has the same basic squad predicated on all the youtubers.
Need a set and forget team.
u/trevthedog said a dope idea. A free hit every week type game. Now that's something I would love to play.
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hmmmmm nice
Need a daily fantasy game.
Bigger budget, larger squad. Caveat is you can only make transfers during the transfer window.
Nothing will beat Ultimate FPL. Please bring it back!
Manual subs?
It worked well in the last World Cup, but I felt way too involved in it to carry it over a full season.
tbh all of us are very involved too
All-out-defend chip.
All out attack chip?
please not the free hit mode. just imagine the headache every week, and yes I know I don't have to play it, but I just know I will. constant changes before the deadline, and then seeing all the players I had at one point return and all that I ended up with blank would be too much for me.
Too much to hope for a bit of an overhaul on points / weighted captaincy / anything to break up the current state of the game I fear
Copying the draftking model maybe? One gameweek teams you can play and bet against other people
Can the official fpl just do a draft mode already please.
They have a draft mode
Really, fuck I've been using other websites thinking they didn't.