Nody's "I'm a complete n00b" question thread

Nody wrote: »

I'm to pick a team consisting of 11(?) players with some sort of limitation on positions. The team has to be with in a certain total value and I'll get points if members of my team do well on the ground which favours players played often and in multiple cups such as Champions League. I can exchange 1 player in the team with out cost every week; doing more often loses me points (except in two transfer weeks when I got unlimited changes).

Now here's the first question piece:
1) What's the limit on the team size and per position?
2) Who sets the cost of each player and the cost of the team?
3) If I don't spend all the money is there a benefit from doing so?
4a) If a player goes from 1 million to 2 million and my team value exceed the
starting value do I need to bring the team back below the limit?
4b) If I sell the player for 2 million can I buy another player for 2 million even though I'm exceeding the original starting price of the team?
5) What page(s) are used as reference for team value?
6) What point(s) can each position score?
7) Are there any limit to holding the same player (i.e. if I want player A but another user has him I need to trade for him)?
8) What cups are included for playing purposes?

Well that should get the ball starting

Okay, first off it's a team of 15 players. They have to consist of keepers (gk) x 2, defenders (def) x 5, midfielders (mid) x 5 and forwards (fw) x 3, but you pick 11 starters, who will score you points, and 3 subs who will replace, in order, those in your first eleven who do not play.

Your formation must consist of 1 gk, and then a combination of the following:

def: min of 3, max of 5
mid: min of 2, max of 5
fw: min of 1, max of 3

So, for example, you cannot play 2 def, 5 mid and 3 fw, as you don't filed the minimum number of defenders. That answers uestion 1), the others are....

2) The vast majority of people play on fantasypremierleague.com, though threads relating to other sites or organisers will specify this. The organisers set the values of the players, and your starting budget.

3) Yes, but only in that you will have extra cash left over in the bank (ITB) with which to buy better players as they reveal themselves.

4a) No, you can exceed the starting budget of 100 million, in the case of FPL, by as much as you are able to. The trick is, though, if you buy a player for 1 mill, and he increases to 2 mill, you can sell him for total of 1.5 mill (0.5 mil profit). You only get half of the increases, but suffer 100% of the decreases if he falls by the same amount.


4b) Yes, any sales of players who have increased by any amount, will increase your budget.

5) There are a few sites which revolve around price changes exclusively, but they've changed the algorithm this year, so they are pretty worthless at the moment.


6) Depends on the website / newspaper etc. Some offer more for each category, but the FPL ones can be found here, under "scoring".

7) No, not on FPL. In fact, teams will end up becoming similar over time as 'template teams' start to outperform everyone else.

8) None in FPL. The premier league is the only competition in town.

Hope this helps as a start.