General FPL Chat 2016/17

KevIRL

The fixtures are out. Go at it...

I for one can't wait anyway, City and Utds fixtures to start look tasty.

km79

KevIRL wrote: »

The fixtures are out. Go at it...

I for one can't wait anyway, City and Utds fixtures to start look tasty.

I'll follow this just for a while anyway ..........who am I kidding

the groutch

Mr.Prodston

I like fantasy football

Paully D

I've only had a very, very brief look, but Everton's start looks nice - TOT, wba, STO, sun, MID, bou, Pal.

I also like West Ham's, but you have to get past away trips to Chelsea and City in 2 of the first 3 weeks. Maybe they'll be one to look at for early wildcarders - che, BOU, mci, WAT, wba, SOU, MID, pal, SUN, eve, STO.

I'd be avoiding Watford (sou, CHE, ARS, whu, MNU) like the plague, and Sunderland wouldn't be too far off (mci, MID, sou, EVE, tot) either.

Investment in Pulis looks a good option at the back - pal, EVE, MID, bou, WHU, sto, sun.

Benimar

WBA rotate with Burnley. Nice cheap defensive rotation combo there you would have to imagine.

ArmaniJeanss

10 of the 33 weekend GWs will likely be closing at 6.45pm on a Friday because of the new fixture slot. This has some upsides and downsides.

jimmii

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

10 of the 33 weekend GWs will likely be closing at 6.45pm on a Friday because of the new fixture slot. This has some upsides and downsides.

Sucks from an FPL pov but from a football fans pov I think its great! The more days of football the better! Its great for UFPL too.

Rikand

I want the players out now dammit!

jimmii

Rikand wrote: »

I want the players out now dammit!

Not long to go! Hopefully it's early July and not late July!

Scorpion Sting

jimmii wrote: »

Not long to go! Hopefully it's early July and not late July!

My guess would be Monday the 18th of July so just less than 4 and a half weeks to wait.

jimmii

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

My guess would be Monday the 18th of July so just less than 4 and a half weeks to wait.

It'll probably be a week after they untended. With such a big upgrade things will no doubt go wrong when they look to do make it live!

SantryRed

Someone better sign Robbie Brady so I can put him in my FF team next season.

CSF

jimmii wrote: »

It'll probably be a week after they untended. With such a big upgrade things will no doubt go wrong when they look to do make it live!

What's this regarding? Did I miss a change?

F1ngers

CSF wrote: »

What's this regarding? Did I miss a change?

I think there was some teasing by the FPL on twitter without revealing anything.

jimmii

CSF wrote: »

What's this regarding? Did I miss a change?

From the FPL homepage

Important information
From 1 June you will no longer be able to login and view your FPL points from the 2015/16 season as we carry out essential maintenance to get ready for 2016/17
Last updated: 31 May 15:53

Presumably it's just server changes or something boring like that.

FHFC

Right. That's that. When do we think FPL will launch?

Paully D

Apologies if mentioned already, but UFPL is not running for this upcoming season due to a focus on "rebuilding and improving FPL."

jimmii

Paully D wrote: »

Apologies if mentioned already, but UFPL is not running for this upcoming season due to a focus on "rebuilding and improving FPL."

Ah ffs that a load of crap.

jimmii

FHFC wrote: »

Right. That's that. When do we think FPL will launch?

July 17th. Guess it depends on what they have been tinkering with. If there's a few changes then you would hope they would give us more time but more changes is more things to go wrong when they switch it to live!

98q76e12hrflnk

Some ITK said 4 of july.

FHFC

Lauren Plump Flax wrote: »

Some ITK said 4 of july.

9th July last year. Season started a week earlier though. Euros end 10th July so I'd guess sometime later that week.

ArmaniJeanss

Paully D wrote: »

UFPL is not running for this upcoming season due to a focus on "rebuilding and improving FPL."

alchemist33

FHFC wrote: »

Right. That's that. When do we think FPL will launch?

Just what I was thinking.

I am ready!

Scorpion Sting

jimmii wrote: »

July 17th. Guess it depends on what they have been tinkering with. If there's a few changes then you would hope they would give us more time but more changes is more things to go wrong when they switch it to live!

July 17th is a Sunday, they'd hardly launch it on a Sunday. My guess and I'm sticking to it is the 18th of July.

jimmii

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

July 17th is a Sunday, they'd hardly launch it on a Sunday. My guess and I'm sticking to it is the 18th of July.

What happened was after they did final testing on Friday they intended to start it on Monday but when your man was leaving on Friday night he auto set it to start running and put in 17th instead of 18th so we got it a day early. I think his name was Steve. Thanks Steve.

Scorpion Sting

Top bloke.

jimmii

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

Top bloke.

Rumour has it he tried to veto the chips too. He gets us.

KevIRL

Paully D wrote: »

Apologies if mentioned already, but UFPL is not running for this upcoming season due to a focus on "rebuilding and improving FPL."

What a load of balls. Prob will never come back. Really enjoyed that game.

jimmii

KevIRL wrote: »

What a load of balls. Prob will never come back. Really enjoyed that game.

Really annoying alright. Surely it was generating enough money to justify leaving a couple of guys on it and just leave it as it was.

CSF

jimmii wrote: »

Really annoying alright. Surely it was generating enough money to justify leaving a couple of guys on it and just leave it as it was.

You'd have to guess that it wasn't based on them shelving it. I'd follow a lot of FPL related social media (FHFC being the most famous FPL celebrity I'd follow on there) and it just never seems to get a mention.

Dearg81

jimmii wrote: »

Really annoying alright. Surely it was generating enough money to justify leaving a couple of guys on it and just leave it as it was.

Ah crap, I liked that game. I think it had around 20k players last year which was around the same as the first season so it didn't seem to catch on. I guess they were hoping to make more money out of it last season and decided to pull the plug when it didn't happen.

jimmii

CSF wrote: »

You'd have to guess that it wasn't based on them shelving it. I'd follow a lot of FPL related social media (FHFC being the most famous FPL celebrity I'd follow on there) and it just never seems to get a mention.

It certainly doesn't get much attention on social media. Our thread here was probably the busiest place for UFPL chatter!

Dearg81 wrote: »

Ah crap, I liked that game. I think it had around 20k players last year which was around the same as the first season so it didn't seem to catch on. I guess they were hoping to make more money out of it last season and decided to pull the plug when it didn't happen.

And last year there would have been a lot more multi-teams players than the previous year so the total unique players was probably down a bit. Year one I think most people started with just the one team whereas last year everyone seemed to have an OR team and a monthly team.

FHFC

Agüero: "They treat Leo like a criminal. He's takes the losses the hardest. Many of us will follow him in retiring." https://t.co/iHuXTlBoyR


How awesome would that be for FPL....

stephenl15

Ake to Bournemouth not good for Charlie Daniels Although he'd probably have lost his pen duties to Wilson anyway

Ziegler1988

Keep an eye on this lad's twitter for possible news about game opening/prices like last season: https://twitter.com/markrogers1/with_replies

stephenl15 wrote: »

Ake to Bournemouth not good for Charlie Daniels Although he'd probably have lost his pen duties to Wilson anyway

Ake's natural position is CB, I'd think he's been brought in to replace Elphick who has gone to Villa. Whether he'll start will probably depend on Adam Smith's hernia problem.

FHFC

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Keep an eye on this lad's twitter for possible news about game opening/prices like last season: https://twitter.com/markrogers1/with_replies

Forgot about him. He reckons site live on 4th July!

Paully D

This time 6 weeks we will all be making the last few tweaks and changes to our teams ahead of the new season kicking off. This offseason has flown by so far. Having the Euros on has made a huge difference.

Shedite27

New season started yesterday....
Cork City 1 - 0 Linfield

Mr.Prodston

"Two terrified defenders go 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside"
x2

"Guess who's back, back again,
Spacecraft's back, tell a friend,

Guess who's back,
guess who's back,
guess who's back,
guess who's back
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Guess who's back..."

"I've created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to
see Andros no more they want Spacecraft I'm chopped quicker
well if you want Spacecraft, this is what I'll give ya
a little bit of speed mixed with some hard dribbler
some pace that'll jumpstart my heart quicker than a
shot when I start shooting outside the box when I'm not cooperating
when I'm rocking the net with my freekicking (hey!)
you waited this long now stop debating 'cause I'm back...."

[Chorus 2x:]
"Now this looks like a job for me so everybody just follow me
'Cause we need a little controversy,
'Cause it feels so empty without me"



Andros "The Andros Townsend Spacecraft Experience" Townsend has joined Crystal Palace for £13m - http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36680273

FHFC

Aaannnnnd there is it.....

Mr.Prodston

FHFC wrote: »

Aaannnnnd there is it.....

:pac:

I hadn't even seen your post in the other thread until now. You know me too well at this point

km79

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

:pac:

I hadn't even seen your post in the other thread until now. You know me too well at this point

Every time I think I'm out ye suck me back in
Ah well it was a nice break

alchemist33

Somebody needs a Summer hobby...

mcgettigan16

Twitter page is up and running for anyone who is interested. @fplfanatic1617. Website also under construction!

T-b0n3

mcgettigan16 wrote: »

Twitter page is up and running for anyone who is interested. @fplfanatic1617. Website also under construction!

Doesn't seem to be coming up for me?

jimmii

T-b0n3 wrote: »

Doesn't seem to be coming up for me?

Its there for me.

manual_man

jimmii wrote: »

Really annoying alright. Surely it was generating enough money to justify leaving a couple of guys on it and just leave it as it was.

as a game ufpl was appealing. if they'd just been bothered to make the prizes side of things appealing then they'd have had a hell of a lot more entries i feel. when you have 20k+ paid entries and there's only one prize on offer for the overall competition, as well as a prize for each best monthly score (i've got that right, right??), it just wasn't enough of an incentive for the amount of graft you had to put in to playing the game.

jimmii

manual_man wrote: »

as a game ufpl was appealing. if they'd just been bothered to make the prizes side of things appealing then they'd have had a hell of a lot more entries i feel. when you have 20k+ paid entries and there's only one prize on offer for the overall competition, as well as a prize for each best monthly score (i've got that right, right??), it just wasn't enough of an incentive for the amount of graft you had to put in to playing the game.

Yeh the payouts could have been structured a lot better paying just first with 20k entries! Riiight OK. I think it's fair to say most people weren't playing due to the prize given how unlikely it is to win there surely can't be that many super optimistic people out there! Paying the top 20 wouldn't have taken that much work and surely anyone in the running is going to be pretty eager to get their hands on the money especially when 20th could easily be paid a solid £500 or so. I guess it doesn't matter now they've binned it.

jimmii

Really hope the site does go live on Monday. Pre-season tinkering is one of my favourite parts of the game!

manual_man

jimmii wrote: »

Yeh the payouts could have been structured a lot better paying just first with 20k entries! Riiight OK. I think it's fair to say most people weren't playing due to the prize given how unlikely it is to win there surely can't be that many super optimistic people out there! Paying the top 20 wouldn't have taken that much work and surely anyone in the running is going to be pretty eager to get their hands on the money especially when 20th could easily be paid a solid £500 or so. I guess it doesn't matter now they've binned it.

they just put zero thought into the prizes side of things. 25k for winner wasn't it? could have easily had 10k for winner and then paid out places 2-50 even. private leagues competition would have been good too (average score of top 5 teams in each private league). there's so much you can do to incentivize with prizes side of things... anyway feck it, no more stressing after the usual fpl deadline each week :P