General chat 22/23

Mr Crispy

Havertz moving from MID to FOR makes him even less desirable.

Shedite27

Goalkeepers seem significantly cheaper this year, Alison down to 5.5 and Mendy down to 5

The days of the budget keepers might be dead

F1ngers

Can log in and update your profile now.

Nothing new though.

Xander10

Has the 5 sub rule been confirmed for the PL next season?

F1ngers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119287670#Comment_119287670

It has.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/60945430

extra gravy

Two factor authentication introduced.

Cartman78

Will the 5 sub rule have much of an effect on FPL I wonder 🤔

I'm guessing key assets will be rotated/rested a lot more...ie. if City are 4 up after 60 mins will KDB and Haaland be whipped off?

Struggling to muster any sort of enthusiasm for the season ahead tbh 🙁

Shedite27

Peresic in as a defender. Surprised at that - 5.5m - always thought of him as a left winger.

Son still a mid - 12m

Kane 11.5

SlickRic

It’s quite obvious that FPL Towers are taking a different approach to trying to remove the template (even though there will no doubt still be one).

Unless there is a new feature where we all have to have an extra player or something, FPL are giving us every possibility to go against the grain.

You can go big at the back, or you can go small at the back.  Both are eminently viable with the amount of tasty 4.5 and 5.0 picks back there.  But if you plump to double up on premium defenders, you could reap the benefits.

They’re making people make a choice on Salah.  They’re doing similar with Son.  You can’t have all premium picks at the back, but also have Son, Salah, Haaland and KDB.  Saka is even a little expensive at 8.0, making you make a choice.

I think we’re all in for a surprise as to how the pricing will play out.  

They’re even making us make a choice on keepers.  Alisson + Robbo/TAA is a completely viable route now.  Mendy at 5.0 gives you a choice to make - it’s really hard to ignore him, but there are so many 4.5 keepers.

I think the key to these pricings is you have to make choices everywhere.

Mr Crispy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119288426#Comment_119288426

Agree with all* of that. I also think (be it an intentional by-product of the pricing or not), that casuals will be more engaged because it's just easier to build a team of top 6 players, so no "research" of the promoted teams for example will be needed.

Forwards are still terrible value comparatively though. I'd like if they tweaked the scoring system to make them more interesting.

*The only exception being I'll find it quite easy to ignore Mendy. 😁

SlickRic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119288593#Comment_119288593

Forwards are the biggest issue, and that's nothing to do with the pricing. It's all to do with how football itself has evolved.

Move Salah, Foden and Son in there for instance, and you have a completely different set of challenges when picking your squad.

Shedite27

This time of year always seems a bit silly in FSA and following twitter accounts. Everyone get bogged down in creating a team without looking at fixtures, then in August it gets a bit real, people see who's got better/worse starts and they all change.

McBain11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119288613#Comment_119288613

I've been a bit bemused by the placement of the likes of Salah as a midfielder in the FPL game for years now. If Salah plays for Liverpool for another 3 seasons or more, he'll most likely go down as one of the all time great Liverpool and English top flight forwards. He's there 5 seasons now and has been the PL top scorer in 3 of those, and he's a midfielder in the FPL game!

So what exactly is the thinking here from the FPL overlords? Is it a case of if they move the likes of Salah, Son and others into the forward bracket, the picks in midfield in the game will become exceptionally slim and a bit boring? For me in the last 2/3 seasons that has happened anyway, it's just that it's happening in the forward bracket with such slim pickings available there.

Mr Crispy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119288613#Comment_119288613

Again, we're not really disagreeing with each other.

To be clear, I'm not asking for the prices of forward players to be changed. I'm asking for a tweak to their scoring system. Off the top of my head, give forwards 5 points for a goal instead of 4. Mids still get to keep their clean sheet point and would still be favoured for BPs, but suddenly forwards are more attractive.

Shedite27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119288740#Comment_119288740

Big scores are good for business I'd imagine. People like seeing their players hitting 20+ points in a week. I think it's in their interest to have the likes of Salah, Son, Mane as mids all these years.

Mr Crispy

Yeah, it's maybe partly a legacy from the days of Lamps, Stevie G, Fabregas etc, although they were all very obviously midfielders in the traditional sense.

When Forest revealed the prices for their players, they said the rest of the team's prices would be revealed "later in the month". Maybe game launch isn't as imminent as some of us thought.

machiavellianme

Was forced to change my password and other details today which gave me hope that the game had relaunched. Sadly not, GW38 still greets me.

bmorrissey

So far i like the prices. A lot of good viable options of mid ranged and low ranged price to choose from. In terms of promoted teams was hoping Johnson for forest would be MID not FWD so wont pick him just yet. Gonna take a trust on Solanke for a cheap FWD, Yates for a Cheap MID and i dont trust any of the fulham players

Fitz*

Not sure if he was a viable option from the start anyways, but Richarlison is suspended for GW1 now.

I think this needs to be said again -

Boards is obviously on its last legs.

So whenever setting up and collecting money for cash leagues it would be great if we can think of a way to pay out winners if/when boards ceases to exist.

McBain11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119292825#Comment_119292825

Discord app/website is the best bet in this scenario imo. Already a number of people from Boards FSA on there. The more people that join that from pay leagues on here, the better.

https://discord.gg/fRYbxCPS

link to the boards group on discord above

Thanks McBain

So would be good if all league administrators and cash collectors make sure they are at least signed up there now ?

Before the season starts ?

Dearg81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119288740#Comment_119288740

They just lazily view wide attacking players players in a 433 or 343 all as wingers. Liverpool always play with inside forwards (as opposed to wingers) so they should be classified as forwards in the game.

Shedite27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119292825#Comment_119292825

I'm in a few Fantasy NFl elagues with people I don't know and we use TeamStake to hold the cash for the year. At the end of the year the admin proposes who gets the winnings, and it the payout has to be ratified by a few other players. Good system if you're worries about boards.

Ros1234

It's live! best of luck everyone

SkySter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119294103#Comment_119294103

Any rule changes? The normal link to rules under help appears broken.

extra gravy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119294301#Comment_119294301

Doesn't seem to be. There'll be unlimited transfers available during the World Cup is only important thing I can see.

dsmythy

Seems it's unlimited transfers during the World Cup. A season of two halves.

ArmaniJeanss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254495#Comment_119254495

Looks like I'm a bit of 'in the know'.

Seems to be unlimited transfers during the WC, effectively an extra wildcard.

Xander10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119294396#Comment_119294396

You play a wildcard and your locked in? Here you can chop and change continuously during the break.

I presume we are back to one wildcard this season.

Mr Crispy

So haven't played FPL in quite a few years. What are the various leagues that boardsies run each season?

Did you smash it

So no wildcard from January on this season? Bit **** for players who delay use of the wildcards like me

ArmaniJeanss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119297311#Comment_119297311

Not sure where you are getting that misinformation from.

There's the usual wildcard for the second half of the season.

"The Wildcard chip can be used twice a season. The first wildcard will be available from the start of the season until Sat 12 Nov 13:30. The second wildcard will be available after Mon 26 Dec 13:30 in readiness for the January transfer window opening and remain available until the end of the season. The Wildcard chip is played when confirming transfers that cost points and can't be cancelled once played."

Shedite27

Had a proper look through it today. World Cup is after GW 16, when we've a free Wildcard, so the latest I'm going to likely use my fist WC is about GW9 (international break).

So planning for the firs 8 weeks, the teams with the nicest schedules* are the big 5 teams really.

• Lovely fixtures - City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs
• Decent Fixtures - United, Leicester

Think I may end up with all of Salah, Kane, Haaland those first 8 weeks, their home games are as nice as they get, lots of captaincy options...

• Salah - Palace, Bournemouth, Newcastle, Wolves (and Fulham away)
• Kane - Southampton, Wolves, Fulham (and Forest away)
• Haaland - Bournemouth, Palace, Forest (and WH, Newcastle, Villa, Wolves away)

I'm edging towards Kane over Son, Think I'd prefer Kane +8m midfielder (Saka, Dias, Foden) over Son and 7.5m striker (or even a Jesus/DCL at 8m).

Leicester and Arsenal defenders look decent value, Castagne and Perreira are both 4.5 if we could figure out which one will start. Would be great if one got sold.

What.Now

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119298855#Comment_119298855

Is Kane's notorious start still a Thing.

Did you smash it

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119298954#Comment_119298954

It’s possible he struggles in hot weather because he breathes through his mouth. Otherwise I wouldn’t much store in it

Degag

So, am i right in saying there are two wildcards PLUS the unlimited transfers for the WC?

Mr Crispy

Kane never scored in August up until 2018 (don't have assists data for the previous seasons);

August 2018 - 2 goals, 0 assists

August 2019 - 2 goals, 0 assists

August 2020 - season didn't start until September

August 2021 - back to 0 goals, 0 assists but he arrived back late after his move to City didn't materialise.

razorblunt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119278369#Comment_119278369

Hwang down as a MID.

Canos DEF.

Green&Red

Anyone else moving over to the BB GW1 strategy this season? It'll be my second year with it, the second WC probably makes decreases its effectiveness but IMO its still the best place to play it.

One of the main drivers is that you generally play your WC in GW3/4, at that stage you can move to a non playing striker and depending on your formation a 4m defender or a 4.5m mid, saving yourself 1m, according to Hub thats 0.5pts/GW across the season. So thats a hidden benefit to your GW1 BB

F1ngers

Did it last year and will do it again this year.

Usually wildcard early to get in my cheap bench fodder.

Shedite27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119337295#Comment_119337295

Did it last year because the fixtures lined up, must have a look to see if there's a BB I'd line in GW1 or 2. Would definitely consider doing it again.

F1ngers

Is VVD/Matip +1m/1.5m an option instead of TAA?

That money would be handy elsewhere.

VVD was only 25 points behind TAA with a better PPM than TAA too.

Just thinking out loud, will probably stick with TAA.

Markx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119337295#Comment_119337295

It's an interesting one - I've had somebody trying to convince me to do it, and they are even advocating wildcarding week 2 but i struggle to get my head round it. Maybe with the value in the likes of Bailey,Neto and Williams it can work well this year.

I used it after the first WC a few years ago and while it was hardly a roaring success it did free me to streamline my squad subsequently.

How was you experience of using it last year?

Green&Red

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119386087#Comment_119386087

Average enough score, nothing disastrous but nothing stellar, the teens, can't remember exactly but it's the points you're making after that can't be calculated that attract me

Morzadec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119386087#Comment_119386087

I did it last year. I got 12 points from the bench (2,2,2,6). I got some good points then as well by having a GK (Schmeichel) in starting XI who I wouldn't have had if I hadn't BB'd (just goes to show how it's hard to quantify the chip).

Overall I don't think I had a great start last year after the GW1 (so again hard to quantify the chip, my funds were more distributed than usual) and there did end up being a double GW later in the year where a BB would have been very handy and I'm sure a lot of people comfortably outscored my 12 points.

I also think that it would be hard getting together a reasonable 15 while keeping the players that I am considering non-negotiable in my team (Salah, Haaland, TAA, Cancelo)

So personally I will be avoiding the GW1 BB after last year. If someone is ballsy enough to go no Salah then I could see the appeal of a GW1 BB though

Green&Red

Talk that Schemichel is off to Nice on loan

Mr Crispy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119390184#Comment_119390184

Unhappy with their lack of activity in the market?

maximo31

Is the Annual Boards Zarquon Paid League 21/22 going ahead this year or has an alternative league been set up?

Trimm Trabb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119403203#Comment_119403203

Doesn’t seem to be - it was quite a bit smaller last year.

if anyone does know of any cash leagues that aren’t on the forum post them up or send us a PM please.