General chat 22/23

Thanks for the info. Is there still talk of the Big 6 getting an extra week off and no games for them in GW16?

Played the official FPL for years, but stopped about 8 years ago when I changed jobs (there was no real interest in the new place). Thinking of coming back to it this year though. Is the official Fantasy Premier League still the go to game?

Have had a look at the FPL site. Seems the only change implemented since I last played are the chips. I look forward to misusing them all in GW1!

If you're bored/desperate/having withdrawals Live FPL have a draft practice tool on their site. Basically it lets you mess around with your squad á la the real FPL site, with the obvious caveats that a) the prices are only best guesses right now, and b) player's positions may be wrong.

I wonder what changes there will be this year. How will they handle the break for the World Cup for instance.

I'd have thought an extra wild-card is possible, even probable. Akin to the one that was given out in May 2020 when the league restarted after the initial Covid shutdown.

Otherwise you potentially have people who have a solid squad of 15 at the start of November, and then have a dozen injured/unavailable players at the end of December. Now to an extent that's tough luck and could theoretically happen to your team on any game week, but optically I'd say it's the sort of thing they'd want to avoid and thus an extra wildcard purely for the resumption week is a solution.

They did say its launching in July. My money would be on Friday. Maybe a few early price leaks tomorrow.

FPL announcing prices today for the new season.

Arsenal so far:

• Tomiyasu 4.5
• White 4.5
• Gabriel 5.0
• Tierney 5.0
• Martinelli 6.0
• ESR 6.0
• Vieira 6.0
• Nketiah 7.0
• Saka 8.0
• Odegaard 6.5
• Ramsdale 5.0

White was a great cheap option last year at the same price. Tomiyasu is a great option at 4.5 too.

Cancelo at 7.0. I wonder does that mean Robbo will also be 7.0 & TAA 7.5? James & Chilwell 6.5 & 6.0 maybe.

Haaland at 11.5 is cheaper than I thought he would be.

Cancelo - £7.0

Dias - £6.0

Walker - £5.0

KDB- £12.0

Sterling - £10.0

Foden - £8.0

Mahrez - £8.0

Gundogan - £7.5

Grealish - £7.0

Bernardo - £7.0

Haaland - £11.5

I thought 12.0 for Haaland so the extra 0.5 will do nicely.

It'll be interesting to see what positions some players will be classified as this season and if any big changes.

Salah/Son/Jota/Sterling as forwards for example.

And now the Seagulls.

Salah 13.0

Trent 7.5

Diaz 8.0

VVD 6.5

Robbo 7.0

Darwin 9.0

Jota 9.0 (Forward)

Looking at it now, the pricing is odd but in a good way. Very curious to see Spurs' prices now, especially Son.

Digne probably the fantasy fullback of choice

My thoughts are Dwight Gayle probably doesn't start and have a rest while FPL isn't officially open. Plenty of time to be obsessed with it when we can actually tinker.