Price Changes FPL 14/15 **Mod warning 1st post**

Another possibility is that their thresholds have changed since the season began, throwing all calculations off.

GiftofGab wrote: »

Can’t believe there is so much talk about these price changes sites.

The game is harder now that people can’t just pick players for the sake of gaining team value.

With all these sites and forums you can be a great player without actually watching football.

Now you have to pick players based on performance, form etc. It’s a gut instinct on when a player is likely to rise / fall and you as a player have to make a decision on when to buy / sell a player. Thus making the game all the more enjoyable.

With such a lecture on how we can make the game harder for ourselves I'm pretty much expecting you to present 3 top 1k finishes to show how the game was previously too easy for you

Honestly it's only in the last 2 seasons that I've noticed third party price sites having a huge influence. Going back 6/7 years I'm pretty sure we were even more in the dark than we are today. Some people are complaining that they made a change but at the same time are saying that they should start supplying the information freely on the site - which would be a bigger change than what they did!

In any case this is all internet outrage stuff, if people were genuinely put off by it they'd have stopped playing by now.

iroced wrote: »

Just to avoid a little confusion in the debate. Price rises/falls are not exclusively related with building up your team value. As 8-10 said it's only in the recent years that such emphasis has been put on that, especially in the last 2 years when FPL removed the weighting factors on rises/falls and players were rising/falling super fast (they even had to make a threshold to 3 rises/falls).

I mean if you're just about to afford a player you now HAVE to get him in early. Because you have no reliable info on when he could rise. I think it's an important downside to the "new" system. And that's this lack of control I regret and don't like. Some find it more fun, Some think it's no big deal. Each opinion is as valuable as the others. And in fairness, we'll only really know in a couple of months how it affects or not the game.

Yeah I get that and it is a fair viewpoint. I'm just strong in my viewpoint that this reliable info is not really a fair situation as it was provided by third party sites, and the lack of it now makes the game more challenging.

As I said earlier in the year, any changes that means that casual players will last longer through the season are good in my book. Others have the view that if you put in the effort throughout the year to track price changes and build team value to have the best possible team down the stretch, then you should be allowed to have an advantage over players who weren't as dedicated. Trust me I understand that viewpoint too and it's also valid.

Personally I get no satisfaction of finishing ahead of ghost teams near the end of the season. My preference would be for everybody to stay active as long as possible. And FPL I would imagine are trying to do all they can to have players active throughout the year and increase the number of players year-on-year. What's important to them is hits on their website, and I'm sure they don't care a jot about website hits for the third party sites.

8-10 wrote: »

Honestly it's only in the last 2 seasons that I've noticed third party price sites having a huge influence. Going back 6/7 years I'm pretty sure we were even more in the dark than we are today. Some people are complaining that they made a change but at the same time are saying that they should start supplying the information freely on the site - which would be a bigger change than what they did!

In any case this is all internet outrage stuff, if people were genuinely put off by it they'd have stopped playing by now.

If I remember correctly, going back that far there were no price changes.

Any indication if Ward-Prowse will drop before the weekend?

Really don;t wanna lose 0.1 on him, but don't want to take a 4 point hit either

CSF wrote: »

Yeah I cant remember the timeframe but I know they weren't always around

Well the website goes back to 2006/7 and you can see the finishing prices for each player each season if you click on their info and go to the 'History' tab

Shows Rooney at 12.2 and Drogba at 11.8 in that season so that suggests there were price movements.

2006/7 was the first season I played FPL, no idea before that

P.Walnuts wrote: »

Any indication if Ward-Prowse will drop before the weekend?

Really don;t wanna lose 0.1 on him, but don't want to take a 4 point hit either

-85% on FISO
+27 on FPLStatisics

Make what you will of that!

Swiper the fox wrote: »

The forum is always good for a laugh. There was some very insightful commentary on the Scottish referendum last week:rolleyes::pac:

Seriously though, last season they seemed to be the ones with their fingers exactly on the pulse, wonder what's going on there?

Never looked at their forum tbh!! Sounds interesting!

But ya, last year they had it bang on and FISO was all over the place. I think the guys who used to do the FISO one gave up that responsibility at the beginning of last season and the guys who took over didn't really know what was going on

G1032 wrote: »

Forster up to 5.1
Fabregas up to 9.5
No increase for Ivanovic

Fallers include Lovren and Fletcher

Will Ivanovic hurry up & rise so I can bank the 0.1 & get Baines in

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I am playing FPL since the 2002/3 season and there were price changes back then. But I have no idea when FPL started or when the price changes started.
On some old floppy disks in the attic I have some data scrapes from that era.
RvN was the man to have!

Did you ever play the ones in the 90's from the paper? You'd set your team up by using a touchtone landline phone and entering the code published for each player. You could make changes by dialling up again but it was £5 a pop or something crazy.

8-10 wrote: »

Did you ever play the ones in the 90's from the paper? You'd set your team up by using a touchtone landline phone and entering the code published for each player. You could make changes by dialling up again but it was £5 a pop or something crazy.

Claim to fame time - I won the first Irish Indo Fantasy Football back in 94/95. Touch-tone phones to select your team and only one transfer per season! My transfer was Stefan Schwarz out, Brian Roy in, gained me 1 extra point and I won by a single point so an absolute master-stroke!

8-10 wrote: »

Shearer and Cole up front?

I can't remember the whole team, but you picked 14 who all scored for you - 2 GKs, and 4 defs, mids and forwards. Definitely had Shearer and Cole alright, Mark Crossley was one of my keepers, and a great midfield of Ruel Fox, Jason Wilcox, Andrei Kanchelskis and Brian Roy/Stefan Schwarz.

I remember playing one back in the day which was all paper based (small office). Use to send everything in on paper, transfers cost 50p I remember