Fantasy Premier League Intro 2018/19
Welcome to Fantasy Premier League Intro 2018/19. As most of you are aware, FPL has been live for a couple of weeks now, but due to England’s surprising progress to the semi-finals and many of you playing both the Fantasy World Cup game and our very own Predictions Competition we have delayed any FPL articles until today. It’s full speed ahead now though as we look forward to the start of the season which kicks off on Friday 10th August.
If you’ve not been with us over the summer then we hope you feel refreshed and renewed and enjoyed some fantasy-free time. We extend a particular welcome to our new friends who have migrated over from Fantasy Football First – we hope you feel welcome and at home with us.
The purpose of this article is kick off FPL but also to provide you with all the necessary links that you will need…
FPL LEAGUES
First things first and some housekeeping – please be sure to join the main FF247 league here (autojoin link) League Code: 1581-751
There is a ‘Regulars’ league too but for access to this you need to contact Elle via elleffcee@gmail.com
This one is specifically for those who join in on the site conversation on a daily / weekly basis. Please respect that criteria before applying and wasting Elle’s time and ours.
FPL RULES
The rules for the game are simply as per last season – you have two wildcards to use, one in the first half of the season only and one to use in the second half of the season only. The other chips also remain the same – namely Triple Captain, Bench Boost and Free Hit.
So really it’s just time to start building your team if you haven’t already. No doubt the tinkering will continue right up until the GW1 deadline as players impress or not as the case may be, in preseason friendlies.
PRE-SEASON FRIENDLIES
Usually we run an article and ask people to get involved and cover the friendlies with any info they can gather. And it’s usually fun but in all honesty it’s usually also a bit messy and difficult to refer back to. This season we have one link that you will need need for all such info, courtesy of Mito –
Here you will find all the pre-season info you could ever wish for in one place – line-ups, scorers, assists, match info, sarcastic comments….
FPL FIXTURE TRACKER
(It’s scrollable btw, just swipe left or right)
FIXTURE TRACKER LINK
It’s been a busy summer already with Arsenal, Everton, West Ham and Chelsea appointing new managers, Manchester City adding to their already dominant squad, Man Utd continuing to splash the cash and Liverpool trying to protect Karius by beefing up their midfield. Spurs may even have a new home soon.
And FPL wise, this is the place to discuss strategy, learn about the promoted teams and their players while in the days and weeks to come we’ll have plenty of articles, interviews, player analysis, Bore Offs, Tips, etc, etc.
So be sure to get involved in the discussions, the RMTs and the banter as we look forward to another season of Fantasy fun!
The League Codes for FF247 for the 2018/19 season are as follows –
The main public FF247 League , which anyone is welcome to join, can be accessed using the following code 1581-751 (auto-link below).
The prize pool for this one will be confirmed in due course.
Join Our League – Quick Link
League Code: 1581-751
View league standings
Our Regulars League* for 2018/19 is now open and has a cash prize pool of £300 paid directly to the winners from the FF247 management team. The first 5 places are paid out in a tiered system.
To enter this one you need to be an active and recognised site member and you need to e-mail us for the league code – elleffcee@gmail.com
*terms and conditions apply and are available upon request. Management reserve the right to review membership of this league on an ongoing basis. If you enter and win a prize you have to have commented on the site at least 5 times for 8 consecutive months between August 2018 and March 2019 or you will not be considered for a prize. That’s basically 1 comment a week all season, we think that’s a reasonable ask to be considered a ‘regular’.
In your e-mail could you please supply:-
Your name.
Your site user name.
Your team name from last season and your new team name if it has changed.
Thanks for reading Fantasy Premier League Intro 2018/19. This article was written by Cookie
Hi all. That write up has certainly got me excited fantasy again. No doubt this bubble will burst when I score 40 points in GW1, but at least I have about a month of false hope and optimism.
Repost from last night as it is more relevant to FPL than FWC:
I hope people find this useful. It compiles the stats for goals scored by each team last season and goals conceded last season by their opponents for the first 6 GWs, with the exception of the promoted teams who have expected goals predictions for the coming season instead, as I believe that to be more relevant than what they managed to score last season in the Championship. You will notice that the promoted teams also have identical home/away goals conceded figures. This is because I have used an average of the goals conceded by the newly promoted teams over the last five years to calculate this.
I appreciate that the data for those teams are not perfect, but they are in the right ballpark.
The teams are arranged by the final column, which averages the goals conceded of their opponents last season and adds that to their goals scored H/A.
It might be easy to view on a phone on the Twitter pictures: https://twitter.com/Fpl_AT/status/1018615126633734144
Oh, and Mito, I’ll just use this to write my articles in the coming months
Cheers
This looks ace! Looking forward to having a proper study tonight!
Absolutely love the banner, Rosco. It looks even better on the site. Top effort. Wonder if it will be used throughout the year (@Floydeth) :lurker:
Thanks man! Yeah he said it would be used for more generic based articles so I imagine it will be used again!
Rosco, has anyone noticed the squad yet ?
Nobody has mentioned it!!
My price will be rising through-out the season AT :hippo:
Great to be back to FPL! Big thanks to Cookie for kicking us off!
With Jose giving his players 3 weeks off…
He made a statement yesterday with who is going to miss the first game. https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/15/jose-mourinho-confirms-manchester-uniteds-world-cup-stars-will-miss-start-premier-league-slams-scheduling-7717551/
Yeah, saw that. Posted something on that yesterday.
Chris Smalling… :what: :shake:
Welcome back FF247 team. Hoping to get over a bitter season last year. Cheers!