FPL launch 2016/17 – New Rules and Player Pricelist
Finally it is live! FPL is back, life as we know it will not be the same for the next 10 months! At first glance there seems little change to last season – budget and squad size is naturally the same and the four chips remain in place, including the two wildcards – one to be used in the first half of the season, the other to be used in the second half of the season. The first may not be carried over – so use it or lose it. The only change seems to be in the calculation of bonus points – a breakdown of which can be found under the Rules tab.
With less than a month to go before the start of the season, managers will be busily playing with different formations and strategies, so to help you on your way, let’s take a very brief look at some of the highlights of the price list for the players.
Players Price List – initial reaction
The most expensive player (as per usual!) is Sergio Aguero who again costs 13mln, while the success last season of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez sees their prices rocket to eliminate their bargain status! Nolito and Anthony Martial being listed as midfielders may attract decent support. Zlatan Ibrahimovic comes in at 11.5mln to make him the second most expensive player while Diego Costa costs just 9.5mln, making him cheaper than Harry Kane, Daniel Sturridge and Jamie Vardy. Daley Blind are Chris Brunt are now listed as defenders, while Eric Dier is now listed as a midfielder.
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New player prices – some of the new players to the Premiership
Zlatan Ibrahimovic 11.5mln
Henrikh Mkhitaryan 9.5mln
Michy Batshuayi 9.0mln
Nolito 9.0mln
Eric Bailly 5.5mln
And some selected old favourites:
Sergio Aguero 13.0mln
Harry Kane 11.0mln
Daniel Sturridge 10.0mln
Jamie Vardy 10.0mln
Diego Costa 9.5mln
Olivier Giroud 9.0mln
Wayne Rooney 9.0mln
Alexis Sanchez 11.0mln
Kevin de Bruyne 10.5mln
Eden Hazard 10.0mln
Dimitri Payet 9.5mln
Riyad Mahrez 9.5mln
Anthony Martial 9.5mln
Mesut Ozil 9.5mln
Firmino 8.5mln
You will all have your own views and may spot the glaring bargain that I have missed. So please share your thoughts below on both the new changes to the game (the chips) and also your thoughts on the prices and maybe you’ve even begun to draft your initial squad.
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FPL launch 2016/17 – New Rules and Player Pricelist. This article was written by Cookie
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Morning all, well after an enjoyable time away from Fantasy Football, I thought it was time to get my ugly mug back around these pages! Ok, ok I heard there is money for the regulars league this year
How are we all? What are our thoughts on the new FPL page?
PS, has anyone had any joy getting the app?
Morning Kiwi – good to see you mate. I like the site – which says something for someone who hates change!! Can’t find the official app so I guess Init is correct when he says they haven’t released it – unless you know different!
Alright Big Blue, I know nothing! Hows sunny Monaco? I was thinking of you as I watch the GP this year. Looked class.
Hot and sunny Kiwi, too hot in fact, but stuck in the office so all cool. Literally! Yeah the GP was good this year, for a change, I actually watched past lap 2 !!
Damn right pal! Its on my bucket list (how long are you planning on being there for, just planning how long I have a bed there for!)
The way my family is growing there won’t be a bed for me soon enough!
Congratulations mate, way out of touch, do you have a new one or are you due one?
Two due, end of September mate!
Mate that’s great news, congrats (and good luck!) 😉 seriously, I’m well chuffed!
Congrats Cookie! That’s great news. For you and for us, you see, now you’ll have to move to a bigger house thus lot’s of beds for us regulars to visit monaco!!
#monacobedsfortheregulars
Cheers DMC, glad you’ve got it all worked out mate 😉
You’re all welcome of course, we need all the baby sitters we can get!
Cheers Cookie, congrats on the soon-to-be new ones! How many does that make now? I’m losing my mind with just 2, we’ve hit our limit!
Second that Colriles.
Thank you Colriles mate – that will make 5 in total, three with the current mrs and 2 with the wicked witch of west wales
You brave man Cookie , I have 3 daughters which was enough for me but really mate congratulations your in for a few late nights you can join me on the site when I get in late , brilliant mate
lol thanks Silvers. Two certainly wasn’t planned, but we’re very excited and looking forward to it. I imagine I’ll defo be on strange times of the night as you say and we’ll be having some stoopid RMT chats at 3am or whenever you rock in!
The upside is I’m hoping it’ll get me out of TT for the season 😉
Congrats Cook that’s great mate.
Congrats Cookster. My twins are 28 now, its a long hard slog mate, enjoy.
Thanks for the reassuring words Elle.
Welcome to the Twins club Cookie.
Mine are 7 & i still feel like a broken man at the end of each day! LOL
ah cool Hammers, well done mate! It doesn’t bode well for me does it?!
Morning Alex and welcome back! I like the new site myself but it’s a bit of a marmite job it seems.
Don’t think they’ve released the App just yet.
Cheers Init. Yup I think its pretty good (the site, not marmite, that stuff tastes like shit!) What draft are you on? Team taking shape?
I’ve logged in and had a look around. That’s it so far! The hazard of doing this and looking after twitter is always the lack of time for your own team.
Init, you always do well in this game. Give me your log in, i’ll do your team mwhahahaha
Morning NZ I don’t mind the site but others not so keen , I have put a team together but will be lots of tinkering yet. I feel their will be a lot of different teams out there this season with so many quality players in the prem now.
Morning Silvers, how are you pal? Yup I agree about the differing teams, should be an interesting season!
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How’s that Community Team of yours coming along mate?
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Morning GP, well I need to have a word with the 3rd wise monkey, young Elle, I can’t log in!! Will send you a message shortly pal, been thinking about the team. So hows your team, now you’ve robbed Barton from our FPL options! 😉
Sir Joey you mean? Played a good debut last night. He’ll walk it up here mate.
Yeah we’ll get chatting and get this Community Team show on the road.
Good to see you back on here mate.
Just an admin note – if you so wish you can link your username to your FPL history so that your name clicks through to it. You do that by accessing your profile and adding in your FPL season history URL to the website box. Anyway the point was if you already normally do this you’ll have to update it with your new FPL ID number or it’ll show someone else’s.
Anyone having trouble logging in it’s saying the page is unsafe.
all ok here mate
Yeah that’s what’s happening to me mate.
What do you think of Livermore. He may play holding mid but from what I’ve seen of him he shoots a lot.
Hazardo
I’ve gone Maloney at 4.5M as my fifth midfielder only because I know he takes some free kicks and corners and I think he is fair-priced for just that. I would look at Snodgrass first before Livermore but to be honest Hull still need to come in to the market to strengthen so it depends who they buy really.
Thanks GP will have a look at Maloney
Mahrez staying at Leicester according to Raineri hmmm thought he would have gone glad he didnt but back to tweaking team as vardy staying they should still be lethal together
great to see Payet staying at West Ham as well ( so far ) a pairing of mahrez and payet vs say mikhitaryan and nolitoi a toughy for me, I know give new players awhile to settle but got burned bad last season waiting on dependables to get going that didnt or rarely did ie Hazard, Sanchez for long spells and Lukakus rubbishness… gut to go with newbies heart to go with last seasons gems
Hello Geoffrey, will they be found out now though? They went off the boil somewhat at the end of last season.
hi Alex, thats what im thinking… my team so far is all cheap newly promoted teams at the back and mostly expensive unproven EPL palyers in mid and upfront result is an incredibly unbalanced team but one Im happy with ha ha….. plenty of time left though
Hey geoffreys
From what I can read on the new signing Musa, not only did he have a good scoring record n Russia, but he is absolutely lightning quick so it would appear that the ‘soak up pressure and hit’ tactic may still be in evidence. Leicester need teams to leave them space in behind to be absolutely lethal but especially heading in to the CL, they need to find a new way to play I think. I would like some coverage and if Mahrez stays, I’ll no doubt have some. The guy Mendy looks a straight replacement for Kante so hopefully he won’t be missed too greatly, brilliant player though he is.
hi Gallant I read an amazing stat the other day that Kante had more midfield interceptions last season than the entire chelsea midfield combined.. not great for points in FPL though but incredible player
If grey can cement a place he will be a bargain at 5mil. Scored the other day and apparently was excellent.
I remember him doing so well at Birmingham which ultimately got him that move. Need to make sure he plays consistently though as you say Alex.
Here are my first 2 drafts… My favoured choice leans towards the ‘big guns’ (Aguero & Ibra), and eventually bringing in Gundogan for Fernandinho.
My second team is much more balanced with a weaker strike force but a much stronger midfield.
What do you think?
I would use a combo of the two. Cheap out on defence, get aguero and as much of the other midfield as possible but drop ibra. Just me
For me, if you went with the non-Aguero/Ibra team you’d probably end up wildcarding early. It’s suicide to start with no big forwards in my opinion because it’s then hard to being them in once they shit on your dinner for a few weeks and start getting even more expensive. Drop Hart to a 4mln maybe and make some defensive downgrades – pile that extra cash into midfield then as I don’t think Xhaka or Kante are food picks at all. Or Fernandinho for that matter. Three DM’s right there, not what we want at all.