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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Evening all are we still tinkering see most members going with two cheap Fwds is this the way to go ????
Think it might be the future! Too many decent attacking Mids/strikers
It’s the only way to fit the mids we want in our squad i think. Not many decent mid range fwd options in my opinion so that’s why I’ve gone for 2 cheapo’s
Benteke moving somewhere to get game time would be fantastic
That stood out to me too Silvers. Assuming it’s a necessity then to get the mids but I haven’t done a team yet. Shame that as I had Kun, Ibra, Hazard, Payet, Miky and and a saver for Sanchez all down as nailed in my mind!
I haven’t done a team yet but there’s no way i’ll start with two shite strikers. No chance.
LVG said that last season….
He said a lot of things.
Agreed NIN. It’s a suicidal tactic to follow at the start of the season as we don’t know which cheap forwards are going to perform. Once we’re a few weeks into the season it’s certainly an option as was proven last season with Vardy & Ighalo.
Yeah, there aren’t really any stand out possibilities at first glance. 3-5-2 with Aguero & Ibra is a possibility.
Depends how shite they are!
My starting strikers wont be from Burnley and Bournemouth, that’s all i can say for now mate!
Game on!
Here’s my 1st of many.
Have to say that it’s tough this year with some strange prices. How did hazard not go down & why is coutinho the cheapest of Liverpools best mid options. Disappointing to see Antonio listed as mid too.
Hey Hammers, I like Townsend, he’s defo on my watchlist. Decent returns at the end of the season there in a poor team. Palace started off great last term too so you’d expect something similar again I suppose as at least they’ve got the prep thing down to a T. No idea what they did for Christmas mind you
Yeah think Townsend could Defo be one to have this year with his shoot on site policy.
Hoping benteke joins him at palace too as it would give us a decent mid priced fwd option
let the fun begin
Welcome back. Maybe this season you can dream of a better ranking. 😉 😛
What a welcome back! Raz is applying for our concierge position
Has to get the P right first though :p
Have to try get logged on first Raz. Having some technical issues
What’s up Dreamers? Matt can’t log on via his phone still.
Aaah sorry to hear so mate, hope you will get in soon. 😉
On the other hand, if you login later, maybe you can beat your login rank, at the end of the season. 😛
It doesnt seem to acknowledge my email address – yet if I click register it prepopulates both my email address and password. Have tried the reset password a couple of hours ago – no mail yet. Seems to be a thing that only will email you if your email is on their system. Dont want to lose the history by registering another email address.
I couldn’t login on my phone, so had to find a laptop. 😉
Dreamers I had that on my PC earlier as I registered for someone else first and from then on it insisted on pre-populating both boxes. Even when I typed a new one it ignored what I’d typed. Basically I went to my saved passwords on my browser and just deleted that e-mail from it. Fixed it immediately.
Many of the teams I have seen include a Liverpool mid of some kind. Just wondering with those fixtures if that is really all that wise. Although they have shown the capacity to score, so it might be more about avoiding their defenders than their attacking players.
I haven’t included any so far mate, Firminho or Coutinho are 2 i have in mind going forward but i like to start strong, find out it wasn’t strong at all, panic and then point hit until i welcome the cows back home!
Benteke to Palace would be a transfer that would make me slightly edit my team. Feel he would be brilliant there with Bolasie and Townsend hitting in crosses! Only 7.5 aswell
Will his ego allow him to go there though, that’s the real question.
Hi everyone, any suggestion?
ManUtd
That’s not a bad first draft at all.
Assuming Lukaku is still at Everton then they open with a decent little run.
Midfield looks very tasty. No complaints about that!