The Premier League is resuming and so is FPL. In this article, we’re putting together a complete guide for beginners looking to join the fantasy premier league community.
We’d be sharing helpful FPL tips, we’d be talking about the rules of the game, the chips and how to get started playing FPL. Do make sure to sit back and enjoy this article.
We hope that at the end of this article, we’d be able to help you get started and also help you to become a pretty decent FPL manager.
Getting started with FPL
How to create an FPL account
If you’re looking to get started with FPL, then you’d need to create an FPL account. You can create an FPL account by signing up through the official premier league mobile app or by going to the official fantasy premier league website.
When you are creating your FPL account, you’d have to fill up three forms, one for: personal details, another for your favorites, and then the last form you’d fill is, your email preference.
Once you create an account and you’ve given your team a name, then you can now start playing the fantasy premier league game.
What is FPL and why are over 9 million people playing it
FPL, or Fantasy Premier League, is a popular online fantasy football game that allows players to create and manage their own virtual teams made up of real-life players from the English Premier League.
In FPL, fantasy premier league managers are given a budget of100 million, to build their team and they must select a squad of 15 players from the Premier League.
why are over 9 million people playing it?
Now that we know what FPL is, the question is why are so many people playing the game? The answer is:
FPL is a fun and exciting game that allows players to test their football knowledge and management skills against others from around the world.
It is a fun game for those who are die-hard Premier League fans and for those who are just looking for a new and exciting way to follow the action.
Basically, it is a game for everyone and playing FPL, adds to the excitement and thrill of the Premier League.
Now that we know what FPL is and how to get started, it is now time for us to take a look at the rules of the game.
Selecting your fantasy premier league team
Once you’ve signed up and given your team a name, the next thing for you to do is to pick your fantasy team. FPL managers are always given a budget of 100million and you are allowed to pick just 15 players for you fantasy team.
You’re to pick two goalkeepers, five defenders, five midfielders and three forwards. You can’t select more than three players from a Premier League team, this means that the maximum amount of players you can pick from a particular club, is three.
You also can’t spend more than 100 million, your team and the players you pick must be within your budget.
Fantasy premier league deadline
Another really important thing to note about picking and selecting your FPL team, is that there is a deadline before the start of a gameweek. This deadline, usually ends 90 minutes before the first match of a particular gameweek.
Once the deadline passes, FPL managers can’t make any more changes to their fantasy teams. It’s important and also good practice, to always keep an eye on the deadline for each gameweek.
The mobile app has a timer that counts down to the end of the deadline, this would help you know how many hours, minutes or days you have left to make changes to your fantasy team.
How do players score points in FPL
According to the official Premier League rules guide:
Points are awarded to players for goals, assists, saves and clean sheets. Players can also earn additional bonus points if they are among the top performers in the Bonus Points System (BPS) in a match.
Goal Keepers, defenders and midfielders are the only ones who get points for keeping clean sheets. Other than that, all 11 players in your team, are expected to give you fantasy points.
What happens if a player in your FPL team doesn’t play
If a player in your FPL team doesn’t play, then a player from your bench would replace that player and the points scored by your bench replacement, is then added to your total points for that gameweek.
So, it is good practice to always put your best bench player first on the substitution list. The reason being, substitutions are made automatically and the player that’s first on your bench, is always going to be picked first.
The only time when the first player on your bench won’t be used as the first sub, is when it messes with your formation. So if you’re using a 3-5-2 formation and one of your defenders fails to play and then the first player on your bench is a midfielder, the game won’t bring in a midfielder for your defender and that’s because you can’t play 2-6-2.
Rather, it would bring on the defender that’s on your bench and if the defender is the third player player on your bench, then that would be the first sub it’d make.
Captain and vice-captain in FPL explained
When picking and selecting your FPL team, it is important to always pick your captain and vice-captain. Why is this important? Well, it is because the points earned by your captain, is usually doubled.
This means if a player scores 10 points in a gameweek and he’s your captain, then he’d give you 20points. The vice-captain however is only used when your captain doesn’t play at all in a gameweek.
If your captain fails to play, then your vice-captain’s points would be doubled instead.
Note: You can’t switch captains or vice-captain after the gameweek’s deadline has passed. Make sure to always pick the player that has the highest potential of scoring the most points in a single gameweek as your FPL captain.
Leagues in FPL
Once you have created an FPL account and picked your team, you can now play and be added to leagues. You can create your own league and invite your friends to compete, or you can join public leagues.
There are no limits to the amount of players that can be in a league, expect it is set by the league admin. You can join just five public leagues and you can compete in only 25 invitational leagues.
By default, everyone is added to the overall leaderboard and the winner of the overall league, gets a ton of prizes. We’d talk about league prizes later in this article.
How to create and join leagues in FPL
To create an FPL league you can login to the official premier league site, on the top navigation bar, click on league and cups, underneath you’d see a button with a plus icon that says “Create and Join New Leagues & Cups”
Click on the button, after clicking you’d be taken to this screen:
Then you decide whether you want to join a league, or you want to create one.
How transfers work in FPL
After the start of the season, managers are given one free transfer at the start of every gameweek. They can use this transfer to buy and bring in new players to their fantasy team – the transfer must be within their budget.
The one free transfer, can be turned into two, if a transfer is not made in a particular gameweek and is carried over to the next gameweek.
You however, can’t have more than two transfers, this means you can’t roll over your two free transfers a third time and get three free transfers.
If a fantasy manager decides to make more transfers than the free transfers he has, then four points would be deducted from his points that gameweek.
This means that if you have one free transfer in a gameweek, and then you decide to make two transfers, four points would be taken away from your total points that gameweek.
Player prices in FPL
According to official fantasy premier league rules, here’s how player prices work:
Player prices change during the season depending on their popularity among all the managers in the game.
For example, a player who starts at £7.0m and is transferred into a significant number of teams could gradually rise to £7.5m, or even higher.
Managers who own the player while his price is increasing will make a profit if they sell him at the higher price.
However, they must pay a sell-on fee of 50 per cent, rounded down to the nearest £0.1m.
So in the example of the player above who has risen from £7.0m to £7.5m, managers would receive £7.2m when transferring him out.
Do player prices increase and reduce in FPL?
Yes, FPL player prices do increase and they also reduce. The increment of players prices is based on popularity. If a player is being transferred in by so many managers, then his price would increase by 0.1million.
And if a player is being sold or transferred out by so many FPL managers, then his price would reduce by 0.1million.
In order to not be hit by the reduction in price, it’s good practice to sell players that are being sold by majority of FPL managers. If a player has a long-term injury, then it is better to sell such a player – keeping him could hurt the value of your team.
FPL chips
In the game, there are five chips that are given to fantasy premier league managers. The five chips are:
- Wildcard(two times a season)
- Free hit
- Triple captain
- Bench boost
The FPL wildcard chip
The most powerful chip, is the wildcard chip. The wildcard allows you to make total change to your entire fantasy team. You’re allowed to make and remove all 15 players from your team.
You still do need to work within the 100million budget. This chip is given to fantasy managers twice a season, one is given in the first half of a season and another is given in the second half of a season.
You can check out our FPL Gw 24 tips: How To Create The Perfect FPL Wildcard Draft For Gw 24 And Dgw25 article. In the article we talk about key things you should consider before adding a player to your wildcard team.
If you’re looking to create your GW17 wildcard team, and you don’t know what midfielders to target, you can check out our: The best FPL midfielder player picks for GW17 – fantasy premier league tips.
and to know the best forward player picks, check out: The best forward player picks for your GW17 FPL team. We’ve also got a really solid defender’s player pick article: FPL GW17 defender player picks: the best defenders for your GW17 team.
You can also check out our GW17 wildcard team here in this article: FPL GW17 wildcard team: some of the best gameweek 17 wildcard teams.
The FPL free hit FPL chip
The free hit chip is very similar to the wildcard chip, the only difference is that the changes made to your team, would only have an effect for a single gameweek.
The free hit chip allows you to change all 15 players in your fantasy team for just one gameweek, after the gameweek is over, your team would go back to the way it was before the free hit chip was used.
The FPL triple captain FPL chip
When the triple captain chip is used in FPL, the player who is tripled captained, would have his actual points tripled in that gameweek. You can’t have a normal captain and a triple captain in your team.
The bench boost FPL chip
Bench boost simply adds the points of the players on your bench to your total points in a gameweek. So, if the bench boost is played, you’d be getting the points of 15 players.
Where can you get FPL tips for free
Well, there are so many ways for you to get FPL tips on a weekly and daily basis free of charge. You could check out Youtube, you could read blogs and you could also check out the official premier league site for tips and updates.
Here are a couple of YouTube channels and blogs that you could check out for free fantasy premier league tips:
YouTube channels
Blogs
And you can always count on us here at raensports to provide you with FPL tips on a weekly and daily basis. We share tips about captain picks, wildcard teams, transfer targets and chip strategy. So do make sure to check us out as well.
FPL prizes
There are a ton of rewards that you can get from playing FPL. There are weekly prizes, monthly prizes and a grand prize for the person who finishes top in the overall league.
Here are all the prizes available in the FPL game:
Prizes
Overall Prizes
1st Prize – 2022/23 Fantasy Premier League Champion
- 7-night break in the UK including VIP hospitality at two 2023/24 Premier League matches
- A week’s worth of experiences at popular tourist attractions courtesy of Visit Britain
- Includes travel and 7 nights’ accommodation
- Hublot connected watch
- Copy of FIFA 23
- Laptop computer OR SIM-free smartphone
- Noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones (in-ear OR on-ear)
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
Runner-up
- VIP hospitality at one 2023/24 Premier League match
- Includes travel and 2 nights’ accommodation
- Copy of FIFA 23
- Laptop computer OR SIM-free smartphone
- Noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones (in-ear OR on-ear)
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
3rd place
- Copy of FIFA 23
- Laptop computer OR SIM-free smartphone
- Noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones (in-ear OR on-ear)
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
4th place
- Copy of FIFA 23
- Tablet computer
- Bluetooth speaker
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
5th place
- Copy of FIFA 23
- Bluetooth speaker
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
2022/23 FPL Cup Winner
- VIP hospitality at one 2023/24 Premier League match
- Includes travel and 2 nights’ accommodation
- Copy of FIFA 23
- Tablet computer
- Bluetooth speaker
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
Monthly Prizes
Manager of the Month
- Laptop computer OR SIM-free smartphone
- Copy of FIFA 23
- Nike Flight match ball
- Nike manager jacket
Top 10 Managers each month (incl Manager of the Month) will receive:
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
Weekly Prizes
Manager of the Week*
- Noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones (in-ear OR on-ear)
- Copy of FIFA 23
- Nike Flight match ball
- FPL rucksack
- FPL mug
Weekly Runner-up*
- Bluetooth speaker
- FPL mug
Top 20 Managers each week (incl Manager of the Week & Weekly Runner-up) will receive:
- FPL t-shirt, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
Second Chance Prizes
1st Prize
- Two hospitality tickets at one 2023/24 Premier League match
- Includes travel and 2 nights’ accommodation
- Tablet computer
- Bluetooth speaker
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
Runner-up
- Two general admission tickets at one 2023/24 Premier League match
- Includes travel and 2 nights’ accommodation
- Bluetooth speaker
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
3rd place
- Tablet computer
- Bluetooth speaker
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
4th place
- Copy of FIFA 23
- Bluetooth speaker
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
5th place
- Nike manager jacket
- FPL goody bag consisting of a rucksack, t-shirt, mug, water bottle, stress ball, pen, pad and key ring
* To be eligible to win a weekly prize, you must have joined the game before the start of the season or a minimum of two clear Gameweeks before the one in which you are top of the weekly leaderboard. Players who have played a chip (including Bench Boost, Free Hit Triple Captain or Wildcard) will not be eligible to win a weekly prize for the Gameweek that such a chip has been used.
Redeyedrae, is an FPL content writer with years of experience in playing and writing about FPL. He has written for major FPL blogs like ALLABOUTFPL, Fantasytipsters, FF Titans, and nevermanagealone. With his deep knowledge of the game, he has become a trusted source for FPL fans worldwide. His content is well-researched and always up-to-date. He’s passionate about helping FPL managers gain an edge in their leagues by sharing insights and analysis about everything fantasy football on raensports.
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