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FPL 2025/26: Top 1% and top 10% leagues launched

19 July 2025 96 comments
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Fantasy Premier League’s (FPL) third and final announcement on Friday was a bit more low-key than the first two.

Earlier in the day, FPL revealed that defensive contribution points were coming. Managers are also set to get two lots of chips in 2025/26.

This one was a little less dramatic: two new leagues for those who finished in the top 1% and top 10% of overall managers in 2024/25.

WHO QUALIFIES?

Managers who finished in the top 114,319 places last season have qualified for the Top 1% 24/25 League.

Managers who finished in the top 1,143,193 places last season have qualified for the Top 10% 24/25 League.

CAN YOU QUALIFY FOR NEXT SEASON’S LEAGUES?

FPL say that you can qualify for these same leagues in 2026/27 based on your finish in the upcoming campaign.

PRIZES

It’s not just for ‘fun’ either.

There are prizes for winning each of the leagues, including Puma merchandise, a replica shirt, the EA SPORTS FC game and an FPL bundle. An “exclusive FPL certificate” is also promised…

Let’s see if Saturday brings us any closer to the launch of FPL 2025/26, be it through more rule changes or the long-awaited price reveals.

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  1. Pep Roulette
    • 7 Years
    16 hours, 7 mins ago

    Hey fam! What happened to this site?

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    1. Herger
      • 3 Years
      16 hours ago

      Ffs

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    2. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      15 hours, 58 mins ago

      It's a work in progress
      https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2025/07/15/exciting-changes-to-fantasy-football-scout

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    3. WVA
      • 8 Years
      8 hours, 52 mins ago

      It’s doing my head in, won’t work in desktop mode

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  2. Sheffield Wednesday
    • 5 Years
    15 hours, 55 mins ago

    "Let’s see if Saturday brings us any closer to the launch of FPL 2025/26, be it through more rule changes or the long-awaited price reveals"

    Given FFS had advanced notice of rule changes I expect they already know the answer to this.

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    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      15 hours, 51 mins ago

      Haha, I've just done my first ever upwards reply fail. This ruddy new site man!

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      1. Sheffield Wednesday
        • 5 Years
        15 hours, 44 mins ago

        I don't think it was 'leaks to his mates' but rather official information sharing so that sites like FFS would have tools ready to analyse defensive stats under the new rules.

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  3. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    15 hours, 54 mins ago

    Really interesting episode of above average FPL tonight.

    Clearances matter by far the most for defenders with this rule change. For midfielders, recoveries is the important one.

    They're really help get players over the line and hit 10/12 CBIT/CBIT-R

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  4. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    15 hours, 48 mins ago

    The top 1% of anything is pretty good, right?

    But especially in a game with 11 million players (most of whom just copy FPL Harry or blindly follow an algorithm) should that now be the new top 10K?

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    1. Silecro
      • 7 Years
      15 hours, 41 mins ago

      Yeah, top 1% is rougly top 100k, so definitely very good ranking nowadays

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    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      15 hours, 38 mins ago

      Top 10K is the new top 10K.

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      1. Sheffield Wednesday
        • 5 Years
        15 hours, 37 mins ago

        Isn't that just the old top 10k?

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        1. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          15 hours, 17 mins ago

          Sounds like 10K is the new top 1K, which is ridiculous.

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          1. Sheffield Wednesday
            • 5 Years
            15 hours, 11 mins ago

            Just as an aside

            SI prefix for kilo [thousand] is lowercase k, unlike Mega [million] which is a capital M.

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            1. TorresMagic™
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • Has Moderation Rights
              • 16 Years
              14 hours, 43 mins ago

              Fair enough, I was going along with the original question.

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              1. Sheffield Wednesday
                • 5 Years
                14 hours, 6 mins ago

                As someone ranked #15 in the all-time ranks, which league do you think will be harder to win, the top 1% with better quality players, or the top 10% with far more players who may randomly have a standout season?

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                1. TorresMagic™
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • Has Moderation Rights
                  • 16 Years
                  14 hours ago

                  You know the answer, if you said the next 9% as the 2nd group, then there would be a discussion. You'll have a great chance of winning FPL winning those.

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                  1. Sheffield Wednesday
                    • 5 Years
                    13 hours, 52 mins ago

                    Yeah I misunderstood the criteria, mistakenly thinking those in the top 1% league would be excluded from the top10% league.

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                    1. Sheffield Wednesday
                      • 5 Years
                      13 hours, 39 mins ago

                      Whoever wins could qualify for duplicate prizes not to mention the outright league prizes.

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    3. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      12 hours, 56 mins ago

      Top 1% is excellent; though if you removed dead teams and people who don’t play every week the entire season I suspect that top 1% is much smaller

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    4. nonaynever
      • 9 Years
      1 hour, 50 mins ago

      wonders if there will be a "way too many transfers" league

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  5. Silecro
    • 7 Years
    15 hours, 41 mins ago

    Im playing for 8 years, never finished top 50k, but managed to finish top 6k last year, mainly due ro chips usage and monstrous Glasner AM (2X), so subjectivelly can say that AM chip will be missed..but still looking forward to the changes!

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    1. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      15 hours, 38 mins ago

      I'm looking forward to selecting a fantasy team that more closely resembles a real team with a couple of CB and one ore two DMs. No more four LB and five AM. That is provided they still price purely defensive players lower than more attacking players.

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  6. Grounderz
    • 13 Years
    15 hours, 28 mins ago

    Question. While the announcement mentioned defenders generally benefit from CBIT, does CBIT also apply to midfielders and forwards?

    I read in the subsequent paragraphs of the announcement, and it said that “in addition to the CBIT, midfielders and forwards also collect points for ball recoveries”.

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    1. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      15 hours, 22 mins ago

      Yes but the requirements to gain two points are slightly different.
      https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4361991/whats-new-in-202526-fantasy-defensive-contributions

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      1. Grounderz
        • 13 Years
        12 hours, 30 mins ago

        Cheers!

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  7. Evasivo
    • 15 Years
    11 hours, 25 mins ago

    Is there a dark mode, so much white on this new interface:(

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    1. FPL Niall
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      10 hours, 3 mins ago

      Dark Mode would be nice alright. Think I read they are working on it.

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      1. Evasivo
        • 15 Years
        9 hours, 55 mins ago

        Thanks for reply Niall! Please pass it up the chain.. migraine sufferer here 🙁

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  8. The Knights Template
    • 11 Years
    10 hours, 9 mins ago

    BB GW19 then BB GW20. Sorted.

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    1. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      8 hours, 22 mins ago

      Those two match weeks are in the middle of 4 EPL matches played over 12 days after Christmas. Might lose the likes of Partridge, Goldring and Drummer due to rotation.

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  9. FPL Niall
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    10 hours, 3 mins ago

    I'm not seeing any changes to the Members Area? When I click the Members button on the home page I get taken to the old UI. There was a Beta version all of new season, has that been scrapped?

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  10. WVA
    • 8 Years
    9 hours, 50 mins ago

    Can anyone advise me how to get the site back to desktop view? Stuck on phone mode after pressing the green button to see what the new site looked like in it.

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    1. FPL Niall
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      9 hours, 47 mins ago

      Click 3 dots in top right corner if using Chrome and tick desktop mode.

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      1. WVA
        • 8 Years
        8 hours, 53 mins ago

        Also chrome, I can click on request desktop site but it doesn’t change it. Definitely a fault with the updates as never had this issue before.

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        1. FPL Niall
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          8 hours, 13 mins ago

          Clear cache on browser perhaps to undo any changes made by clicking that mobile button on the site.

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          1. WVA
            • 8 Years
            7 hours, 59 mins ago

            Nope, site is so bad now

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    2. The FPL Units
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      9 hours, 46 mins ago

      I'm on duckduckgo and I can select the 3 dots top right for the browser menu. From there I can toggle between desktop mode and mobile mode.

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      1. WVA
        • 8 Years
        8 hours, 48 mins ago

        Tried it on chrome Firefox and safari, none will let me view the site in desktop mode!!!!

        Why has the green button from this site that let me select mobile site disappeared?

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  11. PartyTime
    • 4 Years
    9 hours, 41 mins ago

    FPL certificate! Oh my! Could come in handy in one of those job interviews

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    1. The Knights Template
      • 11 Years
      8 hours, 5 mins ago

      Are there many?

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      1. CONNERS
        • 6 Years
        7 hours, 51 mins ago

        Thankfully, job interviews are now just a distant memory...

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    2. St Pauli Walnuts
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 hours, 35 mins ago

      My mate was interviewing people for job at his gaff once, one bloke listed computer games he'd completed on his CV. I'd have hired him because he'd surely be good value.

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  12. Jafooli
    • 13 Years
    8 hours, 55 mins ago

    With reduced chances of DGW & BGW in GWs 1-19 and new double chip action, BB for GW1 might be more popular than usual. Wonder if they’ll permit use from the start?

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    1. FPL Niall
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      8 hours, 44 mins ago

      They will definitely allow BB be used in GW1. I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a bandwagon to do so if some of the big content creators push that strategy.

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      1. Old Man
        • 14 Years
        8 hours, 38 mins ago

        See FPL Raptor's first stream. He postulated as such.

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        1. FPL Niall
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          8 hours, 31 mins ago

          I fully expect it to become very popular. The BB is often seen as somewhat of an inconvenience and it is human nature to want to get off to a good start too. It does mean committing to a very risk averse GW1 squad though. Picking your Jarod Bowen's of the world over Phil Foden etc.

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          1. Jafooli
            • 13 Years
            8 hours, 22 mins ago

            Or just punt on a cheap CBIT focused bench (looking at you Everton) and not affect main team too much? Think that’s what I run with…

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            1. Jafooli
              • 13 Years
              8 hours, 17 mins ago

              Everton in new stadium with Moyes at the helm -

              lee - BHA - wol - AVL

              That’s Pickford and two bench defs locked in…

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              1. FPL Niall
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 14 Years
                8 hours, 10 mins ago

                Can see Forest CBs being very popular in GW1 too who will score well on CBIT and Brentford at home.

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                1. Jafooli
                  • 13 Years
                  8 hours, 5 mins ago

                  True but have Forest not lost some of their midfielder defensive protection?

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                  1. FPL Niall
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 14 Years
                    7 hours, 57 mins ago

                    Still think they are relatively well stocked in CDM. Yates, Rodriguez, Sangare, Danilo, Anderson can all play there. Attack has been blunted though, which may make Nuno even more defence first which is his natural instinct.

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    2. CONNERS
      • 6 Years
      8 hours, 5 mins ago

      I'm quite keen on GW1 BB, but we'll need to see what the pricing looks like first.

      The defence shouldn't be too difficult, but getting the 5th mid and 3rd forward right is the tricky part.

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      1. Jafooli
        • 13 Years
        8 hours, 1 min ago

        Hopefully Enzo Fernandez is 5.0m for that 5th mid slot…

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        1. CONNERS
          • 6 Years
          7 hours, 49 mins ago

          Yeah, that could work.

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        2. Old Man
          • 14 Years
          7 hours, 47 mins ago

          In your dreams. 🙂
          More like 6.0

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        3. Andy_Social
          • 12 Years
          4 hours, 17 mins ago

          Have him in my draft but looking at Caicedo now.

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        4. WVA
          • 8 Years
          4 hours, 8 mins ago

          He should be 6.5

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          1. Andy_Social
            • 12 Years
            4 hours, 1 min ago

            Never mind. If I can fit in Cucu, Palmer and JoPed, there's no room. Guess i'll be looking to the engine room of Sund, Burn or Leeds.

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    3. Andy_Social
      • 12 Years
      4 hours, 18 mins ago

      I've used my BB GW1 many times including last season. Was minded to save it this season, but guess I'll be continuing my habit.

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  13. FPL Niall
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    8 hours, 35 mins ago

    Having read through the Opta definitions, there is not much distinction between an Interceptions and Recoverys. If a player is pressing a player what is the distinction between a player deemed to have passed it straight to a player i.e a recovery or moving to intercept? Surely the press could be seen as an interception.

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    1. Jafooli
      • 13 Years
      8 hours, 20 mins ago

      Yeah, agreed - if we thought the meltdowns over assists were bad, CBIT is going to be epic lol…

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    2. Jimmy B
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 hours, 15 mins ago

      I've also discovered there might be a discrepancy over what fbref and other similar sites class as a block which some people have been using to base estimations on - it combines shots and passes blocked and what the game classes as a block which could be just shots blocked. If you look at the numbers here on the official site - https://www.premierleague.com/en/stats/top/players?statMetric=blocks&season=2024 they are for shots blocked only.

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  14. Jafooli
    • 13 Years
    8 hours, 13 mins ago

    Burnley, Leeds and Sunderland - anyone care to suggest their ‘awfulness’ ranking? Best to worst…

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    1. Jafooli
      • 13 Years
      8 hours, 6 mins ago

      For 1st TC

      GW11 - Saka (at home) vs Sunderland
      GW14 - Salah (away) vs Sunderland
      GW15 - Haaland (away) vs Sunderland

      Any GW - Anyone vs Man Utd (home or away)

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    2. FPL Niall
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      8 hours ago

      With very little evidence to work with, have to go with the Championship order of 1. Leeds 2. Burnley 3. Sunderland. I have reservations about Farke and whether he will sufficiently adapt his style but Leeds have been building from the back with transfers so far. Burnley have lost Egan-Riley, Trafford and possibly Brownhill so remains to be seen if they can adequately replace them. Sunderland are showing ambition but also have lost Bellingham, may take time to integrate all the new players.

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      1. FPL Niall
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        7 hours, 56 mins ago

        *Should say will likely lose Trafford with City and Newcastle both keen.

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        1. Jimmy B
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          7 hours, 21 mins ago

          I like Sunderland's transfers. Still a very young team, could see them going down and coming back stronger next time for the experience. Concerned about Burnley most of the three, overperformed in the defence anyway which won't be repeatable against PL strikers. Leeds obviously have the best chance to survive and it'll depend as much on what happens to those likely to drop down (Wolves, West Ham etc) as what Leeds do. Suspicion is they still don't get to 40, maybe not even 35 points so its how far down the others drop.

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      2. Andy_Social
        • 12 Years
        3 hours, 59 mins ago

        I can't forget Parker's response to his 0-9 defeat to Liverpool. Not a gaffer for this level.

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  15. Prinzhorn
    • 4 Years
    7 hours, 49 mins ago

    Back after a long, deserved holiday!
    Ended 13k last season, now we’re aiming for top 10k!

    With this update of the app, where can I see my FPL history ? Can’t find it anywhere anymore?

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    1. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      7 hours, 38 mins ago

      https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/******/history
      Replace ****** with your FPL ID number

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      1. Prinzhorn
        • 4 Years
        7 hours, 25 mins ago

        Thanks, mate! In the app no similar functionality (yet)?, right?

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  16. FantasyTony
    • 7 Years
    7 hours, 28 mins ago

    Wish they played around with the chips more than just giving us two.

    Would have been fun if the first chip was free and then you could more for exponentially more money each time.

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  17. Jimmy B
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    7 hours, 28 mins ago

    I'm calling it now. Somebody who isn't in the top 1 or 10% clubs will win the main game and whoever wins the 1% league will be christened by the community as the real winner. Its all part of the self-fulfilling get top 'x'K at all costs (whatever you want to put X as) rubbish.

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    1. Studs Up
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      6 hours, 36 mins ago

      u just need to look at the history of past winners....previous ranks mean diddly-squat

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  18. Grippa
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    7 hours, 23 mins ago

    Good morning. I hope you don't mind me posting this here. I run an auction style fantasy football game based on FPL. Each player is sold to the highest bidder over 20 lots in the run up to the start of the season, so only one manager in each league can own Salah, for example.

    This will be the 16th year of FF Pro, and we are currently looking for a few more managers to take on teams so that we can fill up another division. Please take a look at our website - http://www.myffpro.co.uk - although you'll be somewhat limited to what you can see without a login.

    Lot01 opens at 9pm on Monday, so if I can interest enough new players to take a team, we can fill up the fourth league. If you are interested, please email me at ian_spittle@hotmail.com, and I can send you a copy of the rules, and answer any questions you have. Cheers, Ian.

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  19. FPL Sanky
    • 1 Year
    7 hours, 13 mins ago

    So getting Saka over Bowen in the final GW last season has pushed me from top 1% to top 10%...What a disaster GW38 was

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    1. Qaiss
      • 9 Years
      7 hours, 4 mins ago

      I wanted to go Bowen and Saliba in GW33 but chickened out and went Saka and Williams

      Around a 40 point swing. I finished 15k in the end, would’ve got back to back 3k finishes had I gone for Bowen. Want the game to launch !

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    2. Botman and Robben
      • 8 Years
      6 hours, 44 mins ago

      How many points did you get in GW38?

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      1. FPL Sanky
        • 1 Year
        6 hours, 21 mins ago

        Don't remember now but it was below average for sure....I was 80k till GW38 and ended up with 128k after GW38

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        1. Botman and Robben
          • 8 Years
          6 hours, 16 mins ago

          ouch.

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    3. WVA
      • 8 Years
      6 hours, 10 mins ago

      Yeah Saka over Bowen on my WC cost me big time!

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  20. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 hours, 11 mins ago

    We urgently need new stats in the members area.

    CBIT
    CBIT-R
    CBIT per 90
    CBIT-R Per 90

    We only get a maximum of 10 columns in custom stats tables. Can't use 5 of these on a stat that you have to manually export and add together and divide to get the figure you need.

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  21. Haa-lala-land
    • 4 Years
    6 hours, 47 mins ago

    CBIT feels like an extension of the BAPS, which always felt random to me, just a little random top up bonus at the end.
    Just like my player selection decision wasn't really influenced by Baps, same with Cbits.
    I'd have quite liked, instead, if they just added an extra point for a defenders goal and assist. 7 and 4 instead of 6 and 3.

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  22. Trogon
    • 2 Years
    6 hours, 28 mins ago

    Whatever happened to Jack Grealish? Pep doesn't want him, who will buy him?
    Wasted talent or overrated player?

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    1. panda07
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 hours, 3 mins ago

      Big fish, small pond type of player.

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  23. Athletic Nasherbo
    • 8 Years
    6 hours, 26 mins ago

    See latest official FPL post. Assists have been simplified.

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    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 hours, 20 mins ago

      Hulk this muther!

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    2. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      6 hours, 16 mins ago

      https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4362187/whats-new-in-202526-fantasy-changes-to-assists-rules
      "If these new 2025/26 rules had been in operation last season, there would have been 41 extra Fantasy assists awarded."

      More points for defensive players. More assists. More chips. More points everywhere!. OR1 might break 3000 points this season.

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    3. Deulofail
      • 9 Years
      4 hours, 2 mins ago

      Not sure about 'simplified'!

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  24. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 hours, 18 mins ago

    This is massive!

    Mark's influence grows!

    Someone wake up the editorial team!

    https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4362187?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fpl&utm_content=assist_changes_for_2025%2F26

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    1. Deulofail
      • 9 Years
      4 hours, 3 mins ago

      If the old rules were not fit for purpose, why do the new rules revert to the rules in specific circumstances? That also makes it more complicated and confusing for people. Further confusion, for me: It's not clear if 'two defensive touches' would disqualify the assist if they come from the same player. And who's to judge if a defensive intervention is a pass or not, especially if it's the first touch of a chaotic defensive situation (since two touches would seemingly already disqualify the assist)? The example they give is 'a loose pass' but that is only one example, so do they just mean 'a loose pass' only? Where are the lines between a block, an intentional deflection into a safe area, a loose clearance and a pass? And why is an assist disqualified when the defender is deemed to have attempted a pass but not a clearance?

      I do like the amendments for defensive errors and forced handball, though 😀

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  25. WVA
    • 8 Years
    6 hours, 9 mins ago

    Still can’t get the site back to desktop view….

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