A new CHALLENGE...

 

Here's something new for you..... (Just in case you find the regular FPL game too EASY....!)

You'll need a 'second account' for this (you can only have one FPL account for any one email address), but that's not too difficult to sort out, if you're interested....

Last season I tried out a THRIFTY LEAGUE for ultra-low-budget teams, and found it a lot of fun. (I just did the same experiment with the Euros, and my cheapo team did surprisingly well there!)

My original budget cap was 75 million, but that's a bit awkward this year (with no starting keepers at 4 million.... and no cheap Cole Palmer!!), so I've upped it to 80 million.

The idea is that you always have to leave at least 20 million of your budget unspent. (If you've grown your total squad value to 105 million, you can then spend up to 85 million on your players, and so on.)

 GO ON, GIVE IT A TRY!

The join code is: tgombg

I've been thinking of adding a series to this blog called something like "Call me crazy, but...."  This might be the preliminary entry in that.  I have a lot of ideas for possible changes, improvements, innovations in FPL...

And one of them would be.... to offer (instead of the insufferably inane 'Fantasy Challenge' side-game they just initiated at the end of last season) some alternative game approaches, novel sub-competitions which could be separated off from the main game. 

I think a lot of people could potentially be interested in a game like this where you have to work with a very restricted budget - but it's not ideal to be lumped in with the main game, distorting the overall ranking figures for everyone else.  [But there are already so many 'unofficial competitions' evidently going on within the main game - chasing squad value, chasing low-score(??!!), chasing a weekly win, etc. - that I'm not going to feel too guilty about adding my tiny little side-project to the mix.]