The thing that has annoyed me most about the welter of - mostly dumb, pointless, inept - changes that FPL suddenly rolled out last weekend, was this irritating little slogan they appended to some of them... in apparent justification or celebration.
More points. More choice. More fun.
This, to me, suggests a fundamental failure to understand the essence of the Fantasy Premier League game - by the very people who preside over it! God help us.....
Making more points available is not automatically an improvement.
In fact, making additional points easily available for everyone is exactly the reverse: it undermines the purpose of the game. The game is supposed to be HARD; points are only supposed to be earned by detailed knowledge and shrewd judgement, hard work and perseverance. The fewer points there are available, the fiercer the competition for them becomes.
Games like this become more skillful - and more satisfying - if choice is constrained. If you only have an initial budget of 100 million, you have to make some very tough choices about which of the top players you can afford. If you only get one Free Transfer per week, you're forced to make compromises about players you hanker to swap out. If you only have one Wildcard or Triple Captain chip, you have to think very carefully about the optimum gameweek in which to play them; but if you add in a Free Hit, a Bench Boost, a second Wildcard,... and then a second one of each of those 'chips',... those choices are devalued, trivialised by becoming too frequent an option.
And it's not supposed to be 'FUN'. This game is a long hard slog through frustration and injustice; it is not to be enjoyed, it is to be survived.
Sadly, it appears that not only do the Lords of FPL Towers not know what they're doing, they don't know WHY they're doing it.
If there isn't a big shake-up in the management of the FPL organisation this season, I fear I'm going to have to quit the game. These idiots are threatening to run it into the ground.
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