Welcome to what will hopefully become a useful thread - a basic guide to the FPL Forum, a grab-bag of resources and links, an update what's what in the world of FPL Leagues & Sidegames, and a focus on our community with some interesting stats thrown in.
Post 1: About, Resourses, Links etc
Post 2: Leagues/Sidegames
Post 3: Some MoSe Magic
These opening 3 posts are hopefully broad enough to contain any interesting/useful content.
Please use this thread to post Sidegame announcements, resource links, still relevant historical threads and anything else you think should have a mini spotlight on it.
Main FPL Forum
Most RMT or Sidegame related posts are elsewhere - the Main Forum is for everything else FPL specific
Busiest on matchdays with faster-than-light match updates ... but also open night and day for random chit-chat. Gretchen is always there with a welcoming smile.
...sometimes matchday chat ends up in the snug watching MOTD Match of the Day 2018/19: FISO Commentary
STC - Strategic Thinking Cavern Strategic Thinking Cavern (18/19)
(Originally Sammy the Crabs RMT) STC - affectionately known as the Thought (or Nerd) Cave - is the tl:dr of FPL strategy threads.
Detailed discussion at some stage on virtually everything. Serious business
Leagues/Sidegames
Get more from your FPL season and join FISO Leagues and a variety of FPL based sidegames. It's fun
(see post 2 below for more information)
Resources STC Bookshelf The STC thread's own Resource Listing (some may be duplicated here) FPL Fixtures and Results Grid (RomynPG) - as at GW33 (11/04/19) - (previous seasons below in post4) FPL Price Changes - FPL Statistics co.uk for most reliable. (see STC Bookshelf for more)
FPL Fixtures and Results Grid 2018/19 (on Google Drive) hopefully useful to some
(The printarea is set to fit everything on one page when printed).
Initial Team Rankings based on odds at Odds-Checker (14/06/18), using relegation odds, and will be updated closer to the start of the season. Once the season is underway Rankings are then adjusted with results on a pro-rata basis. Calc method outlined in a sheet in the spready.
Nice work RomynPG. I like that you've added an icon describing the status of each league: seeking opinions, coming soon, open.
I'll be running a Decimation league this season (no thread just yet). It'll again be free entry and again I'll be sponsoring it: £50 to the winner, £25 to the manager with the highest GW38 score.
jeffmcgow wrote: ↑16 Jun 2018, 14:46
Nice work RomynPG. I like that you've added an icon describing the status of each league: seeking opinions, coming soon, open.
Cheers - and if anyone has thoughts/ideas for better structure or content please shout ... trying to make this a jump-off point for all things FPL - and to promote the sidegames a bit.
jeffmcgow wrote: ↑16 Jun 2018, 14:46
I'll be running a Decimation league this season (no thread just yet). It'll again be free entry and again I'll be sponsoring it: £50 to the winner, £25 to the manager with the highest GW38 score.
That's great ... and very generous of you again . Never got far in elimination games but will definitely be giving this a go this season.
I'll add your intent above and, because I like a bit of colour, am going to use as a logo. (let me know if you don't like it or have something else or whatever)
And as a reminder jeffmcgow is also still looking for opinions with respect to prospective cash leagues for those interested in Cash Leagues for 2018-19 - Entry-fee Poll
2. A new game - The FISO Swiss Cup (A bit like a Cup and a bit like a League - Like a Swiss Army Knife, It's got a bit of everything) viewtopic.php?f=82&t=127873
Both are now open for Registration (If you enter the H2H you will automatically be entered into the Swiss Cup, but you can enter them individually if you wish).
Thanks a lot Romyn for this thread and for having listed my leagues in the leagues/sidegames post!
I'd like to present my private leagues called „Spaceballs“:
Format: very classic style, just one classic league (about 200+ managers) and one H2H-league non limited on the number on managers (in the past there were between 35 and 107 managers in). In the H2H-league three play-off-rounds are played at the end of the season.
Story behind: I've created these leagues 5 years ago as an experiment, just to see what happens. Never thought they'll gonna reach the current size and they'll survive such a long time. Since summer 2016 I run infothreads on FISO concerning these leagues.
Managers: First of all they come from the FISO forum and the german Transfermarkt.de forum. There is another big part of users from all over the world that found their way to the leagues individually. Since FPL stopped offering the ingame message boards in 2016, it became more diffcult for me to reach the community of FPL users outside from the two mentioned forums.
Purpose: My aim is principally to give a league-home to the average, casual and newbie managers of FPL. These are by far the biggest sections of FPL players and because of that in my opinion the most important. I want to give them the opportunity to compete and measure up with a bunch of highly rated, experienced and reliable cracks, who are in my leagues since a long time already.
Specialities: All time stats, updates during the season, medal tables (based on the monthly tables). I like creating these stats and it gives me a motivation and goal to deal with the leagues during the FPL season. So for me it's fun (and it's a good occasion to use my english writing), but I don't know, if people who joined the leagues notice and appreciate these activities.
Future: One important principle of mine is: As long as there are at least ten managers in the leagues, I'll run them, should there be less I wouldn't.
I hope to find once one or two "assistants" who could take over the classic league if needed (e.g. if I'd like to take a FPL break or whatever).
Little plea for mini-leagues
Posted: 09 Jul 2018, 09:40
by mogwai
In the course of what I've written for presenting my Spaceballs leagues, I had some general thoughts about joining mini-leagues:
Reasons for participating in mini-leagues (such as mine) or other sidegames:
1. If someone is the always-winner of his working mates- or family-league, maybe he wants to compete in a bigger private league for having more challenge.
2. It can be more motivating to be 7th in a smaller/midsized league than 127'526th overall or 923rd in a very big private league.
3. Another reason could be: FPL is free to play. To give/pay something back to the game, it is a good and fair thing to be a part of mini-leagues and sidegames or to create them. These leagues make the game much more lively, familiar and you'll reach a higher degree of gaming fun.
Re: Little plea for mini-leagues
Posted: 09 Jul 2018, 10:13
by Oxford NZ
mogwai wrote: ↑09 Jul 2018, 09:40
In the course of what I've written for presenting my Spaceballs leagues, I had some general thoughts about joining mini-leagues:
Reasons for participating in mini-leagues (such as mine) or other sidegames:
Good banter and shared experience and knowledge - therefore improving the players as a whole and not just an individual player in that side game or league.
mogwai wrote: ↑09 Jul 2018, 09:20
Thanks a lot Romyn for this thread and for having listed my leagues in the leagues/sidegames post!
No problem - it's what this thread is for.
I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of doing a logo - adds a bit of colour to the listings - but if you, or others that I have done the same for, don't like them/have alternatives then please shout.
(The only one I haven't done is one for the Divisionals as I wouldn't want to presume. If MoSe is running the Divisionals again and wants assistance if a logo is required I'm happy to jump in)
On a general note if you are an admin and haven't promoted your game/league here - even if I've already listed it - please do give it a bump.
Cup recruitment thread now live - viewtopic.php?f=82&t=127901
(Sorry the logo is too big, please adjust as required)
FISO Sidegame Entry Portal is live - viewtopic.php?f=82&t=127870 - peeps can sign up for the Members League, FISO Cup, Decimation and Decathlon on there this season
(I'll let you decide on the mini-logo )
Re Spring League, Status update - Starting GW21, entrants to be confirmed
Also useful is Mav3rick's Ratemyteam.uk site:
GRID - just stick in the FPL IDs you need and the page will pull them through, I literally couldn't do my sidegames without it - https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/GRID
Draft league viewer - didn't think you could view other FPL Draft leagues? Mav's got your back - https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/DraftLeague/(league number)
FPL league viewer - same as above, especially helpful during pre-season when teams aren't accessible on FPL itself - https://ratemyteam.uk/Fiso/SideGameData/(league number)/(Gameweek number, use 1 for during preseason)
This is the same game that was run by bspittles in the 2017/18 season, but he is taking a break from running it this time around.
Each Division is Six Teams which will play each other in a Head-to-Head format over 10 GWs. Two Teams go up - Two Teams go down.
New and returning players are welcome.
If you haven't played FPL Draft before then the small leagues and short seasons of this competition will be a good introduction as there is less emphasis on long-term planning and the free-agent pool contains good quality players, which lends itself to a dynamic and exciting game.
The new Season will begin in GW4 with drafts will taking place during the week commencing SUN 26th AUG, so there isn't too much time to sign up if you want to play.
If you're interested: Sign on Here for the New Season!