by Ben Ayuko
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Fantasy Premier League is back, and we can barely contain our excitement.
Many changes have been made for this season’s edition in order to make the game more competitive and we can only give a nod of approval to the organizers for doing so much.
First off, the price changes. Erling Haaland comes in at £15.0m which makes him the most expensive FPL asset ever. Mo Salah maintains his value at £12.5m after another decent outing last season.
Cole Palmer perhaps has the biggest price rise after he burst onto the scene last season, more than doubling his value as he moves up from £5.0m to £10.5m. Saka also moves up to £10.0m while Heung-min Son moves back up again to £10.0m. Defenders like William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhães, Virgil van Dijk and Joško Gvardiol all come in at £6.0m while Trent Alexander-Arnold keeps his place as the priciest defender at £7.0m
This makes it very difficult to pick the same players as the £100m budget cannot be spread to cover every single valuable player. Some decisions will have to be made along with regrets realized.
The Bonus Point System has also been revamped, admittedly, favouring the attacking players more than the defensive. Additional points in the Bonus Point System for occurrences such as Number of times Fouled, Shots on target, etc. will surely only benefit the forward players while making life difficult for the Goalkeepers in particular.
Goalkeepers, though, have had their own upgrade as should your chosen Keeper pull an Alisson and score a 90th minute winner, he would receive 10 points rather the usual 6. This, in turn, is intended to give you more of a headache when choosing your players as more variables have been added to the player criteria.
With the transfer window still very much wide open, there’s still a lot of movement yet to be done. So, who knows what kind of headaches we are going to have by the time the season is kicking off.