Sounds interesting... can I just confirm my understanding...
- once I've bought a player, I can hold him for as long as I like until I decide to sell?
- I can only ever hold a maximum of 11 players based upon the formation mentioned above?
- There's no limit on how many people can join - so if there are 80 players, then you've just got to be the quickest.
- Sales are made back to "the market" so a sale is guaranteed - rather than waiting for another player to buy at the required price?
- What happens if a player's Loaned out or leaves the Premier League on a permanent transfer?
- No limit to how many players you can buy from each team (other than the obvious 11 limit)?
Sorry if you covered any of these already!
Great questions — you've mostly got it. Point by point:
Hold as long as you like? ✅ Yes. Once he's yours, he's yours until you sell — hold him a week or the whole season. Holdings ride through locked rounds untouched. (At season's end, remaining squads are sold back at the final prices and your wallet becomes withdrawable cash — nothing gets stranded.)
Max 11 in formation? ✅ Yes — the caps are 1 GK / 3 DEF / 4 MID / 3 FWD, so 11 max, and only one copy of any player. You don't have to be full though — hold 3 players and a pile of cash if that's your read.
"You've just got to be the quickest" ❌ — happy to correct this one, because it matters: there's no scarcity and no race. You're not competing with other users for a limited supply of Haalands. Everyone buys from the house at the same quoted price, so 80 users — or 8,000 — can all own Haaland at once. And prices are frozen for the whole trading window (they only change when the round completes), so buying Monday morning costs exactly the same as buying 10 seconds before the deadline. You're racing the reprice, not each other. The skill is reading form, not clicking fast.
Sales guaranteed? ✅ Yes. You always sell back to the market at the quoted sell price, instantly — no order book, no waiting for another user to want your player at your price. The house is the counterparty on every trade, both directions.
Loaned out or leaves the Premier League? He gets delisted: his price freezes at its last value and he becomes sell-only. You can cash out at that frozen price whenever you like — you're never trapped holding a ghost, and you never get force-sold. (A player who stays in the PL but stops playing is different: missed matches don't count as zeroes, so his price holds on his last four actual appearances and drifts only when he plays again — which is exactly why buying a returning player before his comeback match is one of the sharpest trades in the game.)
Per-team limits? None. If you want your entire XI to be one club's first team, the market won't stop you — only the position caps and one-copy rule apply. Whether eleven players from a single team is a diversified portfolio is between you and your leaderboard position. 😄
@talesfrmthecrypt if you have anything that contradicts my read then feel free to come in
Cool, thanks @blanchy (and @talesfrmthecrypt).
This part made me think of another question...
I assume that sub appearances count... so a player who comes off the bench and scores 1 point (or comes off the bench, gets booked and scores 0) contributes towards the last 4 appearances. i.e. we're not looking at just "last 4 starts".
Yes that's right. Any appearance counts towards the average score so it's the average score of the last 4 appearances (whether starts or not)
All good!
On point 3 @blockchainfpl, we did consider unique ownership but felt that starting this way was probably easier to implement and for the community to understand. You’re right though, if we were to bring in unique ownership, we’d need to limit the numbers playing in any single league
Thanks - that makes sense. If we went down the "single ownership route, you'd probably need to implement something like the La Liga game where you can "make offers" or "force transfer" between teams - a nice level of complexity to think about 😆