How Do I Pick My FPL Team?

Once you’ve signed up and logged into the Fantasy Premier League website, you’ll need to pick your FPL team.

You have a £100m budget with which you’ll need to buy 15 players. A player's price is based on their perceived ability to score points.

There's no exact formula that can be used to determine a player’s price, but a player’s history, likelihood of starting matches and the performance of their club are all factored in.

Prices are designed to stop managers from simply selecting the 15 best players, meaning we have to be resourceful with how we choose to allocate our funds.

This is where your expert football knowledge and research comes in. You’ll need to find undervalued players – affordable players that you believe will score you points. 

You’ll pick 11 starting players and four bench players. Each team consists of:

• Two goalkeepers

• Five defenders

• Five midfielders

• Three forwards

FPL rules only allow you to pick three players from each team, which means you can’t build a squad solely of Manchester City players, for example.

Your bench is only used if one of your starting players does not play. You order your bench from one to three, so put your best player with the best fixture as number one so they are subbed in first.

Once you have picked your FPL team, you can then turn it into a winning team by importing it into our My Team feature that will help you plan, optimise and make the best decisions courtesy of Hub AI, our groundbreaking artificial intelligence model.

You can find more information on how to pick your team here.