I am confused by people who like fantasy football but don't like assistant manager because it means you have to predict the outcomes of football games.
Isn't that the point of the game?
Isn't that the point of the game?
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The one tweak I would make is to say once you have chosen your AM, you can't transfer them to someone else.
@fplswans.bsky.social made good point earlier, how it’s really only been Slot vs Moyes, Slot vs Emery. Think having in place from GW1 (table bonus after x weeks) would create interesting variance.
Dropping this clusterbomb mid season and subsequent random DGWs has made this the Wild West
Personal view is also that the chip itself was unnecessary and overcomplicated
Agree, when it was new, table bonus etc, but surely you just pick a manager whose team you think will win/do well, if you fancy a risk, pick lower playing higher?
Any complication comes from planning, and there’s no requirement to do that.
Think it was a level playing field in that we all knew an unknown mystery chip would be available, so could decide how cautious we wanted to be with our other resources.
Fair enough that others see it differently though.
Still maintain it's a crap idea; if I wanted to bet on teams for a month I'd go to Paddy Power
Just seems like a closely related part of the same hobby to me.
If it was a season-long part of the game, it would be fine
A quarter of the season is chips.
FPL at heart is a simple game about players, not teams. That's the beauty of it. You can watch a game without caring about the teams or the result and hope your player does well.
But as someone who isn't a newer user, do you enjoy the feature yourself?
I have no issue with the chip personally, but it discourages many of my friends from playing, which is where the enjoyment of fantasy football comes from - far too complex, and far too swingy.
Now dust has settled, I don’t really get that - table bonus adds a layer, but is it any more complicated than prices going up and down based on transfers, impact on value up/down etc?
Have said previously, too, why would a ‘casual’ be put off when their very label implies indifference?
Now it can be approached as something 'solveable' way more than it used to.
I don't mind a little extra variance being introduced if it walks that dynamic back a tad.
But let's not pretend picking managers is a whole magnitude different to picking players. Imagine trying to make someone who wasn't into fantasy football understand that distinction 🤣
Let's end the conversation here and agree to disagree. Good luck for the rest of the gameweek. 🍀
Eg when I choose my goalkeeper I am really choosing a team that I don't think concede anyway.
A team can lose 3-1 but my player can still has ways to get points. There is enough variance in the game without predicting teams to win.
I want the chip to stay next season.
So it'll be like a party I turn up really late to, when everyone else is already wasted, yet I still end up dancing naked and getting mashed out of my brain.
Until then, AM Chip is annoying noise from potentially 11.5m neighbours.
They didn’t need to fix it