What Is the FPL Challenge? Rules, Tips, and How to Play

FPL is a fantasy football game where you have to create a squad of 15 players with a budget of 100m and the points that your team scores every Gameweek are accumulated in the total score over the season. But now there’s a new way of playing FPL, as a new game mode is launched known as FPL Challenge which is as exciting and fun as the traditional FPL, if not more.

In this post, you will learn all the details about the rules, tips, and how to play the new FPL Challenge and the key differences between traditional FPL and FPL Challenge.

What is the FPL challenge?

FPL challenge is a new FPL mode apart from the already available classic FPL. In this mode, a different challenge is assigned to the managers each gameweek and the managers have to pick a new squad every gameweek based on that challenge. For example, you might have to select only forwards in your team or you might have to pick players only from a single match, and so on. Usually in FPL challenge mode, you have to pick a squad of 5 players each week based on the challenge given but there could be more players to be selected in your team if the challenge assigned is to pick more players.

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What are the rules and regulations to play the FPL challenge?

To participate in the FPL challenge you must select a new valid squad based on the assigned challenge each gameweek. Similarly, you may select a squad or make changes to your squad unlimited times in a gameweek provided that the team selection window is open for that particular gameweek. The team selection window for a gameweek can be seen on the Manage My Team page. You may select any players in a gameweek even when the fixtures have already started as the deadline is not like the traditional FPL.

In FPL challenge mode, you can pick a player for as long as that player’s team/club is yet to kick off/start, after which the player is locked and cannot be transferred in or transferred out. The same rule is applied to selecting captains.

How to select your team

You have to select your team after checking the challenge, and then you have to pick your team based on the challenge provided. Every gameweek the squad selection criteria change and you may have to select 5 players this week and 11 players the next week. For example currently, during the gameweek 29 to 32, you have to pick 7 players and you just have to ensure that your team is within the budget that is provided.

How do substitutions and transfers work?

There are no transfer costs in the FPL challenge mode like the traditional classic FPL as you have to pick a new squad every week. You also don’t have to worry about the substitutes as there are no substitutes and bench players in the game unless in a particular gameweek the challenge asks you to pick substitutes as well.

How to participate in FPL challenge mode?

To join the FPL challenge mode, you just have to visit the FPL website, then click on the menu button and select FPL challenge and you will be on the FPL challenge mode homepage where you need to create your team and save it. You can also download the Premier League app and navigate to the FPL challenge mode to participate in it through the app.

What is the difference between FPL and FPL challenge mode?

There are some distinct differences between traditional FPL and FPL challenge and both of them function differently, such as:

• In FPL you have to pick a squad and that squad continues to accumulate points to make your overall points at the end of the season. Whereas in FPL challenge mode you have to pick a new squad every gameweek and your score resets to zero after each gameweek.
• There are transfer costs in FPL as you get a limited number of transfers per gameweek but in FPL challenge there is no such thing as you get unlimited number of transfers.
• In FPL challenge, every week you have to make a team based on the challenge as it’s a weekly game, but in classic FPL you have to pick your team based on the season as it is played for the entire season.

How points are scored in the FPL challenge?

The points allocated to the players picked in the FPL challenge mode are the same as the traditional classic FPL. A player gets the same point in FPL challenge mode as he gets in classic FPL unless in a particular gameweek the FPL challenge mode allocates a different point. Not only the scoring but also the BPS (Bonus Point System) is the same.

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