⚽ The new season starts tomorrow!

Hey,

Draft Fantasy is back for the 2024/25 Premier League season!

Make sure your team is ready before the 6.30pm deadline!

We have a brand new website and app!

And a brand new domain to go with it: draftfantasy.com! 😍

Here’s a video of the new platform:

So what are some of the exciting new updates?

LazyFPL partnership

We've partnered with LazyFPL for the new season.

It's FPL focused rather than draft but should still be helpful.

They send a 3-min email packed full of everything you need to know 24h before every deadline.

55,000 managers love it.

Subscribe and get a free £250 FPL league code in the welcome email.

Discord

The best way to connect with other managers and make your opinions known is our Discord server.

If you have feedback or things you want to see improved, this is the place to share your thoughts. We've already added a lot of improvements over the last few weeks with more to come.

Gameweek Deadlines

The deadline to set your team will be 90 minutes before the first kickoff of the gameweek. In the past it was an hour before.

The reason for this change is that Premier League teams will now be posting their lineups 75 minutes before kickoff. Many users said they didn't want a last minute scramble to pick up players when lineups are announced so we moved the gameweek deadline back half an hour to avoid the scramble.

Email and in-app notifications

You'll now get an email any time a player is added to the game. De Ligt was one of those added today.

We'll be adding more email notifications back in soon, including for transfers.

In app notifications will also be added back in the coming weeks.

Other Updates

Auction and snake drafts, custom scoring, flexible formations, custom squad sizes, multiple waiver formats, Kante points - everything you enjoyed about the old platform has been added to the new platform.

Waiver Bids (FAAB)

We’ve added a new waiver format where you can bid on players!

How’s it work?

Each manager is given a £200 budget at the start of the season.

When you want to make a waiver request you make a bid on the player that fits within your budget. If you win the player, the amount is deducted from your budget giving a smaller budget for the rest of the season.

You can always bid £0 on a player if you use up all your budget.

If two bids are tied (eg. two managers bid £0), then the order reverts to the regular waiver queue order (and you drop to the bottom of that queue after every successful waiver request).

The old waiver formats are still available so if you don’t want to change things for your league you can stick with the old settings. Read more here.

Expected Goals (xG, xA, xGC)

We have stats for expected goals, expected assists, and expected goals conceded. You can even use these stats in your custom scoring system if you choose.

App

We have a brand new app that’s available for both Android and iOS!

Visit app.draftfantasy.com on your mobile device to install it.

New rules website

We have a new Rules site that covers the above in more detail.

Enjoy the season!

We’ve put a lot of effort into the new platform these past few months. We hope you enjoy it!

If you have any questions, reach out via email. Or join us on Discord!

Best of luck,

Elie, Draft Fantasy