What's New - Summer 2025
These are the changes that have been made between the 2024/25 and 2025/26 Premier league seasons.
Enhancements
- Completely reworked landing page.
- Redesigned from scratch to try and encourage more people that arrive at the site to sign up.
- Fancy animations are available in some browsers.
- New 'get started' page linked from the landing page allowing logging in or registering.
- Redesign
- New header with logo and restyled 'Next Goal Wins' wording.
- New menu design.
- The 'General' menu item has been renamed to 'Account' and has moved to the right. This still contains the 'log out' option, and the 'Account' option has been renamed to 'Settings'.
- Team dashboard
- Designed to give an overview of everything you need to know all in one place
- What is displayed is dependent on the stage of the season. E.g. Before the start of the season, very little is shown, but as results start coming in, more will be shown.
- Each 'panel' is clickable and will take you through to an existing page showing more details on whatever was shown in that panel. For example:
- The 'league' panel shows the name of your league and your league position. Click on that panel and it will take you to the full league table.
- The 'last week' panel shows you the points you scored last week. Clicking on that panel takes you through to the 'points archive' page for that week so you can see the breakdown of how those points were scored.
- Point calculation changes:
- There are no longer points for play time of '<30 minutes', '>=30 minutes <60 minutes' and '>=60 minutes'. Now points are scored as a fraction of the full amount of points.
- For example:
- If the points for playing a full game is 3 and a player plays for 36 minutes, they will be awarded 3 x 36 / 90 = 1.2 points which gets rounded up to 2 points.
- Points are always rounded up.
- Expect this to make very little difference as the calculations means they are very similar in most scenarios.
- This also applies for points for clean sheets, wins and draws. This does make a difference. For example:
- If a defender scores 5 points for a clean sheet, when they play 45 minutes of a match and the team keeps a clean sheet in that match, they used to score 0 points for that. Now they score 5 x 45 / 90 = 3 points.
- Tables that used to show 'Played >= 60 minutes', etc. (there are multiple pages) now show appearances, starts and minutes played instead.
- More stats shown in the player lists:
- The 'player list' pages now show columns for:
- Availability.
- Matches played.
- Minutes played.
- Matches started.
- Goals
- Assists
- Clean sheets (when the player has played more than 60 minutes).
- Conceded goals.
- Yellow cards.
- Red cards.
- Not all of these columns will be available on smaller screen sizes.
- Other information on the player such as age, nationality and squad number are still available if you click the new 'Show details' button above the table.
- This is designed to help you make more informed decisions about which players to bid on.
- Vice captains:
- If you have 'double points for captain' turned on in your league, you can now select a vice captain.
- The vice captain will score double points if your chosen captain does not play at all that week.
Behind the scenes
- Upgraded PHP version.
- Upgraded JQuery library.
- Upgraded DataTables library.
- Lots of backend code changes to use more modern techniques.
- Large refactor of the stylesheets to make it more organised and maintainable.
- Reorganised some database table columns to avoid rare issues with inconsistent data.
Bug Fixes
- Players being subbed in that scored negative points now correctly have the points reduced by the multiplier for being used as a sub.
- The player page now correctly reduces to one column instead of cutting off some of the tables or needing a scrollbar on certain screen resolutions.
- The FAQ questions no longer overlap. The page has been completely redesigned to fix this.
- The login button is now always correctly sized.
- The points archive now correctly shows the players when a team for a previous season is selected.
- The player page no longer shows irrelevant stats, such as points and goals when the season has not started yet, or upcoming matches when the season has ended.