how they work and this season’s best players

For Fantasy Premier League fanatics, having a great weekend within the realm of FPL may be nearly as vital as their groups getting the outcomes they want in the true world.

Solely in FPL are you able to get pleasure out of a rival bagging a hat-trick, squeezing in a last-minute help and even merely staying on the bench to activate an FPL substitute.

A part of the weird world of fantasy soccer is bonus factors. However how do they work, and who’re the masters of selecting them up week in, week out? On this article, we have damaged down how it’s calculated and who the perfect performers are this time period, in addition to shared the best bonus-point hauls in FPL historical past.

How the FPL Bonus Factors System works

For each Premier League recreation, the highest three gamers are handed bonus factors associated to their particular person efficiency. Primarily based on stats from Opta, gamers can obtain as much as 3 bonus factors on prime of their FPL rating.

A separate factors system is used to rank gamers for every match, with the highest performer incomes 3 factors, the second-best participant getting 2 and the third-best receiving 1. Within the occasion of a tie, a number of gamers can earn a singular level.

To calculate these factors, gamers are awarded for quite a lot of performance-related metrics via the Bonus Factors System (BPS), together with extra normal issues like scoring targets and preserving clear sheets, in addition to extra in-depth components corresponding to having a excessive move completion price and creating massive possibilities.

Gamers can even lose factors for match actions underneath the BPS like conceding penalties, making errors that result in targets and being caught offside. After all, some actions are extra worthwhile (and detrimental) than others, because the desk under exhibits:

Gamers with essentially the most bonus factors in FPL this season (2023/24)

Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa) – 22

Aston Villa midfielder Douglas Luiz tops the bonus factors rankings up to now this time period, having earned the utmost bonus of three factors on 5 events, most lately within the weekend’s defeat to Manchester United, when he scored the hosts’ equaliser.

He is amassed 22 factors via bonus factors alone, having earned 497 via the BPS – solely three different gamers have extra of the latter than the Brazilian this season, as seen under. At £5.5m, he is actually been a value-for-money purchase in FPL phrases.

Pascal Gross (Brighton & Hove Albion) – 21

Gross has rocketed up the bonus factors rankings with back-to-back 3-pointers, regardless of Brighton being on the fallacious finish of the outcome at Spurs this weekend.

The German has netted one aim and two assists throughout the final two fixtures, along with his latest haul of 45 in opposition to Crystal Palace his highest underneath the BPS. Valued at £6.4m, he’s comfortably Brighton’s finest performer on this regard, having nearly twice as many BPs as closest challenger Joao Pedro (11).

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) – 21

Mohamed Salah had been the bonus factors king this time period – his place at joint-second comes regardless of the Egyptian lacking the final 4 Premier League video games for Liverpool via his attendance on the Africa Cup of Nations and his subsequent damage troubles.

Receiving three bonus factors on six events this time period, it is little marvel how Salah offers his homeowners one other edge – which is simply as effectively given his £13.0m price ticket.

And naturally, he’s nonetheless the main scorer for the 2023/24 marketing campaign, along with his 156 factors edging out Villa’s Ollie Watkins’ complete of 148.

Gamers with essentially the most factors underneath the Bonus Factors System this season

Kieran Trippier (Newcastle United) – 551

There is a purpose Kieran Trippier is owned by over 40% of gamers this season. Grabbing an help for a 3rd successive week in opposition to Nottingham Forest, the England defender is now the Premier League’s main points-taker when it comes to the Bonus Factors System.

Whereas this has solely equated to twenty bonus factors total (the third-highest complete), nobody has accomplished extra to place themselves in with an opportunity of grabbing these factors than the Newcastle United star. With 37 extra factors than his nearest rival, Trippier is displaying everybody else the way it’s accomplished this season.

Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) – 514

Recent from his two-goal show in opposition to West Ham United, Bukayo Saka is extra than simply Arsenal’s primary man this yr. The 22-year-old has amassed BPS factors galore this season, with 50 coming his means following his efficiency on the London Stadium alone.

It is his highest complete of the season up to now, and he can anticipate to climb the general bonus factors desk if he retains up kind like this till the tip of the marketing campaign.

Pedro Porro (Spurs) – 510

Arguably an unsung hero for these not of a Tottenham persuasion, Pedro Porro’s wonderful performances this time period have most likely not been matched by his FPL credentials.

Owned by over 30% of gamers, he has but to earn greater than 8 factors in a single gameweek, whereas he is solely claimed 13 bonus factors all season regardless of accruing an unlimited quantity of factors underneath the BPS.

Solely Heung-min Son has extra bonus factors for Spurs this marketing campaign, however it has not been for the need of attempting within the case of the Spaniard, who continues to soak up BPS factors with out the reward he maybe deserves.

Gamers with essentially the most bonus factors in FPL historical past

In response to fantasy soccer weblog ALLABOUTFPL, essentially the most bonus factors a participant has acquired in a single season is Cesc Fabregas, who grabbed 54 for Arsenal within the 2006/07 season, though they have been calculated differently to right now’s system.

Since FPL’s creation in 2002/03, solely 11 gamers have notched as many as 40 bonus factors in a single marketing campaign. That features, unsurprisingly, Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland, and former Spurs supremo Gareth Bale.

Robin van Persie and Harry Kane have the almost-unique distinction of getting reached that tally twice, whereas Eden Hazard is the one different title winner (together with Haaland and Van Persie) to hit 40 BPs.

Given we are actually within the second half of the season, it appears unlikely anybody will hassle these numbers this yr.