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What's New - Summer 2026

These are the changes that have been made between the 2025/26 and 2026/27 Premier League seasons.

Enhancements
  • The squad management and team selection pages:
    • The 'Team Selection' page largely replaces the 'My Team' page and focuses on giving you all the data you need to pick your team for the upcoming week.
    • The 'Squad Management' page provides detailed player information and is intended to be the place where you drop and sell players.
  • Team Dashboard improvements:
    • Merged a few of the panels together to give a more consolidated view.
    • Added a 'next week' panel which shows the selection deadline.
    • Removed some of the panel titles to slim down the layout.
    • Removed the fixtures and results panels to simplify the dashboard showing only what is most important.
  • Settings reorganisation:
    • New 'All Teams' menu item in the top level 'Account' menu will show you all your teams over all competitions and seasons. This was moved out of 'Team' -> 'Settings'.
    • The 'Team' -> 'Settings' page is now more focused on the settings for your selected team.
    • When viewing someone else's team, the 'Settings' menu item is replaced with 'Manager' which shows you basic details about that manager, including all their teams.
  • 'Points archive' and 'Ideal team' weeks selection is now less intrusive:
    • These pages now have a collapsed weeks selection to reduce the scrolling required to view the content. The 'Points Archive' has the points in the header row to more clearly show that.
    • The points archive page also has a collapsed by default 'Scoring Record' section at the bottom of the page.
  • Player page changes:
    • The 'Owner History' panel now shows how much you bid for the player in each auction. This will be your highest bid if you lost the auction, or the proxy bid if you won it. This is designed to help you improve your bidding strategy as you can now easily review how far off your bid was from winning that player.
    • Some of the tables were reworked to better cope with varying screen width.
    • The 'Recent Results' panel no longer shows before the start of the season.
    • The 'Owner History' panel no longer shows before the initial auction deadline.
  • League rules editing:
    • League managers can now edit all the league rules before the 'initial auction deadline'.
    • League managers now have a 'Manage League' tab in the league page. This allows them to 'close' the league (stop any more managers joining).
Behind the scenes
  • Improved status monitoring - I receive alerts for any outages.
  • Improved error monitoring - I recieve detailed error reports if any errors occur, so I can resolve them quickly and efficiently.
  • Improved deployment - Now significantly more atomic and quick to avoid you experiencing inconsistencies or issues during a deployment.
Bug Fixes
  • Emojis are no longer allowed in league or team names. They were causing display issues, but are now prevented during league and team creation.
  • A huge sweep of fixes for issues that probably no one will ever face, but could have happened.
  • Many spelling fixes, especially in the help and FAQ pages.