24/25 Season FPL Team Structure Guide with Drafts & Ratings

In this article, Let us take a detailed look at the FPL Team Structure, and Price Points and discuss all the possible team structures with drafts, pros, cons, and keynotes.

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A Guide to FPL Team Structure | 2024/25 FPL Season

FPL Team Structure refers to nothing but the orientation or the making of your FPL team based on positions, prices and formation. It is important to understand team structure while building your FPL team due to a variety of reason especially at the start of the season due to large number of unknown variables in the game. It is crucial to know your team structure due to a variety of reasons-

Importance of FPL Team Structure

• Flexibility(Moving from one player/position/formation to another)
• Reduce the number of Hits
• Potential Routes to Highly owned EO players which you don’t own
• Money in the Bank

Price Points and Players to Target:

Goalkeepers

• £4.0- BENCH FODDER. Watch out for pre-season games/any injuries to see if there are any starting keepers.
• £4.5- TARGET– Flekken, Sanchez, Henderson, Forest Sels
• £5.0- LIKELY AVOID– Pickford, Leno, Onana, Pope, Martinez
• £5.5- NEUTRAL– Raya, Becker, Ederson

Defenders

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• £4.0– BENCH FODDER– Harwood Bellis, Faes, Barco, Greaves(Watchlist: Best £4.0 Million FPL Defenders For The 2024/25 FPL Season)
• £4.5– MUST TARGET- Konsa, Burn/Hall, Henry/Mee, Dunk, Andersen, Mykolenko, Robinson/Castagne, Martinez, Aina/Murilo, Ait Nouri – All good value. Surely need one or two picks in this range
• £5.0-5.5– LIKELY AVOID- Maatsen, City Defenders outside Gvardiol, Tarkowski, Munoz, Porro. 5.5 is an avoid. 5.0 is a good price point.
• £6.0-7.0– TARGET- Gvardiol, Arsenal Defenders, TAA

Midfielders

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• £4.5– WAIT AND WATCH/BENCH FODDER– Rak Sakyi, Winks, Bergvall, Sangare(£4.5 Million FPL Midfielders Watchlist for the 2024/25 FPL Season)
• £5.0-5.5: TARGET- Smith Rowe, Hudson Odoi/Elanga, Semenyo, Andreas, Minteh, Rogers
• £6.0: AVOID– Dewsbury Hall
• £6.5: WAIT and WATCH/TARGET– Gibbs White, Nkunku, Bailey, Mitoma, Szoboszlai, Johnson,
• £7.0-7.5- MUST TARGET- Eze, Gordon, Jota, Mbeumo, Rashford
• £8.5- LIKELY AVOID- Odegaard, Bruno
• £9.5-10.5- TARGET – Palmer, Saka, Son, Foden- All proven FPL assets and right priced.
• £12.5– NEUTRAL– Salah(depends on the team structure)

Forwards

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• £4.5– Bench Fodder– No likely starting options at the moment. Watch out for transfer news.
• £5- 5.5– TARGET– Joao Pedro, Armstrong
• £6.0- 6.5: TARGET/WAIT and WATCH– Wood, Muniz, DCL, Wissa
• £7.0-7.5: TARGET– Solanke, Toney, Mateta, Gakpo, Richarlison
• £8.0-9.0- NEUTRAL-Watkins, Havertz, Isak
• £15.0– TARGET-Haaland

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FPL Team Structures

Haaland(£14.0) and Salah(£12.5) are priced as Tier 1- The most expensive players in the game. They are in a league of their own. So for the easy understanding and convenience of the article, the next set of expensive midfielders(Palmer, Saka, and Foden) are listed as Premium Midfielders. Gvardiol, TAA, and Arsenal Defenders are listed as Premium Defenders.

For the understanding of this blog we have divided this article into 6 Team structures built around them-

• Haaland + Salah+ One/Two Premium Defenders
• Haaland + Salah + One Premium Midfielder
• No Haaland + (2 Premium Midfielders)+ Premium Defender
• No Haaland + Salah+ 1 Premium Mid+ 2 Premium Defenders
• No Salah+ Haaland+ 2/3 Premium Defenders
• No Haaland, Salah

Note: The players mentioned here in the drafts are just a placeholder for the price points and need not be the best players.

Team Structure 1- Draft with Salah+ Haaland + Two Premium DEFs

FFHub AI Team Rating: 94% (Get your drafts rated for free using the FFHUB AI Team Rating tool)

• This draft has both Haaland + Salah along with 2 Premium Defenders in TAA+ Gvardiol. This is one of the strongest and one of our personal favourite drafts.
• This draft almost has the players at all important price points- £6.0 FWD, £8.5/9.0 FWD, £6.5/7.0 MID, £12.5 MID, £6.0-£7.0 DEF, £4.5 DEF.
• In case you want to bring in Watkins later if he hits form- You can bring him in for Isak after his good fixtures. You can easily get to Saka and Arsenal Defenders in GW6 for their good fixtures in place of Salah and TAA/Gvardiol without wasting many transfers.

• There will be a lot of £6.5 Midfielders emerging soon based on fixtures like Neto, Kudus, and Mitoma – You can easily get to them as well.
• Switching to a 3-5-2 structure is also possible later if needed- Dropping Wood to a 4.5 striker and upgrading the 4.5 Midfielders to 5.5/6.0 Midfielder.

The main con of this draft is that there is a very weak bench in this draft with 2*(£4.0 DEFs) and one £4.5 Midfielder.

A slight variation of the above draft – One of the Premium Defenders dropping to a 4.5 Defender(Quansah/Aina) which allows you to upgrade 5.5 Midfielder(CHO/ESR) to Jota/Gordon as seen below. This team gets a 95% Team Rating on a Hub Rate my Team Tool. Instead of getting Jota, you can use the money to upgrade Wood to Solanke as well.

Further Read: Best FPL Drafts with Salah + Haaland with Pros/Cons and Key Notes

Team Structure 2- Draft with Salah+ Haaland + One Premium Midfielder

FFHub AI Team Rating: 91% (Get your drafts rated for free using the FFHUB AI Team Rating tool)

• This is a team structure that accommodates Salah + Haaland + Along with a Premium Midfielder(Saka/Palmer/Foden)
• Holding Haaland + Salah + Saka brings consistency to the team in terms of penalty-taking, minutes, and reliability.
• Bailey and Nkunku are good placeholders(season start picks) for the £6.5 Midfielders price point. One of them can be upgraded to Gordon/Jota and the other one can be downgraded to 5.5 MID offering great flexibility. Rogers stands out as the Best Midfielder at £5.0 price point.

A slight modification of the above draft is replacing Bailey with Winks(4.5 Bench Fodder) and using Rogers as a starter. That money has been used to upgrade 6.0 Million striker to Solanke and improves the overall stability of the team to start the season.

The main con of this structure is that the Defense is weak in this draft and it is difficult to get to Arsenal/City Defenders and TAA later if needed. You will need to downgrade one of Isak/Premium Mid but both are premium investments, fixture-proof, and are better long-term investments.

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Team Structure 3- No Haaland. Salah + Two Premium Mids + One Premium Defender

FFHub AI Team Rating: 93% (Get your drafts rated for free using the FFHUB AI Team Rating tool)

• This is the Team structure with No Haaland along with Salah + Foden + Palmer(2 Premium Midfielders) setting up for a Blockbuster Midfield.
• With no Haaland, there is literally enough money in the bank for everything- 3 Premium Midfielders + Semi Premium(Bruno) and also a Premium Defender.
• Bruno can be downgraded to a Budget Midfielder(5.5) and that money can be used to upgrade Wood to Watkins later.
• The major con of the draft is no Haaland or to be precise- The difficulty of getting back Haaland. You will need to sacrifice Salah along with a Premium Mid/Defender and that might still not be enough with price changes. It is simply too many transfers wasted.

Further Read: Best £4.5 Million FPL Defenders for the 2024/25 FPL Season

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Team Structure 4- No Haaland. Salah + One Premium Mid + Two Premium Defender

FFHub AI Team Rating: 97%

• This is a team structure with No Haaland- Salah + One Premium Mid + Two Premium Defenders. A modification of the previous structure where a Premium Midfielder is replaced by a Premium Defender and AI likes this very much with a 97% rating on the Hub Rate my Team Tool.
• Defense has cover from City, Arsenal, and Liverpool as well as with good attacking threat. So defense is a set and forget and very transfers need to be used there in the longer run.
• Midfield also covers all the price points- £12.5, £9.5-10.5, £7.5, £6.5 which makes it really flexible.

Difficulty to get back Haaland is the obvious con in this draft but other than that, there is also added pressure and importance to get the 2nd Premium Midfielder- Saka vs Palmer vs Foden vs Son right. You could pick one of them and they could score 10 points from 4 games while the other pick can get 30+ points in that time. This is bound to happen in FPL but with no Haaland, it is a bigger problem.

Further Read: Best £5-5.5 Million FPL Defenders for the 2024/25 FPL Season

Team Structure 5- No Salah. Haaland+ 2 Premium Mids + Premium DEF

FFHub AI Team Rating: 92% (Get your drafts rated for free using the FFHUB AI Team Rating tool)

• This is a Team structure with No Salah– But it is compensated by 2 Premium Midfielders(Foden + Palmer) along with a Premium Defender
• This draft has good overall balance and also a solid bench and also 0.5 in the bank for further moves.
• You can also downgrade Bailey to a 5.5 Midfielder and upgrade Nkunku to a Eze/Gordon/Jota
• There is a con with going No Salah not just with the price point but difficulty in decision-making if Salah gets a double-digit haul vs Ipswich in GW1- Whether to hold to the No Salah moto or get him soon for the other fixtures thereby dropping two premium picks(Palmer/Foden/Gvardiol).

Further Read: Best Premium FPL Midfielders (£8.0 – £12.5 Million) | 24/25 Season

Team Structure 6- No Haaland and Salah

Hub AI Team Rating: 93% (Get your drafts rated for free using the FFHUB AI Team Rating tool)

• Looks really solid on paper with 7 good and proven attackers along with 2 Premium Defenders.
• But Captaincy is a question whether the likes of Palmer, Saka, and Watkins can be considered strongly every week for captaincy. They are all good performers- But Haaland and Salah are more reliable for Captaincy as suggested by previously seasons and also the pricing.

FFHUB My Team Rating

Conclusion

• Pricing has been done in a way that managers are very likely to go with 3 Defenders to start the season and go with the formations 3-4-3 or 3-5-2. We can see that 3-4-3 as the most preferred formation due to the availability of Budget attackers in the 6.0-6.5 million range.
• There is excellent value in the 4.5 Million Defenders position with many defenders from the Top 8 teams there and also with decent attacking threat. Rotating 4.5 Defenders is a legit option(Read more: Best FPL Rotational Pairs and Combinations for 2024/25 FPL Season). Finding starting 4.0 million defenders are also not difficult.
• Looking at these Team structures- Going with Haaland looks to be a more safe secure option mainly due to the high EO and also because of the difficulty to get to Haaland later in the season without using a Wildcard. Haaland is priced at £15.0 million and you would need to break your team to get to him later. He could also be £15.2 million in no time.
• Going without both Haaland and Salah may look good on paper to start with, but you would need reliable captaincy picks in the long run. Not owning the likes of Salah in GW1, and Haaland in GW2 vs Ipswich when there will be lots of managers who have captained him it might be a difficult start if either of them go crazy.

• Team Structure 1 and Team Structure 2 are our favourite right now due to the reliable and consistent performers. Also offers flexibility to other picks who did not make it.
• At the moment, 6.0 FWD(Wood/Muniz) looks to be a better option than 6.0 or lesser Mids. Things could easily change in pre-season as well.
• Gordon(£7.5), Jota and Eze(£7.0) look like great value picks to start the season and are slightly underpriced considering the previous season they had.
• There is excellent value in the 6.5 Midfielder slot– Nkunku, Gibbs White, Kudus, Mitoma, Garnacho, etc. But picking the right midfielder is not very straightforward.
• If you own Haaland + Salah- Surely you need to sacrifice 2 out of these 4 FPL favourite players from last season(Palmer, Saka, Foden, Watkins) if not 3 to have a good team structure.
• Isak(£8.5) and Havertz(£8.0) come up at good price points and look like better picks than Midfielders in that range(Bruno and Odegaard) especially Isak considering he is on penalties as well.

There is no right or wrong team in FPL. This is just a Team structure guide and more like an open conversation to understand the structures better. Play your own game. Hope this article was useful, Good luck for the season!

Further reads from ALLABOUTFPL ahead of FPL GW1 of the 2024/25 FPL Season

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Midfielders Series:
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Forwards Series:
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