FPL player prices move in £0.1m steps, driven by how many managers are transferring a player in versus out across the entire game. Your selling price captures only half of any rise — and falls are taken in full.
What drives a change
Price changes are determined by net transfer activity across all FPL managers, not by a player's performance in a match. A player scoring heavily does not trigger a price rise directly — but the wave of managers rushing to buy them in the following days does.
The exact thresholds are not published by FPL. What is consistent: sustained net buying pushes a price up; sustained net selling pushes it down. Individual transfers have negligible effect unless the player is very thinly owned.
Third-party tools track net transfer volume and flag players whose price is likely to move before the next daily update. Those tools do not have access to FPL's internal formula, but volume trends are a reasonable proxy for direction.
The mechanics
- Prices move in £0.1m steps only. There is no partial step — a player either rises or stays the same each cycle.
- A player can change price once per day.
- A player can change price a maximum of 3 times in any single Gameweek.
The 50% sell-on fee
When you sell a player whose price has risen since you bought them, you keep half of the rise. The other half is not returned to your bank.
Worked example — rise:
- You buy a player at £7.0m.
- The price rises to £7.2m — a £0.2m gain.
- Your selling price is £7.1m: half of £0.2m is £0.1m, added to your purchase price.
Round-down rule: where the halfway point falls between £0.1m increments, the selling price rounds down.
Example: you buy at £6.0m; price rises to £6.3m. Half of £0.3m is £0.15m, which rounds down to £0.1m. Your selling price is £6.1m, not £6.15m.
The asymmetry: gains halved, losses taken in full
This is the part most overviews leave out.
Price falls are not subject to any sell-on rule. If a player's price drops below what you paid, you sell at the current price — the full loss comes out of your bank.
Worked example — fall:
- You buy a player at £5.0m.
- The price drops to £4.9m.
- You sell at £4.9m — a £0.1m loss, taken in full.
Compare that with a rise of the same magnitude: buy at £5.0m, price rises to £5.1m. Half of the £0.1m rise rounds down to £0.0m. Your selling price is still £5.0m — no gain at all on a single-step rise.
The practical consequence: you keep roughly half of multi-step rises and absorb all of any fall. A player rising from £7.0m to £7.4m over a month gives you a selling price of £7.2m — a real £0.2m gain in buying power. The same player dropping from £7.0m to £6.6m costs you the full £0.4m. Holding through a fall is significantly more damaging than the equivalent rise is beneficial.
What "team value" means
Your team value is the sum of your squad's current selling prices plus your bank balance. The FPL app displays it as a single figure.
A higher team value gives you slightly more buying power when making transfers. If your selling price on several players has risen, you can afford a marginally more expensive replacement. This effect compounds slowly over a season — a squad that has captured several price rises has more room to manoeuvre than one that has held falling players.
What team value does not do: it does not affect your points score, your league standing, or anything visible to your mini-league opponents. A manager with lower team value but better player selection will beat a manager with higher team value in every Gameweek. Team value is a budget constraint, not a performance signal.