FPL redraft (three a season, or one every week)

Four draft nights, or thirty-eight

A Premier League season is thirty-eight gameweeks long. An FPL Draft league fills exactly one of them with a draft, in August, and the 2026/27 rules let an administrator add up to three more wherever the league agrees. Underneath is the same season as we run it.

That gap is why this page exists rather than pointing you at the official FAQ and stopping. The rules of a redraft take five lines. The interesting question is what a reset does to a league, and we have run that experiment a few hundred times.

The rules of an FPL Draft redraft

How many

Up to three after the initial draft, before or during the season.

Who sets it up

The league administrator, from the League Admin page, choosing the gameweek, the date and the time.

When it locks

It must be scheduled before the gameweek immediately preceding the chosen one begins. The official example: a redraft for gameweek 17 runs during gameweek 16, and can only be edited while the game is in gameweek 15 or earlier.

The pick order

The administrator can take the current standings in reverse from the relevant gameweek. If no standings order is chosen, it is random. What each slot is worth is on draft strategy.

The squads

All of them are refreshed. That is the point: the whole player pool is available again, including whoever somebody has been sitting on since August.

Two things the FAQ does not say, and that you should therefore not assume. It says nothing about wiping points, so read it literally: the squads change, the table you have built does not vanish. And a reverse-standings order is an option rather than a default, which means the same feature can be a rescue for the bottom of the table or a lottery for everybody, depending on a checkbox your administrator ticks in October. Settle that before the night, not after it. The rest of the format, from the snake order to waivers and the four trade settings, is on FPL Draft explained.

When should a league redraft?

The most common suggestion in draft communities is the simplest one: split the season in half and go again between gameweek 19 and gameweek 20. It lands near the turn of the year, both halves get a proper run, and everyone can see it coming from August. The other common answer is to wait until the January window has closed, so that new signings are in the pool rather than arriving a week after you picked.

The argument against is worth taking seriously, because it comes from the people who play the format most. In the r/DraftEPL thread about scheduling them, the top replies were managers saying they will not use one at all: the reason they enjoy a draft league is that you end up attached to the squad you built, and an extra night throws away the thing that makes month five interesting. It also erases the reward for good waiver work. Spend three months quietly assembling a bench and a reset hands your bargains back to the league.

So a scheduled redraft solves a specific problem rather than being a treat. Use one when two managers have run away with the table, when half the squads are wrecked by injuries, or when three people have stopped setting a lineup and you would rather restart than watch the league die quietly. Do not use one because draft night was fun. If that is the actual problem, the fix is not three nights. It is thirty-eight.

Redraft every week: ten reasons it works

Full disclosure before the list. DraftIcon PL is our own game and it is built on exactly this, a fresh draft every gameweek instead of a scheduled one. That makes us biased. It also makes us the only people who can tell you what the tenth and the thirtieth reset feel like, because a league with three a season never finds out.

1. A bad week costs a weekIn a season league a bad August follows you to May. Most managers who quit do it because the table stopped being winnable, not because the game stopped being fun. Here the damage expires on Monday.
2. Nobody has to found a leagueNo commissioner, no minimum of eight friends, no draft time that suits everyone. You draft when you open the app, and the ranking is already running.
3. Missing one costs nothingSkip a gameweek for a wedding or a holiday and you have not abandoned a team other people are counting on. Come back on Friday.
4. Draft night is the gameIn FPL Draft the best evening of the season is the prologue to eight months of admin. Here the evening is the whole thing, and it comes back every week.
5. Fifteen minutes, not an eveningFourteen picks against a short clock. It fits in a lunch break, which is roughly what a draft is worth on a Tuesday in February.
6. Everyone starts level, every FridayNo head start for whoever drafted best in August, and no reason for anyone to give up in November. The table you are chasing is one gameweek old.
7. The cards decide, then you doYou are dealt packs rather than handed the whole pool, so the skill is choosing well from what came, not memorising a hundred-name board the week before.
8. No homeworkNothing to plan on Thursday, because you do not know what Friday deals you. No waiver queue to babysit, no trade nobody answers, no lineup deadline you forgot.
9. Three rankings, weeklyFriends, your country and the world, all settled when the gameweek ends. A season league gives you one table and eight months of waiting for it to matter.
10. Free, and the rehearsal needs no accountThe practice draft against the coach bot runs without signing in. Nothing to buy, no entry fee, no pot to argue about.

Why searching for this is so confusing

Half the results for the word are American articles about dynasty leagues, because over there a redraft league names a league type rather than an event: any league that keeps nobody from one year to the next. Inside Fantasy Premier League Draft it means the extra night described above. Renewing a league is a third thing again, the same managers carried into next season with an empty pool, once a year. And a weekly redraft, the fourth, is a draft every gameweek with no league to administer, which is the one we build.