Here's a listing of the rules changes to keep in mind this season.

1) A Captain may not play out of position.    There are some potential advantages to a Df Captain playing at Sw. To negate that scenario the captain may only play at the position they have on the roster (Df at Df, Mf at Mf, and Fw at Fw).  Please bear this in mind when you determine who you wish to be your captain.  You don't have to make the selection immediately.  You can wait to see how the pre-season draft goes first before you make your selection.

2) The minimum number of Fws is reduced from 2 to 1.  In addition, the Df Area Total may now be up to four times that of the team’s Fw Area.

3) A new BRB has been added: Youth Director.  The first 4 SBYs discovered count as if they have already played 1 match (QNL = 1).   This has been added to the transactions page and you may begin to use it.

4) Managers may no longer trade BRBs.  This change is now in place on the transactions page.

On the  horizon for Season 6 is...

The need to determine whether the Captain's SL bonus should be removed from their SL when calculating penalty kick chances.   Currently the maximum chance of converting a PK is 95%.    If we implement this idea then I also (at least I think so) need to "re-determine" who takes the PK.   A captain might be Age III SL 14.   Currently he'd be considered an SL 17 for the PK calculation.   If we drop the 3 SLs (his age), then we need to re-determine the PK shooter, right? Thus that SL 15 or SL 16 player (if one exists) should take the shot.  (nothing is as simple as you'd think)  

So we need to talk more about this and explore if its a Captain SL type deduction or if dropping the max chance has a similar effect (its MUCH easier to just drop the max from 95% to 85% or 90%).  Does the max % chance deduction have a similar effect?