I am giving the Fantasy footie a big go this year for the first time in several years, mainly due to being in a works league for the first time in 5 years. Also because it is much cheaper this season.
About 5-6 years ago it cost £6 a team, although if you managed to find a promotion code you could sometimes get them for half price.
This season you got a free team plus it was 12 teams for £14.99 at the start, then 10 for the same price once the season started.
So I've ended up with 35 teams dotted around various leagues :)
3 in the works league, 2 in the Fiso forum, 2 in the Footy challenge league, 1 in the Facebook league, 1 in the Google league, and the remaining 26 set up into my own league.
Having this many teams means a mad rush every match day trying to find out who is injured and likely starting line-ups, and trying to balance the season long 30 transfers limit against short term gains.
The strikers positions have been a bit of a nightmare early on as the obvious picks at the start were probably Rooney, Aguero and Torres as Van Persie was a non playing Arsenal player.
Rooney and Aguero were both injured early on meaning RVP came in with Jelavic, Jelevic didn't do too well and then got injured meaning a switch to Berbatov who has now also got injured costing another transfer to Fletcher. I would have gone back to Jelavic but the early reports were that he wouldn't start :(
Suarez is usually a risky pick as his really good weeks are balanced out by many bad ones, Peter Crouch is a safe option for regular points but rarely has those exceptional weeks, Demba Ba has started well as he did last year but he dropped away badly last season and I have to remember that there is another African Nations cup next year and I've got Toure in most teams.
So far it's been good with all the teams in the top third out of around 250,000 entrants, 6 teams are in the top 1,000 with a best of 52nd, my league is 16th after a high of 12th, and I'm 1st, 2nd and 4th in the Works league :)
Today won't be good as Villa and West Brom players aren't really in my thinking at the moment, and Monday's Hammers v QPR game is only good from a fantasy game point of view if Nolan scores ...a hat-trick :)
Really enjoy your sense of humour & as a Man City fan - I've needed one over the years. Can you please repost the picture of the 4th official holding up the Fergie time board with Cnut on it. so appropriate again. Cheers
ReplyDeleteWill do Prince :)
ReplyDeleteMost of the City fans I've met over the years have been good guys, and one I work with still hasn't come to terms with the success and still thinks he'll wake up soon :)
Same here re city - & we haven't become arrogant about it (hopefully)- still in shock & laghing about it all. And if it hadn't happened to us then I would have wished it on another club just to challenge the Sky 4. Love the way your lot sing Bubbles before a game - really old fashioned but in a good way
ReplyDeleteWish your lot would keep a clean sheet, City defenders are usually a good pick for fantasy footie but so far they are way behind West Brom and us!! :)
ReplyDeleteBubbles is such a defeatist song I never knew why it caught on? "fortunes always hiding" "just like my dreams they fade and die" etc, but it's tradition and everyone knows the words so long may it continue :)