Fantasy Football 2020-2021

The Nothing Better Than Football fantasy leagues are up and running again  😇  Both are free to play again

Fantasy Premier League (FPL)

This one is pretty straightforward, hardly any changes apart from a lot of strikers are now classed as midfielders, and vice versa. Here's the info:

Hello, For the 2020/21 Fantasy Premier League why don't you join my mini-league "Nothing Better Than Football"?

Joining the league couldn't be easier. Simply use the link below and you'll be added automatically after you've entered the game.

https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/f4f3ik

League Code: f4f3ik - Looking forward to playing against you this season!

 

Telegraph Football Fantasy Premier League (TFF)

They have made wholesale changes to this one with multiple gliches and also making it impossible to invite all previous players to my league, unless I actually know your e-mail addresses or hopefully you are reading this?

Anyway, if you do fancy joining the league here's the info:

Great, now that you have created a league, invite others to join. 

Your unique league code for Nothing Better Than Football is: US4D6ZR2

Hopefully we'll get a decent amount of players in the end as I only finished 7th last season and need some revenge  😄

Season Over

 Well the 2019/20 season is finally over after the Champions league final last night.

Bayern Munich deservedly won beating PSG 1-0 in a pretty dull final (aren't they always).

The 2020/21 season has already kicked off in a variety of leagues, with Scotland and many European leagues on the go and this seasons Euro competition qualifiers into the early rounds.

The English leagues all start on September 12th, the Charity shield is being played next Saturday.

The Nations league begins in early September along with the first round of the League (EFL) Cup.

One last table to complete the Fantasy Football.

TFF Euro Super League

Not sure how many people played this, started out with about 30,000 teams.

Had a good year winning the League of Leagues, the Off to Europe we go league, the Rick's Footy Challenge league and the big one the Nothing Better Than Football League.

Did only come 2nd in the Family league, 6th in the Twitter League, and only 35th in the Facebook league.

Typically there were no cash prizes this season :(

Premier League Predictions will be back in early September, hopefully with enough players to keep it going? see you then.

Europe 2020

I have to say I'm enjoying the current format for the conclusion of the 2 European competitions in this pandemic hit season.

Obviously the lack of crowds is a big downer, but the football has been good and having the games every day has given it the feel of the World cup or Euro championships, without the agony of praying England do well.

 

Obvious highlight was the Bayern v Barcelona game, I like the way Bayern play and dislike Barcelona because of their diving etc so picked the right team to cheer on. The 8-2 result didn't really flatter Bayern who should have got double figures.

Most annoying game was the Man City v Lyon one, I like watching City in full flow and they were excellent against Real Madrid, but you feared what was going to happen when you saw the line up to face Lyon. No Silva's, Mahrez or Foden who was brilliant against Madrid as he chose a defensive line up against on paper the worst team left in the competition?

Yes they could have scraped through if Lyon's 2nd goal had been disallowed and Sterling hadn't have missed the sitter, but because of Guardiola's tactics they deserved to get beaten.

Man Utd have looked good in the last couple of months and I fancied them to get to the Europa league final, but Seville had the knowledge  to blunt their attacks with packed defence and you knew they would grab a breakaway goal at some point. It has happened so many times to English teams who over commit looking for a winner.

Honourable mentions to Wolves who were unlucky to go out to a very late goal, but looked jaded after a very long season. 

Inter Milan are looking good with Chelsea reject Conte and his wig playing some really good stuff, whether Lukaku and co will be able to break down Seville is anyone's guess but I hope so.

Assuming Bayern beat Lyon? I would expect them to beat PSG although it will be a lot closer than most of Bayern's games.

Tables 2019 - 2020 (Part 2)

 A few more tables for the records this season.

TFF - Nothing Better Than Footy League

Not a great season for myself or the League, usually get a Top 100 place but highest position this season was 90th and ended up in 180th.

Congratulations to Sue who hit top spot with 2 weeks to go, and unlucky on Colin who had led most of the season.

 

NBTF - FA Cup Predictions Table

Arsenal got me over the line in the final game.

All Time Predictions Records (All Competitions)

10 Years of predictions on this site, here are the records of everything.

Won, Drawn, Lost only applies to the Premier league predictions,the Played, 3 Point, 1 Point, Total and Points per game include Premier League, FA Cup, World Cup and Euro's that have been played since 2010.

All Time Premier Predictions 

Just the Premier League predictions in 10 seasons.

That's nearly all one competition still going on, the TFF Euro competition.

Having a much better season in that one, just outside the Top 50 individually and the leagues are doing very well, NBTF League is 12th and family league is currently 2nd with just 3 games left to play.