Sky Sports Fantasy Football thread - 2019/20 Winner is Donegal1234

manual_man

I just set up a Boards FSA league there



Gonna give this game a lash again this year. Different from the official fpl game, prizes up for grabs etc.

2019/20 code to join 8430565

F1ngers

In, but don't know how much attention I'll give to it though.

manual_man

F1ngers wrote: »

In, but don't know how much attention I'll give to it though.

Its easier to manage now since you can select your captains in advance

manual_man

Bump

claw

I try and play this year so I've joined the league too!

patmac

I’m in, did a lot better in this game than fpl last year.

2nd Row Donkey

Gonna give it a miss this year lads .... find it too much of a distraction from fpl.

manual_man

Bump

manual_man

Up to 6 entrants now. Hopefully we can make it up to around 20 come kick-off

free Boards FSA league: code again to enter is 8374574

manual_man

Bump! Let's try and increase the numbers!

manual_man

Bump. C'mon lads and lassies let's get a few more to enter this

Free to enter (and Boards FSA league code above) and the small matter of £50,000 for the overall competition winner

manual_man

Bumping this one last time

https://fantasyfootball.skysports.com

Boards league code 8374574

It's an easy enough (free) game to play but i'll sum it up:

- 100m budget for squad of 11 (yes 11 - no subs)
- 2 wildcards - first one used during 1st int'l break
- 40 free transfers to be used any time during the season (max 5 per gameweek)
- multiple captains per gameweek - one can be set in advance for each day of the gameweek assuming you have a player playing on that day - if not you can always transfer a player in (transfers can be done while the gameweek is in play - eg. transfer a player out after Saturday games for one who is yet to play on Sunday - adding a strategic element). All your captains score double points
- points scored for goals assists clean sheets all the usual but bonus works a bit differently - extra points awarded for high numbers of passes/tackles/gk saves as well as for the player awarded man of the match.
- free to enter like i said with prizes on offer (£50k 1st prize) - there's also tiered money leagues (£2/£5/£10/£20)you can enter for anyone who fancies a punt but you need a skybet account for this.

manual_man

9 entrants now in the Boards league

ConnyMcDavid

Just joined too.

2nd Row Donkey

Right ... I'm in. Bit thrown together at the last minute.

Also, Salah is a forward, wtf.

manual_man

Good stuff Just remembered there's Free League prizes "Awarded to the three Free Leagues that have the highest average points total based on its five highest scoring teams at the end of the 2018/19 season:" 1st £1000 2nd £500 3rd £250

breffni bogballer

just joined, anyone else have trouble logging into their account. i ended up creating a whole new account and had team set up,then realised i had no captain in tonights match,anyhow i threw 11 together and had 3 captain picks for the 1st weekend :):)

manual_man

Some impressive scoring in our league

2nd Row Donkey

Well I f**ked up my captaincies. Had Aguero captain for all 3 match days. Didn't save them properly I guess.

manual_man

Some good scoring in our league. A shout out to our league leader Optimus' Prime 11 who is just 5 points outside the top 100 with a very impressive 252 points

manual_man

How are we doing in this? I'm on 299pts, 4 transfers used, ranking 1331. Happy with that start. I doubt i'll use any transfers this week, then we have our first wildcard to use over the international break.

2nd Row Donkey

manual_man wrote:

code to join 8374574

I nearly forgot to join the bloody thing. Just did now.

2nd Row Donkey

Also, is there a rule for our league whether teams are private or public (visible).

manual_man

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Also, is there a rule for our league whether teams are private or public (visible).

No rule. You just choose whichever one you want

claw

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Also, is there a rule for our league whether teams are private or public (visible).

There is a setting so your team can be private.

claw

manual_man wrote: »

How are we doing in this? I'm on 299pts, 4 transfers used, ranking 1331. Happy with that start. I doubt i'll use any transfers this week, then we have our first wildcard to use over the international break.

264 points, ranking 7346, 9 transfers used. Put Phil Jones in last Monday to stupidly cover the Monday match and a lack of Sunday players this weekend, have rectified that now!

manual_man

How's all your wildcards coming along?

2nd Row Donkey

manual_man wrote:

How's all your wildcards coming along?

Terrible. Hate my team. I'm 20million over budget for anything half decent.

claw

manual_man wrote: »

How's all your wildcards coming along?

Have a team, happier with the structure of it now, might make a couple of changes to it but it's well set up for the next few weeks I think.

manual_man

Gone with this lot

Ryan
Alonso Mendy Robertson Pereira Bennett
Zaha Hazard Maddison
Aguero Mitrovic

Aguero Bennett and Ryan the 3 captains for this week

claw

manual_man wrote: »

Gone with this lot

Ryan
Alonso Mendy Robertson Pereira Bennett
Zaha Hazard Maddison
Aguero Mitrovic

Aguero Bennett and Ryan the 3 captains for this week

My team is similar to yours except I have Wan Bissaka instead of Pereira, Pedro instead of Hazard and Salah instead of Mitrovic. Would rather have options in my attack so I can put in Kane or someone like that for Salah or Aguero if needs be! Have the exact same defence as my fantasy premier league team.

manual_man

Sitting just inside the top 1k as we speak. 28/40 transfers remaining. Salah(C) today if he does the business it will ease the pain of not having him in fpl :pac:

manual_man

Up to the lofty heights of 439th

2nd Row Donkey

Doing superb manual man. A lot if those above you will have burned a lot more transfers.

At 20k myself ... only made my 4th transfer on Saturday. Need to start putting more effort in this one.

Seaba

4.1k myself.
35 transfers remaining.
First time playing it.
Not sure if I like it compared to FPL.
Very secretive, not being able to see other players teams which are Private. I suppose it stops lower teams copying those of the leaders.
Will keep playing as long as I am doing OK!

Can you see how many players are in the competition?

DJIMI TRARORE

Is it possible to find how many transfers other teams have done

manual_man

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Doing superb manual man. A lot if those above you will have burned a lot more transfers.

At 20k myself ... only made my 4th transfer on Saturday. Need to start putting more effort in this one.

Seaba wrote: »

4.1k myself.
35 transfers remaining.
First time playing it.
Not sure if I like it compared to FPL.
Very secretive, not being able to see other players teams which are Private. I suppose it stops lower teams copying those of the leaders.
Will keep playing as long as I am doing OK!

Can you see how many players are in the competition?

Thanks. You guys are in a good spot too with so little transfers used. I have 26/40 remaining now, so i've burned a fair few, overall FSA folks doing pretty decent. I'm curious though how many total players are in the game. I haven't seen it anywhere

manual_man

90pts, up to 223 overall

manual_man

373 O.R. 6/40 transfers remaining

manual_man

Anyone want to set up a league for this season?

2nd Row Donkey

Didn't do the sky sports one last year but I'll definitely do it this time around.

DJIMI TRARORE

The ultimate weekly game will be fun,no budget,no limits,just pick what u think will be the best 11 that week, 100k a week if ur very lucky,Thommo just picked 11 liverpool players

manual_man

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

The ultimate weekly game will be fun,no budget,no limits,just pick what u think will be the best 11 that week, 100k a week if ur very lucky,Thommo just picked 11 liverpool players

Sounds fun alright. The idea of pick whatever players you want from week to week has always seemed fantasy football at it's purest to me.

I noticed in the regular game you can set a league up to be paid entry: £2/£5/£10/£20. You need to have a skybet account to enter such a league(i do - i'm not sure about anyone else).

The ultimate is different from the actual sky football season one. No.?

DJIMI TRARORE

Deleted User wrote: »

The ultimate is different from the actual sky football season one. No.?

yep,u pick a new team every week

manual_man

Ok i've renewed the Boards FSA league for this season

PIN 8430565 feel free to join

claw

Have entered this again this season, thanks for setting the league up!

manual_man

Rolling with this starting out:

Ederson
TAA VVD Laporte Coleman
Tielemans Grealish Norwood
Auba Pukki Sterling

manual_man

8 players signed up for the Boards FSA league

sign up with PIN 8430565

and please enter ONE team only to the league (technically it's possible to enter two)

Thanks

F1ngers

Edited op to include this years code.

manual_man

Bumping this up. 9 entries in the Boards league so far. Be nice if we could get to 20