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

DJIMI TRARORE · 31-07-2019 6:48pm

I’ll be making it 10 soonðŸ†

manual_man · 01-08-2019 3:37pm

Rules explanation, pasted from the general chat thread:

The rules are different from official fpl but not difficult to understand. There's a few key differences:

You don't have subs. You just select your best eleven from the 100m budget. You have 40 transfers for the whole season. These can be used at any time, with the exception that no more than 5 can be used in a single game week.

You can set a captain for every day there's a league game on(granted you have a player playing on that day).

Points are allocated for goals assists and clean sheets but there are also extra points on offer for passing, tackling and shooting counts(it makes some of the more defensive minded midfielders more viable for example).

3 bonus points are given to whoever's awarded man of the match.

The nature of how the transfer system works along with the ability to have multiple captains in a gameweek is a key part of the strategy. You can set your captains in advance for each gameweek so it's not so stressful - however if you make a transfer during the gameweek(which you can do, right up until the earliest kickoff on any given day), you may wish to change your captain as part of your strategy. Just for example, you may have Salah and captain him for the Saturday game. Then, before first kickoff on Sunday, you may transfer Kane in for him, thus having 2 really good captain choices over those 2 days.

Dearg81 · 01-08-2019 4:52pm

I like the captain every day rule, it makes watching games more interesting.

This is my team at the moment:
Ederson
Coleman VVD Zinchenko Guilbert
Jota(Wolves) Maddison Fraser
Auba Salah Sterling

It's much easier to make a strong team in this game if you sign up a cheap enabler like Guilbert.

manual_man · 01-08-2019 4:58pm

Yeah I like the idea of a cheap enabler. Boly was good last season. This season I’m starting out with Norwood.

Dearg81 · 01-08-2019 5:09pm

Also worth noting you get a wild card in week 5 so you are only picking a team for the 1st 4 weeks now.

manual_man · 01-08-2019 6:57pm

With the free wildcard gw5 I’ve changed my team up a little:

Ederson
VVD Zinchenko Coleman
Grealish Tielemans Norwood KDB Jota
Kane Sterling

county · 01-08-2019 7:09pm

Count me in,just joined!

2nd Row Donkey · 01-08-2019 10:29pm

Big fan of the SS and have played it for about 10 years.

... but the motm points awarding drives me mad. There's no rhyme or reason to it and if your players happens to be playing in a sky televised match then good luck unless they happen to be the media's latest darling for the national side (insert Kane, Lingard, Rashford, Alli, TAA here) as it's decided by one of the match commentators/pundits.

ItAintMeBabe · 02-08-2019 12:54am

Not letting me join, entering correct pin. Anyone else having issues?

extra gravy · 02-08-2019 1:04am

manual_man wrote: »

With the free wildcard gw5 I’ve changed my team up a little:

Ederson
VVD Zinchenko Coleman
Grealish Tielemans Norwood KDB Jota
Kane Sterling

I'm planning to have Salah for the Friday night game then swap him out for Sterling on the Sat. City have two games then before Pool play again.

extra gravy · 02-08-2019 1:17am

Latest effort

Ederson
TAA Digne Guilbert
KDB Maddison Jota Norwood
Kane Salah Vardy

manual_man · 02-08-2019 1:26am

ItAintMeBabe wrote: »

Not letting me join, entering correct pin. Anyone else having issues?

PIN 8430565

manual_man · 04-08-2019 7:27pm

Alright folks cmon let’s get a few more signups

manual_man · 05-08-2019 6:37pm

14 entries good stuff folks keep em coming

2nd Row Donkey · 05-08-2019 6:47pm

I'm in.

Team name: Hewty McHewtface

manual_man · 05-08-2019 7:07pm

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

I'm in.

Team name: Hewty McHewtface

Happy enough with that name

manual_man · 05-08-2019 7:43pm

My latest effort

Alisson
Zinchenko Stevens Coleman
KdB Moura Grealish Tielemans Jota
Aubameyang Sterling

Given we have a free wildcard after gw4. Have captain options for every day available. No Salah. Strong attack overall though. No need to waste any transfers over these opening weeks. Though I do have 0.1 in the bank I have an eye on doing Grealish to Barkley gw3, if Barkley's a starter.

2nd Row Donkey · 05-08-2019 8:39pm

Hoping Barkley plays from the off personally.

Might take a punt on Lamela. Poch defintely favours his fellow Argentinean and he's start him in a sort of free role the last 3 games.

Son is suspended, Alli is out for a few weeks and Eriksen has seen very few mins in preseason as his contract situation rumbled on.

I kinda like the SS version for getting my punt fix ... saves me from going full prodston in the FPL. Well that's the theory anyway.

DJIMI TRARORE · 05-08-2019 9:15pm

Anybody having trouble signing in on laptop,phone ok

lets talk about 6 are ready to go
EDERSON

ZOUMA DUFFY DIGNE

KDB ANTONIO MADDISON MCGINN

RASHFORD MO PEREZ

claw · 06-08-2019 12:57pm

Without thinking too hard about it:

Pope
TAA Zinchenko Digne
Sigurdsson Barkley Tielemans Grealish
King Salah Sterling

Will play around with it before Friday!

pnpweirdo · 06-08-2019 1:46pm

Code 8430565 not working for me either

manual_man · 06-08-2019 2:50pm

pnpweirdo wrote: »

Code 8430565 not working for me either

I'm not sure why that is. It's definitely the code

https://fantasyfootball.skysports.com/leagues/8430565

manual_man · 06-08-2019 3:08pm

To expand, click on the Leagues tab, click on Join +(on the right), then enter the league pin and click search, then scroll down and click on the team you want to enter in the league, then right below it click Join

PIN 8430565

League name Boards FSA

2nd Row Donkey · 06-08-2019 3:12pm

claw wrote:

Will play around with it before Friday!

I wouldn't tinker too much. Solid team.

manual_man · 07-08-2019 12:45pm

BUMP

manual_man · 07-08-2019 1:54pm

manual_man wrote: »

PIN 8430565

League name Boards FSA

18 members now. Filling up nicely. Keep 'em coming folks

manual_man · 07-08-2019 4:19pm

A reminder that the winner of the whole thing bags £50k(£5k for second £1k for third). £1k for the winner of the knockout cup. Manager of the month prize of a games console of your choice also

manual_man · 07-08-2019 11:55pm

Up to 20 entries now. Great to see

manual_man · 08-08-2019 2:09pm

Captain choices for gw1?

I'm on Alisson, Sterling, and Aubameyang

2nd Row Donkey · 08-08-2019 9:22pm

manual_man wrote:

I'm on Alisson, Sterling, and Aubameyang

Couldn't possibly say. That's the beauty of SS. Captain choices 3 times a week can make or break ya.

manual_man · 08-08-2019 10:02pm

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Couldn't possibly say. That's the beauty of SS. Captain choices 3 times a week can make or break ya.

I'm tinkering. I've now got Salah in alongside Auba and Sterling. Guilbert is a nice enabler

manual_man · 09-08-2019 11:39am

BUMP. Get your entries in folks

Reminder: Boards FSA league PIN 8430565

https://fantasyfootball.skysports.com/

manual_man · 09-08-2019 12:56pm

Not sure if it was mentioned, but you get to enter TWO teams into the main competition. With the free early wildcard after gw4 it might be no harm setting up a second more punty team and see how it goes over those first 4 gameweeks.

But, if entering the Boards FSA league, PLEASE only enter one of your teams into this.

manual_man · 09-08-2019 6:24pm

manual_man wrote: »

BUMP. Get your entries in folks

Reminder: Boards FSA league PIN 8430565

https://fantasyfootball.skysports.com/

23 entered now last chance to enter

Dearg81 · 09-08-2019 6:58pm

manual_man wrote: »

Captain choices for gw1?

I'm on Alisson, Sterling, and Aubameyang

Thanks for reminding me. I had no captain selected for tomorrow. I'm on Salah, Sterling and Aubameyang.

manual_man · 09-08-2019 6:58pm

Dearg81 wrote: »

Thanks for reminding me. I had no captain selected for tomorrow. I'm on Salah, Sterling and Aubameyang.

Yeah same

manual_man · 09-08-2019 7:16pm

BTW for anybody wanting to enter a team, i think you can do so right up 'til kickoff, though the site seems to be having a few technical issues at present no doubt due to the last minute rush

DJIMI TRARORE · 09-08-2019 7:49pm

manual_man wrote: »

BTW for anybody wanting to enter a team, i think you can do so right up 'til kickoff, though the site seems to be having a few technical issues at present no doubt due to the last minute rush

You dont have to have sat/sun cpt picked b4 8 and can change them either day b4 the 1st game,ie; if auba doesnt start u can put c on any other player, 23 players,thats my hopes of a top 20 gone so

manual_man · 09-08-2019 7:53pm

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

You dont have to have sat/sun cpt picked b4 8 and can change them either day b4 the 1st game,ie; if auba doesnt start u can put c on any other player, 23 players,thats my hopes of a top 20 gone so

Yeah you can change captain choice for any day right up until first kickoff on that day

Trimm Trabb · 09-08-2019 11:36pm

When do we find out who was MOTM?

Trimm Trabb · 11-08-2019 8:47pm

Question re transfers/captaincy for next week..

If I have a player like Auba as my captain on Saturday can I then buy someone like Vardy on Sunday morning who is playing that day v Chelsea and make him my Sunday captain?

claw · 11-08-2019 8:48pm

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

Question re transfers/captaincy for next week..

If I have a player like Auba as my captain on Saturday can I then buy someone like Vardy on Sunday morning who is playing that day v Chelsea and make him my Sunday captain?

Yes

claw · 11-08-2019 8:58pm

127 points and 6719th overall, probably should have put in Auba today and captained him but very happy with that start. Probably my best start in playing Sky Sports ever since most teams at the top at the start seem to go for the monthly prize.

extra gravy · 11-08-2019 9:01pm

Finished up on 144 despite a Guilbert no show and Jota and double Leicester blank. Top 1k rank, all downhill from here!

Dearg81 · 11-08-2019 10:11pm

extra gravy wrote: »

Finished up on 144 despite a Guilbert no show and Jota and double Leicester blank. Top 1k rank, all downhill from here!

Ah don't be so negative! How much do you win when you come 1st? :-)
I'm on 133points so delighted with that start.

manual_man · 11-08-2019 10:22pm

135pts. 94pts of that from the 3 captains :eek:

SJIII · 11-08-2019 10:54pm

manual_man wrote: »

135pts. 94pts of that from the 3 captains :eek:

Getting the captain spot on is the key! Foolishly went for Wilson over Sterling on the Saturday for a net loss of 17 points and had Jota today. Still though a score of 103pts isn't the worst I suppose. Seems like an enjoyable game, definitely like the more engaged aspect of it in comparison to FPL

Dearg81 · 11-08-2019 10:57pm

extra gravy wrote: »

Finished up on 144 despite a Guilbert no show and Jota and double Leicester blank. Top 1k rank, all downhill from here!

How come you didn't join the boards FSA league? Also why is Matthew le Tissier in it :-)

extra gravy · 12-08-2019 8:55am

Dearg81 wrote: »

How come you didn't join the boards FSA league? Also why is Matthew le Tissier in it :-)

I lost track of my Sky team halfway through last season because I was so focussed on fpl and the same thing will probably happen this year so I didn't bother joining any leagues! Is that the real Matt le Tiss?!

manual_man · 12-08-2019 10:20am

That is indeed Matt Le Tissier. Propping up the table! Haha it gave the option when setting up the league to add any of a number of Sky pundits. I chose Le Tiss due to fond memories of my first attempts at fantasy football

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