Here’s the 2nd of our different format articles where we talk about telegraph fantasy football. We give a short review of the rules as well as show your our first draft team. It’s a straightforward enjoyable game and well worth playing
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The rules
The rules are refreshingly simple so no need to copy and paste from the site for me. Here’s the key points:
The premier league and the FA cup earn points
11 players no subs
No same club restrictions on numbers
no captains
Various formations
points for goals and assists (wider key contribution definition). Negative points for goals conveded for defs and GKs
No price movement of players.
40 transfers over the season. Transfers can happen between matches on a game day.
Draft 1 FFGeek team
Here’s my draft team. It’s only the first one, there will be many to come. Whats notable is that the prices seem more challenging than in previous years. I did an ideal team and ended up nearly £4m in defecit the end result is trimming
Here’s the team:
I’ve gone for the strongest defence within reason as there’s no subs and negative points for goals conceded. I would have gone for all top 4 challenging defence except I had to trim for budget purposes. I’m gambling on the Pulis defence and Koeman improving the Everton defence
In midfield Siggy and Mkhitaryan are my key players. The TFF key contribution gives more emphasis on assist based players with it’s wider definition
Fischer and Townsend are my cheaper makeweights. Aguero and Sturridge are my key strikers with Austin my cheap gamble if he can stake a starting place.
No Koscielny, Ozil, Ramsey, Giroud and Payet as I’m just unsure whether they will start GW1 after their Euro exploits
League details
Enter the fantasy football geek league:
Here’s the details:
League name: FantasyFootballGeek
League Pin: 8000919
League passcode: 2020
Thats it.
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