The Fantasy Football family is growing all the time and, as you know, we’ve always got time for new arrivals particularly if they’re bringing something vaguely unique to the party. Ubecha falls nicely into that category. This is the game that allows you to use your Fantasy Football noggin and all the information you’ve processed to actually earn yourself some shillings.
It’s a fairly simple premise – bring together in marriage two things we all know, love and spend many hours on each week: Fantasy Football and gambling. Throw in the chance to walk away with five thousand pounds and things start to sound very interesting. What? No digital camera?
Ubecha game carries a marked resemblance to the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) game that most of us are familiar with. An extremely marked resemblance. This however, is very handy if you’re looking to introduce a bit of fantasy betting into your life without the strife of getting your head around another ruleset.
You choose a squad of 15 with a £100m budget, scoring is identical to how FPL dishes out points each week, a captain will score you double each round, managers get one transfer a gameweek with 4 points deducted for any more made and prices fluctuate through the season. Initial prices and the player list are slightly different, Gareth Bale is a defender for one, but this undoubtedly feels familiar whilst just that little bit more exciting with a wedge up for grabs.
Yes, it’s all about the money. You can play for free, but in all honesty we’ve got our cosy little relationship with the FPL game for that. Ubecha have themselves set the aforementioned tasty £5000 bait to entice managers to put their money where their mouth is. A £10 entry fee sees you signed up to their gameweek 3 to 38 league with any other members of the public also looking to cash in.
As well as big jackpots you can also set the stakes and timescale yourself – so effectively you can set up your own mini-league for the gamweek period that you want and Ubecha will handle the prize pot for you. Want to challenge your friends to see who’s the best manager from weeks 5 to 9? You can do just that, and set your wager as well – Ubecha will take 7% of your entry and the rest is up to you exactly how to split the winnings.
If anyone is so inclined to rid this Scout of his hard earned cash, we’ve set-up a £5 entry league for just the first 3 gameweeks. Enough time to hopefully require a bit of skill, yet still short and sweet. You do of course, have to be aged 18 or over to take part.
League name: FFScout August
League code: FF57GYZBKXAK
There’s all this, and so much more, on offer at Ubecha if you are so inclined, as they try to corner the market on not just Fantasy, but other varieties of games – as well as trying to cater to social networking needs – the even trademarked the term “Social Betworking” – nice.
All in all, this is a polished and solid-looking proposition if you fancy running short (or long) term cash leagues in an FPL-esque game, without all the hassle of chasing down entry fees. The similarity to the FPL is instantly reassuring, while the lure of lucre is enough to tickle the excitement gland. It’s like dating a doppleganger of your other half with the chance that they will pick up the bill at the end of the night. That’s got to be a good thing.