Last week saw the official launch of the new pay-to-play Ultimate Fantasy Premier League (UFPL) game for the season ahead. After taking part in the beta-phase in the final few months of the previous campaign, we’re keen to get involved again and plan to publish an in-depth guide over the next week or so, assessing the rule set and variety of strategies involved:
Costing £5 entry per team, the UFPL is a squad-based game that offers a cool £25,000 winner’s prize and a monthly prize of £1,000. For those unfamiliar, we’re essentially handed a budget of £160m to build our 25-man squads but, for each Gameweek, can only select an 18-man squad, leaving seven of our squad out in the cold.
The UFPL favours the more hands-on approach and affords us a “stick or twist” dilemma for every day of the Gameweek, which allows us the option of replacing poor performers with options off the bench – a concept familiar with those who played the FIFA McDonald’s World Cup 2014 or the UEFA Champions League games.
For those who are looking to get involved or have already began to tinker with their first drafts, we’ve set up the official Fantasy Football Scout league – to join, the code is 524-87.
9 years, 9 months agofound a notebook i used to make teams on bus journeys in 2010 pre-season, so 10/11 season.
some of the player prices are crazy considering it's only 4 years ago:
6.5 reina
6.0: given, friedel
5.5: gomes, almunia
5.0: green, sorensen
7.5: evra, g.johnson, vermaelen
7.0: vidic
6.5: carvalho, agger, ferdinand, zhirkov
6.0: collins, warnock, corluka, bridge, alex, heitinga, boateng
5.5: hangeland, o'shea, dawson, assou-ekotto
5.0: upson, hughes, ridgewell, craddock
4.5: higginbottom, berra, bramble, illunga, paulo da silva, givet
13.0: lampard
12.0: fabregas
11.5: gerrard
9.5: arshavin, malouda
9.0: milner, kuyt
8.5: valencia, arteta
8.0: lennon, nani
7.5: aquilani, modric, diaby
7.0: giggs, kranjcar, maxi, dempsey, pienaar, essien
6.5: bale, carrick, dunn, duff, ireland, bilyaletdinov
6.0: diamanti, petrov, pedersen, andy reid
5.5: o'hara, gera, tuncay, hitzelsperger, lee, malbranque, dorrans
5.0: milijas, moses, adam, wilshere
12.5: drogba
12.0: rooney
11.5: torres
10.5: tevez
10.0: van persie
9.5 adebayor
9.0: defoe, anelka
8.5: jovanovic!!!!, berbatov, agbonlahor, bent
8.0: chamakh, bellamy, saha (lol x3)
7.5: hernandez, carew, owen, eduardo
7.0 bendtner, crouch, jones, yakubu, santa cruz
6.5: rodallega, zamora, c.cole
6.0: pavlyuchenko, zigic
5.5: kalinic, keane, doyle
4.5: ishmael miller