PlayON – Strategy for New Features

With the international hiatus almost over, we thought we’d take the opportunity to revisit PlayON to remind you of the new methods of play that the game has recently introduced, ahead of tomorrow’s player picks.

PlayON’s new mechanics are very different to anything we’ve seen in Fantasy Football games to this point but the potential of the strategy involved is promising to say the least.

Daily Games

Last weekend we saw PlayON provide the first set of daily games, allowing us to pick lineups and enter teams for multiplayer games across Saturday and Sunday’s fixtures, in addition to the weekend as a whole.

Selections for daily games are made by first using the dropdown in the left-hand corner of your PlayON dashboard, which shows the current Gameweek by default: this allows you to select either Saturday, Sunday or Monday daily games

You can enter up to three teams for each game – so, effectively, over a Saturday/Sunday weekend programme, you can have nine teams active and can still be picking new teams on Saturday and Sunday.

In-Play Tournaments

Whilst Fantasy managers are well versed with dealing with deadlines, PlayON have broadened their offering to provide In-Play games, which allow us to go on competing for prizes even after kick-off.

PlayON’s team selection deadline is still two hours before the first kick-off of the day or Gameweek. However, once this is passed, you can now jump into In-Play games for one-on-ones and limited entry multiplayer match-ups (3, 4, 5, 10 or 20 player games). You can also opt out of any In-Play game before it fills up using the “unjoin” function.

Adopting Teams

While you may want to meticulously tinker with an array of lineups, PlayON also introduces a new dimension to competing in In-Play games, enabling you to use a lineup created by another user.

This can give you a quick and simple method of joining new games. PlayON even gives you the facility to search for teams which include a particular player or set of players, so, if Wayne Rooney has scored a brace and you want to take his points into an In-Play game, you can search and find a team which includes him and adopt that.

There are layers of strategy to this. In-Play teams can include players who have already played and earned points but, of course, you may wish to gamble on a lineup that includes more players who are yet to play rather than get points in the bank. To see all of this in action, just click into the “Use Other People’s Teams” button on the Matchday page once the team picking deadline passes.

Earning Income From Your Teams

When you adopt another user’s PlayON lineup for In-Play games, they will earn a commission should you win. The flipside of this is that you can earn money from your PlayON lineups if they are adopted by other users. So, if you create three PlayON lineups each week and your selections score well, you could earn an income from your teams without entering any games and with no outlay.

You might, for example, select a team with Danny Welbeck up front ahead of Saturday’s early kick-off with Man City. Should Welbeck score a goal, there will likely be a clamour for PlayON teams that include him in order to bank his points for In-Play games.

Your team with Welbeck will be available to others to see and use and you can set the level of commission you want from other users to use your team. You can also adjust this in real time so after Welbeck scores, you may want to increase it a few percentage points. If others are successful with your team, you will earn that percentage of their winnings.

You can set commission levels from 2% right up to 20% but, of course, the lower the commission level, the more likely your team will be an attractive option for others.

Look out for our PlayON picks tomorrow lunchtime ahead of another round of PlayON games. This weekend there’s a guaranteed £1,000 pot up for grabs in the full gameweek, plus a guaranteed £500 for Saturday’s daily game and a guaranteed £250 pot for the Sunday and Monday daily games. Check them all out at www.playon.co