I know a lot of people here, myself included, really enjoyed the Ultimate Fantasy Football (UFPL) last season and are looking forward to next season. With its sister game Fantasy Premier League (FPL) dominating much of the conversation cross Fantasy Football Scout I thought it would be a good idea to create an area for all things UFPL to be discussed. Please use this area to post RMTs, questions, tactics, rotations, and whatever else you feel applies to the ‘Ultimate’ world.
To get the conversation going here is a bit about my experience with this game, which I played during its Beta phase in 2013/14 and for its debut season in 2014/15.
I particularly like its differences to the original FPL game, which I thought was worth the £5 entrance fee. Having a 25-man squad and additional points for interceptions, recoveries, key passes gave it more depth, especially by bringing in more defensive minded players into play, thus adding a further challenge to squad selection. I also found that the scoring was higher and I managed to get a couple of centuries last year. The in-Gameweek changes with Matchdays is also appealing.
UFPL requires more time and maintenance than FPL so it’s not one for the casuals. Given my relative success last season I thought I’d share my selection tactic, which helped give me a good team balance.
For the bulk of last season I stuck to this spread of premium, budget, mid price and ultra low priced players.
GK – 1premium, 1budget, 1 bench fodder
Def – 1premium, 3midprice, 4budget
Mid – 4 premium, 2midprice, 2 budget
For – 2 premium, 1midprice, 3 budget
I didn’t look too much into match day rotations, kept my team balanced and took a couple of risks. What advice would you give regarding making the best of the in-Gameweek transfers?
I restricted my use of loans for a few of the key double Gameweek targets. Although these mostly backfired, I think the lower cost for loans this year will make them a lot more useful and offer greater reward than last year. Do you agree?
The main point of this article is to get some discussions going that are solely for UFPL. If you are unfamiliar with the game and want to read up on the different rules I suggest checking out the UFPL rules page here.
8 years, 7 months ago
Hey Guys,
I did v poorly last season so trying to be more ufpl focused this year. Any thoughts on the below? 2m ITB
http://imgur.com/0TXp5g6
Cheers
Spat