Will another fantasy game prove distracting? Can a weekly fantasy game prove satisfying? These are tough questions. Regardless, the lads and lasses at the Daily Telegraph clearly feel that there are plenty of us out there craving another, short-term fantasy football hit – so today, they’ve gone and launched their own “Weekly” game.
How’s this work? What’s it cost? Am I bothered? Yet more tough questions. Let’s have a go at answering them…
The game has some interesting twists. Each round managers have carte blanche to select one (and only one) player each from 11 fixtures picked by the Telegraph team – the majority of these will be Premier League games, but there will also be one or two high profile european fixtures every round. The scoring is fairly similar to that in the FPL game (no dodgy bonus point contention here though, for a start), and there’s even the option to captain players for double points each week – captaining Ronaldo can once again become a weekly option for us all – oh the memories!
This is a weekly game where the slate and your squad is wiped clean at the end of every week; selections based only on the most short term of fixtures – those taking place in that gameweek. Entry costs £1.50 a week to play, but the more weekly credits you buy the more you can save. For this week only, the Telegraph are also offering free entry (see the linked how to play with details) to all managers to try their hands at being the best in this new game for no cost at all. Mmmm.
What’s in it for us? Well there’s a weekly pot of £1000 up for grabs for the highest scoring manager, while those ranked 2nd to 100 will earn free entry for another week. Check out the Telegraph’s website for finer detail of the ins and outs of play.
Are we sold on it? Most of us on the team will probably give it a go, although we’re pretty sceptical about the mix of Premier League and European games. How many will be bothered to research team news and form for the big European teams in a given week and will that put some people off? We shall see.

