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Sky Sports Fantasy Football Is Back

7 July 2017 863 comments
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The Sky Sports Fantasy Football game for 2017/18 was officially launched on Wednesday.

This time around, the top prize has been doubled to a substantial £50,000 – incentive enough to assemble a team in time for kick-off on August 11.

It’s also worth noting that Sky Sports have introduced a handful of tweaks to their rules and scoring system for 2017/18.

We take a look at the main implications below…

Overhaul

Without doubt, Sky Sports’ biggest bombshell for this season is the new Overhaul feature, as described in the rules section on the site:

“For 2017/18 we have introduced our new Overhaul feature. You will be able to take advantage of Overhaul twice this season; once in September and the other taking place in February. During these weeks, you will be able to make an unlimited amount of transfers but must remain within the budget of £100 million. These transfers will not come out of your 40-player transfer limit.”

Akin to FPL’s wildcard, this new feature looks set to shape the way that Fantasy managers will play the game, with initial team selection likely to be heavily focused on the opening few weeks.

By using the Members ticker feature here on Fantasy Football Scout, you can stack up on the teams with favorable fixtures from the get-go.

Captain Scheduling

One of Sky Sports’ biggest draws is the multi-captain angle and, thankfully, it’s here to stay for the season ahead.

They have, however, rolled out a scheduling feature to help Fantasy managers keep on top of mid-Gameweek swaps – you can now pick your captain for each matchday ahead of time to avoid last-minute Wi-Fi related panics.

The Scoring System

There is just one tweak here, though it’s a welcome one that should help improve the prospects of defenders.

“Defenders will now only start to receive -1 point per goal conceded after the first goal they let in.”

Shipping just one goal now means defenders hold on to their two appearance points rather than dropping to one as in previous years. Defenders from the lesser teams are therefore likely to hold more appeal than before and could begin to represent decent value for the season ahead.

Weekly Articles and Podcast

We’re delighted to announce that we will be back supporting the Sky Sports game with weekly articles again for 2017/18.

This begins with our pre-season coverage.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be providing Player Price List analysis articles, Man of the Match analysis and much more.

Also, I’ll be talking through the week’s action and upcoming plans with FFS posters Buffrey and Lewis on our regular podcast – the latest episode can be found here.

There will also be a new community article to exclusively deal with Sky Sports Fantasy teams.

Those looking to get involved should click this link.

Scout League

Of course, we have already set up our Fantasy Football Scout League and after winning the League of Leagues for each of the last four seasons, we’re looking to defend our crown in 2017/18.

Get your teams in – the name is FFScout and the pin number to join is 8300422.

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  1. StalkingDwarf
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 10 months ago

    Fabregas 7.0. Interesting option considering 12 assists while being a sub.

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    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 10 months ago

      Rooney could be as low as 6m 😮

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    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 10 months ago

      Twitter guy must have gone for a drink before coming back and tweeting Fabregas' price

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  2. New Article Posted
    Witty Pun: Not good at this…
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 10 months ago

    New post

    http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2017/07/07/scout-report-tammy-abraham/

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    1. Think
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 10 months ago

      You are exactly there.

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      1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 10 months ago

        Thank you?

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  3. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 10 months ago

    Have we had just the three so far - Heston, Lanzarote & Fabregas?

    Haven't been really paying attention.

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    1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 10 months ago

      Also Knocksare

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      1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 10 months ago

        6.0

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        1. Jafooli
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 10 months ago

          Cheers Pun....

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          1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
            • 9 Years
            8 years, 10 months ago

            Np

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      2. Think
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 10 months ago

        I was about to answer the same but can't spale knockerat

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        1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 10 months ago

          Nockarrow

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  4. FALCAO & MOU
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 10 months ago

    Fabregas can help afford that frontline, he starts well too.

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  5. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
    • 16 Years
    8 years, 10 months ago

    I never got into this sky game properly.
    I nearly always forget to make a change of captain after a game midweek.
    I make too many transfers at the start of the season.

    FPL v the Sky game is like pool v Snooker.
    Loads of players come into contention with the sky game like herrera because of pass completion.
    Defenders always seem to be a fire and forget option in Sky and the fowrads always seem to be overpriced.

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    1. FPL Kangaroo
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 10 months ago

      Well you now have no excuse to forget to change your captain before a deadline as they have introduced a captain scheduling feature.
      So you can now lock in your captain choices in advance.

      We also now have a wildcard to use in GW 4 and GW28 which will help keep the amount of used transfers down !

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      1. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
        • 16 Years
        8 years, 10 months ago

        That's good news I will have to have a more serious look at it.

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        1. FPL Kangaroo
          • 8 Years
          8 years, 10 months ago

          Aye it is indeed. Oh and they have increased the 1st prize to £50k ...and a signed shirt by Jeff Stelling 😉

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          1. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
            • 16 Years
            8 years, 10 months ago

            😀

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  6. FPL Kangaroo
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 10 months ago

    Any Sky FF players looking to join a cash mini-league next season I have set one up 🙂 It's a £10 in. Code to join is 8305076 and "kangaroo" is the pw .
    All welcome.

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    1. FPL Kangaroo
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 10 months ago

      Prize structure is 1st - 60% , 2nd - 30% , 3rd - 10%.

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  7. stephenl15
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    8 years, 10 months ago

    RMT

    Lossl
    Francis Tripp Cedric
    Pogba Ramsey Willian Tadic Lanzini
    Lukaku Jesus

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  8. Amphetamine Logic
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 10 months ago

    Any thoughts ....?

    Forster
    Trippier, Kolasinac, Suttner
    Willian, Tadic, Eriksen, Carroll
    Lukaku, Austin, Jesus

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  9. Codhead
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 9 months ago

    hi folks. first time writing a comment but im hoping someone has an insight to my question. I recently set up a private league cash league and there has been at least 3 imposters entered. it happened last season also. just wondering if anyone else has experienced this??

    thanks...

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    1. Codhead
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 9 months ago

      forgot to mention, this is in the SKY game.

      thanks....

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  10. offspinnersinahurry
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 9 months ago

    Maybe a stupid question but with the new overhaul facility do we get 40 transfers effectively before game week 4 when the overhaul becomes available?

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