World Cup Fantasy iTeam Returns to FFS

From all of the games I've played, FPL is quite easily the best out there, so they shouldn't learn anything from other games.

I would like to see a return to UFPL though.

For me I played Sky, FPL Draft and Dugout Draft as well as FPL last season.

I really enjoyed Sky - spent pre season listening to the experts like Buffrey, Dan Cox and Disable on how it requires a different strategy. Patience is a key part of this limited transfers game - but I'm ok with that anyway. A key thing to address was to avoid using Sky to hedge FPL decisions. Treating it as a good game in its own right brought rewards definitely.

I didn't like FPL Draft at all - just felt that the FPL scoring and rules had been shoehorned into a different format without much thought. Meant that in a league of eight or more the pool of players was very limited. I much preferred Dugout Draft- they tailor the scoring to ensure the pool is large - so defensive midfielders get points for their attributes like tackling and passing.

I haven't played Eliteserien but it looks a good game and is really popular here. Also worth noting that this Norwegian game has excellent chips - especially park the bus (double points for defenders).

The simple answer for me is none. Fpl is so popular for a few reasons which the Sun or Telegraph games don't replicate.

1) Simple point scoring system. No points for blocks, interceptions, passes, etc which keeps it easy for the casual. You could argue bonus points, but how many of the 6 million players look at the constituents of the bonus points?

2) New transfer every week. Unlike the games with a fixed set of transfer where you lose interest after you've burned through your 40 for the season or whatever it is, Fpl keeps you engaged.

3) Scale. When all your friends play Fpl, that's where your mini leagues are. I'd reckon for most people the goal is to win their mini leagues, and this is where it happens.

Eliteserien with its live rank updates, better chips and bps given by a panel seems like a better version of our fpl game

Telegraph Fantasy Football.

Simple game. No arguments over bonus as there are no bonus points, partial clean sheet points for defenders, no captaincy. 40 transfers a season.

I've tried multiple times to play more than 1 game in a season but I always lose interest in any that aren't FPL.
I do super 6 and the five a side selector games on sky but not sure that counts as FF.

Playing FPL with one team is intense enough! Don't know how people are able to juggle other games and/or multiple teams!

fpl and sky(not got the hang of it yet) started eliteserien last week don't think i will bother with this i team one not a fan of paying any money will prob do mcdonalds/fifa for the world cup

FPL was the only game I played for years, until Fantasy Eliteserien came along last year. It's basically the same game for the Norwegian league as it's for FPL, with some small differences. I have never bothered with similar games for the Norwegian league before, as I didn't like the scoring systems and other rules.

MrKlin of Norway wrote a good piece on the differences between FPL and the Norwegian game (and the Swedish one as well)

https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/05/09/how-scandinavia-is-transforming-fantasy-football/

Eliteserien for me. Similar to FPL,so easy to play. Love the live updates,man in the stands bonus system. The innovative chips add a different dimension to the game. One different thing from FPL though is the plethora of options in defence in Eliteserien. So many defenders playing OOP, taking set pieces,etc makes 4 or 5 at the back a viable formation. Niemi and MrKlin's articles make it easy to play.
Surely FPL can pick up some chip ideas from Eliteserien

FPL is the best by quite some distance.

I'm playing UCL fantasy and there're several issues that make enjoying the game not easy.

Something FPL definitely shouldn't learn from UCL is the positioning of wingers.
UCL have them all down as forwards so the remaining midfielders are just a poor overpriced bunch of defensive mids with 0 attacking threat.

The Europa League game was great but sadly didn't open again for the past season.
There was no standard template team because of so many choices and one really had to spend several hours to research. No one was saying do A or do B, you had to trust your own selections in this game (same goes for the European Qualifiers game which they have changed to the daily XI format now).

MLS also was great fun but with the new daily XI format I also stopped playing it.
No planning, no strategy, less skill 😉

Speaking of Eliteserien - new preview for Monday's games now up in the community article section. 🙂

https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/05/20/fantasy-eliteserien-2018-gameweek-11-preview/

Fantrax is good for anyone wanting to play a draft game, wouldn't be surprised if FPL drop theirs.

Ive played fpl for 5 years now and i havnt found any other that quite matches it.

Although Niemi has gotten me into Fantasy Eliteserien recently and, Ive got to say, it gives fpl a run for its money. Love that i had no idea of anyone prior to getting started and so decisions are purely based on the stats that i can dig up. Also, the chips are far better and the live updates are a nice change.

Would definitely recommend for those going through fpl withdrawals. Thanks Niemi

I always have a go with The Sun Dream team. I guess old habits die hard...

There is also the official Fantasy Bundesliga

https://fantasy.bundesliga.com/

I'm imagine less than half the FPL teams are active at seasons end, also many teams for 1 week only. Game is not very good or dynamic, its just become a standard of sorts.

I Prefer the sky format myself.

Fpl is the ultimate game but they make so much hard work of it. Fpl used to be the best format until they modified it to make it appeal to the masses. All about the money I guess. More players = more revenue from advertising

UFPL would be the best game if it returned. I love that format and if I found decent cash league id probably concentrate more on that than FPL. I emailed them but no reply which I guess isn't good

Dream Team is dross. If you don't get a good start it's really hard to come back as all the players have rocketed in price and it's even worse than FPL for a template

I have never played any other fantasy game and have no wish to.

FPL has everything I want and most importantly it’s not about the prizes it’s all about the bragging rights

I came from TFF to FPL. And it occurred to me that TFF had designed a game to fix all the common grumbles of FPL, i.e. Make transfers after line ups have been released, equal points for a centre forward goal, select more than 3 players from the same team, partial clean sheet bonus, 3 points for key contributions so there is no controversy over assists and no bonus points etc etc I much prefer FPL by the way, but TFF is very good.

I'd like to try other games, such as Sky, but I know none of my mates would want to make the jump across as they're comfortable with FPL and it's easy to use.

For me, I need a mini league and rivals to make it interesting, either by trying to catch them or holding it off. I could play Sky, for example, but I'd just be one person playing for Overall rank or in the FFS league and that wouldn't be able to sustain my interest as much.

The only other game I played this year was the Champions League game, which I managed to do pretty well in and managed to get a few mates to sign up to. I do like how that game is different (deadline is kick-off so you can see line ups, plus you can swap captains/subs on the Wednesday night after the Tuesday games) but also feels a little easy too because of it.

Knockout tournament fantasy games are also very different to a 38-week league game, in that the business end is the start. Once the group stages are over, it becomes much harder to make any ground because the pool of teams is smaller and everyone gravitates towards the star players left in the tournament, leaving most with vastly similar squads. I imagine the World Cup game will be similar.

I played Sky for the first time this season and thought it was a really good format. I liked the way the prices don't change so you can plan quote far ahead. I agree that I probably unconsciously hedged between sky and FPL this results in a player scoring well and me thinking although I don't have him in my FPL team I have him in my sky team, so it isn't so much of a wake up call as if you only did FPL.

I've played Telegraph, I-Team, Sky and Dream Team at various times. This year just played FPL and Sky. Too busy for all the planning with an eight year old to deal with and a business to run. Plus I'm addicted to fishing which takes even more time than FPL!

I’ve never played FPL and have only ever play Sky and Dream Team back in the day.

My issue with FPL is the prizes, the poor bloke who won its gets a ticket to a match doesn’t he after beating 6million people? Sky / Dream Team you could have potentially paid your mortgage off.

People talk of cash leagues on here for FPL which would probably interest me more in it but how do they work? Are there any public ones as most of my friends play Sky?

Good post coach.

Fpl may be the biggest game but it also has flaws like the rule changes mid season and new teams each week using chips.

Played Sky last season but will be giving it a miss next as so many problems with the app one including picking captains one day then log in on match day to find them reverted back.

Will be giving Telegraph a miss also as it seems very dullard as no captains and the pricing is very odd.

I will only be playing Fpl, Fit, Mail and Goal next season as the apps are engaging, similar and with good community’s.

Telegraph's OK. That's about it really. Echo Epic's comments about UFPL.

MLS fantasy us quite good, You can change you whole team every week, which is good and bad, good as you could change your team, bad as it depends on a lot of research, every single week.

Bit much for me, but They have a much better price changing system.

First season playing Eliteisarien and I'm loving it. It fills the FPL summer void nicely as it runs from March to Nov and as others have said great chips and the live rank update as the matches are on is a great feature.

Have even started watching the five minute highlights of each match to get a better sense of players to go for. The gameweek previews on FFS from Neimi and Mr Klin are excellent too.

Play by mail? Dem 90's memories

Only play FPL. If you want to do well, playing other games is a handicap.

FPL needs to lose all these chips and wildcards. It is turning in to a game for the plebs.

I've played auction league (http://www.fantasyleague.com/Pro) for 10 years. It has become more important than FPL for me. It requires learning how to play a live auction night - drinking but keeping track of everything, sticking to your tactics. It took about 5 or 6 years to develop but I've won 3 of the last 4 years. These don't include 'knowing' who will score well.
FPL has become a hedge which is a shame as I'd like to give it a proper crack. Maybe now I've won 3, I can do that but the £250 in bets and prize pool isn't replicated in FPL.
FFS has given me an edge in terms of fixture planning for defenders and emerging players. Each month you have sealed bid transfers and I won it on that really.

Champs league fantasy

Gonna give the free version of The Telegraph a go for the World Cup...

I been playing the mls allows you too choose players weekly with unlimited transfers is good fun especially when fpl is on offseason

For the Australians out there, AFL Supercoach is a great game, other than being a different sport it differs to FPL in a couple important respects:

- More focused on generating cash to upgrade players to 'premiums'.
- Price changes are based on past scores rather than supply/demand.
- Players scores are left-skewed rather than right-skewed, as in FPL.
- Limited number of trades both per week and over the whole season.

But otherwise it's the same - pick the players that will score the most points. It's perhaps even more reliant on statistics than FPL.

Yep I second that - can’t find it anywhere

Same issue

Sorry to hear about that. Can you confirm you in the UK and over 18?

Due to the rules in regards to prizes, we have had to hide the league from anyone that doesn't meet that criteria.

If you are in the UK and your profile says your over 18, there may be another issue that we aren't aware of and will look into.

How do I enter the league om putting the pin in or the name and nothing comes up it's just black