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Real-Life
Performance Fantasy Football Games (A to M)
Traditional Fantasy Football games run over the internet operate a scoring system reflecting
REAL LIFE soccer matches, particularly the English
Premiership Football League. Fantasy football competitions are a great way
of following your favourite soccer players or simply enhancing your viewing
of the Premiership football matches. Our comments on the traditional fantasy football games
offered online should help you choose which competition suits you best. If you
know of a fantasy football competition that you think should be included within our pages
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for an up to date list of games.
What follows is a list of games, with our date of
review - just click to go to our full commentary on each game.
All
You Fantasy Football League
Pick an 11 player team for
the 2002/03 Premiership with one player from each club and 5 transfers allowed
(during January). Bonus points for a player of the month selection.
Reviewed 28 July 2002.
AlphaFantasyFootball Alpha
Fantasy football is a Fantasy Premiership game based on Premiership and FA
Cup matches. Spend £65m on a squad of 15 players with no more than 3 from any one
club. A total of 5 transfers are allowed in the season. Goals score 5, 7, 10 or 20 for S, M, D or GK.
Clean sheet and 'star man' points can also be scored. Monthly and season
long prizes offered from the entry fee of £15 and depend on number of
entries.
Channel
4 Fantasy Football Monthly
Overview
- FREE fantasy game based on the FA Premiership
- Every month is a separate competition, and entry is open
throughout the season
- Monthly and overall prizes
- Run by the long-established Fantasy League Ltd
CrazySoccer
Crazy Soccer is an American / Canadian site based around the English Premier
League. It is free to enter and is split into 2 seasons,. August to December and January to May.
The team is based around a 4-4-2 formation and you must select your
team using a budget of £65 million. You
are allowed 3 players from each Premier League team.
Each ‘season’ is split into 18 rounds.
There are unlimited transfers available, but when transferring you
must adhere to the 3 player per Premiership team rule. Mini league facility
available as well for up to 15 teams. Reviewed 22 January 2002.
Dream League
Dream League offer a number of Fantasy Football games.
Their Premiership game is a squad system where you pick the 11 starting players for each
week. Entry cost is approx. £5 but there are weekly prizes.
Dream
Premiership
Dream Premiership is a
free real-life performance based fantasy football game.
Choose your squad of 20 players and select the best XI each week to score
performance related points.
Reviewed 28 July 2002.
European
Fantasy Football
This game is the successor to the Soccer4-2-4 game launched in 2004.
Re-launched as 'European Fantasy Football' in 2005, and now in its second
season, EFF boast a completely re-developed game engine unique to Virtual
Sports Ltd, offering higher reliability and automation than previous
versions.
The game boast a selection of 500+ players from the top European leagues,
with a choice of 3-4-3, 4-3-3 and 4-4-2 formations, and 4 transfer periods
throughout the season. Prizes are offered for both the overall season
(down to 5th place), and the 2nd-half season. Overall prizes include:
Overall League 1st Place Prize - £1000
Overall League 2nd Place Prize - £250
Overall League 3rd Place Prize - £100
Overall League 4th Place Prize - £50
FanFoot
The game is split into a league and 22 cup competitions.
The game is free to play, unless you wish to compete for the prizes,
in which case it will cost you £3 to enter your team into the league, £2
for the Chgs Cup and £1 for the League cup. However, if you put 2 teams in, you get a third free.
You must pick a 4-4-2 formation from a £55 million budget.
Fantastical Football
Click4Football bring you Fantastical Football a classic real-life
performance fantasy football league where managers must employ their
footballing knowledge to choose a team of eleven English Premiership
players. You have the option to select the teams formation. Transfers
can be made up to 10 mins before kick-off. There is the ever popular Mini
League to add bit of friendly rivalry amongst friends, family and
colleagues. Game play is still simple and great fun with prizes on offer
for all ages. Cost of entry into the prize league is £5.00 per team (3 teams cost
£10.00), or play for FUN in the free to enter non-prize league. Updated review
5 August 2002.
Fantasy
Football Masters
Spend £50m building up your 11 man team in Fantasy
Football Masters. Formation is fixed at 4-4-2 and your Captain scores
double points. Points system is quite varied and you have 4 transfers per
month. A monthly game run by ESP Software. Updated review 26 August 2002.
Fantasy
Manager
Fantasy Manager is run by SilentManager and promoted on
SportingLife.com and was launched in July 2004. There are free or pay to
play options. Non-cash prizes. Listed July 2004.
FantasySportNet
A free fantasy English Premiership
game based on real-life performance. Mini-league option for friends.
Reviewed 3 July 2004.
FantasySportUk-
Warning - FISO forum members are owed many
£thousands of prize winnings from this Toronto based game operator.
This Fantasy Football competition is available for entry at www.fantasysportuk.com.
Select your team of 11 players to follow during the Premiership season,
you have a budget of £50M to spend and are restricted to having no more than
two players from any one team. The transfer option allows for only 5 transfers
during the season, however they can be made at any time. Entry to the
competition is £7.50 and an additional £2.50 if you select the transfer
option. There is no limit to the number of entries and if you enter three teams
they will give you a fourth team for FREE. The prizes are pooled
with 40% of entry fees going to the prize pool.
Fantasy
World Sports
This Irish based fantasy game is based on
the Italian Serie A, the English Premier league and the Spanish
La Liga! To play, you simply select two groups of clubs, two groups of
goalkeepers and three groups of strikers. There's no budget. You score Gems
(Gems are fantasy points) for each club and player in each group depending on
club wins, losses etc, goalkeeper clean sheets & goals conceded and striker
goals scored. The person whose team scores the most Gems by the end of the
season, will win the top prize of €20,000 (Irish). There are Manager of the
Month prizes as well. It costs €15 (IEP 11.81) to register a team. There is no limit to the amount of teams you
may enter. Entrants must be 16 or over. Reviewed 18 December
2001.
Football
Manager
Managers league - this is a basic free to enter football manager game
based around the FA Premier League. Each player must pick a team up to the value of £68
million. Each team must not have more than 4 players from any one Premiership team.
Periodically, special offers appear on the site, advertising key players at (sometimes)
knocked down prices. You are allowed 10 transfers in your team during the season. One
drawback this season is that there is only a limited number of each player available. If
the player you want is ‘out of stock’, you must watch for transfers in case
somebody else sells him. A nice touch to avoid too many players having the same team.
Office
League - as above, but a league formed amongst friends or
colleagues.
Footy Fantasy
This is a slightly unusual fantasy football game. The scoring system is similar to all
other games, with players being awarded points for clean sheets, scoring goals, etc.
However, the leagues are split in 1 Jackpot League (which covers the entire season) and 3
further Mini Leagues, each covering part of the season. Entry to
the Jackpot League automatically gets your team a free entry in Mini League 1. Entry to
the Jackpot League is £10 and entry to the subsequent Mini Leagues is £5 per league. You
must pick a 15 man squad. There are no monetary values involved, however the organisers
have picked a number of ‘Star Players’, of which you can only pick 1 in your
team. This, therefore, limits how many ‘quality’ players you can have in your
team. These ‘Star Players’ are the organisers' choice and do not include some of
the quality players in the Premiership, so there is still scope to pick an awesome squad.
You have a choice of squad formations for the first 11, and you must pick 1 reserve for
each position (goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, striker). Reserves only score points when
one of your first 11 takes no part in a Premiership match. First prize was
£1,000 for 2001/02. Updated review 27 July 2001.
FormationFootball
It
is a squad based competition with unlimited substitutions and up to 20
transfers allowed in a season. The site has some useful features, check
out the dynamically generated league and player performance profiles - see
game guide for a snapshot of the League Report.
The
site enables participants to visualise their team progress throughout the
season, this function is updated weekly.
Changing
your teams formation throughout the season is easy, simply select the
formation from the list of available and your players will automatically
assume the new formation.
There
are 2 formats in which you can play Formation Football:
Team Manager Game (£7.99 per Manager) - playing as an individual means you
will be positioned into a league with other Team Manager Game players. So
if you don't have enough people to form your own league this game format
is a good place to start.
League Manager Game (£6.99 per Manager) - create your own league for your
friends, work mates, family (or enemies) to compete against one another in
the same league. Leagues can consist of between 5 and 50 managers.
Game Features
•Easy to use
•Up to 8 formations to choose from
•Unlimited team changes
•Up to 20 transfers per team per season
•You can make up to the second team changes as often as
you like on the web or your mobile phone*.
•Up-to-date player performance and match statistics
available
•Latest football news headlines
•Mobile phone WAP team change access available at no extra
cost
Updated listing July 2004.
Free-Fantasy-Football.tv
A game with a fresh look at fantasy football. Not only do you pick your team and your manager, you must
also pick a football ground at which to play. The more fans you get to watch
your team, the more money
you generate. You may upgrade your stadium, increase or decease (!!!) prices to get in.
This different tilt makes the game more interesting as the better the ground you
choose, the less money you have to spend on your team. Your must pick a manager, a ground
and 11 players in any formation from a list of options but you can only have
3 from any club. For 02/03 you can choose from Serie A players as well as
the English Premiership. You are allowed plenty of player transfers, however you must keep your manager for the entire season.
You can either enter for free (Amateur) or pay to play (Professional) - but
the Pro has an advantage.
There are 3 mini-season games as well as the full length season game. Total
prize pot for 2002/03 is £40,000.
Key changes for 2003/04:
- Managers can now pick from 4 European leagues
(Premiership, La Liga, Serie 'A' and Bundesliga).
- Managers pick 11 players, 1 manager and stadium
(stadiums now scorepoints based on attendances).
- When the season kicks-off users will be able to
subscribe to SMS fantasy team
updates - which means managers will receive points scored, positions
gained/lost in the league and overall league position
within a couple of hours of the final results on
Saturday and Sunday to their mobile phones.
- 'Transfer amnesty' until Midnight GMT 14th August
2003. So users can pick their team today - and play
around with it - without having to worry about
transfer, injury and prediction news unsettling their first choice!
The 1st prize for 2003/04 is tickets for 2 to the Euro
2004 final in Lisbon (flights, accommodation and
tickets). We are also providing 'Team of the Month'
prizes - as opposed to mini-season prizes. The 'Team of the Month' prizes
are Tickets for 2 to a variety of European games (Flights/accommodation
and tickets to the games). Updated review 12 July
2003.
The
Gloucester Fantasy Football League - TGFFL
TGFFL is a fantasy football site based
on the English Premier League and FA Cup. Established for 10 years with
cash prizes approximately £1,000 in total. Small leagues mean realistic
chances of winning, plus they aim to treat their managers as individuals
rather than just one of thousands of anonymous registration numbers.
Updated review 5 August 2002.
The
Hot-Shots Fantasy Football League
The FREE to play 'Hot-Shots Fantasy
Football League' is run by the 'Roy of the Rovers' site, with monthly and
end of season prizes. Using the Hot-Shots theme, ten goalscorers (and one
goalie) make up your team in the Hot-Shots league. Points are accumulated
when goals are scored by any of your 10 goalscorers (or if your goalie
keeps a clean sheet) but points are deducted if any of your players are
booked or sent off. Limited transfers are allowed. The rules make it very
simple to follow and understand. Your "goalscorers" will all be
from the Premier League and there will be restrictions on numbers selected
from teams. The webmaster is from Lancaster, England and the site and game
is provided in association with the copyright holders who are based in
London, England. Even though it is a 'Roy of the Rovers' site, there is
still an emphasis on football talk and there is also a ‘Talk In”
Message Board. If you want an easy introduction to fantasy football, then
this is the league for you.
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