Merlins_Apprentice wrote: ↑01 Jul 2018, 08:50
Andy, it feels like groundhog day im afraid, i've been reading posts similar to these from you for what seems like years now.
I wasn't referring to the sandor part, just you harping on about FF dieing, you entering less teams, not entering any more etc etc.
You have been saying the same thing for years.....yet still entering.
If you don't like how the games are run anymore, don't enter them , its easy and i'll be happier
With 150,000 teams minimum entered in this competition, its clear that most people don't think the same as you. No doubt you can quote figures from years back of 250,000 playing and perhaps more, but the landscape of FF has changed, the user base is different and that isnt all down to the games providers. The fact is there is more competition from daily games now, which i dislike and therefore don't play but alot of people prefer that
Anyway you got me to post after probably 0 posts in 2 years so your post achieved something
lol
glad you clarified that, it is the extra transfers and increased c/s points in short run comps that don't work in tff. epl it isnt as much of an issue. just a personal view that ff should be about immediate goals and assists not drawn out c/s and certainly not managing 100+ teams with a ridiculous number of transfers for each team!
i'm not after timing here, i warned tff that sandor would be leading this as it effectively ruled out anyone not playing blocks (over 95% of entries you reckon maybe nearer 99%+?). not sure about someone else's point that this wasn't well put as he had 1/2/3 out of say 150k, glad you acknowledge that he is a very good player. murf is correct it's about trying to avoid the game closing. will i play tff epl this year yes probably (it doesn't suffer from c/s bias in the epl to anywhere near the same extent), will i reduce my entry again? maybe, will i increase it? no. if they make these short runs as boring as hell the entries will drop and the comps disappear.
i have had good humoured banter with quiz king about games disappearing for years, as you correctly say it's been going on ages. look at all the archived paper games, we are now down to sdt & tff world cup & epl plus sky for decent prizes, with fpl popular amongst 'fun' players. what i would say is my concerns have come home to roost, not only have games disappeared but to some extent there is 'no way back', we have seen silent manager in all it's guises pretty much retreat, ofl gone, clever.tv gone, fsb who ran the mail for a i haven't seen for a while. if tff goes and their survey is clearly making noises you have sdt & sky left that's all.
as murf says the point of the post is 'wake up' mainly aimed at gfm who i think are making bad wrong turns but also maybe those answering surveys that they take too much notice of lol.
re daily games i do play them, the rakes are appallingly high but there is still a small profit for the better players, for instance i played yahoo (uk entrants now all banned) until the end of the epl & made just over £7k starting part way through the season but i entered absolutely everything! i prefer seasonal but prefer DFS as they call it to tff wc. re DFS basically draft kings has a stranglehold at present so are getting away with rakes of 10% against the best players & 15% against weaker players roughly, there are others you can play but we have seen plenty go to the wall. i would say so far it hasn't caught on in the uk.
i'll definitely play sdt next season and almost certainly sky, tff i'll play with the same or a reduced entry. there isn't anything else left!
sdt works for me as there is no clash with DFS, sky with it's cut off also pretty much works. tff i haven't put the same effort in to it this last year as it clashes with other stuff. so if i decide to reduce my entries or not prioritise them as much (which was the position last year) for me personally it will be a time issue not actually whether i want to play, nor whether the game has got worse but as murf says i would be very sad to see it go, even if i do decide to prioritise it even less or drop it altogether.