£1m Euro 2020 Game (in June 2021)

[12345678]

i don't give many tips but, if you really want to learn don't listen to tipsters that once finished in the top 100k fpl in the world on a fluke year

have a look at the methods used by the best players. https://dfstats.net/leaderboard

i know it's hard work but do you want to win or lose?

not suggesting you copy them, we all have our own styles but if you can't get ideas from the best players you will end up listening to nonsense like podcasts from the mattress salesman lol

[12345678]

most are football players primarily but this guy is i think the best basketball player who doesnt even make that list, you can specialise https://dfstats.net/stat/Fanteam/2_weak

[Toffeeman]

Not sure if anyone else played the dreamsport euro game and won any cash, but they actually paid the winnings directly into my fanteam account which was nice of them

[Biddles32]

Made £50 profit from my 8 teams (one was a free team) . All money going back into the prem game which I’m sure a lot of people will be doing and also fanteam will be pleased about.

[12345678]

whilst my own stats on football can best be described as 'disappointing' i concentrated on NHL this year which went well enough and i seemed fine on NFL.

either find a niche if you can't win at everything or play some low £££ entry games in the hope of a big win and be prepared to take small losses whilst enjoying the fantasy ride.

the points about 'bankroll' are valid, the size of field in say the weekly monsters and the payout structure geared toward the headline prize make progress a bit haphazard which is one of the attractions of NHL & NFL for me, the size of the fields.

try to go in with your eyes open knowing your aims, most of the players on this thread should be able to turn a profit on the seasonal game and it seems much more likely than not that they will be around to pay out.

[Biddles32]

Not sure if anyone else played the dreamsport euro game and won any cash, but they actually paid the winnings directly into my fanteam account which was nice of them

Nice one Toffeeman you had a decent ranking. What was top prize for this? I set my team up and forgot about it after the first round of fixtures.

[Jos]

Hi guys,

I currently have 4 teams entered in the Fanteam FPL this year, but will up that to 10 before the season starts.

Last year was my first year and started with 2.

Is there a way to just replicate the sides and transfers / captain picks etc so that they are all the same to save time ?

I thought I saw someone here comment on this and thought that would be handy !

[Toffeeman]

Biddles, 1st prize was €3000 so decent for a free game.
They also have a premier league game, max 5 entries

[Yorkshire Exile]

Hi guys,

I currently have 4 teams entered in the Fanteam FPL this year, but will up that to 10 before the season starts.

Last year was my first year and started with 2.

Is there a way to just replicate the sides and transfers / captain picks etc so that they are all the same to save time ?

I thought I saw someone here comment on this and thought that would be handy !

I think they have to be linked at the point of entry.... No doubt someone will correct me if you can do it retrospectively.

I have done this with my entries this year having run 6 bespoke entries last year I'm grouping more
Entries with a view one set will allow me to twist late on

[aurora]

i don't give many tips but, if you really want to learn don't listen to tipsters that once finished in the top 100k fpl in the world on a fluke year

have a look at the methods used by the best players. https://dfstats.net/leaderboard

i know it's hard work but do you want to win or lose?

not suggesting you copy them, we all have our own styles but if you can't get ideas from the best players you will end up listening to nonsense like podcasts from the mattress salesman lol

they dominate by sheer volume is the long and short of it, maxing out entries in every major comp and thus ending up at the top of the leaderboards, though I appreciate some are more skilled/time dedicated than others.

[12345678]

in betting you need volume to make a good profit.

however you need a percentage in your favour to make a profit.

not many do that.

i've seen many dismiss the top players as 'lucky' preferring to follow the mattress salesman's tips instead.

making a profit is hard work and ALL of the guys in the top 10 will exhibit a high level of skill, albeit they win in different ways.

fortunately for most of the top players most prefer to 'learn' from tipsters like the mattress salesman rather than those turning a regular profit who are dismissed as just 'lucky' even though they win time and time again.

his followers meanwhile continue to show losses.

[aurora]

never suggested they were lucky at all, just that the top players, most of them, have entered 10's of thousands of tournaments and are bound to land the top prizes eventually, some are more skilled than others, I've wondered what the best strategy would be for a maxed out multi in the seasonal, to enter 100 identical teams with the aim to differentiate at a set point or 100 different teams templated to begin with. I suppose you will need a large sample size, i.e several people doing one and several the other. It's a bit like the betting exchanges, you can know exactly what you're doing but you're never going to get anyway backing and laying with fivers, you need to start with thousands to get going.

[Toffeeman]

Totally agree with you Andy, about knowing your aims/going into it with your eyes open.
Over the last 2 years of playing on an ad hoc basis I've become comfortable that by putting £20-£40 a month max I ain't gonna be winning long term unless I get a really lucky hit.
Sometimes £20 can last a couple of months, others it's gone in a week, so for me it's the enjoyment more than a anything.
Imo you need the bank roll to be able to enter a good few teams in the £9/£18 games as that's where the 'decent' money is at, which will then enable you to increase your pot which then allows more entries.

[12345678]

yep all fair comments gary. you need something to start up with.

aurora i think the best tactic will vary from year to year, i might increase my entry from around 30>100 but if i do i will probably have blocks of 5x teams largely that i can diverge later.

why, because it's the best tactic? nope because i am too lazy to think through 100x teams lol.

main thing is to do what suits you. good selections are likely to do better than bad ones.

fwiw i had a disastrous start last year to put it mildly n worked me way up to about 50th, think i had low 30's teams.

[Toffeeman]

I still think it's possible in the season long games to take on the large multies with a much lower entry level.
For instance when TFF was in full flow I would be confident that I could take on the likes of sandor who would probably be close to a 100 teams with 10-15.

[12345678]

agreed, more games = more decisions = more skill.

fwiw i always thought sandor had a certain skill but it probably doesn't match the top 10 fanteam guys.

[aurora]

there's a small pool of high rollers on fanteam to compete amongst each other shuffling the big wins around in circles, I don't think there's anyone on here that maxes out entries into the big comps because not many people are willing to be spend £2000 on 100 entries, I would hazard a guess however that if we all were doing so, we'd be in that top 10, a lot of posters on here talk a lot of sense and know what they're doing but just can't compete with volume, it's still good fun though, I like fanteam better than dreamteam these days, hopefully someone on here strikers gold sooner rather than later

[Yorkshire Exile]

Plenty on here that have won significant sums of money.

I'm in middle ground.... 20 entries + a freebie this year which I plan to run as 4x5 blocks. May consider a further late entry block if it looks advantageous....

The block system in fanteam does enable massive multi entries.... But these are the folk who are essentially boosting the prize pools and they can be beaten.

I wasn't convinced about fanteam scoring changes at first .... But I think it will be good as it widens the pool of credible players in the same way sky does.

[MADCHESTER UTD]

Checkjosh won the premier league game with 12 teams which proves you can beat the multis still Though it’s obviously going to be hard as the player in top position in the website Andy put up, that won the Euro game has a profit of half a million. Meaning not only does he/she have the money to enter 100 entries in the main seasonal game and also every monster but they also have proved to be an elite fantasy football player; elite player+maximum entries is the perfect scenario to win again. Checkjosh put the full 100 in the Euro’s after his big win so I imagine many on Andy’s leaderboard will do the same 2021-22 season.

But I genuinely believe anyone who is a proven really good fantasy player, anyone whose name you consistently see in various leaderboards can win with just a small amount of teams like Josh proved. Once you have a team up there in the leaderboard there is no reason why you can’t be the one that wins.

Though I concede with the monsters involving just one game it’s even harder to compete with the multis as obviously they can cover more combinations/scenarios with just a small pool of players to pick.

[Toffeeman]

Totally agree Mad, we need the multis to keep these decent prize games going but they are certainly there for the taking.
Without wanting to crawl up anyone's arse, you need to constantly learn and develop you game and look to achieve the consistency the likes of Andy L and David Browne have shown year in year out

[aurora]

definitely, more multi's the merrier, I wouldn't even have a limit, they put the money in that they risk.

I was looking at the top 10 earlier a little closer, on average, excluding the 3 than joined with in the last year, the rest of them are averaging about 3000 tournament entries per month between them, thereabouts, from July 1 2020 til present, think daaceofdiamonds the most with over 5300 per month - nearly 100 a week, you can take them on with say 12 in a seasonal as checkjosh did, but odds wise if managed correctly, the maxed out multi's would be strong favs

[CptPugwash]

Prior to Fanteam I'd never spent more than about £20 a time playing FF.

However I've learned from my mistakes over the Euros & if it's the same format in the world cup I am 99% sure I'll be maxing out the 100 entries.
Rather like Poker I wouldn't consider that gambling, simply a short term investment. I'll be astonished if I don't at least make the money back.

The Premier league is a different kettle of fish, to justify any sort of major investment requires far more time than I can guarantee I have time for.