Fantasy football (less commonly referred to as fantasy football association around the world but known as fantasy football in the United States) is a game where participants gathered an imaginary team of real-life soccer players and score points based on the players' actual statistical performance or the contribution they felt on the playing field. Usually players are selected from a special division in a particular country, although there are many variations. The original game was created in England by Bernie Donnelly on Saturday 14 August 1971 and still going strong 45 years later. Fantasy football has evolved in recent years from simple leisure activities to being a significant business due to exposure over the internet.
The emerging variant is a club-based fantasy football where participants choose players from within their own club. Participating clubs usually have more than one football team and adopt club fantasy football to improve communication and team-mocking. Some clubs charge a nominal amount for players to enter the team and either use the results as a fundraiser or to fund a fantasy league prize. Fantasy football league clubs tend to be less sophisticated than national variety because most clubs run them on spreadsheets. Niche sports websites now offer online versions with paid and free versions.
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Most fantasy football leagues, especially those run by national newspapers, ask participants to choose 11 players in the budget price. There is usually a limitation on the number of players per club; Common choices are choosing 1 goalkeeper, 4 rear players, 4 or 3 midfielders and 2 or 3 front players. Several squad-based games, in which the participants chose not only the first eleven but also a set of replacements. Usually you can only use max. 3 players from one team.
In smaller leagues played by a small group of people, players are bought by haggling among competing managers rather than for a certain amount of money. This means certain players can only play for one team, and thus any points earned are credited to that team only. Typically, most leagues offer the opportunity to transfer players in and out of the team during the season, in case of injury, suspension or loss of form.
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Points scores
Points then obtained or reduced depending on player performance. The points system varies between games but usually, points are awarded for some or all of the following achievements:
- Play in a game (or part of the game for example at least 60 minutes)
- Print a goal
- Make help (pass or touch that leads to the destination)
- Keep clean sheets (only goalkeepers, midfielders and defenders)
- Save penalty
- The goalkeeper holds 3 or more shots
- Win the team
And above, points can be reduced for some or all of the following:
- Break the goalkeeper (only goalkeepers and defenders)
- Receive a yellow or red card
- Lost penalty kicks
- Scored an own goal
- Replaced
- Loss of team
The number of points of any achievement or offense is credited with a variety of games, for example in the Daily Telegraph league, three points are awarded for help, and five for one goal. Because the emphasis is placed on assists and scores, the player's value can be very different from real-life soccer, both in terms of individual and position. For example, Claude MakÃÆ' © là © ©, a world-class midfielder, is rarely considered a valuable player in fantasy football because he is not an attacking player, as evidenced by three league goals in eight years at Real Madrid and Chelsea, and zero for the French national team in seventy-one appearances.
For this reason some fantasy football games have changed their scoring system to give greater emphasis on the performance of real players rather than emphasizing goals and assistance. For example, KAISER games use player scores obtained by computer analysis based on dozens of different criteria. This score is supplied by OPTA data providers.
The Oulala Fantasy Football game uses a sophisticated scoring system. With 70 different points scoring criteria, which include the matrix of every action a player can perform, the 70 criterion increases to 275 depending on the position of each player in the field. Detailed actions include corner kicks, target on/off shots, successful bells and offside provoking and many others. These stats are sourced from Opta Sports and updated in real-time.
Public vs. league private
Most fantasy football games provide the option of joining a private or public league. The public league is open to everyone and there are mostly leagues for every club or league for each country. The league members then compete against each other and in some cases have cash prizes to win the league. Private leagues let managers play with their friends only. Some games combine this with having a unique team in the league. This means that every Premier League player is only one time. As a result, there are many activities in the transfer market where players are exchanged among community members.
starter options
At the beginning of the fantasy football league can be formed in various ways. For a league with a unique team, the league where each player has only one game, there are at least two different starter options. Option 1 is a player auction. Every player is auctioned and a manager of a community needs to bid for the players. The manager has a certain budget for the auction. Option 2 is a draft player. Each manager is allocated a certain number of players.
For a unique teamless league, every manager can have every player if he has sufficient funding, usually no drafts or auctions, but managers can choose their players until they have spent their budgets.
Auction
Fantasy football games with unique teams offer player auction options. At the start of the season, players are placed in the transfer market and managers can bid for them. Some games even continue this auction system during the season (eg kaiser.co.uk). Kaiser also offers the opportunity to bring the league to the next season. In this case a new league can start throughout the season without making it less attractive.
Draft
Draft is an option to start the league. It's very exciting for the league that was formed during the season. From day one, managers can set up their team for the next game day and trade players with other community members or use a computer. This draft is a common feature for NFL fantasy football games and the German Bundesliga. More than one game Premier League manager offers similar features.
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