Announcement: Steem Fantasy Premier League

in fantasy •  7 years ago 

Introduction

Welcome fellow Steemians to Steem Fantasy Premier League!

As some of you Football (soccer) fans out there might be aware of, the Premier League is starting next weekend! I am personally quite a fan of it and have been following it for many years now.

Ever since 2011 I have also been a member of the Fantasy Premier League. That's where the logo above is from which @satchmo used and gave a Steemit touch to it. Thanks for that! The site is free to register and use and will be a requirement to join this League so make sure to click the link and check it out!

Last year due to my Steemit activity I was not able to follow the League as much as I would've liked to and it really showed in the end results:

So I figured I'd combine the two and create the Steem Fantasy Premier League for this year and have more Steemians become active through the platform on it! I also think these posts will bring on great amount of discussions, predictions and a lot of excitement about the games to make them a lot more fun to follow. That's what the Fantasy Leagues are there for in the first place!


Rules for joining the Fantasy League

There will be some rules to sign up as to fight any sort of abuse.

  1. You have to link your Fantasy Premier League account with your Steemit account in the comment section to be a part of the League. The code to enter the league will be made public but excess accounts will be removed if they do not qualify the rule requirements. This is to eliminate a single person entering many accounts to increase chances of winning.

  2. Your Steemit account must be older than 1 week from today when this post is made and have some normal activity on it that doesn't look like its just an alt account that is being used only for competitions and other tournaments. This will be judged manually by me and I reserve the right to remove suspicious ones if I feel the need for it.

These are all the rules so far, if anything new comes up I will either update it in this post or include it in the next post which should be during Gameweek 1 next weekend.


Prizes

All the rewards in SBD from the SFPL posts will be kept in "Savings" on my account until the end of the Season and then distributed to the winners.

1st place will receive 30% of the total SBD.
2nd place will receive 15% of the total SBD.
3rd place will receive 10% of the total SBD.
4th-10th place will receive 3% each of the total SBD.
11th-23rd place will receive 1% each of the total SBD
24th-48th place will receive 0.5% each of the total SBD making it 100% of the SDB rewards.


What you need to do now to get started:

Go to https://fantasy.premierleague.com and create an account. If you already have an account but it gives away personal information you wouldn't want made public on the platform, feel free to create a new one.

It looks like you may need to select your players in the squad before you are able to join any leagues. Once you've done that go to the tab "Leagues" and press "Create and join new leagues->" "Join a league->" and then "Join private league->" where you enter the code: 2208835-521697

After you've done that, remember to post a comment here with your Fantasy account name and it will be linked to you for the tournament. Players that fail to do that until Gameweek 2 will be kicked out of the League.


Feel free to ask any question in this post about it, I'm happy to help.

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Fantastic idea! I'm in!
Team name: captaincanary
Manager: Captain Canary

I have never participated in a soccer fantasy sports contest! This has my interest! Will be signing up!

Awesome!

Team Name: Sevin
Manager: Sevin Wilson

Great, I just checked and you are in!

OMG I love all the major leagues including the Champions Leaguge, Europa League, Premier league, Spanish La Liga, Bundesliga , Italian Seria A, Portuguese Liga, French Ligue 1, Dutch Eredivisie, Turkish League, Russian League, and Ukranian League and many many more.

I am also a Fifa fan and I bought a PS4 specifically to play Fifa :)

I am looking forward to participating in the fantasy thing but I have never participated in anything like this before so I am a total noob. I am also a gambling addict. I used to gamble in nitrogensports.eu with bitcoin.

I am also excited about the game tomorrow with Manchester United vs Real Madrid for the Super Cup. I am excited to see the newly signed Lukako performing in United :)) Go united (even though i like zidan a lot)!

Niiice. I am also a big football and FIFA fan. I have been looking for fans on steemit to get in touch with. Nice to meet you. I also plan on getting a PS4 for FIFA too. Maybe we can play together in the future. Oh...by the way...its Lukaku lol. And MAdrid WILL win.

I just followed you. Let me know when you get a ps4 and we will play :). Madrid are the heavy favorites but I am looking for an upset and I do think an upset is quite possible :)

Great. I will notify you. I will be getting FIFA 18 for it though. Do you play PES?..............Yes an upset is possible

Yeah was surprised to see Lukaku playing for ManU now and Rooney for Everton. Gonna be interesting. :D Hope Rooney gets more play time!

I know right :D! Rooney is getting old anyways, and ManU needs younger players. ManU needed a striker and by Lukaku being the top goal scorer in the premier leauge last year makes him definitely a good buy.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I am a big soccer fan- mostly watching german bundesliga and premier league- this will be a lot of fun to competet against other steemit soccer fans.

my Team : FC TZAP
Manager : tzap90 steemit

@acidyo would be great if you can confirm my participation. thx

Hi
Friend I am continua sly Up vote you and flow you on steemit. I payer to you to that please up vote me.
Thank you.

my name MD ABDUL HANNAN from kolkata,
my link is : https://steemit.com/@hannan2016

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Hi @acidyo I am very glad you made this game in steemit. I registered my FPL account one week ago, I have also joined the Steemit League. You can see my team name Arfa Steem FC.

However, I suggest, in addition to the prize that will be given yearly. You can also give monthly or weekly gifts to participants. The monthly prize I think is very important.

Btw, I'm not sure about "You have to link your Fantasy Premier League account with your Steemit account in the comment section to be a part of the League."

Thanks for all

I just meant to mention which account there is yours so I can announce it here in the future and use the team names combined with the steemit usernames in future posts.

That's an amazing idea @acidyo! It will be great fun for sure! I'm in mate!
Team name : progressiveteam
Team manager : Sanawaaz Bauboo

May the season begin and good luck to all!
Cheers
@progressivechef

Awesome idea !

username and team name: fishsaaam

I just joined !
Team name: The Steemians
Team manager: Donny Trendo

Awesome! 28 participants so far!

This is my first time doing this. Here's my account : Team steemit allmonitors, good luck to all! :)

Awesome, welcome!

Done, great idea. my team is Ho Chi Man City, Keith.

Team Name: Mohammad32
Account Name : mohammad mamoon

Thanks.

My team name: Sleepyhead XI
Manager name: Akshay Prabhu

All the best to the rest!

Joined!

Team name: Nobgobblers
Manager: Andy Mobbs

(Managing nob gobblers has always been a dream of mine)

I have joined @acidyo
This is my team: Asamtho Steemit FC
Manager :Fajri Agustin

Woooot! Thank for this , Acidyo.
I joined with my team , and the manager name is King Motan
Can't wait to win all thoez steeeemmmzzzz

I'm in!
Manager name: Art Z
Team name: The Hateful Eleven

Thank you @acidyo I'll check it out soon as well. Much love.

Team: ahapari
Name: Kyrie Acos

Team name - Nesbitt.FC
Manager - Daniel Nesbitt

well aint this just Awesome!
Joined
Team: Bachone
Manager Morten Bach

@acidyo
joined buddy!
teamname: Jabulai Jambula III

Very good idea, I can not wait for the league to start

My team name: Los JOKERS
Manager name: Luis Malaver

Excelente idea amigo, ya quiero que empiece la liga.
Mi equipo: Los JOKERS
Manager: Luis Malaver

This will kick ass! Cool to see someone taking this initiative :)

Team name: Unicorns United
Manager name: Fredrik Aarrestad

Hi
Friend I am continua sly Up vote you and flow you on steemit. I payer to you to that please up vote me.
Thank you.

my name MD ABDUL HANNAN from kolkata,
my link is : https://steemit.com/@hannan2016

Unicorns United

haha, of course!

I couldn't help myself!

By the way, where in Finland are you at? I'm putting together satellite images for my next post later today, and thought I would stalk you from above!

lol yeah I'm definitely going to tell you that! ;p

Haha, well I have another really cool image of the Baltic area in insane resolution that will do just good! But taken with a meteorological satellite which is a lot further away than most that I've used earlier so don't you worry! ;D

Nice, let me know when you post them! :D

You beat me to it man.

Here is to a wonderful season ahead.
TOYOBABY FC
Toyosi Abolarin

Even I am not a major PL league fan I need to admit it is more exciting than our Bundesliga where we can easy bet on Bayern to become German champion again - created my account, no idea what to do and if correct, my team name is Liverpool Germany - what is next @acidyo?

Did you see the instructions at the end of the post?

You have to select your squad first before you can enter the league.

I am in the list now as team "Liverpool Germany" - and now what do I need to do? Never played a Fantasy league - i used to play in real. Do I work as manager of my team and do transfer and stuff or is it I do betting fixtures? Confused, can not find help sites too, still vacation and more at Beach vs. Laptop

Yes you are the manager. Scores and points update after the real games are played.

ok so i just need to care about the team I selected, good stuff, thanks mate!

I've joined in your league
Club name: Mafis
Manager: Manaf Ismail

Was just writing a post to get a league together and thought i'd do a search first!

Nice one, i'm so in!

Ashers Aces is my team!

Good luck, cheers!

@acidyo this is a phenomenal idea. Hope you'll count me in!

Team Name: Dyslexia Untied
Team Manager: Patrick Cole

Cheers everyone!

LoL Nice name

Very excited about the concept and the start of the new premier league season!
My team name is: The Winners
Manager name: afshin afshar
Good luck to all. COME ON MAN U!!

Damn! Just published an article about my own Steemit league but you have pushed the concept to a whole new level XD I'm glad to see more fans of it here! Followed, upvoted and now joining your league!

Oh, hehe yeah, I'm still planning another addition to this for weekly/monthly rewards. Stay tuned, will be announced soon. :)

FPL account name: "Hellas but not least"

Allright, man. I joined. Best of luck to everyone and let the season begin!

Awesome initiative, @acidyo!

Awesome, welcome!

Hi
Friend I am continua sly Up vote you and flow you on steemit. I payer to you to that please up vote me.
Thank you.

my name MD ABDUL HANNAN from kolkata,
my link is : https://steemit.com/@hannan2016

You will get flagged for spamming if you do this in random posts.

@acidyo This is awesome!! Can't wait!!
Team name: WATCHOUT
Team manager: Tomori Yatsushiro

Check out my team here! Would love to hear what y'all think :) (ok I might be a little too excited, my apologies LOL)
https://steemit.com/fantasy/@lifebitesized/fantasy-premier-league-week-1-squad-top-3-picks

Wow this is gonna be awesome!! My Fantasy Premier league team name is Chelsea FC. Spent a couple of days figuring out what to name it and ended up naming it Chelsea FC :D Did well last year. Hope I do better this time around.
Team Name : Chelsea FC
Manager Name : Nikesh Sharma
Good luck everyone!!

I have joined with the team: FirstFantasy. Can't wait to beat you all! :p

I'm in !
Team Name : Apscry FC
Manager Name : Apis Cry

Team name: Metalheadz
Team manager: Robert Roman

Team Name: Trump~DTriumphant FC
Team Manager: Andrew Ade
Steemit: @andrewade

@acidyo Thanks for this...

Last minute entry from me:
Team: Steem Park Rangers
Team Manager: Elliot Gardner

Team = Nanzo's Steem Stars

Me too. Late to the party. I left a comment for you on your Week 3 pregame report asking if I join late. I have had a team since before the season began, but my old league fell through, and I'm kicking myself for not finding yours on time.

At the risk of overstepping my bounds, I'm going to go ahead and enter the codes to join your league before Week 3 action starts. If you feel compelled to kick me out, in order to stay true to the rules you set forth and to be fair to others, I will be disappointed but I will accept that. At the end of the day, I just want to play.

Team Name: Wassup
Manager: Stan Minchow

very interesting

I AM FEELING BAD THAT I CANNOT GET A PLACE IN THAT LEAGUE

Hey, why not? Did you follow the instructions?

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I'm just like you, I really like the premier league, but I do not know what to do to the primer. I also hope to come directly to watch or support my favorite club.

I also hope the target of combining both and creating Steem Fantasy Premier League for this year runs smoothly to SteeMians who want it.
Thanks @acidyo ^^

Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes!!!

Thank you for creating this! I have been following EPL and FPL for 6 years now.

Name: Ilyas Tarar
Team Name: Tarar Brigade

It's amazing to have something awesome to fight for. In it to win it!

All my support for this amazing League. Steem+FPL=❤

cool

Nice and innovative idea.
Thanks for posting!

great idea to combine the 2! might even participate however I am not very good at predictions haha.

this is a really cool idea! thanks for the mention papi!

Great job @satchmo !!!!

Let the games begin.
My team: KebabFC
Manager: Uni Gaardlykke

wow nice contest @acidyo the legend :D :)

thank you for this nice idea

outstanding post.thanks for it.

please follow me.

Oh that's so cool. I will try joining this tomorrow when I come back home !

Thats great!

Wow wow wow ..... nice picture

I've always found the notion behind fantasy sports leagues super compelling - in the same way I enjoyed playing, for example, like Civilization or Hearts of Iron. It seems like a similar overall idea. The only dilemma for me, re:fantasy sports, is:

  1. Knowing nothing about sports

Still, seems like a good time. I'm gonna go start a new simulation of WWII playing as Mongolia - I'll show myself out. :)

Hehe beginners luck can get people far in these as well! ^^

True - my best successes have always been the first times... but it would literally be as good as chance alone. Lol - I don't even know the positions on the field .

Hi
Friend I am continua sly Up vote you and flow you on steemit. I payer to you to that please up vote me.
Thank you.

my name MD ABDUL HANNAN from kolkata,
my link is : https://steemit.com/@hannan2016

Hi
Friend I am continua sly Up vote you and flow you on steemit. I payer to you to that please up vote me.
Thank you.

my name MD ABDUL HANNAN from kolkata,
my link is : https://steemit.com/@hannan2016

This is really a great initiative and I am sure it will be fun to participate. Actually I am a cricket fan, so it would really be great if we can have similar Cricket league too. Thank You

Steemit = Chelsea? :>

I will create an account tomorrow and I will win. I am out now because you are here!

Sweet! This should be a rad little event/group for anyone who's a soccer fan on here! Hope everyone who enters into the league has fun! Good luck to everyone on winning too! Good shit on sharing this with the community, by the way, @acidyo.

okay nice

so end of season u mean we will play until 2018 ? i played only with friends, so wanted to try, but want to know how long need to be focused

Yeah until 2018! The posting rewards will build up each week until then!

Good luck with this cool idea.

11 Jarv Specials

I will play this mates!

I really can not wait to see this league. And I am a fan of red devils.

that is great

Also, I would join up as well, but I don't know the first thing about soccer or fantasy sports, lol. I'd probably just make an idiot out of myself and I'm better off sticking with video games, pokemon, and collecting stuff, haha.

Beginner's luck could get you pretty far in this too!

Yeah, but I seriously have no clue at all about the rules, plays, teams, players, etc. of soccer. The only sport I've ever taken an interest in is hockey and I still barely know anything about that shit, haha!

Maybe I'll google around a bit and try to learn about soccer and give it a shot though. I'm sure it would be fun, so long as I'm not just doing random shit with no reasoning, lol.

Good idea "Steem Fantasy Premier League"

Such an unpredictable season ahead with Morata to Chelsea, Utd making more signings and City splashing the cash in defence.. so great to have a fantasy league in the crypto world..

Its Good That You Post Premier League Stats On Steemit, Now I Don't Have To Leave The Platform To Check Them Out :)

Great idea!
Hoping to make my team this week :)

Awesome!

Nice. I ' m follow you, follow back, ok? 😉

Awesome idea!

Congratulations @acidyo!
Your post was mentioned in the hit parade in the following category:

  • Pending payout - Ranked 6 with $ 230,91

This is a great idea to link Steemit with an outside fantasy league. Wishing you the best of success with it!

Thanks, hope it will be fun!

Wow, looks like I need to create my account now.

Really beautiful .. thanks information .. hope we can cooperate .. follow me @ kingsteem .. maybe we can be a good friend

Alright I joined @rodimusprime. Can't wait

The best league of the world, in the country with the best coins? wich is your prefered team from England ?

sounds awesome!!

Great idea man! Im a football fan also and I have been looking for a community like this on Steemit.

Looks good :-)

I just joined the Premier Leauge. Thanks for the post.
Upvoted and Resteemed

Oh, snap. I just saw you hit 5k followers dude. The speed you're growing at is nuts, bro. Wasn't even that long ago I was surprised at how fast you hit 4k, haha. Congratulations on hitting 5k, @acidyo! You're gonna end up hitting 10k in no time at all at this rate!

Thanks! Yeah its a really good indicator of the growing userbase as well!

I totally agree! It's really refreshing to see more and more people coming onto the platform, man. I finally got one of my buddies to sign up on here after badgering several people about it and getting a hard no from most of them, lol.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

lol I read "getting a hard on from most of them" :D

Maybe that will be the case once they finally join and at that time you can upvote their posts for hundreds of $. :D

Oh, I don't just get a hard on from most of them...I get a hard on from ALL OF THEM!

Haha, I keep trying bro, but so many people are weirded out by cryptocurrency for some damn reason. Even after the success of bitcoin, I can't believe how hard it is to convince some people to give it a try. But, sooner or later people will watch on and if any of my friends do decide to pop on here I'll of course be upvoting their posts for as much as I can :P

Superb.

Hi! I am chandan kumar i have upvote and follwed u now u upvote my post and follow for good team work earning

Great post ! Upvoted. Please upvote my posts if you like MEMEs. @cryptomonitor

Very good :) I like this Prizes :)

Hi friend
I have up vote, follow and command. please same to me with
https://steemit.com/@hannan2016

Briliant, I try to join :)

My team : Arfa Steem Fc
Manager : Arfa United

Let's begin the game :))

nice post

Interesting post. Following and upvoted. :)

i am upvoted and reply your post plz visit me
upvoted,reply,follow and resteem when you work in steemit thanks alot,
i am 226

i love this .steem on!

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good and upvote me 233

Interesting+cool