Having enjoyed @damithudaya Fantasy Cricket contest, I've been inspired to try a game that I've been thinking about for a long time.
Based around the classic Fantasy Football game Fantasy Premier League, where players score points for actions within a match, there's an opportunity to create a more structured game, fitting a specific formation.
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Fantasy 4-2-3-1
For each set of fixtures (specified later), you must pick 11 players which fit the 4-2-3-1 formation.
- 1 x Goalkeeper
- 1 x Left Back
- 2 x Centre Back
- 1 x Right Back
- 2 x Central Midfielders
- 1 x Left Winger
- 1 x No. 10
- 1 x Right Winger
- 1 x Centre Forward
I'll list the available players for each position later.
Scoring
The scoring system is as follows:
| Action | Base Points |
|---|---|
| Starting a match | 1 |
| Finishing a match | 1 |
| per Goal | 3 |
| per Assist | 3 |
| Shot on Target (SoT) | 1 for 2 SoTs |
| Successful Dribbles | 1 for 2 |
| Successful Tackles | 1 for 2 |
| Interceptions | 1 for 2 |
| Blocks | 1 for 2 |
| Saves | 1 for 2 |
| Yellow Card | -1 |
| Red Card | -3 |
Additional points are awarded for certain actions in each position:
| Position | Action | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Goalkeepers & Defenders | Clean Sheet | +4 |
| Central Midfielders | Clean Sheet | +1 |
| Goalkeepers & Defenders | Goal | +3 |
| Central Midfielders | Goal | +2 |
| No. 10 & Wingers | Goal | +1 |
| Goalkeepers, Defenders & Centre Mids | Assist | +1 |
| Goalkeepers & Defenders | per 2 Goals Conceded | -1 |
Fixtures
So as not to overcomplicate the game, only a subset of each weekend's matches will be used - specifically, Saturday's 3pm (UK time) Kick Offs.
This means that the matches for this weekend are:
Brighton (BRI) v. Fulham (FUL)
Crystal Palace (CRY) v. Ipswich (IPS)
Liverpool (LIV) v. Southampton (SOU)
Rules
A maximum of 5 players per team.
Teams can be submitted / updated up until kick off (steemworld will be used to confirm this), including after the teams have been announced.
Please only submit one team, even if you have multiple accounts.
You can submit your team in the comments or share a post in The World of Sports Community.
Once I've completed this post, I'll submit my provisional team in the comments below (once I've decided who to pick).
Prizes
Prizes will be awarded retrospectively via beneficiaries for each individual week. I'll maintain a league table in the comments, but I want people to feel that they don't need to play every week.
Since I'll be playing too, prizes will be as follows:
1st Place - 50% beneficiary
2nd Place - 30% beneficiary
3rd Place - 10% beneficiary.
This may increase if there's good interest and engagement with the game.
Player Roster
If a player that you're expecting to see is not included, please ask for their inclusion in the comments.
| Player (Team) | - | - |
|---|---|---|
| - | Goalkeepers | - |
| Bart Verbruggen (BRI) | Jason Steele (BRI) | Dean Henderson (CRY) |
| Matt Turner (CRY) | Bernd Leno (FUL) | Alex Palmer (IPS) |
| Arijanet Muric (IPS) | Alisson (LIV) | Caoimhin Kelleher (LIV) |
| Aaron Ramsdale (SOU) | Alex McCarthy (SOU) | Joe Lumley (SOU) |
| - | Left Backs | - |
| Estupiñán (BRI) | Ferdi Kadioglu (BRI) | Tyrick Mitchell (CRY) |
| Antonee Robinson (FUL) | Ryan Sessegnon (FUL) | Leif Davis (IPS) |
| Andrew Robertson (LIV) | Konstantinos Tsimikas (LIV) | Charlie Taylor (SOU) |
| Ryan Manning (SOU) | Welington (SOU) | - |
| - | Right Backs | - |
| Joël Veltman (BRI) | Tariq Lamptey (BRI) | Daniel Muñoz (CRY) |
| Nathaniel Clyne (CRY) | Kenny Tete (FUL) | Timothy Castagne (FUL) |
| Axel Tuanzebe (IPS) | Ben Johnson (IPS) | Chiedozie Ogbene (IPS) |
| Conor Bradley (LIV) | Trent Alexander-Arnold (LIV) | Kyle Walker-Peters (SOU) |
| Yukinari Sugawara (SOU) | - | - |
| - | Centre Backs x 2 | - |
| Adam Webster (BRI) | Igor Julio (BRI) | Jan Paul van Hecke (BRI) |
| Lewis Dunk (BRI) | Chadi Riad (CRY) | Chris Richards (CRY) |
| Marc Guehi (CRY) | Maxence Lacroix (CRY) | Calvin Bassey (FUL) |
| Issa Diop (FUL) | Joachim Andersen (FUL) | Jorge Cuenca (FUL) |
| Cameron Burgess (IPS) | Dara O'Shea (IPS) | Jacob Greaves (IPS) |
| Luke Woolfenden (IPS) | Ibrahima Konaté (LIV) | Jarell Quansah (LIV) |
| Joseph Gomez (LIV) | Virgil van Dijk (LIV) | Armel Bella Kotchap (SOU) |
| Jack Stephens (SOU) | James Bree (SOU) | Jan Bednarek (SOU) |
| Nathan Wood (SOU) | Taylor Harwood-Bellis (SOU) | - |
| - | Centre Mids x 2 | - |
| Carlos Baleba (BRI) | Diego Gómez (BRI) | Jack Hinshelwood (BRI) |
| James Milner (BRI) | Mats Wieffer (BRI) | Matt O'Riley (BRI) |
| Yasin Ayari (BRI) | Adam Wharton (CRY) | Cheick Oumar Doucoure (CRY) |
| Daichi Kamada (CRY) | Jefferson Lerma (CRY) | Will Hughes (CRY) |
| Andreas Pereira (FUL) | Harrison Reed (FUL) | Sander Berge (FUL) |
| Sasa Lukic (FUL) | Jack Taylor (IPS) | Jens Cajuste (IPS) |
| Kalvin Phillips (IPS) | Massimo Luongo (IPS) | Sam Morsy (IPS) |
| Alexis Mac Allister (LIV) | Harvey Elliott (LIV) | Ryan Gravenberch (LIV) |
| Wataru Endo (LIV) | Adam Lallana (SOU) | Chimuanya Ugochukwu (SOU) |
| Flynn Downes (SOU) | Joe Ayodele-Aribo (SOU) | William Smallbone (SOU) |
| - | Left Wingers | - |
| Kaoru Mitoma (BRI) | Simon Adingra (BRI) | Alex Iwobi (FUL) |
| Reiss Nelson (FUL) | Willian (FUL) | Jack Clarke (IPS) |
| Jaden Philogene-Bidace (IPS) | Nathan Broadhead (IPS) | Sammie Szmodics (IPS) |
| Cody Gakpo (LIV) | Luis Díaz (LIV) | Kamaldeen Sulemana (SOU) |
| Ryan Fraser (SOU) | - | - |
| - | No. 10s | - |
| Georginio Rutter (BRI) | Eberechi Eze (CRY) | Eddie Nketiah (CRY) |
| Ismaila Sarr (CRY) | Justin Devenny (CRY) | Emile Smith-Rowe (FUL) |
| Tom Cairney (FUL) | Conor Chaplin (IPS) | Julio Enciso (IPS) |
| Omari Hutchinson (IPS) | Curtis Jones (LIV) | Dominik Szoboszlai (LIV) |
| Mateus Fernandes (SOU) | - | - |
| - | Right Wingers | - |
| Brajan Gruda (BRI) | Solly March (BRI) | Yankuba Minteh (BRI) |
| Adama Traoré (FUL) | Harry Wilson (FUL) | Wes Burns (IPS) |
| Federico Chiesa (LIV) | Mohamed Salah (LIV) | Tyler Dibling (SOU) |
| - | Centre Forwards | - |
| Danny Welbeck (BRI) | João Pedro (BRI) | Jean-Philippe Mateta (CRY) |
| Raúl Jiménez (FUL) | Rodrigo Muniz (FUL) | George Hirst (IPS) |
| Liam Delap (IPS) | Darwin Núñez (LIV) | Diogo Jota (LIV) |
| Cameron Archer (SOU) | Paul Onuachu (SOU) | - |
Please invite anybody that you think will be interested and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I'm been wating for some kind of contest like this, you always make a interesting fantasy game
So i'm sure be in this contest and invite @theatrorve, @strong56 @marcybetancourt they like contest like this
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Thank you. Some things will probably need changing as we go along but it should be a fun game for fans of the Premier League. It took a lot of thinking and effort to create it so I hope people enjoy it!
Can you think of anybody else who might be interested in taking part?
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Thanks @damithudaya - do you think you'll be participating or will you be sticking with cricket?
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Well, to be frank, my Football knowledge is below average... There are so many player styles, 😂😂 Anyway, as you have mentioned the players, I'll try my luck! Maybe chatGPT can help me... 😂😂😂 Either way, it's a nice game and good luck!
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What an interesting idea! I wonder how a ChatGPT team would perform in this game!
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This is great. I love fantasy sports. Anyway, I want to know one thing clear. Can I select all my XI from those 6 teams? Right?
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That's correct - All 11 players must come from those 6 teams and you can choose a maximum of 5 players from each team.
The following week, there are 4 games at 3 o'clock so you'll be able to choose from 8 teams.
I think that some of the rules will need tweaking as we go along - especially with some of the points scoring. It might also be that in the future, I'll allow people to choose from a set of pre-defined formations so that we get some more variety. Although if I do, then I'll need to change the name of the game!
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Here's my team selection for the first week:
I've got to go big on Liverpool with the easiest game of the season. Salah is an obvious choice and I've gone for Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota in attack. Where to put the other slots is tricky so I've gone for the centre back pairing in the hope of a clean sheet.
I also like Palace's fixture against Ipswich so have chosen their full backs who I expect to get forwards and Eze who should play behind whoever plays up front. I'd have liked Mateta up top but I suspect they're still trying to reattach his head after the weekend.
Centre Mid was a very difficult position to choose. I hope for defensive actions from Andreas Pereira and Flynn Downes more so than anything in attack.
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@sabbirakib, @massola, @fuentesjo3006, @titopx, @huzaifanaveed1, @onomzy001, @frafiomatale
Perhaps you'd be interested in joining too? It would be great it you could invite anybody else that you think would be interested.
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Wow, I love this kind of games, even years ago on Steemit I got to organize a fantasy when I was a moderator in a community, it brings back good memories.🥲
Currently the only fantasy I play is Sorare, but I used to play Fantasy PL, Champions League and La Liga which are the 3 competitions I follow the most in soccer.
I accept the challenge, and I'm sure you'll see me here in the next few days to participate 🤘🏽😎
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Ah, those memories... I loved that Fantasy Marca La Liga game - I think that's my favourite out of all of them!
Maybe if the Sports community becomes more active, we can start some of them again!
Have you bought Sorare cards with real money? I briefly played the free version but never got fully into it.
Excellent - can you think of anybody else who might appreciate an invitation?
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A fantasy tournament would be brutal, but first of all we need to bring the love for the sport back to the platform, bad experiences with the sport have put it on the back burner.
I started for free in Sorare and then I bought my first 7 cards, currently my account has more than 80 cards and I don't regret it hahaha of my best rewards have been a Oblak Christmas version but I've had more (Like a De Bruyne Christmas too).
Once upon a time, @betop did a lot of those Fantasy, I don't know how active he is now but for sure if he is he would appreciate to participate 🤘🏽
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I love this kind of games😃 I'll take a couple of days to study the scheduled matches and set up my team!
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Fantastic! It took a lot of time to set everything up so hopefully it'll be as fun as I'd like it to be 🙂
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