FPL - WINNER TAKES ALL - 2024/25 (Money Leagues)

[bluelionman]

This will be the twentieth year I have run an online mini-league on the Premier Leagues own fantasy football game.

Quite simply - register online, select your team and then if you wish join one or both of my mini leagues.

website address: Fantasy Premier League (FPL)

My Classic League is £15 (£10 + £5) total to enter. This is because of the Cup competition FPL introduced a several seasons ago in Classic Scoring Leagues. So, the extra £5 entry per team is to make the prize for the Cup winner.

However, there is no Cup competition in The Head-to-Head league so it is just £10 to enter.

The first league is what’s known as a ‘classic’ style league - where we are all in a league together and your total fantasy points scored decides your position in the league and at the end of the season whoever is top takes home the number of entrants in the league x £10… hence the league name being: WINNER TAKES ALL & the eventual winner of the new Cup competition will bank the number of teams in the league x £5.

I RESTARTED my Classic league this season as FPL gave me the option to do so - which means anyone who played in it last year will automatically be added to my league this season if they do a team on the new FPL website so as I cannot be sure everyone will want to play for money in my classic WTA league again this season I will delete any unpaid for teams once the season starts. So, if you do want to play in this league this season make sure to pay your entry fee(s) before the season kicks off. If you’re new to my FPL leagues or did not play in my leagues last year these are the codes:

Classic

Name of this league: WINNER TAKES ALL entry fee - £15

Code to join this league:

The other league I run is a ‘head to head’ style league where you are matched with another opponent in the league each week of the season and your weekly score versus the person you’re playing decides whether you win, lose or draw and like in the real Premier League you get 3 points a win, 1 point a draw and nothing for a loss. Those points decide your place within the league and with this league whomever is top of the league at the end of the season wins all the money (as the head-to-head league does not have a cup competition and I have chosen to have no knock out rounds).

Head-to-Head

Name of this league: HEAD 2 HEAD - W.T.A. entry fee - £10

Code to join this league:

So, in both leagues it works like this - 1st place at the end of the season takes all the £10 wonga (so # of teams x £10 = prize).

But also, in the Classic league the extra £5 entry fee goes to make up the internal Cup prize. (so # of teams x £5 = cup prize).

The more teams, the more prize money on offer - so go recruit your friends (but not if there any good)!

FPL lets you join many leagues but you can only have one team and that team is in however many leagues you join - so it’s no more time consuming to join multiple leagues. So, if you’re doing this game already think about joining one or both of my money leagues - after all it’s only a few quid and you may win a nice prize for your season’s efforts… always more fun when there’s money on it - don’t you think?

You can play in these leagues from anywhere in the world and everyone is welcome. However I seem to get brand new names every season join and no contact is made to pay so from now on anyone who has not paid the entry fee in the Classic league will be deleted during Gameweek one and in the Head to Head league I will have a cull on the first day of the season before first deadline is reached and remove any unpaid for teams. So, if you truly want in to these money leagues make sure you pay before the season starts.

If you’re new to my games and don’t know how to pay me or simply forgotten just e-mail me, PM me from here (TFP forum) or hit me up on my Discord channel Discord / BLM fantasy games and I’ll send you the info. upon request.

bluelionman / Noel Symonds

Fan Pub Founding Member

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PS - I keep winners history records for all fantasy games I run so thought you might like to see the history for my FPL money leagues (perhaps your name can appear here at the end of this coming season):

FPL - WINNER TAKES ALL - League History

[bluelionman]

UPDATE - FPL (Winner Takes All) Head to Head league

I am sorry to be so late doing this but 3 or so weeks ago my PC refused to boot into windows and no matter what I did could not get it to work - I think my hard drive failed. I had to buy a new lap top as my notebook was so old (OS was XP) it would not work with the modern internet and kept freezing up plus any web pages took forever to load - just completely unuseable!

I tried to manage these FPL leagues from the Premier League app but it did not offer me the admin options the website does and I was unable to delete the unpaid for teams as planned from the Head to Head league before the season started. So alas we have a couple of interlopers this season squewing the Head to Head league. As a code had to be entered to join the Head to Head league the following two unpaid entrants (screen shotted below) can not win the cash prize pot and will be added to my Welchers Blacklist here:

BLM Fantasy Money Games WELCHERS

I have bought a new lap top to be able to continue running my games and am doing my best to catch up on all games admin.

[bluelionman]

PRIZE CONFORMATIONS

After removing the non-paid for teams from my ‘FPL WTA Classic’ league we were left with 42 paid up entrants. So that makes the prizes for the 2024/25 season as follows:

This is my biggest ever entry pool in my ‘Winner Takes All’ Classic FPL league!

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In my ‘FPL WTA Head to Head’ league I got 29 paid entries and two welchers - 五条 悟 and Bernard Amoah (teams shown in previous post above) - who I was unable to delete before season had started due to my PC issues mentioned above in previous post. So the H2H prize for the 2024/25 season is:

I believe this is also my biggest ever entry pool in my ‘Winner Takes All’ Head to Head FPL league!

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Have fun & may the best fantasy managers win!

[bluelionman]

Shout Out

A couple of new players this season I don’t appear to have contact details for so if your name is posted below please get in contact with me (you can PM me from here) and give me your e-mail address - much appreciated (and easier for me to make contact with you if you win):

Cameron Edwards

Sean Sheridan

[bluelionman]

So another FPL season comes to an end and yet again we have a brand new champion, so congratulations (Leonard Leong) who has won BLM’s Classic FPL ‘Winner Takes All’ league for this season (2024/25) and bags a really nice £420 prize pot for his troubles! He finished 26 points ahead of 2nd, so not as close as the 1 point difference between 1st & 2nd last season!

For me, t’was another truly shocking season finishing down in 39th place (20 positions lower than last season which was also a bad one for me). I do not like the new Assistant Manager chip and think the game has far to many chips now. I finished a whopping 490 points behind this leagues winner this season - last year I was only 190 points off the winner and thought it couldn’t get any worse than that - how wrong I was. I really wish I could do better at this game but as hard as I try I just can’t seem to figure out a strategy that is remotely competitive. I think not finishing with a Chip unused would be a good start - done that two years in a row now. However in mitigation I didn’t realise in time that you cannot use other chips when you use the new Assistant Manager chip and that one lasts for 4 weeks, so it caught me out.

Now I am pretty sure my league attracts the best of the best FPL players due to the pay-outs all going two the two winners (League and Cup) and not spread about so if you ever win one or other prize even just once it kind of covers your £15 annual entry fees forever and proves very lucrative. I have noticed more and more players joining from outside of the UK so even with cross border transaction charges to pay me in GBP it’s not putting folk off. So when your a mere mortal like me it makes me feel so much worse at FPL than I probably am using a world wide average. However, have no fear, I am not a quitter and am a glutton for punishment, so will be back again next season to set this league up and throw my money away!

So, who can bag the honours next season?

FINAL STANDINGS (Classic)

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[bluelionman]

Also, a big congratulations goes to only our fourth ever FPL WTA Cup winner - (Mike Davis) who bags himself a not to shabby £210 for his efforts.

The Cup was a new optional spin off competition FPL introduced from the 2021/22 season in Classic format FPL leagues.

FPL CUP FINAL RESULT

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[bluelionman]

Finally a very big congratulations goes to Seastham10 (Samuel Eastham) for topping my ‘Head to Head’ FPL WTA money league. It was a narrow 1 point win from Leonard Leong - who actually won my overall FPL Classic League this season (as posted 2 posts above). Samuel has also won my Classic FPL WTA league himself - last season - and believe he cashed in another TFP’ers FPL syndicate league this season to, so all in all been a great season for Samuel.

Also to think Leonard Leong came within 1 point of tying this league and 2 points of winning both my classic and this head to head league in the same season. Just like Damjan Rupnik did last year - he to was close to that feat. Just missed out by the same margins in reverse last year taking down this H2H league but missing out on the Classic by 1 point (to tie it or 2 win both outright). So I now think it won’t be long until someone wins both leagues of mine in the same season. This is the kind of fantasy talent my FPL money leagues are now attracting. You need to be very good (which I am certainly not).

But I digress, for winning my FPL WTA H2H league for the 2024/25 season Samuel bags a cool £290 for his troubles - that’s £100 more than what last years prize was. Alas we still had a few welchers this season yet again, as I was unable to remove them before the season started as the FPL phone app does not allow that function (I did try) and my PC’s hard drive had failed at the time so could not get on the full site. Next season I hope to remove any teams who have not paid or have entered using pseudonyms or made up names. My FPL leagues are serious money leagues and strictly one team per person leagues. I will amend my internal rules to express this next year.

FINAL STANDINGS (Head-to-Head)

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So, will it be you winning this league next season or will someone who’s bagged £££ before, bag £££ again?

Look out for details posted here on (The Fan Pub forum) when FPL launch their game for the 2025/26 season and get involved (if you think you can challenge these pros). Also spread the word as new joiners are always welcome - as long as they pay the entry fee(s).

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PS See previous winners history here: FPL - WINNER TAKES ALL - League History

This years winners have already been added to the roll of honour!

[NomoreMrRiceKai]

Massive thanks to Noel for organising the 2024/25 mini-leagues and for extraordinarily quick payment! Was my first time competing and had a fantastic experience.