This will be the fourteenth year I have run an online mini-league on the Premier Leagues own fantasy football game. I must be nuts as I have never got to grips with this game and always finish near the bottom so throw my entry fees away (£25 ) annually. But some of you are really into my leagues and take them very seriously because they are ‘Winner Takes All’ affairs, so if you win - especially in the more recent years (see bottom of this e-mail for history) it’s a lot of money to bank. I have to be involved or I cannot make up the leagues so feel obliged to partake each season but wish I could be more competitive.
Actually, if you win how about the following season as a thank you, stick an entry into my favourite fantasy football game - TFF (Telegraph Fantasy Football) - details can be found on TFP forum here once TFF launches: https://forum.thefanpub.com/
But I digress, quite simply - register online, select your team and then if you wish join one or both of my mini money 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 several seasons ago in Classic Scoring Leagues. So, the extra £5 entry per team is to make the prize for the Cup winner.
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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 Cup competition will bank the number of teams in the league x £5.
Any unpaid for teams once the season starts (so sometime during Week 1) will be deleted by me without further reference. 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. I will confirm prize payouts on the TheFanPub forum and send a link to everyone I have an e-mail address for so if you’re new to my FPL leagues make sure to send me you e-mail address - as I also need this to contact you if you win one of my leagues at the end of the season.
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:
Reason for not making the H2H league code public this year is because every year have had people join and not pay and once season starts you cannot remove teams from the H2H league. So this year it is a case of if your new pay first and then get code… less work for me having to chase and screen shot Welchers etc.
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 really 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 my leagues and no contact is ever 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 during the final 24hrs before the season starts and remove any unpaid for teams (as I cannot do this once season starts in the H2H league). So, if you truly want in to these money leagues make sure you pay before the season starts! Oh, and last season some people joined using pseudonyms - which made it super difficult for me to match up payments with entries. I want to nip this in the bud - as it also could make paying out the correct winner(s) harder for me not to mention I really care about my leagues - keep winners history records and take end of season screenshots so am saying here and now I only want entries using real names. Any clearly fake name entries such as ANEED MOREHEAD & BALDRICK BALDRICKSON will be deleted.
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
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):
symbol next to you when I have received payment for your entry:
