da winzada777： With the start of any Premiership season comes a new optimism and excitement for football supporters all over the world. The start of the new season brings the thrills and spills of football back into our lives after months of Saturday afternoons where something has been missing… The holy grail of football. New additions to the Premier League are raring to get started, and those familiar faces are back again to show us what we have been missing all summer long. For many football fans with the new season comes the opportunity to test out their own managerial acumen by selecting their very own fantasy football team. So what I want to establish is whether the fantasy teams many of us would select, would in reality be a fantasy team.
da poker： The main objective of a fantasy team is to accumulate as many points as possible by choosing the players you think are best equipped to assist you in this end game. So the first names on the majority of fantasy mangers’ team sheets would surely be the big hitters – the likes of Rooney, Drogba, Tevez, Gerrard, Lampard, Terry and Vidic. Any manager who has taken up a fantasy team before would see it’s blatantly obvious, that with the budget available to spend, you can’t accommodate all the best players, as they are clearly the most expensive. That’s where good judgement and knowhow comes into play. Managers will have to look to some of the players who won’t be suited and booted at the PFA Awards come the end of the season to bolster their teams. Nevertheless, these players can often be the surprise packages and often produce good points on the fantasy scene.
Would many people have looked to Matt Jarvis, Charlie Adam, Andy Carroll or Matthew Etherington at the start of the season when selecting their team? I would suggest not as many as would now. These players have all amassed large points totals this season but with the exception of Adam, would they be selected in a Premiership Fantasy Eleven come the end of the season? I doubt it. Robert Huth is another player who has produced a large points total this season, but this is largely as a result of the eight goals he has scored. So does this mean the points totals divert away from the facts? I would say yes, as Stoke’s other defenders aren’t within sight in comparison to Huth. What I’m trying to convey is that while a player may have a high fantasy points total it doesn’t necessarily mean he has been one of the outstanding players in that position.
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When selecting a team of the season each player who is considered for a spot in the team has their performance across the year scrutinised. Jack Wilshere and Scott Parker are players who may well justify inclusion in any potential team of the year, but in terms of the Fantasy League they don’t generate a great deal of points so are likely to be overlooked by fantasy managers. Furthermore, a fantasy team could consist of four wingers in midfield as they could be considered as the men who pick up the most points, but a coherent team of the year is likely to be defined to two wingers, a holding midfielder and an attacking midfielder.
Fundamentally the main body of this article is trying to argue that a dream team in the newspaper or on a website gives you the opportunity to mould together your own fantasy team which could well prove fruitful in gaining points. Although, when logically considering a fantasy team of the season there are more variants to be considered than just goals, assists and clean sheets. Performances of players who have defied the odds and carried their club almost single handily at times in the case of Scott Parker make me believe there is more than one way to determine a Fantasy Team.
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