Fantasy Football 2022/23

[Lie-in King]

Hi everyone, we’re back! With 23 days until first kick-off – Friday August 5th - I've restarted the AnswerBank League at Sky Sports –

https://fantasyfootball.skysports.com/

Hopefully all the regulars will enter a couple of teams each & a few more folk might fancy having a go this season. Don't worry if you know *nothing* about football but still want to join in for fun - you can use the option to have a team selected at random. The facility to enter a 3rd team in January will also be available.

As last year, we're given £100m to spend & have unlimited transfers until the Match Day deadline on Friday 5th August. The number of transfers for the season has been increased by 10 per season - 5 per week / 50 for the season - a very welcome change indeed!

They've kept the "Overhaul" feature, but it appears that there will only be one - "The Overhaul period will begin when the Premier League breaks for the 2022 World Cup and it will run until the Premier League resumes on 26th December." *Unlimited* transfers will be available, *not* coming out of the 50 per season allowance - this is always quite handy, but probably best kept back until as near the resumption of the Premier League as possible, to allow for injuries.

Info on all that ^ & more is here - https://fantasyfootball.skysports.com/help/fantasy

The section "Captain Changes" in that link ^ is a "must-read".

When you've picked a team (or two) yourself, or used automatic selection, name your team(s). From the site - "Team name needs to be 4 to 22 digits long and only consist of or using both letters and numerals" - eg, as I discovered, I can't have a hyphen.

Then join the League - click "Leagues" at the top of the "Home" page, click "Join", ours is called "AnswerBank" & the PIN you need to enter is -

8478433

You can change the visibility of your team(s) between "Public" & "Private", depending on whether or not you want other Managers to be able to see your players. When your team is created, click "My Team" on the "Home" page, click the "Edit" icon next to the team name, click the switch to "Private" & then "Save". You can also edit your team name there.

A note here - just because I'm called the League "Chairman" doesn't mean I'm given special powers. I can't see "Private" teams & I get no other privileges.

The following links can be useful (though as they point out, not necessarily definitive) to check for injuries and suspensions prior to game days -

http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/fantasy-football-injuries/
https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/team-news/

The second link can be useful near to, or on, Game Days, though final updates can be infuriatingly late.

Ok, I think that's covered everything needed to get the League going – I’ll post reminders every now & again, more often as the opening day nears.

I wish everyone lots of fun & good luck for the forthcoming season! :-))

[Ken4155]

I had planned not to make as many early season transfers as i did last time. Just logged on to nominate captains for the weekend's matches and noted that one of my players is out for a month. Transfer number 1 before a ball has been kicked in anger :-(

[Lie-in King]

I should've added a reminder that unlimited transfers are available until the kick-off this evening at 20:00.

For instance, if you've picked Richarlison & not noticed that he's suspended until 13th Aug, you might want to transfer him out for the moment, it all depends on how your managerial brain works...

[Lie-in King]

Ken - as my post above, you're not using your transfer allowance yet :-)

[Ken4155]

Ta for that, LIK. Feel a tad better, now :-)

[Arksided]

Good luck everyone, you know I don’t mean that but everyone is always welcome and have some fun.

[Togo]

“In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions, but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.”
Eduardo Galeano

[Lie-in King]

Last bump before Game Week 1 kicks-off at 20:00.

If you're still dithering about whether or not to join in, now's the time to do it - if you've not picked Captains for the weekend, you can do them all now or before 1st kick-off day by day.

[Lie-in King]

Morning all - a reminder that today's 1st kick-off is at 12:30

[jobjockey]

Tried to enter no luck.

[Lie-in King]

Hi jobjockey - it *might* be that you were prevented from entering a team because today's 1st kick-off had already taken place.

May I suggest trying again this evening, a while after the final match should've finished & allowing Sky's system to catch up - perhaps from 20:00 onwards.

[jobjockey]

Will take your advice and try after all the games
are completed, I have 5 Telegraph teams and 2
Sky Sorts, love it.

[Arksided]

Hmm that is interesting, I can't think of any other reason than what L.I.K has suggested.

[Arksided]

Good to see new players and welcome back MightyWBA not seen you for a few seasons.

[Lie-in King]

1st kick-off today is at 14:00

[Ken4155]

Just realised my 'wardrobe malfunction' - my knickers were on view for the public to see. :-)
Not any more, though!

[Arksided]

So were mine, sorted it yesterday not realising I hadn’t done it before Fridays KO

Have also selected next week’s captains… for now.

[Lie-in King]

The next thread is here - https://tinyurl.com/4565c95w