The Fantasy premier league also known as ‘’FPL’’, Is a virtual Football based game and just as the name suggest, it is fantasy, completely made up, but it is seasoned with a touch of reality. The game allows people like you and me to create a team of fantasy players who represent the image and performance of real life professional footballers plying their trade in the English premier league. The fixtures and results involved in the Fantasy premier league parallel the events in the English premier league, so the fantasy premier league begins and ends in accordance with the English premier league’s schedule.
At the beginning of the English premier league, FPL users also known as Managers create and name their own team, each team created is to consist of 15 squad members, who are purchased with fantasy pounds, every manager is allocated a lump sum of a 100 million fantasy pounds. 100 million fantasy pounds is a lot of money right? Too bad its imaginary. The 15 squad members consist of 5 defenders, 5 midfielders, 3 strikers and 2 goalkeepers nothing more, nothing less and you are allowed to choose a maximum of 3 players from a single English premier league team. Every game week as a FPL manager comes with the responsibility of choosing a starting eleven from your squad roster, each starting eleven player receives certain points determined by the player’s performance and is based on a point system created and maintained by the creators of the Fantasy premier league; EA sports and the Barclays premier league. The performances of your individual fantasy players are summed up into overall points, which Is a show your team’s performance and your managerial skills which include team selection, captain selection and transfers. Overall points are cumulative and are added from each successive game week. It is with these overall points FPL managers use to compete with each other in various leagues and cup competitions. FPL gives the opportunity for managers to create their own leagues which would usually comprise of friends. The rules of the fantasy premier league are far from intricate, but are still a lot to learn in a day. You can read the rules at Fantasy.premierleague.com/rules.
and you can begin playing the game at http://fantasy.premierleague.com , or download the app on any of the popular smartphone stores
The FPL game takes little but it offers a lot of fun, it actually is different experience mainly as an FPL manager you support every player on your team even if the player doesn’t play for your favorite club, and when the player does come against your favorite team there arise the mixed feelings. If you don’t already play FPL, it’s something you should consider taking up as a hobby.
below are screenshot of my and a friends team ,and a league table i belong in
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