Free Fantasy Football – A Perpetual Gamer?

I recently announced the 7th season of the Zath Premiership – which is my own league that I run in conjunction with a free fantasy football website, based upon the results of the English Premier League. We’re now into the 4th year of the Zath Premiership that has been run through the official Fantasy Premier League website and I’m always pleased with the progress that is made year on year in terms of new features.

For instance, this year in the Zath Premiership there is the standard accumulation of points for players to aim for, but in addition, each week your team will “play” another team from the Zath Premiership, the team with the most points scores 3 points, the losing team score 0 and if it’s a draw, both teams will score 1. This is a great idea I think as it gives a cup like competition that has been present in previous years, but it takes place each week – I for one always got knocked out early on!

Anyway, if you haven’t already got signed up, then make sure you go shopping for players before the action kicks off or you’ll be playing catch-up! Here’s another fellow fantasy football fan’s thoughts on fantasy football game competitions, in this case the Perpetual Gamer: Dom Roberts – here’s just a snippet of what he has to say in his full article…

This is my fourth year of playing and I’m still as much in love as my first day. This is the best football strategy game in the world, a strategy gamers dream, and it’s free.

Here, every footballer in the best league in the world is listed with stats, history and player profiles. It’s a web based football management game which runs the full length of the football season.

This game is a real life game; it’s like Championship Manager for grown-ups. You manage your team with real players whose performance from one week to the next can bring joy or sorrow to your team. As you listen to the weekend’s matches played out over the radio, TV or being at the match in person; you’re thinking what your players are doing and how well they are playing for you.

Perhaps the most telling sign that this is a true perpetual gamer’s game is that you spend more time thinking about it than you do in front of your computer playing it. You become inexplicably linked with the players in your team and have an unhealthily interest in the performance of teams at the other end of the country. Although you are only technically playing for maybe 30 to 60 minutes a week (making transfers and picking your team) the rest of the time you’re thinking about it. Maybe making the occasional nerdy note in your pocket, as the managerial epiphanies come flooding in.

Fantasy Premier League gives you a strong sense of ownership too. Despite being played by 1,500,000 people all over the world, you login each week to be greeted by your hand picked team who have waxed and waned for you all season. You take steps of faith to trust the big names in the league or go with the less known players hoping for a big upset.

Local leagues can be set up with friends or colleagues, and each league itself fits into the huge worldwide picture of players. This works really well at work, and you quickly find that coffee breaks and water cooler chat soon turns to things football.

I think Dom makes some great points about free fantasy football competitions, it really does ensure you pay attention to other teams results and injuries, for you to succeed you really need to act upon this information. I don’t know about you, but I normally have a few people in the office at work playing along, so it also sparks off a weekly checking of fantasy football league positions, points and transfers made, not to mention the inevitable resulting banter and gloating in some quarters!

Don’t miss out on the competition which will be having some prizes allocated – once I figure them out! Join the Zath Premiership 08/09 free fantasy football league!

Related Pages:

1. Free Fantasy Football – Zath Premiership 08/09 – Register Your Team Now!
2. Fantasy Football – Zath Premiership 07/08 – Register Your Team!
3. Free Fantasy Football – Zath Premiership 08/09 Update
4. Free Fantasy Football League – Zath Premiership 2009/10 – Register Your Team Now!
5. Match! – Super League Football Game

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