Fantasy Premier League Season Review

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The Premier League is over for another season and with it fantasy football has ended until next August too. Regular readers will know I run my own league on the official Fantasy Premier League website and that there was a €50 prize for the winner this season. After 38 games Goran Ivanoski emerged as the winner on an impressive 2,508 points and with an overall position of 225 out of 3,218,896 players.

I've been in contact with Goran through the forum in my league and then by email and his prize will be with him by the end of the week. He did very well to come out on top of my league in only his second season playing the game and hopefully he will be back next season to defend his title. There were 1,157 teams in the league this season and I hope there will be even more next season as it continues to grow. Obviously the offer of prize money helps to attract teams and I'm hoping to raise that prize money next season. If I can get a few more clicks on the ads in my blog it should lead to me earning enough from the blog to double that prize money next season.

My own team didn't do too badly as I finished 22nd in my own league and in 14,870th place overall with 2,384 points. I had a few good weeks and a few bad ones, but I thought about my transfer decisions a lot harder this season and it paid off. Here's a look at how the top of my league finished this season.

#	Team	Manager	GW	TOT
	1	GORANpro	goran ivanoski	57	2,508
	2	Čechmate	Sean Kehoe	50	2,476
	3	Trini Red Devils	Nigel Smith	55	2,466
	4	Aint got a Kalou	Sean Yates	52	2,463
	5	Undertakers Utd	Tahir Ali	62	2,456
	6	izbrisani	domen petelin	66	2,444
	7	mind the gap	Johnny Giang	53	2,428
	8	Daredevils	Sahil Nirula	55	2,426
	9	galteegunners	Damian Hynes	51	2,421
	10	The Wizard of Özil	Adebayo Somotun	67	2,412
	11	Topossa XI	Saikat Dhar	39	2,411
	12	jumpers4goalposts	Paul Bonner	64	2,410
	13	BonyOnZidane'sFloor	Amol Mansahia	65	2,404
	14	Bring on the pain	george rogers	51	2,403
	15	Murume Onpoint	Kenfer Muthomi	63	2,394
	16	Pollos Hermanos FC	Dan Rezny	61	2,394
	17	Half-Arse(nal)d	Nick McKeon EasyLuckyFree	55	2,389
	18	barca_forever	Gautam Manisekaran	46	2,389
	19	Lolcott	SeVeN 21	54	2,386
	20	Royal Athletic	David Agyarko	38	2,385
	21	Northern Monkeys	Gary Sloan	50	2,384
	22	Jamrock Rovers	Michael Sheehy	65	2,384
	23	We're Not Very Good	eileen ring	55	2,383

Besides my league which was open to all comers I also ran a head to head league which was open to only 20 players and mirrored the format of the Premier League. My eldest son won the head to head league last season and I managed to keep it in the family by taking the title myself this season. It went right to the wire but I needed a win in the last Gameweek and managed to do just that while my closest rival lost to give me the title with five points to spare.

I'll be running the head to head league again next season and I'll be looking for entrants through Twitter yet again. There can be some good banter each week on Twitter between the players playing against each other which is why I want all of the players in it to be active on Twitter. You can find me on Twitter under the guise of JamrockRover with plenty to say about fantasy football and of course my beloved Arsenal. Here's a look at how my head to head league finished.

+-	#	Team	W	D	L	+	Pts
	1	Jamrock Rovers	26	0	12	2,384	78
	2	Bring on the pain	24	1	13	2,403	73
	3	Shere WillPower FC	24	0	14	2,304	72
	4	BonyOnZidane'sFloor	22	1	15	2,404	67
	5	KildareGunners	21	0	17	2,160	63
	6	Young Ilen guns	21	0	17	2,158	63
	7	Squad is a bit thin	20	2	16	2,291	62
	8	Sugar tweets 1-1 SJP	20	2	16	2,132	62
	9	Botanic Gooners	20	0	18	2,179	60
	10	Olivier and Kompany	18	1	19	2,210	55
	11	Chamakh my pitch up!	18	0	20	1,876	54
	12	Per-Fection	17	2	19	2,098	53
	13	Gwladys St 1878's	16	3	19	2,235	51
	14	The All-Star Elite	16	2	20	2,153	50
	15	Bergkamp's Magic	16	0	22	1,912	48
	16	Ilen guns fc	15	2	21	1,921	47
	17	The Invincibles	14	2	22	2,223	44
	18	The Armoury	14	1	23	2,032	43
	19	ClockEndRed	14	1	23	1,991	43
	20	Arsene's Zipper XI	14	0	24	1,985	42

The final league I was running was a predictions league on the Talksport site and there was a €25 prize on offer to the winner of the league. Karl-Yngve Lund more or less ran away with the league but I have had little luck in tracing him so far to send him his prize. I'll be running the predictions league again next season and hopefully I can raise the prize money in that league too.

I didn't fare too badly in my predictions league, but my loyalty to Arsenal probably cost me a few points during the season. I'm sure regular readers will know I always predict an Arsenal win in my weekly predictions despite the opposition and maybe I should let my head rule my heart occasionally. I can't see that changing next season or ever for that matter as I always believe my team will win. Here's a look at how the top 10 in my predictions league finished.

Position	Player Name	PTS	TW	BB
1 (1)	Karl-Yngve Lund	2595	+150	0
2 (4)	Paul Kingston	2355	+175	20
3 (3)	Wayne Hubbard	2310	+75	15
4 (2)	MickTheGooner	2305	+60	15
5 (5)	Abu K	2235	+90	0
6 (6)	KildareGunner	2120	+10	0
7 (7)	Michael Sheehy	2065	+120	15
8 (8)	goonerdhanesh	1780	+85	15
9 (9)	Sulabh	1290	0	0
10 (10)	Gaurav Ahuja	885	0	0

Finally for today there's quite often something in the name of a team and it's hard to deny the overall winner of Fantasy Premier League knew what he was doing. He named his team "Captain Suarez" and Luis Suarez was the top scoring player despite missing the first five games through suspension.

That's it for today.

See you tomorrow.

Posted by Hodie J