In comments to the fantasy marathon articles some of you asked for tutorials for beginners. Here in fantasy noob blog I start a series of publications for the newcomers to the fantasy sports games.
Fantasy sports – online games, where participants create virtual teams of real players of a professional sport and compete with other online gamers. The performance of players in real games is converted into points. The fantasy team owners with highest total points can win some prizes or money in different types of tournaments.
Two main types of fantasy tournaments:
- Season games: you play and make transfers during the championship. The prizes are being distributed only after the finish of the season.
- Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS): you play short term games (a week or single day competitions) with money prizes. To enter those games you pay entry fees for each team, that you create for the tournaments. The prizes are being distributed just after the end of day/week games.
Who is playing fantasy sports and what it gives you?
Many players of fantasy sports came here from poker and betting. The rest are ethusiasts, who just love sport and gambling.
Participating in fantasy sports makes it even more entertaining to watch interesting sport events and games. Now you can not only support your favourite team, but also watch some outsiders to play with each other and to bring points to your fantasy teams. Over time, you start to better understand the game mechanics, to know the teams and players. You try to adapt your strategies, improve your skills and learn how to beat other players. And believe me, it is worth it, because you get much fun!
Unlike betting, where you play against bookers, Fantasy sports give you an opportunity to compete with real players. You meet new people and you have very hot discussions with your friends regarding sport matches.
Also, there is an opportunity to win big money here, which attacts a lot of people.
How to start playing?
- The best option for newcomers is to start with official Fantasy Premier League and free-rolls on different platforms. Free-rolls are the tournaments, where you don't have to pay an entry fee, but you have a chance to win some prizes. Fantasy platforms sometimes make some tournaments. On FPL you can compete with more then 6 million people for the main prize - a paid visit (including travel and 2 nights’ accommodation) to Great Britain for two Premier League matches. You can find free-rolls on different fantasy platforms like Draft Scorum, FantasyBet, sometimes on Fanteam and others.
- The first thing you should do is to investigate the rules and the scoring of the fantasy platform. Scoring - is the special system of calculating the points for the actions of sport athletes. This is a key to your strategy and success, so please pay your attention to this and check the rules carefully.
- Next you should choose the type of tournament to play, which can vary by the number of players in teams, different chips, number of transfers and also the prize distribution. The strategies for guranteed prize tournaments and 50/50 games should be different. We will talk about it later.
- Before starting to play study the games schedule and team news carefully. That will help you to avoid the situations, where your players show bad results due to tough matches or opponents or even miss the games.
- Explore the prices and try to find cheap options. When you have an opportunity to get cheaper players, who are expected to perfom much better in fantasy in current scheduled match, just pick them.
- Choose the game scheme according to the scoring system and the prices for each round.
- Get rid of your predilections to several players. You shouldn´t pick you favourite players just because they are favourite. The expectations for their points should be very high and the price should be as low as possible.
- Check your fantasy team players 30-60 min before the start of the tournament. Football clubs, for example, most often publish starting lineups in Twitter just 1 hour before the game.
- Dive more into statistics and constantly improve your knowledge.
- Don´t start to play for money, if you are not enough sure in your skills. But also do not stop, if you just lost the first matches.
How to win money?
Fantasy sports are the games of skill and luck. In order to get some rewards you have to spend decent time for analyzing the statistics, team news, etc. And, of course, you have to be lucky to predict players, that will perfom very well in this exact game. If you want to win something you should improve your skills, improve your knowledge every round, every game and adapt your strategy to the game rules and competitive players.
In later posts I will talk more about different strategies, different fantasy platforms and various things to improve your skills.
So stay tured and please follow fantasy noob blog.
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