The World Of Fantasy AFL Footy
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The aussie phenomenon started back in 2005 when the Australian Football League (AFL) website decided to start up as Fantasy AFL competition. There was similar competitions with soccer, rugby and other sports and they decided to try it out with AFL. They had great success with it and soon after the Herald Sun started up their own competition very similar to the one started by the AFL website. These competitions are called AFL Dreamteam and Herald Sun Supercoach although they are just referred to as Dreamteam and Supercoach. Though very similar they do contain differences as I will point out later on.

The way these games work is you assemble an imaginary team of real life AFL players. The players score points that contribute to the overall score that the team get every week. The points are based upon the players’ actual statistics or perceived contribution on the field throughout the games during the 22 week Home and Away AFL Season. This includes all stats as well a free kicks and 1%ers (full list below) The competitions runs for the full 22 weeks and this includes a finals series in the last 4 weeks of the season (beginning at round 18). There are leagues with 16 teams and these can have friends or just randoms. If you are lucky you might even get to verse some of the celebrities such as Kevin Sheedy.

Now, about the players. Every AFL listed player is available to be selected in your team. At the start of the year you choose 30 players (comprising of guns as well as rookies) that you think will help you score high amounts of points. Now this is where it becomes pretty tricky. There are hundreds of players and choosing the right one can be a nightmare. Injuries can occur to disrupt thing or perhaps suspension so you have to take these into account as well. And then there are the rookies. Choosing the right rookies will basically set your team above all the pretenders and wannabes and up with the better team in the competition. This is not easy though. Choosing untried players that have the potential to not get a game is a risky business but can have great reward. For more information on good player choices take a look at Fantasy Footy (http://www.FantasyFooty.co.cc). Fantasy Footy has a whole lot of information on the players as well as possible trade and more.

Oh, I almost forgot about trades. You get allocated 20 trades for the year with a maximum of 2 per round. Now while this might sound a lot, it isn’t. When you put together injuries, bodgy picks as well as players form you have almost no trades left for upgrades…unless you plan it all right. This again, required knowledge and skill that doesn’t come overnight. If you get this right you will be well on the way to dominating you opponents.

Now we come to the scoring. The scoring for both Supercoach and Dreamteam is slightly different. You still get points for the same stats but the values are different. I will not bother to put the points up, but if you are interested they are listed on http://www.FantasyFooty.co.cc. The amount of points a player scores affects their price that they are available at. You start off with 10 million salary cap and each player costs a different amount. From the gun players (ranging from $450k up to $700k) all the way down to the rookies (at around $80-90k) there is lots of choice but making the right one is what you need to do. As I said above you only get a select few trades and so you have to choose a good squad from the start. Anyway, back on price. As the players play well or not so well, their price will change in accordance. A players price will not change for the first 2 rounds of them playing so get this right and you make some serious cash.

Anyway, that is just a general overview of both these fantastic Fantasy Footy games. I highly recommend you check them out at some stage!

Thanks,
Ky
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