Sorry to all the people who came here to read about Badmintennis, Jelly diving and uterus lugeing but this isn\'t actually a thread about fun made up sports (but feel free to put some of your own here anyway)!
Oh no, it\'s about my latest addiction - picking a team of sportsmen with an imaginary amount of cash in an attempt to score points from them, and then spending each weekend cursing that they aren\'t performing as they should.
At the moment I\'m doing the Daily Telegraph Fantasy Football (That\'s soccer for the folks in the States - not the version of football you have where feet touch the ball about 0.001% of the time) and it\'s starting to become way more important in my life than it should!
I have a fixture database filled with all sorts of formulas for calculating prime transfer points for my players, I\'ve become a stats geek, I\'m considereing entering loads of extra teams at six quid a pop to try and win the prizes for manager of the month or week. It\'s become my new obsession and I really didn\'t need another one!
It has also completely changed the way I look at footy. I would never normally cheer a Chelsea goal, but Carvalho is in my team, so yesterday I was cheering like a loon when his header went in.
Are there others here who have the fantasy sports bug, what sport, what sort of style is it, has anyone ever won a big prize doing it (first in the Telegraph gets you a whopping 50 grand!), etc.?
Oh no, it\'s about my latest addiction - picking a team of sportsmen with an imaginary amount of cash in an attempt to score points from them, and then spending each weekend cursing that they aren\'t performing as they should.
At the moment I\'m doing the Daily Telegraph Fantasy Football (That\'s soccer for the folks in the States - not the version of football you have where feet touch the ball about 0.001% of the time) and it\'s starting to become way more important in my life than it should!
I have a fixture database filled with all sorts of formulas for calculating prime transfer points for my players, I\'ve become a stats geek, I\'m considereing entering loads of extra teams at six quid a pop to try and win the prizes for manager of the month or week. It\'s become my new obsession and I really didn\'t need another one!
It has also completely changed the way I look at footy. I would never normally cheer a Chelsea goal, but Carvalho is in my team, so yesterday I was cheering like a loon when his header went in.
Are there others here who have the fantasy sports bug, what sport, what sort of style is it, has anyone ever won a big prize doing it (first in the Telegraph gets you a whopping 50 grand!), etc.?
