Woofbet Tournament Spotlight Gameweek 24 – Fantasy Premier League Betting
A week has passed, a transfer window has closed and a whole new range of tournaments are upon us. After just one week it seems that the Woofbet and Fantasy Football 247 partnership is as natural as Heskey alongside Guðjohnsen; after we immediately provided the same kind of prolific results. This gameweek we tore apart the tournament entry and sign up records like they were Aston Villa’s defence and handed out more money in prizes than QPR’s chairman did in the January transfer window. Most excitingly a new generation of Woofbet managers arrived and staked an immediate claim, with one narrowly clenching the title over our very own KopWarrior in the weekend’s biggest freeroll. Once again we’re back to highlight the tournaments that you wouldn’t want to miss this weekend: from the massive prizepools to the exciting new concepts, all of which test your skills on the sidelines in the name of some real money. Isn’t it time that your fantasy manager job paid off?!
Gameweek 24 kicks off this weekend and Woofbet.com has over €4500 up for grabs across 30 weekly tournaments. This week there’s a generous €1150 in free entry prizes and a whopping €3400 in guaranteed pots. You’ll also have the option to create your own tournaments and head-to-head challenges. Choose your own rules and buy-in fees then invite your friends or leave it open for the public to challenge you!
February’s Best Manager / Free – €20 Entry / €500 – €1000 Prizepool
Click to enlarge. User: Mizungu smashes home 80 points on the final weekend of the month to claim the title of January’s Best Manager.
A new month is upon us, which means it’s time for another installment of our Best Manager tournament. Each month we see a record-breaking number of managers compete for the entire month to take a cut of one of the most lucrative prizepools on Woofbet. The tournament runs from GW24 through until GW27 so never before has a carefully crafted squad been more critical. We recommended you check out the Fixture Tracker to ensure your team provides the necessary depth and rotates well throughout the month. Last month’s winner got off to a slow start in the tournament but that didn’t stop him. After ignoring advice to abandon the sinking ship by expert in that field; Harry Redknapp (but seriously R’s, you’re lucky it wasn’t a Tal Ben Haim too late!), he managed to turn things around to average a score of 71 points per gameweek. Sounds achievable right? Surely you can beat that?! The rules operate like normal fantasy football, once GW24 kicks off you get 1 free transfer per week and you’ll receive a -4 deduction for every additional transfer you make over the limit. This month’s tournament is certain to live up to its huge reputation with the January transfer window providing us more choices and lot more differentials to take a punt on. Former fantasy favorites Lennon and Sinclair have moved clubs to nail down some consistent playing time in an attempt to reignite their careers. If either of them find the form they once had they could bring big points to your team. Meanwhile, we also welcome a few exciting new faces to the Premier League including Columbian winger Juan Cuadrado, who joins league leaders Chelsea making their already fierce attack somewhat fiercer. To open the tournament page for February’s Best Manager – €500 Prizepool – Free Entry in a new tab click here and for February’s Best Manager – €1000 Guaranteed – €20 Entry click here (upon logging in/signing up you’ll be directed to the team selection page).
Derby Day / Free Entry / €150 Prizepool
Click to enlarge. User: Sronnin predicted the clean sheet and all of the assisters and goal scorers.
Undergoing a complete name change for this week only, Derby Day (also known as Matches of the Week) returns to challenge your prediction skills over the space of just 2 matches. You’ll have the chance to storm out of the gates in Saturday’s early kick off when Tottenham host the Gunners in the North London Derby. After this you will have a short break to compose yourself before Liverpool travel down the road to take on Everton, where you can add to your perfect (or poor) performance during the Merseyside Derby. With a small selection of players to choose from, combined with an average of 150 managers participating, your team selection MUST be spot on. If a player scores big and he isn’t your captain, you’ll be travelling down the table faster than Samuel Eto’o through Merseyside. As well as captaincy selection, clean sheets are a good way to tally up some big points. A common tactic in this tournament is to pick 1 team who you think will keep a clean sheet and then proceed to load up your defence with their players. But predicting where the clean sheet will come from in these 2 matches… I’ll leave that to you. With derbies usually providing a wealth of goals, assists and cards, we tip this tournament to be one of the highest scoring yet! To open the tournament page in a new tab click here (upon logging in/signing up you’ll be directed to the team selection page).
Full Round / €5 Entry / €150 Prizepool
Click to enlarge. User: APC123 also known as the ‘auto-sub specialist’ nabbed 1st place by 1 point when Kane brought in 12 from the bench.
FIVERS IN EVERYBODY! Running along side our freeroll tournaments we also host a range of buy-ins with guaranteed pots. A guaranteed pot is a prizepool that is fixed regardless of the amount of entrants; for example in this weeks €5 Entry – €150 Guaranteed, if only 3 people enter, the prizepool will still stand at €150 and will be split between the 3 entrants regardless of their entry fee only equating to €15. This is the perfect opportunity for managers who want to enter tournaments with less competition and reduce the odds of their expertly researched team getting denied the top spot due to a lucky captaincy. Less entrants also means a better prizepool payout percentage. Last week saw 25 managers signed up and only the top 5 split the cash. Get your captain right, get a few differential points and some clean sheets; and you’re guaranteed a nice little return on your small investment. Last weeks winner experienced ‘joy of the auto-sub’ when Kane was transferred in for injured Sanchez providing his team with an additional 12 points; enough to place him top by 1 point. If you’re reading this, let’s hope you haven’t used up all your luck! We also have a range of cheaper and more expensive buy-in tournaments over on Woofbet.com – so check them out and see which ones right for you budget. To open the tournament page in a new tab click here (upon logging in/signing up you’ll be directed to the team selection page).
On behalf of WoofBet, I’d like to wish you all the best of luck in this weeks tournaments. Feel free to share your teams and keep us posted on how you’re doing via Twitter or Facebook!
FFScout on twitter:
Walters (knee) a doubt for Stoke, having failed to train since weekend
:shake:
Sanchez dropping hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is awesome. :dance:
Who would start Sanchez?
Who would start Boyd?
I’m torn.
Sanchez ain’t playing tomorrow, haven’t you heard? You can start him and Boyd will be autosub, your choice. 😉
Sanchez should be back for Tuesdays game though.
Wait I see he went from redflagged to 25 percent. Wanker is a weak manager if he lets Sanchez play while he wants to rest him. >.<
Wenger has said Sanchez wants to play but we’ll have to see, still unlikely but you never know. I’m starting him and had Walters to come on as 1st sub but now he faces a late fitness test! :/
FFS. Yesterday Wenger says he might play versus Leicester, now this. He messes everything up for me. ZOMG, usually just Mourinho does shit like that.
More like… you really don’t want him to play. 😉
But yep. He has ‘a chance’ now… gives me a slight dilemma. The situation seems to change by the hour.
Wenger is a ”wanker”. Period. End of discussion. :dance:
Alexis. I’d fancy him to get more points in 20 minutes than Boyd is 90, should he come off the bench. If he starts and he’s not in your team, er… oh dear. Personally, i don’t think he will start but he’s such a warrior of a player that you just never know!
That’d be awful yeah! Think you’ve effectively scared me into playing him now haha – he’ll most likely get a one pointer – but it’s probably worth the risk.
It’s just Boyd’s fixture that made me think twice…
It is Burnley though.
Cheers mate.
Ha! Your call mate 😉 I think WBA will get a CS so that’s what tips it for me. I suppose it depends how you see that game going yourself. Decisions decisions!
PELLEGRINI ON INJURIES: “We have no injuries, we have a full squad for tomorrow. Mangala and Nasri are fine and will be in the squad.”
RIP Hull!
You guys reckon Kompany could be replaced? Since he’s been so bad?
I doubt it mate. He has been shocking by his standards but he is their captain after all.
Actually considering him over Terry. City have easier fixtures and no blank GW.
Could be good GW for it, but i would prefer Terry for the next two after this week,despite the following blank.
Versus Everton though? I don’t see them keeping a CS versus Everton. But we’ll see.
I’ve bought Ivanovic this week so i’m not worried about the Everton game at all. Even if they do concede there’s a decent chance of some attacking returns, given Everton’s woeful away form.
Many thanks and congratulations to GKW on his debut article for us which is up on FFFix now. Great read, well done mate. I actually assumed Kop was joking when he told us the title, evidently not!
http://www.fantasyfootballfix.com/blog-index/
Awesome. I’ll read it later today. Maybe it helps with my decision making since I’m still on my Wildcard and I like to be vile and disgusting.
Good new avatar? Or too extreme? Bwahahahar. :p
She’s smoking pot by the way, don’t get any crazy ideas. :rant:
To get a better idea. 😉
ZOMG, she’s so lovely.
Bit young looking for me, but i’ll gladly take a blast or 2 off that bong 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaqQhdt1qqk
Ha! That takes me back
Nice work gkw. Well done mate :thumbup:
Who has the better potential for assists, goals, Bellerin or PVA?
Hard to tell. Not seen enough of Bellerin yet. PvA has great potential but he plays for a less good team, Bellerin might get more chances. Really don’t know. Also sort of depends on how many Gooners you have in your squad and if you have Pantsuuuuuuuuu as goalie, I guess.
Indeed. Hard to judge off such a small number of games. I’ll sit on the fence and call it 50/50, meaning pick one based on budget requirements :thumbup:
Bascially trying to decide between Ospina and PVA or Panty and Bellerin. Cost the same money combined so judging it on attacking potential. Trying to decide who’s position is safer, Bellerin’s or Ospinas!