How to play Fantasy English Premeir League!

If somebody gives you 100 million pounds and tell you to buy players and set up a new "premier league caliber" team, who would you buy? what system would you use? which players would you choose on 'starting 11'? Have you ever wondered how some managers fail to read the football match and make stupid mistake? If you were that manager, what better change you would make? who would you substitute ? In general, do you have a little bit of a manager in you? Then you must join the fantasy football league and be a manager and make your own decision on you own team and compete agianst Alex furguson and Arsene Wenger!!!

Fantasy football league is a league which only exists on 'Fantasy world' and on the Internet. It is fantasy as anybody can own a team, yes a team full of professional players! In fact owning a team is much easier than playing your team in the league. The league is composed of many teams as opposed to the real world league with only twenty teams in it. so you might be one owner in a league of many thousands teams.Last season, there were over 1.3 million people playing in one of the league i was in.

In the official premier league fantasy football league, there were teams from almost every country in the world but i didn't see a team from Ethiopia. This year lets be together, choose our favourite players in the premier league and play against each other and others from different part of the world. I guarantee you that you like it!!!we can be in a league of our favourite team like Arsenal or Man U supporters league and compete in the Ethiopian league too at the same time. The most thrilling part of fantasy soccer game, at least to me, is you can compare and compete yours with your Friends' team and quantify and know which player contributes more to his team than others. Is Rooney more important to man u than Van Persie is to Arsenal? is Fabregas' contribution to arsenal is better than Ronaldo's to man u? is it defenders effort that is getting the team more points than midfielders or forwards? You can see all these by the points the players get.

Fantasy Football is very, very Exciting and beautiful game to play over the Internet (and about 1.3 million people registered in one league alone) and it only takes few minutes (about 15) of yours every week. And it is also very easy to play. You might even win money at the end of the competition as well. let us be optimistic and register our players now. since the start of the new premier league is only a month away, most leagues begin to register their members around this time. Don't wait until the opening day of the premier league because you need time as you build the team from scratch.

First, you have to sign up in the league by directly going to http://fantasy.soccernet.com/ or you can send me your email address ( gazofar@yahoo.com) and i can invite you in a league set up for Ethiopians only. But if you registere directly on the link above, you need a code to join the Ethiopians league and it is:

League Name: Ethio-league

password: ethiopia (case sensitive)

In Premier league fantasy football, the manager, i.e you, can choose 15 players for your team and you will be given $100 million to "sign" your players. you need to buy (all from premier league only) 2 Goalkeepers, 5 Defenders, 5 Midfielders and 3 Forwards and no more than 3 players can be selected from a single team. once you selected your team, you choose starting 11 players and the rest four will be substitutes. you use them whenever your starters get injured or suspended. you can choose your own playing system, either 3-5-2, 3-3-4, 3-5-3, 4-4-2 etc. When you buy a player you got to be smart not to spend $ 30 mill on one player and the remaining balance for the rest of players.

In Each week game, when your player scores goal or make assists he will be given certain points. For example, Rooney will be given four points for each goal he scores in a game. Or Fabregas will be given 3 points for assisting a goal or Lehman will be given 5 points for saving penalty and so on (see the detail in the help section of the link above). However your player can get you penalized for conceding goal, penalty, yellow car, red card etc.

Once you signed up, it prompt you to select teams jersey colour and then sign players to your team. Each player has a "signing value". For instance, Frank Lampard worth 11 million pounds, Martins worth 9 million pounds etc. You can sign players (15) until you finish your available fund (100 million Pound).

You can make as many change you want before the season begins. But after the star of the league in August, every new signing will cost you some points, so make right singing now. If you have any questions, just post them on the discussion forum in this blog and i will help you as much as i can. Lets have fun!!!!