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  • Ladbrokes offering Fantasy Football betting this week - Who will be the top Fantasy Football points scorer this week?10 January 2013

    Ladbrokes are taking bets on who will be the top Fantasy Football points scorer this week and Marouane Fellaini makes plenty of appeal at odds of 22/1. Double gameweeks are always contentious as fantasy football managers look to accommodate extra players into their teams from clubs with two fixture...

  • Sun Dream Team Fantasy Football tips13 August 2012

    The Sun’s £1 million Dream Team competition is free to enter this season and here are some tips to make sure you pick the right players Many of us enjoy playing fantasy football and the Sun Dream Team competition is the biggest around, especially as the newspaper have made the game free to play fo...

  • Enter Bettingpro's Fantasy Football League to win free bets at Ladbrokes13 August 2012

    Enter your fantasy football team in the Bettingpro.com league for season 2012-13 and have the chance to win a football shirt of your choice and free bets at Ladbrokes The Premier League season kicks off on Saturday 18 August and we have set up a fantasy football league so that every Bettingpro.com ...

  • Enter the Bettingpro.com fantasy football league and win monthly free bets8 August 2012

    Bettingpro.com have just launched their fantasy football league and sponsors Ladbrokes are giving away free bets to the top monthly performers The Premier League season kicks off on Saturday 18 August and we have set up a fantasy football league so that every Bettingpro.com reader can compete for m...

  • Play the Telegraph Fantasy Football game for free12 July 2012

    Get a free team in the 2012/2013 Telegraph Fantasy Football competition To celebrate 20 years of Telegraph Fantasy Football, everybody can get their first team for the 2012/13 season absolutely free of charge. It’s one free entry per person and they are strict…  any manager found to be con...

  • Euro 2012 fantasy football tips – the 7 best players to pick for Euro 20127 June 2012

    Euro 2012 fantasy football is very popular and Fantasy Premier League champion Matthew Glazier picks out the best players for Bettingpro readers Many of us enjoy playing fantasy football when it comes to a major tournament and the European Championship is no different, with mini-leagues being set ...

  • Sun Dream Team fantasy football latest12 September 2011

    Tips and advice on how to build your Sun Premier League Dream Team in order to finish top of your Super League in the 2012-13 season.The Sun’s ‘2012/13 Premier League Dream Team’ is one of the most popular fantasy football games and we wanted to offer readers some friendly advice which will hopeful...

  • Sun Dream Team 2011/12 Fantasy Football latest tips12 September 2011

    Advice to help you finish top of your Super League! The Sun’s ‘2011/12 Premier League Dream Team’ is one of the most popular fantasy football games and we wanted to offer readers some friendly advice which will hopefully help them win their Super League. The season is now four games old and w...

  • The Sun Dream Team Bettingpro Tips12 August 2011

    The Sun’s £1 million Dream Team competition is free to enter this season and here are some tips to make sure you pick the right players Many of us enjoy playing fantasy football and the Sun Dream Team competition is the biggest around, especially as the newspaper have made the game free to play for...

  • Fantasy Football Tips - The Five Fantasy Football Players YOU Need to Pick12 August 2011

    The new Premier League season is just a matter of days away and that means it’s time to finalise your Fantasy Football team in order to take the competition to the cleaners (Manchester United – 13/8f – Premier League Outright 2011/12). Picking your XI is not exactly a science, but it’s not far off ...

  • Sun Dream Team Fantasy Football Tips12 August 2011

    The Sun’s £1 million Dream Team competition is free to enter this season and here are some tips to make sure you pick the right players Many of us enjoy playing fantasy football and the Sun Dream Team competition is the biggest around, especially as the newspaper have made the game free to play fo...

  • Premier League Fantasy Football tips9 August 2011

    The Premier League starts on Saturday and here are some players that you should consider including in your fantasy football team The new Premier League season is just a matter of days away and that means it’s time to finalise your Fantasy Football team in order to take the competition to the cleane...

  • Betfred Mobile offering Fantasy Football Game20 July 2011

    Fantasy Football comes to your iPhone care of Betfred Fantasy iTeam EPL 11-12 allows Betfred fantasy football fans to simply sign in and activate while away from their computers, allowing them to play and stay up-to-date with all that is going on in the real and fantasy worlds of soccer without eve...

  • Win £10,000 with William Hill Fantasy Football9 September 2010

    Pick your players and win some fantastic prizes The new season is underway but you can still enter your fantast football league team at William Hill. The popular bookmaker are running a free to enter competition, where your fantasy football team can win you massive prizes, worth over £10,000! Th...

  • Telegraph Fantasy Football Bettingpro Tips12 August 2010

    Beat your friends and work colleagues to win your Super League Like The Daily Telegraph Fantasy Football ?  Try the William Hill free Fantasy Football Tournament (sign-in to William Hill, select Fantasy Football) The new football season is just around the corner and the Daily Telegraph have...

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Fantasy football is a very popular game enjoyed by millions of supporters, with the idea to pick Premier League players that are going to produce the best performances on a week-to-week basis.

There are lots of different fantasy football formats, with Fantasy Premier League and the Sky Sports version highly popular and free-to-play, something that attracts the discerning fantasy football enthusiast who wants to play against their friends in a Super League.

How to play fantasy football

The basic premise of fantasy football is that you are a fictional manager and you have a budget to select a group of players to score the most possible points. It might be that you have to assemble a squad and then pick the best eleven from that squad every week.

Points are scored when players achieve different objectives, eg when a striker scores a goal, a midfielder creates an assist, a defender manages to keep a clean sheet. There might be a chance to nominate a particular player as captain which scores double points in the process.

Fantasy football has grown to the extent where bookmakers often offer betting markets on which player will score the most fantasy points in a given week, while there is also the chance to bet on which player will score the most fantasy points for their team in a given season.

Fantasy football tips - look at the fixtures!

Some good fantasy football advice is to look at the upcoming fixture schedule when it comes to selecting your players. So for example, Manchester United might have three home games on the spin which means that it is worth selecting the maximum number of players from that team over the coming games.

A common error with fantasy football is for managers to put too much emphasis on the attacking element of their team and neglect the defence, even if a lot of points can be tallied for selecting the right defensive players for the team.

Naturally, the fantasy football team that starts the season can radically differ over the course of the campaign, with injuries and suspension leading to managers having to make changes every weekend.

Some of the best-performing players of the past few seasons include Robin van Persie, who has managed to score a bucketload of points for Arsenal and Manchester United respectively. Gareth Bale has been racking up points for Tottenham during the 2012/13 season, while Juan Mata and Michu were also popular picks for that season.

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