Fantasy Football

There are so many fantasy games in the UK hosted mainly by the newspapers. Others than picking up 5 teams for free in Metro Fantasy Games, I have paid for GBP6 to join the Telegraph Fantasy Games. 20 of my company colleagues have also joined and formed a private Super League. Each of us has paid an extra GBP5 and the winner will takes it at the end of the season.

This is my reshuffled team after 6 weeks. Made some early mistakes by picking up Cesc Fabregas, who was injured for the first 3 weeks and picked up 2 yellow cards on the recent two games. Also Joleon Lescott was another flop which earned me some negative points.

The defenders chosen are mainly from the top teams as each clean sheet will earn +4 and each goal conceded will get -1. Patrice Evra and Bacari Sagna are two safe pick as they are the regular first team players. Clichy is a replacement for Nemanja Vidic as he's a bit expensive to fit in my current team. Corluka is the only defender who is not from the top four, but he has got the scoring ability and I keep in faith that Tottenham will gets better under Ramos.

The midfielders chosen are those who have good assisting and scoring ability. I don't think it's wise to pick up a defensive midfielder in any fantasy football game! Joe Cole, Shaun Wright Philips, Ashley Young and Fabregas (yes still!) are my choice. I am in dilemma whether or not to transfer Fabregas out and bring in Samir Nasri or Theo Walcott who is almost a million pound cheaper. Ronaldo was my first choice however at 7 million he is the second most expensive player after Torres.

At the beginning of the game I picked Van Persie and Anelka as my strikers and they had earned me some decent points. When Drogba came back from injury I decided to change Anelka to Agbonlanhor as I think his chances will get thinner. Van Persie was transferred for only one reason - Berbatov is now in Manchester United jersey and I hope he'll fit in to the team soon and start scoring to win the golden boots this season!

I'm currently scoring 156 points after 6 weeks and positioned at 61496 out of 235828 with 17 transfers left. My current target is to climb up to the top 10% at mid season!