Sports Betting | A Unique Soccer World Cup Fantasy Betting League
With the 2010 Soccer World Cup countdown under way, I thought I would take the opportunity to describe a unique fantasy league that I participate in. I’ll be honest, I am not a particularly avid soccer fan; I appreciate the skill and finesse of the players, however it is the boring build up play and “diving” that I find turns me off the sport. However, being an enthusiastic sports bettor, and the world cup being one of the biggest sporting events (not to mention betting events) on the sporting calendar, I do follow the world cup games results. The world cup fantasy league that I participate in is a unique league that does require some manual work to organise and collate results. However if run successfully, it guarantees prolonged interest throughout the entire world cup all the way to the final match.
The basics of the world cup fantasy league are as follows:
1. Each player submits the buy-in amount which becomes the pool of winnings.
2. Each player is then allocated 100 units with which they can bid on players in a silent auction.
3. Each player then selects 3 strikers and 1 team by writing on a piece of paper the player names and the maximum number of units that the player (team owner) wishes to pay for the player.
4. The league organiser then collates all of the pieces of paper and determines the fantasy teams by allocating players to teams based on their owners bidding units.
The scoring system is simple in that each team scores 1 point for each goal scored by a striker in their team, and loses 1 point for each goal allowed by their selected team. The difficulty is in selecting strikers and teams that are going to continue into the final games of the tournament, and also in deciding how much to bid for each player. At the end of the tournament the team with the highest score gets the pool of winnings.
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