Now that I have successfully negotiated the opening weeks of the season and the ever tricky holiday with no internet access, maybe its time for a quick Fantasy football update.
At the risk of sounding like I'm gloating, its also convenient that this post also coincides with a fairly good run of form for the Balfour Warriors, leaving them sitting approximately 10,500th out of the 2.5million worldwide players and sitting pretty at the top of the private leagues my boys are competing in (albeit by a very narrow margin in one). "But footyfile!", I hear you cry, "tell us how you did it", I'd love to say it was full of tactical nouse, in-depth analysis of each team, the predicted line-ups and wind conditions pitch side at the time of kick-off, but in all honesty I've just been a bit lucky.
The first week was a bit of a disaster and I fully took advantage of the extended "unlimited transfers" making 6 changes for week two, which didn't go much better, whilst the core of my team (Given, Richards, Smalling, Young and Rooney) were performing the early season running was a little bit of a mystery to me. Sure enough week 3 saw the deployment of my Wildcard and a bucket load of changes followed.
Since then, things have picked up, a current front three of Rooney, Aguero and Adebayor has given my strikers a certain edge, and with Juan Mata and Ashley Young marshaling the midfield the defence has looked a little sparse. Luckily for me though, goals have flowed freely so far this season, so clean sheet bonuses have not really been rife.
Still, whilst I'm doing fairly well I am taking quite an interest and its at that magical point where I'm trying to work out the best combination of results/scorers to ensure I extend a lead over my rivals...I'm sure the bubble will burst soon and I'll start to drift down the league and eventually lose interest...but what can I say, I'm a bad loser, I always have been, just ask anyone who's ever played football with me!
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