Next Fantasy League?

[tikay]

After the Cheltenham Fantasy League, I wrote to MereSpreadsheet & thanked him, & asked if he minded doing a few more of these, as & when, as it semed to work rather well, & he makes a comically firm but fair, if pedantic, organiser of these things.

He readily agreed, he enjoyed it, but he was keen not to give the impression that he was muscling on in the concept. He is not.

So, suggestions for the next one, please?

The next two big sporting events are The Masters Golf - 2 weeks Thursday - followed a week later by the Grand National, & the 3 day (?) horse racing festival that goes with it.

Any interest in either, or alternatives?

A Masters Golf Fantasy Punting League, where we all have a mythical £100 or whatever to invest howsoever we wish might be fun, or some better alternative?

[Linux]

The Euros will be good in a few months.

A 1st goal scorer in each game would be great fun.

[claypole]

In for any of these - great fun Masters would be fun, could just group players by world ranking into say 6 groups - stable of one from each group, award points for overall finish, sub par rounds, hole in one. Would be great. Or could do in groups like WSOP one e.g. Old Timers, Yound Brits (Luke, Rory, etc), Class of the 90s (Ernie, Retief)

[horseplayer]

sounds excellent idea

especially for the masters

[Karabiner]

Aintree and The Masters sound like fun, and great news that Mere is happy to run these.

[Horneris]

Aintree and The Masters sound like fun, and great news that Mere is happy to run these.

[Acidmouse]

The less skill required the better,

[tikay]

Well let's firstly focus on The Masters.

Ideas, proposals, suggestions, entry fee (if any), etc?

No good expecting Mere to know what the format is, he knows nothing about golf. In fact, he knows bugger all about bugger all, imo, & what he knows about spreadsheets I taught him.

[Graham C]

Could do picks for each day, overall picks, amateur pick, par 3 comp winner, top European, top USAean, Top RoWean, number of holes in one.

[bobby1]

Well let's firstly focus on The Masters.

Ideas, proposals, suggestions, entry fee (if any), etc?

No good expecting Mere to know what the format is, he knows nothing about golf. In fact, he knows bugger all about bugger all, imo, & what he knows about spreadsheets I taught him.

If you wanted a format that gave you a few different markets to pick from in the Masters instead of just the simple outright you could have something like a selection from each category below with a stake on each as we did with the Cheltenham comp.

Top US player
Top British Isle player
Top Continental Europe player
Top Aussie
Top Asian
Top South African
Top Debutant
Top senior player
Leader after round 1

There will be more too, the prob with doing that format is you probably can't also do the outright winner as a category as if you pick the say, Matt Kuchar to be top US and the winner then you get two lots of points for what is basically the same result if he wins the event. The good thing about splitting it that way is that there will be markets available on all those lists so even if you don't really follow golf but fancy a go you can see by the markets how strong each player is expected to be in each list.

Splitting the field into groups and picking one from each group with a scoring system is ok too but I think it's more fun when the odds are taken into account.

[claypole]

Well let's firstly focus on The Masters.

Ideas, proposals, suggestions, entry fee (if any), etc?

No good expecting Mere to know what the format is, he knows nothing about golf. In fact, he knows bugger all about bugger all, imo, & what he knows about spreadsheets I taught him.

If you wanted a format that gave you a few different markets to pick from in the Masters instead of just the simple outright you could have something like a selection from each category below with a stake on each as we did with the Cheltenham comp.

Top US player
Top British Isle player
Top Continental Europe player
Top Aussie
Top Asian
Top South African
Top Debutant
Top senior player
Leader after round 1

There will be more too, the prob with doing that format is you probably can't also do the outright winner as a category as if you pick the say, Matt Kuchar to be top US and the winner then you get two lots of points for what is basically the same result if he wins the event. The good thing about splitting it that way is that there will be markets available on all those lists so even if you don't really follow golf but fancy a go you can see by the markets how strong each player is expected to be in each list.

Splitting the field into groups and picking one from each group with a scoring system is ok too but I think it's more fun when the odds are taken into account.

Like

[horseplayer]

"Top US player
Top British Isle player
Top Continental Europe player
Top Aussie
Top Asian
Top South African
Top Debutant
Top senior player
Leader after round 1"


looks ideal

[Alverton]

Aintree and The Masters sound like fun, and great news that Mere is happy to run these.

[MereNovice]

Well let's firstly focus on The Masters.

Ideas, proposals, suggestions, entry fee (if any), etc?

No good expecting Mere to know what the format is, he knows nothing about golf. In fact, he knows bugger all about bugger all, imo, & what he knows about spreadsheets I taught him.

That's effectively a double negative. Taken literally it seems to imply that I know something about nearly everything. Even with my over-inflated sense of self-importance, I couldn't claim that to be true. You're really too kind.

[tikay]

Well let's firstly focus on The Masters.

Ideas, proposals, suggestions, entry fee (if any), etc?

No good expecting Mere to know what the format is, he knows nothing about golf. In fact, he knows bugger all about bugger all, imo, & what he knows about spreadsheets I taught him.

If you wanted a format that gave you a few different markets to pick from in the Masters instead of just the simple outright you could have something like a selection from each category below with a stake on each as we did with the Cheltenham comp.

Top US player
Top British Isle player
Top Continental Europe player
Top Aussie
Top Asian
Top South African
Top Debutant
Top senior player
Leader after round 1

There will be more too, the prob with doing that format is you probably can't also do the outright winner as a category as if you pick the say, Matt Kuchar to be top US and the winner then you get two lots of points for what is basically the same result if he wins the event. The good thing about splitting it that way is that there will be markets available on all those lists so even if you don't really follow golf but fancy a go you can see by the markets how strong each player is expected to be in each list.

Splitting the field into groups and picking one from each group with a scoring system is ok too but I think it's more fun when the odds are taken into account.

Are we all, or mostly, settled on that Format, as suggested by Bobby?

If so, we need to build some rules.

Do we all have to make a selection in EVERY category?

Can we omit a single category?

Should there be a "double points" selection?

How much (if any) to enter?

How to score?