The start of a new season is always an exciting moment ! That moment of the year where a player is said to have signed for Chelsea in the morning, is seen wearing a United shirt by tea time and ends up playing for Newcastle through a free transfer by evening. The fact that the market happens during summer makes it even better…
It’s the gossip side of football and no matter how Male you might be, every football fan loves this period and is secretly praying that Ronaldo makes a move to sign for their club as a charity act.
This time of the year is also the same when you’ll have a nerdy friend saying he’s creating a fantasy football league and that you must join the league and create your own team. He’s also promising he’s getting 100 other friends in the league, but you’d discover later that he has no other friends besides you.
This request typically happens after that same friend had spent two weeks without sleep analyzing which players to buy with a ridiculous budget of virtual coins that do not have any real world resemblance. Fantasy football is math, not football.
When that time comes, you have 2 options, but no matter you’re decision you already lost.
Either you lose a friend, or you say yes and something like is described bellow happens:
You can decide to accept his request and go through with creating a team.
Typically, it all starts well, but your world starts to fall apart after picking up a modest offensive line and realising you only have 1/5 of the initial budget to get the rest of the team in. Well, I guess you can’t do it with Aguero, Lukaku and Morata, you’d rather have to go with your B plan ! That player that no one knows the name, but of which your friend gave inside information ! You got to know through a confidential source that he just got married and so he’s ultra confident, even though he won’t play more than a couple of matches you are sure he’s gonna be the league revelation.
Fast forward a few hours of insane strategic thinking and you already have a decent team, you’re missing only the goalkeeper. What a relief… soon you’ll be able to eat something and rest your brain after one billion calculations to decide who you’d buy. Oh nooo! You have $4K and the only goalkeeper available for that price is from watford which by chance is the team that you already have 3 players from and so by the rules you cannot add any other!
Well, you hit reset and it’ll start all over again.
This is the what fantasy leagues are about ! A farfetched illusion of glorious wins and magical plays… but in the end it just does 2 things:
- It sucks your excitement about football
- It makes you look boring and nerdy
Such a fantasy….
