Fantasy Football Manager
Real-time Fantasy Football Manager: Billionaires' Game
Author: SPORTiana.com
There's a saying: 'Money can't buy you happiness'. If you're a football club owner with the biggest budget on the market you can buy best players, that can make you happy. Now, if those players do not make you good profit, would that not make you happy? Not if you are a billionaire, what are millions in compare to billions.
With a net worth of , , billion, are you to invest money and much of your time in something that may bring you profit over the years of no more than several hundreds of millions or losses in the same value? How could you spend a billion anyway?
You buy the most expensive cars, houses, yachts, airplanes, all that luxury still may not top billion. Pleasure among machines, butlers, personnel, can make you feel like a saddened King from fairy-tales. There must be a more humanly joy.
You buy a media exposure, be in the spotlight where everybody are watching, you move masses of tens of thousands of people in the stadium as if they are marionettes and you are a wire-puller, you build your own fantasy world.
You make news headlines by being a super spender in the most watched sporting league in the world. Yes, you buy yourself a top football club and it wouldn't cost you more than a billion or so! You become a real-time Fantasy Football Manager.
Fantasy Football Manager is a football management simulation computer game first released in 1980s where you are the General Manager of your very own fantasy football team. Nowadays, most popular sports web-sites offer a chance for visitors to play the Fantasy Football League Management game.
In the real-time world, Chelsea FC was purchased by a billionaire in June 2003. Since then, the club is witnessing record losses, the billionaire's involvement with Chelsea is described by Wikipedia as 'to have distorted the football transfer market throughout Europe, as his wealth often allows the club to purchase players virtually at will (frequently at inflated prices), without regard for the effects on the club's financial outturn'.
How does this effect the reality of football? Football becomes a sub-real simulation of its own reality. With one club owner having limitless budget, his/her football knowledge, work and skills of managing a club do not effect his/her success in the business, billionaire can continue to bring in the expensive players, sack head-coaches upon his/her desire.
Even if the club suffers the biggest financial losses in football world, the club will not go to bankruptcy as the billionaire will add additional hundreds of millions since the football club's budget does not depend on its football performance.
How does this effect the game of football? There doesn't seem to be much sportsmanship for one club to buy world top players (so many that a half of them will be reserves) while many other clubs can't afford to pay one or two such players for their first team.
The beauty of the game suffers as well. In two and a half years with Portugal's FC Porto coach Jose Mourinho won 2 domestic titles, including the European Champions League title in May 2004 by eliminating clubs with far greater budgets. Several months later Mourinho, named the world's best coach in 2004, was brought to Chelsea.
In just 3 years he managed to win 2 league titles, including club's first championship in 50 years, 1 FA cup, 2 Carling Cups, along setting several Premier League records. Mourinho at Chelsea did more than simple buying world football super-stars like Real Madrid C.F. did at that time, he offered contracts to players who were to develop to some of the world's best team-players playing for Chelsea.
Chelsea as a sovereign ruler of England's football fields and a perfect football team was as if not offering enough excitement for the club's billionaire owner. After winning consecutive titles, Chelsea signed two major football super-stars, Shevchenko (for a British record transfer fee) and Ballack, both of which did not match Mourinho's concept of team play.
It was the beginning of one great football mind's end with Chelsea, Mourinho was fired as the most successful head-coach in club's history in the years of his success. Welcome to the real-time Fantasy Football Manager as a spectator, player or head-coach!
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November 30, -0001
12:00 am
Not a good time to join existing keeper leagues since NFL fantasy playoffs are still ongoing… but I can give you a couple of suggestions. One league I think is an invite only, you can check out their home on Yahoo groups:
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/UFSL/
This league has NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, CFB, CBB, Nascar, Golf and European soccer… and is pretty competitive. College football and hoops in particular are very cool since you don’t see those alot. Very limited number of keepers in this setup and no salary cap or auction style bidding.
I’m in another dynasty league which currently offers MLB, NBA and NFL called Mano Lite… This is hard core serious, our football is a 40 man roster keeper league, $600 salary cap, no limit to the number of ‘keepers’ per se – players are signed to 1 to 5 year contracts and when those expire they are open to free agent bidding.
You can check out the Mano Yahoo Groups main page at:
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/ManoLite/
by the way, there is no cost for either of these leagues/ groups… which is good because no one in their right mind pays for fantasy sports, and these leagues are proof that you don’t need to pay.
good luck
November 30, -0001
12:00 am
Yes there is. If you go to “My Team” and click on Edit Team Settings, there should be a button that allows you to have a co-manager.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am
Yeah, I have had problems with changes of that and the avatar, etc. Sometimes, it seems to work if I reboot right after making the change. If this does not work for you contact Yahoo directly. There is a way in the rules.
Good luck.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am
Get service providers help or assign a new account.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am
How do you know he doesnt want to be in the league anymore? Just because he doesnt responde to your emails or hasnt visited the page in 2 weeks doesnt mean anything. He could be on vacation or maybe he just isnt worried about it right now. The season doesnt even start for a couple months. I really dont understand why people have drafts so early its stupid. Fn wait till August !!!
July 11, 2007
11:09 am
What do I do about an idle manager in my fantasy football league?
I’m the commissioner of a free yahoo fantasy football league and I’m having problems with a manager. He has decided he doesn’t want to be in the league anymore, and hasn’t responded to emails or visited the league page in two weeks. The league I’m running is a keeper’s league, so I chose the “offline draft” option, and then went ahead and told the league page that the draft had been completed already. This way I could post every team’s roster and they could see who all was on their team as well as everyone else’s team. Because I’ve done this, I can no longer delete the idle manager from the league.
My question is, how can I deal with this? I can’t have the offline draft until everyone, including the idle manager, has made their cuts. I’ll also need everyone in league to either be present for the draft or to send me a pre-draft list. Is there any way manipulate the tool and controls I’m given to allow a different person to manage his team?
September 29, 2007
5:28 am
Can I assign a new email address to a Fantasy Football Manager?
I set up an account for a computer challenged friend. He didn’t like the password I gave him so he changed it and now can’t remember it. He also didn’t set up an alternate email or answer any verification questions so we can’t get him into his account and now he can’t manage his FF team. I’m the commissioner of this league. Is there any way I can delete his current info and enter a new account (ID)?
December 18, 2007
11:10 am
I am an experienced fantasy football manager looking for a solid keeper league to join.?
Anyone out there need a good manager to pick up an existing team in their league or to join a new league that will begin next season? I want to join a league for long term. I am a good manager and will not abandon my team.
June 8, 2010
4:21 pm
How do I invite a friend to be my co manager in fantasy football?
Hi, is there a way I can invite my friend to be my fantasy co manager in fantasy football?
August 21, 2010
5:10 am
How do I change my fantasy football manager name?
I have clicked on the change nickname settings, but it always reverts back to the original name.