Fantasy Football Manager

Steps to Success as a Fantasy Football Manager

Become a successful fantasy football manager and earn real money with your hobby. Our 11Heroes team always works to provide you with everything you need. We have put together some tips for you in this article to help you achieve this goal. In addition to helpful hints for your fantasy football strategy, we offer you some further help.

The First Steps as a Fantasy Football Manager

The first steps are quite simple. Find out about our partners’ offers, choose a fantasy football bonus and simply sign up. FantasyBet and FanTeam are great vendors with high quality standards, so we recommend that you play there. Most providers have weekly freerolls for you, so you do not even have to deposit money to make real money. This is definitely a tip you should take, because playing freerolls can only have a positive impact on your bankroll. On 11Heroes you’ll get a detailed explanation of how to register on our partner pages. Once you have taken these first steps, register in a tournament and start creating your teams. Congratulations you are now officially a fantasy football manager.

Tournament Selection

Which fantasy football tournaments you play is of course up to you. As already mentioned, you can of course start with freerolls or play tournaments with a low buy in from €1 to €5. If you are a little more confident, or perhaps already have enjoyed some early successes. You can play with more money. We would like to offer you some tips on bankroll management . At a basic level, there is a distinction between DoN and regular tournaments and you should adjust your fantasy football strategy according to the type of game you choose,. This also brings us directly to our next topic.

Your Fantasy Football Strategy

Which strategy you choose in an individual tournament will be crucial to your career as a fantasy football manager. Basic strategies which you should definitely have in mind are, for example, the attack block and blocking in the defence, you should also have an understanding of the general distinctions between tournament forms and how to choose the best captain. You can learn this in our beginners’ training camp. It is also very important to know which players will play for their team on any given match day. For this reason we put together an injured list for each match day. If a player is injured, he can not play, of course, and cannot generate points for your team.

The Bookmaker’s Odds

Another essential element in your fantasy football ranking is that you are well informed as to who are the favourites on any given match day. The more heavily the bookmakers rate a given team to win, the more players you aim to use from this team. It is also good to know in which games many goals are expected and in which rather less. When choosing your defence, the clean sheet odds are an indispensable tool which of you should always make full use. The most important odds for any fantasy football manager are, however, the ones regarding how likely it is that individual players will score. Whether a player has a 25% chance to score or a 50% chance to score plays a big role as the goals scored by your players on the pitch have a very positive impact on your score in the fantasy football tournament. These odds also very often determines the choice of captain.

The Formation

When you have prepared for the game and are well-informed about it, you have to choose your line-up. Of course our previews will never let you down when you come to choose your line up. As a general rule of thumb you want to nominate many offensive players on a game day with many expected goals. Good examples would be a 3-4-3 or a 3-5-2. If, on the other hand, a few goals are expected, as was often the case in the group phase of the European Championship 2016, we advise you to place more defensive players in your team. Here you can choose a 5-3-2 or a 5-4-1 fantasy football strategy.

Our Providers

Another important aspect in your success as fantasy football manager will be your ability to adjust to the differences between the different providers. A sensible line-up on FantasyBet can make no sense at all on FanTeam. However, it is also possible that it can not be implemented due to other factors. In particular the different criteria by which the players are evaluated and the differences in the pricing are to be considered. Let’s take a look at our providers.

Fantasybet

On Fantasybet, all players have a fixed price. Regardless of whether the player is on a hot run of form or struggling to fulfil their potential, the price is fixed at the beginning of the season and does not change until it is over. It is also worth noting that on FantasyBet, defenders are very favourably priced compared to other providers. Using an extra defender can thus be a great relief to your budget and, for example, enable you to finance your dream attack force. Last but not least, our partner also has a bonus points system, in which the best players in a match score additional points. These bonus points can give you a decisive boost in the fantasy football rankings.

FanTeam

The situation on FanTeam is quite different. During the season, the players collect points, of course, and these affect the price of the players. This system, naturally, presents the fantasy football manager with new challenges. At the beginning of the season, it’s almost always possible to create your dream team but this is often becomes more difficult as the game days go by. If you master this additional challenge, this system can also be your advantage. Again, we will not leave you in the lurch and our previews will always show you players who offer great value for money. FanTeam does not have a bonus points system.

Common Features

On the other hand, these two partners do share some very similar aspects. Both sites allow you to nominate a player as captain. This player earns double points. A further example of a similarity between the two providers is that goals scored by a defender are rewarded with significantly more points than goals scored by a midfielder or striker. At both sites, midfielders also earn a point if their team keeps a clean sheet. A striker can not claim this. This detail can, for example, make a difference in your fantasy football strategy if you have to choose between a striker from one team and a midfielder from another team and both have a similar chance of scoring a goal.

Other Factors for your Success

The profit you make from daily fantasy football (DFF) depends on more than “just” your decisions as manager of your team. There are other factors which you can use to maximize your profit. I would like to point out the importance of preparing for each day and how we support you in this. I will also show you how important a fantasy football bonus can be. Finally, we’ll take a look at tournament selection.

Match Day Preparation

When you create your team, you have a lot to consider. First, of course, there are the general strategies which are crucial to any fantasy football manager. As mentioned above, your next step is to check the bookmakers’ odds. But your work is sadly far from over. It is absolutely critical for your fantasy football ranking that you check before the start of each tournament to see whether the coach of the respective team is sending out the players you have set up. There is nothing worse than having to say that you have spent a lot of money on Sergio Agüero and that he has fallen victim to the rotation system for which Pep Guardiola is famous. You can view the teams’ confirmed line-ups one hour before the start of the game. Sometimes a tournament includes several game days and seasons. In this case, when making your selection for the later games, you should choose only players who are very sure to be considered by their manager.

The Fantasy Football Bonus

The bonuses you can earn through us are completely irrelevant to your fantasy football ranking. Nevertheless, they help you to earn more money as fantasy football manager. If you deposit on our partner sites, you can receive start-up capital or free tournament tickets. Also doubling your deposit is an offer with which many vendors attract new clients. So if you’re planning to transfer money to a new site, you should always check carefully beforehand to see if you can get any more benefits with your deposit. At 11Heroes, we regularly offer exclusive deals with our partners for our users. So remember to check out our news.Also keep an eye on our forum under Fantasy Football – Promotion and Bonus where we’ll keep you up to date with the latest offers.

Tournament Selection

Which tournaments you choose is often referred to as game selection. Your goal as fantasy football Manager is to make money. You will not achieve this goal if you are playing in tournaments where all other players also have good teams. You want to play games with as many fish as possible. I would like to give you some simple tips on how to find these tournaments. First, high guaranteed prize pools attract bad players. Turning an €11 buy in into the €3.000 guaranteed by the operator of the site sounds great of course. You should also pay attention to which tournaments the vendors are promoting particularly extensively, or for which tournaments they might even offer a fantasy football bonus. These tournaments are also often full of bad players. Finally, it can still be noted that tournaments with smaller buy ins tend to be filled with poorer fantasy football managers.

Game Day Follow Up

Whether you have had a successful match day or whether you have left the field empty-handed, taking a critical look at your line-ups is important for your long-term success. So do not be tempted just to be satisfied with your line-up every time you reach a good fantasy football ranking. On the other hand, don’t just assume that you made bad decisions because you left the field empty. Talking with other fantasy football managers can help you to get an objective view of your performance. We would like to encourage you to post your line-ups to the forum and participate in discussions. This is the best way to get better. Our coaches also always take a critical look at your teams.

A Journal to Help You

We especially recommend that you to start a journal on our site. If you share your reports, problems, successes and failures regularly with other users, success will not be long in coming. Other users will take a critical look at your line-ups and give you honest feedback. In addition, you will also receive useful tips if you do not know how to fill a certain position, to whom you entrust the captain’s arm band or in which tournaments you should participate. A journal also helps you to see your personal progress as fantasy football manager. After a few months, you will look back proudly on the work you’ve done and see how much you’ve improved. Because we believe that keeping a journal is such a great resource, we have a whole section on journals in our Forum .

What Are You Waiting For?

Here on 11Heroes you will get all the help you need to become a successful fantasy football manager. We have put together the most important fantasy football strategies for you. Each week, we will help you create your teams. We let you know who takes the set pieces in the teams and put up a list of injured players on each match day so you can improve your fantasy football ranking even further. We also have a team of experts to help you with your game. Finally, we offer you an active community which can help you reach your goals through stimulating discussions. So you see, you already have everything you need. So, what are you waiting for? Sign up on our site and get started straight away at one of our partner sites. We look forward to helping you on your way to becoming a successful fantasy football manager.

Your 11Heroes Team