In partnership with Row ZZ, a pair of over-competitive football fans by the name of Sandy King and Mike Jenkins are attempting to enliven the world of the Fantasy Football manager by developing a new game – Roto FC - as an alternative to the list-based salary cap games found in newspapers and on the Premier League's own website.
This season, a few trial leagues are being run, each chock-full of eager guinea pigs. For their (theoretical) benefit, the (even more theoretical) interest of the casual Row ZZ fan and the (most theoretical yet) purpose of giving a few aspiring fantasy columnists a chance to cut their teeth writing about the game, Row ZZ will be featuring a series of articles concerning all aspects of this fantasy game, under the moniker of 'The Boot Room'.
Full rules for the competition can be found here, but the gist is that 10 managers take it in turns to draft players to their teams, so each player only appears once per league.
They then accumulate stats in 10 categories, from goals scored to save percentage, and these tallies are then compared against each other. The team who leads each category gets 10 points, the second placed side earns 9, and so on. This means that the maximum score available is 100, the minimum 10 and the average 55.
We still have some spaces left for this season, so if you are interested in helping us play-test this game, and our web site, please drop us a line at the address in the rules document. Even if not, any thoughts you have on our writing would be much appreciated!
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