Hello! and welcome to the thirteenth season of the h2g2 Fantasy Football League - arguably the most successful sporting franchise in the hootoo universe

In a change to previous seasons, there are going to be no matches selected from the Premier League this season. Each week all of the matches will come from the lower English leagues, plus Scotland, Wales and possibly the odd match from the continent as well!

Why am I doing that? Well, I think the Premiership is really dull and uninteresting unless you happen to be a fan of one of three particular clubs <shrug>

Kick off for this season will be the matches played on the weekend of the 7th & 8th January 2005 (the thread is actually up and running already if you want to make your prediction right now). And will run until the end of the regular Football League season - weekend of the 7th & 8th May.

So what are you waiting for? Get yourself signed up, and join in the fun

League Table

Final Table (Week Eighteen):

Statistics

Champion

• Ormondroyd - 160 points

Round Winners

• Week 1: Ormondroyd, sprout & Tobbot - 13 points
• Week 2: McKay The Disorganised - 7 (measley) points
• Week 3: AlexAshman & Ormondroyd - 12 points
• Week 4: McKay The Disorganised, riotact & Number Six - 9 points
• Week 5: McKay The Disorganised - 24 points
• Week 6: todd_abraham87 - 12 points
• Week 7: Number Six - 13 points
• Week 8: Tobbot - 12 points
• Week 9: todd_abraham87 - 16 points
• Week 10: Bottletop - 8 points
• Week 11: Master B & sprout - 11 points
• Week 12: Ormondroyd - 11 points
• Week 13: riotact - 13 points
• Week 14: Number Six - 12 points
• Week 15: Ormondroyd - 13 points
• Week 16: Bottletop, Demon Drawer & Master B - 10 points
• Week 17: Ormondroyd - 9 points
• Week 18: Number Six - 21 points

Full Houses

• Week 1: Ormondroyd - Birmingham 3-0 Leeds (Heskey)
• Week 3: meisere, sprout, Tobbot & Iamnezzy - Tranmere 2-1 Walsall (Hume)
• Week 4: Bottletop & Master B - West Ham 1-1 Sheffield United (Harewood)
• Week 4: Tobbot - Everton 3-0 Sunderland (McFadden)
• Week 5: Yakusmaximus - Wolves 1-1 Sunderland (Elliott)
• Week 5: McKay The Disorganised - Wycombe 1-2 Boston Utd (Kirk)
• Week 6: todd_abraham87 - Cardiff 2-0 Brighton (Thorne)
• Week 8: Owlatron - Leyton Orient 1-0 Darlington (Steele)
• Week 8: meisere & Tobbot - Swansea 2-1 Scunthorpe (Trundle)
• Week 8: McKay The Disorganised & Iamnezzy - East Stirling 0-4 Gretna (Bingham)
• Week 8: Yakusmaximus - Macclesfield 2-1 Bristol Rovers (Parkin)
• Week 9: Bottletop, Ormondroyd & todd_abraham87 - Paris Saint Germain 1-0 Nantes (Pauleta)
• Week 9: riotact - Galatasaray 1-0 Besiktas (Sukur)
• Week 11: Master B, sprout, riotact & me[Andy]g - Partick Thistle 0-0 St.Mirren (--)
• Week 13: riotact - Coventry 2-1 Brighton (McSheffrey)
• Week 15: Ormondroyd - Rotherham 0-1 Watford (Helguson)
• Week 15: sprout - Burnley 1-1 Brighton (Akinbiyi)
• Week 16: Master B - Watford 0-0 Sheffield United (--)
• Week 18: sprout & Number Six - Grimsby 1-1 Southend (Reddy)

Fantasy Football Places

Previous Season Winners

Click here for the h2g2 Fantasy Football League 'Hall of Fame'

League Homepage

Click here for the official h2g2 Fantasy Football League Homepage, as included in the site categorisation system.

The Usual Rules & Regulations Gubbins

1) Structure

The League Management¹⁵ will start a new thread each weekend during the season listing (approximately) five games being played the following weekend.

2) How to play

As a player you use your knowledge, skill, guile and if you've any sense what so ever the great source of information that is soccerbase to predict:

1. The match score
2. The name of a player that you think will score in the match

3) Points scoring

This is exactly the same as it has been for the last four or five seasons. But for the benefit of any new players that we've attracted, I'll repeat them once again.

• Two points for the correct result - win, lose or draw
• One bonus point for the correct score line
• One point if the selected scorer scores at any time during the game
• One bonus point if the selected scorer scores the first goal in the game

These then get totted up and tabulated in the Fantasy Football League Table above.

4) Pools Panel

For this season we see the return of the Pools Panel. This is a method of allocating scoring points to players who, for what ever reason, are not able to make a prediction for themselves.

5) What do I win?

For starters you'll recieve the respect, and in some cases envy, of your peers. But in addition there will be a totally genuine and officially BBCi logoed... h2g2 mousemat ... awarded to the season winner

¹Total includes 1 point for predicting a Notts County win in week 3.²Total includes 1 point for getting the 'piers' connection in week 13.³Total includes 2 points for getting the Liberal Democrat constituency connection in week 14.⁴Total includes 1 point out of a possible 2 for getting close to the 'Crap Towns' connection in Week 11.⁵Total includes 4 points awarded by the Pools Panel Committee.⁶Total includes 1 point for predicting a Notts County win in week 3.⁷Total includes 1 points awarded by the Pools Panel Committee.⁸Total includes 6 points awarded by the Pools Panel Committee.⁹Total includes 1 point for predicting a Notts County win in week 3.¹⁰Total includes 2 points awarded by the Pools Panel Committee.¹¹Total includes 1 point for getting the red & white striped shirts connection in week 16.¹²Total includes 1 point for predicting a Notts County win in week 3.¹³Total includes 1 point for spotting the Steve Claridge connection in Week 5.¹⁴Total includes 1 points awarded by the Pools Panel Committee.¹⁵ie me¹⁶Note - all selections are final. So if you post it, you've got to stick with it!