So Soccer (or Football or Futbol or whatever you call it wherever you come from) is the most popular sport in the world? How come there's no good information out there on the topic. Here in the States, even professional hockey, which ranks a distant 4th to (American) Football, Baseball, and Basketball features in-depth season previews and entire magazines dedicated to nothing but Fantasy Hockey. A number of friends and I have been playing in Yahoo's Fantasy EPL league for the last few years and have bemoaned the lack of information available on the Web. Sure there are facts available on Soccernet, Football365 or BBC.com but where are the opinions by people who claim that they are Fantasy Sports experts to help us set our line-ups each week? Information about "who's hot?" and "who's not?". And more importantly, where is the information on who is likely to have a bad week because they never play well on the road vs. Everton because they were once engaged to a girl who was a die-hard Everton supporter and the mere sight of an Everton jersey throws him off his game?
Well, we can't claim that level of inside information but over the last few years our league has been very competitive and has yielded a great deal of IM-based debated that I think might not only be of some interest to the Fantasy EPL community but might get a laugh as well.
So here it is...
We'll try to have at least some commentary in advance of each week about how to optimize your line-up and beat the hell out of your friends.
Cheers - Neal
