Fantasy Football / Tipping Competitions

[Beaussie]

Would people be interested in a fantasy football competition for next season? I realise it is early days, but thought it would be good to start early in canvasing what level of interest there might be in such a competition.

As for the tipping competitions, I'm not sure about having them again next year. The NRL tipping comp for instance only had about 7-10 regular tippers from midway through the season. It doesn't seem worth pursuing if that is the level of interest.

Fantasy Football and/or tipping competitions. Let us know what you think.

[Pickles]

Fantasy footy would be cool if you get enought people. if i had a job i would suggest going halfies in the tippin comp and have it between 2 forums.

[Beaussie]

Yeah I like the idea of fantasy footy, not sure about others though. As for the tipping comps, I'm interested in what you suggested and would definately be keen on investigating that idea of yours. Any chance you guys at AFL-Online could muster up the funds to go halfies with the software/prizes?

[Pickles]

Maybe i will have to talk to the others. How much would it cost all together?

[Beaussie]

I'll get back to you on prices for both Fantasy Football and a Tipping Competition.

If I go with a tipping comp again it will only be for the AFL. There just doesn't seem to be enough interest in an NRL one.

[Beaussie]

Pickles as promised, Fantasy Football or Fantasy Coach as it is know will set us back $75 for set up fees and the first 25 entrants. An additional $75 would be required for an extra 25 entrants:

http://www.footy.com.au/fantasycoach/afl/pricing.htm

As for the footy tipping comp, we'd be looking at a minimum of $500, which includes set up fee and the first 50 entrants:

http://www.footy.com.au/etipping/pricing.htm

Perhaps you might know of other competitors that have a lower set up fee etc.

[Pickles]

Well since u bought the software last year for the tipping cant you use it again?

[Beaussie]

Well since u bought the software last year for the tipping cant you use it again?

You don't buy the software, it's more like a rental agreement for the season.

[Pickles]

is there one were you can host it on one of our ftp's?

if we were going to spend that much $$$ on it i would prefer to use a free tipping site or something and use that as prize money.

[Beaussie]

Yeah you can host it on your own site. I tried implementing it myself last year to much frustration and just ended up getting footy.com.au to host it for me and save me the trouble of working it out.

True about a free comp. Do you know of any. I've been looking at one for phpBB that is still in development. Looks promising.

[Pickles]

are they making one to intergrate with phpbb? that will be awesome! when is it expected to be finished?


we are currently looking for some free footy tipping software to host on our server the best we have found is http://www.footytips.net

[Beaussie]

are they making one to intergrate with phpbb? that will be awesome! when is it expected to be finished?

Yep an integrated tipping comp with phpBB. It is already well advanced in the development stages they are just ironing out a few little bugs.

we are currently looking for some free footy tipping software to host on our server the best we have found is http://www.footytips.net

Looks good.

[Pickles]

i just found this but cant get it to work properly....perhaps you can give it a go?

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/11622.html

[Beaussie]

What do you mean, don't you just donwload it then put it in place on a site? That's what it looks like to me. I'll have a closer look at it tonight when I have more time.

[Pickles]

i uploaded it all filled out the setup.php and it says it all works fine bu then when i goto the tipping index.php is says i need a config.php file which i have already :S