Cue Action Blog FANTASY SNOOKER LEAGUE 2015

After having the idea over the Christmas period I've decided to start a fantasy snooker league for 2015 which will encompass all of the snooker tournaments in 2015 on the World Snooker calendar and is of course free for everybody to join in and have some fun. Of course with every fantasy league comes a certain set of rules that need to be upheld for things to work, and inspired by the old fantasy snooker site from a couple of years ago, here are mine:

-          £8 million pounds will be given to players for every tournament (put into an overall account which will be 8 million multiplied by the number of known events as of 4^th January 2015) right from the Championship League snooker to the UK Championships in December.

-          No more than two players can be picked for a single event, though a minimum of one player must also be picked.

-          Money to be spent on players does roll over to the next tournament, encouraging players to be smart with their money and selections.

-          The Triple Crown events (Masters, World Championships and UK Championships) will be double points due to the events prestige and to encourage more smart play for these events.

-          Points scoring will not include amateur qualifiers in European Tour events, wildcard round matches or rounds of ranking events that are classed as qualifiers on the official World Snooker calendar

-          Points will be based on performances including match wins, centuries, frame winning difference and overall tournament performance.

-          All picks must be with me  (Tournament Director) before the start time of the first match of the professional stages of an event.

-          All players will be priced based on their seeding given at the start of the event.

-          Only professional players can be picked for events as amateur players have no ranking.

-          The league is purely for fun with no set prize (unless I come up with one once the winner is announced or a prize is donated).


Not the most complicated set of rules, but if you do have any questions please comment on the bottom of the blog or tweet me @CueActionBlog and if you think certain other rules need to be implemented that I haven't thought of, again feel free to contact me in the above ways.


Meanwhile, these are the ways in which points will be scored in the 2015 Fantasy Snooker League:

-          5 points for each match won in a tournament.

-          2 bonus points for every century made in a tournament.

-          2 bonus points if a match is won by a three frame aggregate or greater (For example a 4-1 win in a PTC event would therefore get the 2 bonus points as the match was won by 3 clear frames).

-          Losing tournament semi-finallists get 2 bonus points, losing tournament finallists 5 bonus points, and tournament winners 10 points.

-          Highest tournament break earns 2 bonus points.

-          A maximum 147 break earns 5 bonus points.
 As with the rules, if you have any points scoring queries or other points scoring ideas you think I could implement feel free to contact me in the ways that I mentioned earlier.

It's time now for me to price up the first couple of events for the Fantasy League so you can make your picks as quickly as you like or leave it until you have seen my written previews if that gives you a better idea of things.

Championship League 1 (A combination of groups 1 and 2) DEADLINE MONDAY 5TH JANUARY at 12pm

Neil Robertson - £5.5 million
Barry Hawkins - £5.3 million
Judd Trump - £5 million
Stuart Bingham - £4.9 million
Marco Fu - £4.7 million
Shaun Murphy - £4.6 million
Stephen Maguire - £4.5 million
Ali Carter - £4.4 million
Robert Milkins - £4 million
Michael Holt - £3.5 million 

The Masters - DOUBLE POINTS - DEADLINE SUNDAY 11TH JANUARY 2015 1PM

Ronnie O'Sullivan - £6 million
Mark Selby - £5.8 million
Ding Junhui - £5.6 million
Neil Robertson - £5.5 million
Barry Hawkins - £5.3 million
Mark Allen - £5.1 million
Judd Trump - £5 million
Stuart Bingham - £4.9 million
Ricky Walden - £4.8 million
Marco Fu - £4.7 million
Shaun Murphy - £4.6 million
Stephen Maguire - £4.5 million
Ali Carter - £4.4 million
Joe Perry - £4.3 million
John Higgins - £4.2 million
Robert Milkins - £4 million


To sign up to be in the league simply comment on this post or tweet or Direct Message me over Twitter @CueActionBlog to express an interest and then select your players before the deadlines for the two events by contacting me in the same ways and please make it clear which players you have picked for each event.


Otherwise, thanks for reading and if you are thinking of joining the lead I hope this all made sense to you.