fantasy football quiz

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:09 pm

Is FFQ technically the only game you could pot every time? I mean its always 38 questions, theoretically you could win every game and by default you'd always win the league. Other quiz games have measuers in place to stop you winning (impossible targets etc). Right chaps, lets learn the question library and empty them!

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:28 am

grecian wrote:
grecian wrote:Very impressed at the expertise on this game on the forum!
Pleased to say that, playing with another member of this forum tonight, we managed to join the real boys (on this game at least) with a 34-2-2 record to finish a season on 104 points. As I suspected, the football imagery skills of my co-player (combined with his knowledge that Angola had recently joined OPEC) added a clear 10 or more points onto the total I'd have got on my own. Unfortunately we too lost the league by a point to Liverpool, but we were none the less very pleased with ourselves.

Think I may slowly be improving on this as I scored a 97 on my ownsome yesterday which is my record. Still only good enough for £5 mind you, although I had scored c. 87 and 91 (for £3) the previous two goes, all of which I thought was promising.

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:39 am

inspired by you lot I decided to have a go yesterday. Won £3 and was only one point off a fiver! My footy knowledge is pretty good but I can't deny the odd lucky guess.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:27 pm

Mindless boasting on my part, but I finally managed to bag a JP on this yesterday. 100 points won me the league by three points. Definitely a fairly easy set of questions plus a few lucky guesses on my part.

cool · Post by **cool** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:06 pm

I salute you. England beckons!

Hexpert · Post by **Hexpert** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:07 am

Managed a JP on this yesterday

32-5-1 for 101 points (not our best ever score though) to see off Man Utd by 3 points

Have to say, Fate intervened a bit because the machine didn't seem to be in a good mood and we only had £1 credit and were going to move on to another pub but decided "Just one more go each". My colleague was going to play ItSoccer (half full scoreboard but we'd had 2 subsequently scoreboard-topping games of 20,000+ without seeing a £1 for our efforts) but I persuaded him to have a go at FFQ as we hadn't tried it yet and voila!

By the end of the afternoon we'd visited 4 pubs, played 36 various games on different types of machines and won £59

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:04 am

donttellhimpike · Post by **donttellhimpike** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:44 pm

yes, the question bank seems to have grown......

keep getting 3 or 5, satisfying and yet annoying all at once!!

come on the lads

pike

would be surprised if suri was that far north, or putting SNJ up for a monicker, have seen these initials at various points though.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:09 am

I'm still playing, although not that regularly and my average score has declined somewhat. Still stuck on 1 JP and 2 100+ scores I'm afraid. In particular I haven't played it for a few weeks so hadn't noticed additions to the question bank. I will try to rectify that this week!

ZAX · Post by **ZAX** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:59 am

dmac wrote:
cool wrote:its unlikely that the sole inca means he only played it once, its the final game that got him his biggest win , unless from the high scores its obvious nobody else has played it. Suri tends to put the killer winner as SJ i believe other scores he leaves blank (caveman capers ).
I saw a couple of 100+ top scores in Glasgow last night signed SNJ. One was on a machine I had just topped a few days earlier... perhaps SURI's on tour?

There's such a massive question set on this game now, it's unbelievable that someone can do this repeatedly.

Easily my favourite game though

Who's still playing?

I'm still playing it and still enjoying it. Not JP'd it but plenty of other wins. I know it's a lorra lorra questions to the dosh, but at least it is only questions. Think I prefer it to Itbox soccer at the min- have they toughened that up or are you still doing ok? Seem to remember you are the resident footie expert.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:19 pm

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:53 am

Mattb wrote:Is FFQ technically the only game you could pot every time? I mean its always 38 questions, theoretically you could win every game and by default you'd always win the league. Other quiz games have measuers in place to stop you winning (impossible targets etc). Right chaps, lets learn the question library and empty them!

I thought I'd resurrect this thread as the game has now cropped up on the Gamesnets and I've given it a few goes over the weekend. Re Mattb's question, I reckon it could easily make you lose by Goal Difference to another team with a 38-0-0 record if it wanted - I had a game when I dropped from £5 to £3 on the 38th question when the team in third place won its final match by a greater GD than I had won mine! Grrr...

My top score was 98 but I can see how 100+ is achievable with a bit of luck.

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:24 pm

Good work on the 98 NS - I've only twice bettered that I think, in about a year on the ItBox version (not played/seen the GN variant yet). Actually the game tends to be relatively fair - I've only come up against goal difference related gripes occasionally. Good luck in chasing the JP. Obviously there's one player in London who can do it for fun, and I know at least one other person who's become seriously good at this, but for mere mortals the JP is a pretty fearsome challenge!

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:05 pm

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:32 pm

Re the differences if any between the two versions, I never really played the ItBox version much as I always found £1 something of an achievement. I took £3 to £5 from each Gamesnet so my initial impression is that it is slightly easier, although I fully accept that this may simply be the "virgin machine" principle, and either I'm not quite good enough or the first win available on a slightly easier question set is only expected to be £5 not the JP.

It was featured prominently on the front screen of each of the Gamesnets where I found it so it should at least get some initial play from punters. I really wouldn't know what the longterm prospects would be, not having played the ItBox version enough to know how that changed over time.

Childishly of course, any time I finished above The Devil's Team from Anfield felt like a Jackpot anyway!