A 23-year-old Everton supporter won Fantasy Premier League in his first season playing the game. He started after helping his sister with a work league, then built his own team for sibling rivalry. Fantasy Premier League is the UK’s most popular fantasy competition, with more than 11 million players, where users select squads of 15 players using a 100m budget. Players earn points based on weekly on-pitch performance. He led by 21 points going into the final day and won by 38 points, aided by a 14-point captain haul from Bruno Fernandes. He credits both luck and significant time and energy, and says the win makes him feel like a football expert.
"The Premier League season might be long-forgotten already - but we're definitely still in the window where bragging about how well you did in fantasy football is just about acceptable. Plenty of people will have been frantically checking the app on Sunday to see if they'd beaten friends, family or colleagues and topped their mini leagues. Someone who was refreshing a little more than most is 23-year-old Everton fan Erik Ibsen. But the Danish medical student managed to hold on to his lead to be crowned the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) champion - in his first season playing the game."
"FPL is the UK's most popular fantasy league, and claims to have more than 11 million players taking part. Users face a 100m budget as they select squads of 15 footballers, who each earn points based on their weekly on-pitch performance. Ibsen was 21 points ahead going into the final day of the season but ended up winning by 38 points thanks to a 14-point haul from his captain, and Manchester United's skipper, Bruno Fernandes."
""Of course there's been some luck involved but I have also put time into it and it's taken a lot of my energy," he says. Ibsen adds his "childhood dream" was to be a football manager and winning FPL makes him "feel like a football expert". "Even though I'm not really. "I don't really have any education [in] football, all my analysis and st"
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