Friday, 6 August 2010

"STUFFED" Inside Foreword - Week 1

This week’s article: Player Cloning




Considering we are in a fantasy players gameworld, and there are supposed to be no real players in the game. Over the months I have noticed that there are quite a few fantasy players that are very similar to players in the real world. For instance an old player of mine maldonano is very similar to Christiano Ronaldo (besides his nationality). Jon Olsson says: (18:50:33) Arsenal’s Robin Van Persi is like Soeris Langenberg, which certainly rings true for the Dutch household name forward. Jon also thinks that his German midfield maestro Tino Bertram is a direct copy the former Chelsea man Michael Ballack. And can you see Daniel Hoskins’s point that his striker Anton Rybalko is a close match to the Spurs front man Roman Pavlyuchenko?

So what are these similarities born out of? Is it that we, as football fans, automatically see a fantasy player and try to personalize him? Make him the player that we recognize? Make him the player that we see from the terraces and from our living room armchairs? It could be that our fantasy players are, on occasion, based on real life players. Or that just be numerical coincidence with the amazing amount of players in the gw some will be very similar to real players. What do you think? Do you have any players that you think are similar to real players? Please send them in to us and if we use them you will get 1000 reward points and you may help start a regular bit in STUFFED.

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