F1 Fantasy League 2025

[SiLo]

Didn't realise there were paid tiers! Why are they lumped in with the free tier? Seems a bit dumb.

[BorisTheBlade]

Well, as a paying player you can either show that with a star or hide it.
I personally do pay because I want to support the Operators and also having only 6 free changes takes away so much. The added 5 Mio. are not significant IMHO.

[LVDH]

Hopefully those who run algorithms etc play fairly this year..

Can you expand on this?
I actually have my own system that uses "algorithms" together with optimization methods.
I do not understand what is unfair about this.

Anyway, I am actually looking forward to make my tool available to everyone soon and would first post here on the forum about it. Would there be interest here?

[chrisc90]

Hopefully those who run algorithms etc play fairly this year..

Can you expand on this?
I actually have my own system that uses "algorithms" together with optimization methods.
I do not understand what is unfair about this.

Anyway, I am actually looking forward to make my tool available to everyone soon and would first post here on the forum about it. Would there be interest here?

Takes/Ruins the ‘fun’ out of the game a bit if you ask me.
Yeah, it’s all a bit of fun at the end of the day for us all, but would be nice that any teams or race predictions were made by the ‘player’ and not calculated by a algorithm etc.

[LVDH]

Well, I can tell you that the algorithm is not that smart. Predicting an F1 race is actually very hard.
So, no matter what you get "told", it would be a bad strategy to listen.
I my case, this year started a bit bad, as I wanted to keep away from all the rookies, so I went for Alonso and Sainz...

You can also think of it like this: Someone (maybe me) takes the time to listen to the FP3 training and wait for radio messages talking about how comfortable the driver feels in his car. This is information that for sure gives an advantage. Is this now also unfair?

Also, I am 100% sure that all good players at the minimum have some kind of spreadsheet where they calculate something like expected points divided by costs.

Fantasy leagues without at least some minimal statistics would be a bit strange.

With my system, I am sure though that the budget optimization part is more helpful than the machine learning prediction part, because it is simply pretty much impossible to predict the outcome / positions of the race. When I figured this out, I was a bit happy, because it kind of proves that F1 (currently) is not boring at all and qualifying does not determine everything.

[BorisTheBlade]

I am highly interested, as I have a similar solution in place and would be willing to share this as well.
My Excel based Spreadsheet is able to take either historic or predicted data and will pick the "Optimal" Team for a given Budget.
Maybe, we might win the League of Leagues, if everyone used these Tools

BTW My current ranking is should be proof, that this is not the ultimate solution for ruling FantasyGP.

[BorisTheBlade]

For the fun of it, I also made a Gap-to-Top Chart of our own League. The current Leader is always on the 0-Line, while everyone else is shown with their current Gap to the Top. In order to not get it too cluttered, I only included everyone who has been in the Top 10 after each race and, erm, myself.
I hope you like it - will try to post updates every now and then.

Congratz to Weasterbunny for having an amazing start to the season - he has already put quite some margin between himself and the rest of us.

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DaciaF1 Mentioned!!!!

Anyway, if people are bringing math and statistics in a fantasy game...there is no game anymore. I understand the desire to win but also let's not make it technical. It's the best way to suck out all the fun. I would love 2 or 3 races with some real chaos on the track to really mess up the models or statistics.

[BorisTheBlade]

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That is exactly what has happened in the first two races.

I personally have a hard time understanding your point of view. For me, Fantasy Games are all about Statistics. Especially as the official F1 Points System is not 1:1 applicable to the Fantasy Game Points System.
And last but not least: "Not making it too technical" in a Forum of a Website called F1Technical - honestly?

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C'mon, you are playing a fantasy GAME. I still don't know how you can argue that you have so much fun if you figure out a mathematical pattern to maximize result every weekend. The game is designed as a game, and i don't know any game in history where it is fun to "break it" using math. It is an accomplishment from a math point of view, it isn't from a gaming point of view.

If you really want to be the best in a game that rewards the players that pay to win and in a league with only 46 players out of 10000+...be my guest. It is not the point of a fantasy game to me and to anyone that won't pay for advantages, which are a lot.

Exactly because this is a technical forum and this is a GAME, not real F1, you shouldn't treat it like every second count and use everything to win. That is the point of a game on a serious technical forum to me, to not be as serious as you should when discussing aero or suspension with arguments. It's to have fun and maybe support some underdogs, some chaos results for a race or just the rookies. I doubt anyone is praising the winners from the last years, even they don't make much fuss about it, or at least i don't see it.

Let's chill, have some fun, and don't try to be a hypercompetitive F1 driver where it doesn't matter.

[BorisTheBlade]

Congratz to Weasterbunny for being the Global Leader of FantasyGP after Race 3 - Wow!

Here is our League's Gap to Top after R3 - unsurprisingly, Weasterbunny was able to put even more distance between him/her and the rest.