FOOTBALL CLUB WORLD

So we've reached the end of another fantastic Fantasy Football season - and above you will see the Top 20 teams from across the 8 AM Blog Leagues. Massive congratulations to everyone for a fantastic effort; all of the scores above were enough to get in to (or very close to) the Overall Top 100, which is mighty fine indeed when you consider there are approximately 250,000 YFF teams.

A special mention must go to Matang Gerdu FC from Malaysia, who won the entire Yahoo competition by massive 125 points from 2nd place, the only man to break 4000 for the season - a truly remarkable effort mate, well done! Arsenal Bergkamp & South City both sealed Overall Top 10 finishes, Kellz finished just outside in 11th and Numero Uno in 14th. Maestro Harriers & Tardy were both in the Overall Top 20, Fidan (Cincilatori) Top 30, while Axel, Lengkee & Fighting the Drop were on the leaderboard inside the Top 50 - great stuff lads!

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Hans India and Mike B for helping me put together the AM Blog Team throughout the year. You may remember we ran this by taking a poll each week for the first half of the season - with the 3 of us then discussing the results via email/chat and picking a team each week - but this tailed off towards the end as I couldn't keep the poll going, so Hans actually took on full responsibility for the final few months. The Blog Team finished in a very respectable 1,130th position overall with 3500 points, which is pretty damn impressive.

A second thank you to Hans, Mikey & Gordon (Arsenal Bergkamp) for running the outstanding Fantasy Football Challenge. This consisted of Champions League & Europa League competitions and ended with a Super Cup final between the winners. Organising this took a huge amount of effort and they really did an amazing job. The results can be seen on their site, but they deserve a mention here too:

Champions League Final: Mighty Red Army (128.5) beat TuHaU FC (71)

Europa League Final: Bunch of Idiots (116) beat Bolanos CF (103.5)

Congratulations to the winners and everyone who got involved! If you'd like to know more and take part next season then make sure you check out their site: www.ffchallenge.moonfruit.com.

I guess that's it for now! I'll just repeat two things I added at the end of my final player picks post last week:

1. With no football over the summer I'll be taking a bit of a break from blogging in the off-season but I'll still add the odd post regarding transfers & I'll definitely be back next season. There may well be some changes coming regarding the blog so please join the Facebook Group and/or follow me on Twitter to allow me to keep you updated on any exciting developments!

2. Thank you so much to each and every one of you for all your amazing support this season. The blog continues to be hard work but it is 100% worth it when I see the community we've created here; the fantastic comments offering advice to your fellow players, the non-stop assistance in the chatroom and the amazing success people have had, with the [AM.Blog] tag littering the leaderboard. I'm very proud to have started it all but I'm even prouder to be a part of what it's become.

And finally, a cryptic message left by the Fantasist in his final post on Yahoo's Official blog...

"Yahoo! Fantasy Football will be back next season in an exciting new format."

Sounds very interesting but I honestly don't know anything about these plans for a "new format" and neither do Jeremy or Neal. If we do hear anything we'll be sure to let you know.

Enjoy the summer!

Cheers,
AM