First and foremost, it has been a much more exciting season in both games, FantasyGP as well as F1 Fantasy. The unpredictability of relative performance from race to race made it much more enjoyable than last season.
I think, in the coming weeks, I will do a bit of reviewing and analyzing. But as a start, just looking at each to their own:
FantasyGP
For me, it was the first full season as a Pro Member, giving me 40 free changes. This in itself gave me much more food for thought about how and when to use these changes. While the 2023 season was rather straightforward for most of the time with an undervalued Aston Martin and Alonso, this season was up for constant change and also a lot of luck to be honest.
I consider my budget building rather sub-par with only 118 Mio. in the end. But on the points side it was not too shabby with 63rd globally.
F1 Fantasy
First of all congratulations go out to Abhimanyu Sinha with his
Screwderia Furrari (great name by the way)!
Although the whole season was much more fun than 2023, the game still has a lot of shortcomings, of which I just want to mention the two most important ones from my point of view:
- Asset pricing
Compared to 2023 the starting prices at least were rather decent. But again the formula for calculating price changes is just broke. It has the tendency, to make assets with a rather bad Pts./$ ratio even more expensive. That constrains decision making heavily.
- Points system
DNF and DNQ punishments are way over the top - making the whole game a big gamble.
The worse qualifier is the better asset most of the time, as he has more potential to gain positions. Why not give points for winning Intra-Team-Battles in Qualy and/or on Race-day, just like FantasyGP does - that would represent the performance of a given driver much better.
But because of the increasing popularity I am hoping for the best, that they will improve their game. And as everyone has the freedom of a lot of changes, it has been quite a bit of fun.
