It's the last day of 2024 and it's time to wrap up the year! 🎁

But first a reminder that the next Fantasy Snooker event is the Masters (A-tier) starting in less than 2 weeks on the 12th of January 2025. Don't forget to assemble your dream team before this triple crown event as it can be a lucrative event point-wise! 🌟

2024 Summary

We've seen 71 scoring teams so far this season. That's up from 45 at the end of year summary from last year! It's awesome and motivating to see more people show interest and play our game. ❤️

2024 has so far featured 12 out of 20 tournaments in the 2024/2025 season, including triple crown event UK Championship (A-tier) and the inaugural edition of the Saudi Arabia Masters (B-tier). However fear not if you are currently low in the rankings, massive tournaments are still to be played (including two remaining triple crown events): the Masters (A-tier) and the World Championship (S-tier). Make sure to build your team with care, and with a tad of luck, the tables can turn very quickly indeed!

The snooker player of the season so far must be "The Ace in the Pack" Judd Trump consistently making deep runs and picking up prestigious trophies like the Shanghai Masters, Saudi Arabi Masters and the UK Championship. He has been stopped on the finish line a couple of times by "The Warrior" Kyren Wilson though, slightly blemishing his excellent season.

The last tournament of the year (eligible for Fantasy Snooker) was the Scottish Open (9-15 Dec) where Lei Peifan won his first ranking title beating his compatriot Wu Yize in the final.

End-of-year rankings

The Fantasy Snooker 2024/2025 season saw some changes at the top at the start with household names like Snooker 365 (Glen Mathews) and Promising Team (Faith Olcay) changing hands of the top spot. However, there's been one outstanding player who has dominated the rankings since the British Open in late September. It's none other than the winner of the previous season, Up The Ives (Mitch). 👏

The season is only just half-way done though with many big tournamnents to go, so everything can still happen! Will Mitch hold on to his lead or will a contender rise up to the challenge? Glen's Snooker 365 is within striking distance in 2nd place after a strong Scottish Open. Rekola (Timant), Promising Team (Fatih Olcay) and realandrea (realandrea) are also not far behind and can make up ground at the Masters.

See the end-of-year top 10 rankings below. You can also see the full live rankings.

The top 10 end-of-year rankings (2024/2025) after the Scottish Open. Outstanding Up The Ives (Mitch) leads the way!

New features and events in 2024 and look-ahead at 2025

Here's some of the most notable features and events in 2024 - and we have no intention of stopping yet!

Notable features

• Public teams
• Leagues and notifications
• Rankings per tournament
• Documentation/rules page (view the docs page here)

Notable events

• Changed database provider (post)
• Fixed so that all main tour players for the current/upcoming season can be purchased (post)
• Fixed so that players are sold at current value instead of same value as when purchased

Look-ahead at 2025

For 2025 we are planning to:

• add new features
  • public user profiles
  • more info in UI about ranking changes
  • more notifications like reminders for upcoming tournament
  • badges/achievements?
  • ++
• improve stability and performance
• upgrade internal tech so that we have access to newest capabilities

As always we have many ideas but perhaps lack resources to fulfil them all in a speedy manner. Therefore it's even more important for us to prioritize our features. If there are features you really miss or have ideas, please don't hesitate to let us know about them either via feedback or socials.

Happy New Year

We at Fantasy Snooker wish all of you a Happy New Year 💫! We hope to see you next year for the Masters.

As always, we would love it if you interact with us on Twitter/X, Discord, Facebook or other social media. Perhaps you would like to share your ideas or tell us about a feature you really miss. You can also drop us feedback via the support page.

See you in 2025! - Kjetil Hårveit, founder and developer of Fantasy Snooker