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Previous Fantasy Sports Newsletters (FSN) by FISO - subscribe here Fantasy Sports
Newsletter 45 - 14 February 2002 Welcome to FISO's bi-monthly newsletter
which is sent out to over 1,000 subscribed fantasy sports fans. ************************************************** Bet365
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international sporting events, 24 hours a day. New customers are offered a great
sign up bonus and are automatically entered into Sportsclub365 monthly draws,
with prizes for 2002 (picked by Bobby Robson) including a box at the FA Cup
final and a trip to the Monaco Grand Prix - bet365.com ************************************************ Contents: 1. Fantasy F1 - Sun Dream Team and
Fantasy League comps launched! 2. Hot Topics 4. New Fantasy Sports game reviews 1. Fantasy Formula One - Sun Dream
Team and Fantasy League Comps are Launched The
Sun's F1 Dream Team 2002 (see newspaper and website later this week
for full details) The
Sun have a certain principle with their Dream Team competitions - make it Simple
to Pay and Play. This concept leads to big entries AND big prizes! This
year's F1 Dream Team is no exception to the rule with a fabulous £50,000 on
offer to the winner! Full
details of the competition will appear in the Sun at the end of this week (there
will be 11 selections of 7 drivers and 4 constructors) but what we've done is
highlight below the new features added to The Sun's F1 Dream Team game:
Fantasy League have teamed up with ITV-F1
and F1 new boys Toyota to bring you a great Fantasy F1 game with the season's
top prize a fab Toyota MR2! Simply select a team of six drivers, one
engine and a set of tyres from the respective selection lists, ensuring that the
total value of these selections does not exceed the quota of $50m. Changes are unlimited for the duration of
the warm-up period, right up until the start of the Brazilian Grand Prix on 31st
March 2002. Only races 3 to 17 count towards the season's Fantasy League F1
championship and the top prize of the sports car. Once the main championship has commenced,
team managers have an opportunity between each race to make up to three changes
to their selections. This may comprise any combination of driver changes,
engine change and a change of tyre choice, so long as no more than three changes
are made in total. Obviously you must still ensure that your selections remain
within the allocated $50m budget. In true Fantasy League tradition, team changes
can be made up to 15 minutes before the start of the race, allowing manager's to
consider driver/car form during qualifying and changes to race conditions. Prizes courtesy of Toyota are also on offer
to winners of each Grand Prix weekend, the warm up period and the top overall
Friends & Enemies league (top 5 teams scores to count). The scoring system needs to be considered
carefully and can be accessed from here.
The aim must surely be to try and pick the winner (driver, engine and tyre) of
each Grand Prix by using the 3 transfers available for each race. Fitting as
many quality drivers into the remaining 5 driver seats whilst staying within
budget is not an easy task and will sort the leaders from those bringing up the
rear a lap behind! The first (warm up) race gets underway on
3rd March with the Australian GP - races 1 and 2 will provide valuable lessons
to do enter soon (unlimited transfers available until the start of race 3). The
entry fee for the ITV-F1 Fantasy Game is £10.00. Interested in talking about tactics or
about constructors/drivers/tyres? Why not use the FISO Formula 1 forum? 2. Hot Topics Hot topics since the last newsletter include
(with a link to the subject if covered on the FISO forum):
1 David Browne RELEGATED
SCREAMING 1724 The FISO fantasy sports forum
was launched in August 2001 and with over 320 topics and 2,300
posts about fantasy football so far and averaging approximately 1,000 page views
per day, the FISO forum is the place to talk to your fellow players and get
an opinion about a game or hear about the latest news. Why not join in our forum?
You do not need to join to view the posts but if you choose yourself a password
and username, leaving your name and email address, then you're free to post as
well. The Forums include Fantasy Formula One,
Golf, Cricket, Tennis, USA Sports and Rugby as well as Fantasy Football. 4. New Fantasy Sports Game
Reviews Now in their 6th season of Fantasy Motor
Sports, as well as F1, they now The
Formula One Prediction League This season's Fantasy Rugby League
competition, on their all new redesigned site, has been launched. Points will be
scored from the first Super League game on the 1st March 2002. The prize
structure for the 2002 Rugby Season is scheduled as i) the winning manager
of the prize league £250, ii) second prize of £75 and iii) a third prize
of £50. You can play for free but to join the prize league costs £5 a team or
3 teams for £10. European
Interactive Rugby League Now entering it's second season, the
European Interactive Rugby League is continually looking for new coaches. The
competition is simulated and operated using in-house RLSim software and is an
affiliate competition of the International
Interactive Rugby League. The European Interactive Rugby League
consists of 24 teams from across Europe competing in two divisions. Footyfantasy's mini-league system gives
soccer fans a chance to take part in a new competition, so if their current
fantasy team isn't setting the world on fire, they can make a fresh start with a
brand new squad. Mini-league 3 started on 9th February. TennisFantasy have a redesigned site and are
now taking entries for the next Masters Series Tournament at Indian Wells,
California (March 4th -11). Pick 5 tennis players from the 5 tiers and
score points as they win matches. Entry fee is $4.95 Fantasy Sports R Us contains plenty of USA
fantasy sports contests with leagues in baseball, football, basketball and
hockey. Fantasy Sports Newsletter 44 - 22
January 2002 Welcome to FISO's bi-monthly newsletter
which is sent out to over 1,000 subscribed fantasy sports fans. Contents: 1. Come to Newmarket Races on Sunday
5th May! 2. Website Access Speeds 3. OFL confirms Knockout Schedules 4. Hot Topics 5. Buy at Amazon & quickly check out
Streets Online's January
Sale 6. New Fantasy Sports game reviews 7. Premiership Player Database 8. Previous Newsletters, FISO & How to
Unsubscribe 1. Come to Newmarket Races on
Sunday 5th May! Plans are afoot for an informal get together
for Fantasy Sports fans on the day of the 1,000 Guineas at the Rowley Mile
course at Newmarket on Sunday 5th May! If you are over 18 and would be interested
in coming along (friends welcome too) then please let me know at CK@FISO.co.uk Please
try and email me by 10 February so we can gauge likely numbers by then. If you
have any questions about the event then please just email me. FISO forum link. People that have already expressed an
interest in coming along include representatives from Fantasy League Limited,
The Sun Dream Team, Team Boss and, from the other side of the 'fence', yours
truly, Andy Luckhurst and David Browne. If you have not been to Newmarket Races
before then this would be a wonderful chance to experience a great afternoon
out. The Rowley Mile Course has been home to the first two of the five great
"classic" Races, the One Thousand Guineas and the Two Thousand
Guineas, since 1814 and 1809 respectively. The 2002 1,000 Guineas will take
place in front of the recently built Millennium Grandstand which provides
superb views of the course and surrounding countryside. http://www.newmarketracecourses.co.uk P.S. We've checked that there is no football
scheduled for that day on the Bank Holiday weekend, being the day after the FA
Cup final! Should anyone be unable to make the Sunday then it is likely that a
few people (including me) will also be going on the Saturday 4th May (2,000
Guineas day) so let me know if you would be interested in coming on Saturday
instead. 2. Website Access Speeds -
Roger Wilson FISO's resident IT expert, Roger Wilson,
takes a look at the principles behind internet access speeds and looks at access
times for five of the major fantasy football website: A couple of years ago most of us had the
choice of a 56k modem, or if we were lucky an ISDN line, as a connection to the
internet. Since then technology has progressed rapidly. We now have the
additional choices of Cable Modem and ADSL connections. So
which is the best? Luckily I have access to different connections to the
internet and listed below are the average download speeds attainable:
As
you can see, the cable and ADSL connections are substantially faster than the
modem and ISDN connections. The 'burst' speed is essentially the ceiling on the
data transfer. If
you are not fortunate enough to be able to connect via Cable or ADSL then there
are various courses of action available to you that can help increase the load
speed of your internet browser:
Using a cable
modem I tested five of the major fantasy football websites for access
speed. The results were as follows:
As
you can see from the average refresh time (aimed at checking server speed on the
home page and tested at a time of minimal traffic), there doesn’t seem to be
much difference between them. That is until you dig a little deeper. For these
sites to be interactive they need to be able to upload as well as download.
There have been comments on FISO’s forum regarding the time taken to
process transfers on TFF (Telegraphfantasyfootball.co.uk). The upload speed
for this site is very low compared with the other sites. Therefore the likely
overall speed problem with TFF relates to the upload speed (or server download
speed), not your own computer's download speed! Another
point to note is that the processing (i.e. matching login details to team
details) is performed on the web server and then converted into, and sent in,
HTML format to your browser. At times of heavy access the hosting web servers
will be coping with the processing of queries as well as the download requests,
thus reducing your download and upload speed. Even with ADSL, TFFO can take up
to 30 – 40 seconds to load on a Monday lunch time (when everyone is trying to
find out their score and reducing the download and processing speeds
substantially). As I am sure we are all aware, these sites are always going to
be slow at times of high traffic. I
hope this unveils some of the mysteries of website access speed. If anything is
not clear, please feel free to ask me questions via the FISO forum where I will
try my best to help. Happy surfing! Roger Wilson (Roger@FISO.co.uk) 3. OFL confirms Knockout Schedules The OFL Cup knockout schedule has been
confirmed on the FISO forum as follows: Hot topics since the last newsletter include
(with a link to the subject if covered on the FISO forum):
1 David Browne RELEGATED
SCREAMING 1563 (Overall TFFO Leader) The FISO fantasy sports forum
was launched in August 2001 and with over 280 topics and almost
2,000 posts about fantasy football so far and averaging close to 1,000 page
views per day, the FISO forum is the place to talk to your fellow players
and get an opinion about a game or hear about the latest news. Why not join
in our forum? You do not
need to join to view the posts but if you choose yourself a password and
username, leaving your name and email address, and then you're free to post as
well. The Forums include Fantasy F1, Golf,
Cricket, Tennis, USA Sports and Rugby as well as Fantasy Football. 5. News of Amazon Offers on Popular
Games and Books Check out AudioStreets' January
Sale which runs out until midnight on 23 January. UK Delivery to your
door is just 1 Pound on any size order. Savings available on CDs, Games, Videos,
DVDs! Amazon products 6. New Fantasy Sports Game
Reviews HitforSix is a brand new free fantasy
cricket PBeM game run using Virtual Cricket 4.0. Unlike most other fantasy
cricket games, you can pick your own squad and interact with other managers to
perform tasks such as transferring players. The first 10 entries received will
be eligible to compete in the 10 team Super League. Sidewinder is a free to enter and easy to
play Premiership predictions competition. Free minileague available for you and
your friends. Not a Fantasy
Sports site but soccer-stats.com, launched in association with ITV Digital, is a
fairly new site that does provide statistics for the UK soccer scene - who's
scored, when, how and where. A good place to check if you want to make
a 'head to head' comparison for the team you are playing this weekend. Fantasy Sports Newsletter 43 - 4
January 2002 Welcome to the first issue in 2002 of FISO's
bi-monthly newsletter which is sent out to over 1,000 subscribed fantasy sports
fans. Contents: 1. Fantasy FA Cup 2. Hot Topics 3. New Fantasy Sports game reviews 1. Fantasy FA Cup The 2001/02 FA Cup starts for the
Premiership Clubs this Saturday 5th January at midday. We take a quick look
around the grounds at how the FA Cup impacts on the major Fantasy Football
games.
This is our understanding of the rules of
each game - please do however check the relevant website/newspaper. 2. Hot Topics Hot topics since the last newsletter include
(with a link to the subject if covered on the FISO forum):
The FISO fantasy sports forum
was launched in August 2001 and with over 260 topics and 1,600
posts about fantasy football so far and now averaging close to 1,000 page views
per day, the FISO forum is the place to talk to your fellow players and get
an opinion about a game or hear about the latest news. Why not join in our forum?
To see the posts you do not need to log in but to post you do which means
choosing yourself a password and username, leaving your name and email address,
and then you're free to post. We have recently opened a Fantasy Rugby
Forum alongside the existing Fantasy Football, Cricket, F1, Golf & Tennis
Forums. 3. New Fantasy Sports Game
Reviews Telegraph
Fantasy Cup (TFC) Choose 14 strikers from 14 ranked groups of
strikers from the remaining clubs in the 2001/2002 FA Cup competition and see
how they fare from the third round in January through to the Final on 4th
May. No transfers are allowed so be very careful in your choice. You can choose
more than one striker from each club. The first prize is £3,000 with a replica
trophy. Entry cost is £3 per team and the entry deadline is noon on
Saturday 5th January 2002. Strikers that have been performing well in
the Nationwide League and whose teams are playing in the FA Cup include
Goater (Man City), Morrison (Crystal Palace), John (Notts Forest), Claridge
& Sadlier (Millwall), Zamora (Brighton), Greenacre (Mansfield), Alsop
(Cheltenham) & Glover (Macclesfield). Established in Nov 2001, Kick Off is a Free
PBeM Simulation Football Management Game that includes 12 teams from the
Premiership and 12 teams from Division 1 as well as the Kick Off Cup competition
that is loosely based on the Champions League. All the players are up to date as
per start of the 2001/2002 season and mirror players who currently play in real
life with stats that reflect their true ability. You have to submit your team
each week via email and liaise with other managers to make those all-important
transfers whilst not getting into debt. So pit your wits against other real
life managers to see who is the best of the best in Kick Off. The UKIFL is a FREE play-by-email (PBEM)
Fantasy Soccer Management game. The UKIFL consists of 20 teams, divided into 2
divisions of 10 teams. Each team will play each other twice per season (home and
away) with promotion and relegation at stake, with an added cup competition. The
games are run by computer using freeware software called @esms which was
developed by Eli Bendersky and Igor Oks. Each week you are required to submit a team
sheet containing your instructions on how you wish your team to play that week.
You can make substitutions, change formation and switch tactics all depending on
the circumstances of the game. Super
Soccer Manager (SSM) Super Soccer Manager is a new soccer
simulation game where you can manage a club in England, Italy, Spain or
Scotland. It is a realistic game which provides you with all the day-to-day
tasks of a football manager. Fantasy Sports Newsletter 42 - 18
December 2001 Welcome to FISO's bi-monthly newsletter
which is sent out to well over 1,000 subscribed fantasy sports fans. Contents: 1. Fantasy Sports Domain Names For Sale 2. FISO Forum - Hot Topics 3. New Fantasy Sports game reviews 1. Fantasy Sports Domain Names
For Sale Fancy running your own online fantasy sports
game at some time in the future? Fancy moving your existing game to an 'upmarket'
address or one aimed at increasing your search engine ranking? Or do you just
want to use one as a formal email address, masking your real address? Whatever
the reason, we may have the domain name for you. All enquiries to acquire the
following domain names at the suggested offer prices to domains@fiso.co.uk Fantasy Football
Fantasy Formula One
Other Fantasy Sports
Totally Sports
Or £399 for the 10. Miscellaneous
24-7.org.uk - £99
Bi-annual registration fees with the current
hosts are approximately £10. Offer prices do not include webspace. 2. Hot Topics on, and Prizes
for posts to, the FISO message forum The FISO fantasy sports forum
was launched in August 2001 and with over 200 topics and 1,300
posts about fantasy football so far and now averaging close to 1,000 page views
per day, the FISO forum is the place to talk to your fellow players and get
an opinion about a game or hear about the latest news. Why not join in our forum?
Just choose yourself a password and username, leaving your name and email
address, and then you're free to post. Hot topics posted during the first half
of December are:
1 Mr MA Nunn S_P_U_R_S 1146 Courtesy of the ITV Sport Channel, we will
be offering a free Mitre football to, in our opinion, the most interesting or
useful post to the FISO message forum
during the month of December 2001. The winner will be emailed within 1 week of
the month end and needs to provide their address to us (no one else will see it)
so we can post the football to you. We will also confirm on the message forum
who the prize has been awarded to. The winner of post of the month for November
was 'Rooster' for his combined posts on the FF Stereotypes topic and his FF
World Cup game idea which he thinks is ideally suited for OFL. Thanks to
'Rooster' (and everyone else) for helping to make the forum a success. 3. New Fantasy Sports Game
Reviews Here is what Andrew Scott from
FootieManager.com had to say about the coverage of his game in FSN
41 on 30 November 2001 - 'just a quick note to say a big thanks for covering
footiemanager.com. The response was great and has forced me to open another
league to cope with the demand!' Here are more recent submissions to FISO: European
Football Management Simulation (EFMS) Play by Mail football management simulation
that has been running for 10 years. Turns are charged at 2.00gpb and run approx
every 7-10 days. Includes all real life cup competitions, running to real life
rules. English Premier, Div One, Serie A and Atlantic league, all with real life
players and accurate stats. Premier
Fantasy Football League (PFFL) Premier Fantasy Football League is a free
fantasy football game based on the results and performances of the Players and
teams of the English Premiership. Games are started twice yearly and the
site accommodates corporate and private leagues. A new game will be starting in
the New Year. Global Fantasy Football is a Real-Life
Performance fantasy footy site. Build a world class 15 man squad with £100
million. There are two game options: play for free in the Grand League, or
set up your own Private Group League for you and up to 10 Friends for £19.95.
Private Group League managers also play in the Grand League. This Irish based fantasy game is based on
the Italian Serie A, the English Premier league and the Spanish
La Liga! To play, you simply select two groups of clubs, two groups of
goalkeepers and three groups of strikers. There's no budget. You score Gems
(Gems are fantasy points) for each club and player in each group depending on
club wins, losses etc, goalkeeper clean sheets & goals conceded and striker
goals scored. The person whose team scores the most Gems by the end of the
season, will win the top prize of €20,000 (Irish). There are Manager of the
Month prizes as well. It costs €15 (IEP 11.81) to register a team. Scoring
starts on September 29 and ends with the last matches of the leagues (including
replays) of the 2001/2002 season. There is no limit to the amount of teams you
may enter. Entrants must be 16 or over by 20 May 2002. With an entry deadline of 1 January 2002,
The Fantasy Factory challenge you to predict the position of each team in the
English Premier League for 2001/02. Points are allocated every Monday morning
based on your ranking of the 20 teams and the league positions each week. Earn
bonus points from weekend prediction tests. The winner wins a widescreen TV and
if anyone is lucky enough to predict all 20 teams in the correct order at the
end of the season there is a £5,000 bonus prize. Entry fee is £5. Fantasy Sports
Newsletter 41 - 30 November 2001
Contents: 1. PlanetFootballTeamBoss cancels its game
after 8 weeks! 2. FISO Forum - Hot Topics 3. New Fantasy Sports game reviews incl Sky
Sports' game. 1. PlanetFootballTeamBoss
cancels its game after 8 weeks! The following email was received by PFTB
participants on Thursday 29 November: 'Due to poor
crowd attendances and the low number of managers in the game, we regret to
announce the decision to discontinue the Planet Football Team Boss game at the
end of November's gaming month. FISO hope to get some reaction from TeamBoss
over the next week and will keep everyone posted on the matter. It is once again
very disappointing to see a Fantasy Football game with considerable prizes (£10,000
first prize) cancelled part way through the season particularly when
participants have spent considerable time managing their teams. Please let us
here your views via our Forum (see below). 2. Hot Topics on, and Prizes
for posts to, the FISO message forum The FISO fantasy sports forum
was launched in August 2001 and with over 180 topics and 990
posts about fantasy football so far, this is the place to get an opinion about a
game or player or hear about the latest news. Why not join in our forum?
Just choose yourself a password and username, leaving your name and email
address, and then you're free to post. Hot topics posted during the second
half of November are:
Courtesy of the ITV Sport Channel, we will be offering a free Mitre football to, in our opinion, the most interesting or useful post to the FISO message forum during the month of November 2001. The winner will be emailed within 1 week of the month end and needs to provide their address to us (no one else will see it) so we can post the football to you. We will also confirm on the message forum who the prize has been awarded to. 3. New Fantasy Sports Game
Reviews Sky Sports Football Fantasia is finally
relaunched (as Sky Sports Super Manager)! Entry date is noon on Saturday 1
December so act quick to register your team. The game is only available to UK
residents and can be entered either on the internet or through the Sky Active
channel on your TV. The game is now a monthly game with 8 transfers available
each calendar month and unlimited transfers at the end of the month before the
start of next month's games (in a similar manner to the BBC game). Internet entry charges are:
Entry by the TV is 10p per minute. Further
review etc of your team during the season also costs 10p per minute. There is a maximum spending limit of £60
million per team. Teams must consist of 11 players and 1 manager at all times.
To be eligible to win a prize your team must be complete for all matches during
the relevant month. Each team must include: 1 goalkeeper, 2 fullbacks, 2 centre
backs, 4 midfielders, 2 strikers and 1 manager. Participants must have no more
than 2 individuals from any one Premier League club in a team at any one time.
Points available are pretty much as per 2000/01. For the December 2001 monthly competition
there will be a first prize of £5,000 and 50 runners-up prizes of £50 for the
next 50 individual users. Future monthly competition prizes will be as described
on the competition website. Pleasantly designed, FootieManager.com is a
new online simulated football management game with a mixture of turn-based and
real-time functionality. They are looking for new players to kick off the
first game so join up quick. 442 is a free simulated football management
game with a pleasing design set in a virtual world of football and is looking to
launch very soon. Sign up quickly to join from the outset and take control of
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