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Fantasy Sports Newsletter 47 -  18 March 2002

Welcome to FISO's bi-monthly newsletter which is sent out to over 1,000 subscribed fantasy sports fans.

(Abbreviated) Contents:

1. Are you missing out?

2. Suspension Rules

3. New Fantasy Sports game reviews

1. Are you missing out?

Well we think you will be if you've not entered at least one of the following games!

Fantasy League Golf 2002 - Over £10,000 of Prizes - Now Open for Entry

For only £10 you can follow over 7 months of gripping golf action on the Euro and US tours (fantastic Sky Sports coverage!). The competition starts for real on 11 April (and ends in November) but enter now to get a feel for the game. If you don't feel up to managing your 12 man squad then just pick 6 stars and 6 hackers and play your stars every week! Weekly and season prizes on offer worth over £10,000.

The Sun's F1 Dream Team 2002 

Enter anytime for a chance of the £1,000 individual Grand Prix prizes.

Squad Selector

Next game starts 23 March so register your team by midnight Friday 22nd March. You will be in line to win one of the 6 prizes left for the 6 remaining scoring periods - including a trip to the World Cup in Japan. Entry cost is only £5 and you get a free baseball cap. See how difficult it is for Sven to pick an England team!

Fantasy League F1 

Starts for real at the next Grand Prix (Brazilian Grand Prix on 31st March 2002). Only races from then onwards count towards the season's Fantasy League F1 championship and the top prize of a Toyota MR2. Join the FISO Friends and Enemies league by entering the PIN 203038 (or clicking here) and applying to join the F&E league - we're in the top 10 F&E Leagues after the first 2 warm up races.

2. Suspension Rules

FA suspensions have been in the news recently. Here we take you through the general FA rules on suspension:

a) Receiving 5 yellow cards - 1 match ban

b) Receiving a further 5 yellow cards in the same season as receiving a ban per a) above - 1 match ban

c) Sent off in a match (after yellow and then red) - 1 match ban

d) Sent off for denying a goal-scoring opportunity - 1 match ban

e) Sent off for using offensive/insulting/abusive language - 2 match ban

f) Sent off for violent conduct/serious foul play/spitting at an opponent - 3 match ban

g) Sent off for the second time in a season - an extra 1 match ban

h) Sent off for the third time in a season - an extra 2 match ban (and so on).

Players will be suspended automatically from the 14th day following the match in which they were sent off or the date of their last offence. Any suspensions which remain outstanding at the end of the season are carried forward to the next. For more detail check The FA's web pages on suspensions.

3. New Fantasy Sports game reviews

The SPC

The SPC (The Sports Predictions Centre) offers 'fantasy betting' style competitions originally based around correct score predictions on 10 chosen football matches each weekend. Each weekend (commencing 23rd March) is a separate game with entries costing £2 each. Each entry entitles you to 100 tokens in total which must be placed 10 on each of the 10 matches chosen. You place your tokens on correct-score outcomes at their associated odds. Once the 10 matches are complete, any correct predictions are rewarded at their associated odds and all entries are ordered according to their success.

The game is a little more involved than some score-prediction games but using correct-score odds as their judging system gives the games a fairer system for rewards than others in this arena. The game is being started with a guaranteed £100 first prize for the first few weeks of games, with the anticipation that this will be exceeded substantially as the game grows in popularity. Prizes are generally shared out amongst the best performers each week with a high percentage of entry fees going into the pool.

Games are generally priced up around 3 weeks in advance and obviously the odds associated with the correct-scores can change over the course of this time and so there is some opportunity to get some decent early prices as part of your predictions. Payments are currently restricted to online bank transfers and cheques (both deposit and withdrawal) although The SPC do offer an account system so you do not have to make a separate £2 transaction for every entry. All in all, this is an interesting deviation from the standard score prediction games and one that will be worth keeping an eye on especially if they prize pools get to a decent level.

FSL

FSL is a simulated fantasy soccer internet league which is free to play and starts on 30 March 2002. This league is a role-playing game and the matches are simulated every weekend. This game claims to offer everything you need to feel like you are really a manager of a top side.  You will have the chance to play against European clubs or against non-division clubs in the cup.  Managers get to pay wages, loan players, transfer players and submit their tactics for a game at the weekend.

UKFPL - UK Footy Predictions League

This site is a relatively new but expanding score predictions league. Predict 8 games per week and work your way up the leagues using their averaging score system.

CricketManager.net

CricketManager.net is a Real-Life Performance fantasy cricket game. Current series include the VB Series and the England tour of NZ and it is intended that many more series will be added in the future.  Users have a bank balance to buy there team players and player prices are updated daily.  Transfers are allowed up until the start of the match.  Hopefully it will also soon have a WAP interface so that users can select their teams via a WAP enabled mobile phone.

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