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Fantasy Sports Newsletter 50 - 7 May 2002

Welcome to FISO's bi-monthly newsletter, to which over 1,500 subscribed fantasy sports fans have subscribed.

Contents:

1. Telegraph Fantasy Cricket (TFC) & the FISO Super League

2. TFFO FISO Mini-League

3. Free Entry Football Prediction Game - Join the FISO league

4. FISO Forum

5. Buy at Amazon

6. New Fantasy Sports game reviews incl World Cup games

7. Premiership Player Database

8. Previous Newsletters, FISO & How to Unsubscribe

1. Telegraph Fantasy Cricket (TFC) & the FISO Super League

Commentary by FISO member, Sam David:

The closing date for this year's competition is imminent: 10 a.m. BST Wednesday, 8 May. The Telegraph has introduced a number of small changes this season but, in essence, you need to pick five batsmen, an all-rounder, a keeper and four bowlers from a list of 270 players.  Instead of the cash value-based system of the fantasy football game, cricketers are given a rating of 1 to 9 (where 1 is best).  The total combined rating of the selected XI must be 41 or more.

To view the list of county & international cricketers, as well as the registration form, log on to:

www.fantasycricket.telegraph.co.uk

Players score points based on the number of runs scored or conceded,  wickets taken and catches & stumpings made. Your chosen captain scores double.

The deadline for teams to accumulate points from day one is 8 May. The season lasts twenty weeks, and will close with the matches on Sunday 22 September.

The prize for the best selector is £20,000, and there is a separate £10,000 for the winner of the international-only contest.  The top superleague will receive £5,000.

A FISO super league has now been set up.  To participate, first enter your XI online and then use FISO SuperLeague PIN 8000082 and chairman's team PIN 5006244 to join over 20 (to date) other FISO teams in the super league. Should we be lucky enough to win the top Super League prize of £5,000 then this will be shared out amongst not only the top 5 but also all teams that have at least 80% of the points total of our top team - so finish within 20% of first place in the Super League and you could receive a payout!

The entry fee (including a super league entry) is £4 (or £6 if you wish to use the internet for transfers).

Please access the FISO cricket forum (click here) for initial news, tips on this summer's contest and full details of how the TFC Super League prize would be paid out.

2.  TFFO FISO Mini-League

In the race to be FISO TFFO Champion 2001/02, it's a close run thing at the top with Rich Kellard and David Browne still neck and neck. The top 10 is as follows:

3. Free Entry Football Prediction Game - Join the FISO league

WeekendFootball have invited FISO website users to take part in a free to enter football prediction game. There is a £5,000 cash prize for the overall individual winner, and a £1,000 cash prize for the winning league. Entry to the competition is FREE, and will run through the 2002/03 season.

To get the ball rolling and the leagues set up, they are running a pilot competition in MAY, for the last two weeks of the season, covering the weekends of 4th and 11th May 2002, and have put up £500 cash for the overall individual winner, and £250 for the winning league/website.

The essence of the competition is to compete against other football websites. Each football site has its own leaderboard, so whilst FISO members are competing against each other, there is an overall leaderboard, so FISO can compete against other football sites.

The FISO competition pages have been set up at:

www.weekendfootball.co.uk/data/fiso/oddsvotes.asp

and with only a few people getting their treble prediction correct last  weekend, new entrants are very welcome. Entry deadline 11 a.m. Saturday 11 May.

You need to register first and be logged in to vote and take part in the competition. Once you have voted for at least 3 weekend results you can choose any 3 of your votes for the prize 'treble' competition.

The player with the highest 'bank' in the overall treble leaderboard on 12 May 2002 wins £500 cash, and the winning website gets £250 cash.

Your 'bank' is calculated by multiplying the accumulated odds of the 3 correct matches against a "notional" £10 stake. If one or more of your match predictions are wrong your bank will reduce by £10. The competition takes into account the difficulty of predicting each game, and even if someone is bottom of the league, you could win the next week because of the effect of multiplying 3 sets of odds.

6. New Fantasy Sports game reviews

Fantasy League World Cup - Classic

Fantasy League have just launched their classic World Cup game and the following is a copy of their excellent write up on it:

'So how easy is all this World Cup Fantasy League malarkey? About as easy as giving the Germans a good pasting in their own backyard (i.e. very).

First you have to decide who to take with you (and no, we're not talking about Ulrika or Nancy). Simply select your squad of 15 world-beaters from the 735 seasoned internationals (plus Nelson Vivas) on offer and away you go. There are no player budgets to worry about, just a maximum of two players from any one country. But don't worry, you won't be stuck with them for the whole tournament. With daily points updates you'll soon find out if that ill-advised gamble on the Senegalese goalie hasn't paid off. You may then want to use up one of your ten transfers to cover up your gross stupidity.

And what prizes do you get for winning? Who cares about a big golden trophy when you're on £10,000 a man to win? And that's not to mention the beach soccer in Rio and the thousands in cash up for grabs throughout the tournament. But one thing you can't put a price on is the look on your best mate's face when your star striker slots his fifth goal past his overworked goalkeeper. So why not challenge your mates  and set up a Friends & Enemies League to maximise their pain and suffering? (FISO -N.B. Watch out for the FISO World Cup F&E League coming soon).

And the cost of this virtual trip to Japan? 940 Yen should do the trick (that's a fiver to you and me). Click here to register.'

Fantasy League are also running a special offer - receive FREE SMS updates after each game phase plus their World Cup Fantasy Form Guide by email if you register your team before 23:59 (BST) Friday 24th May.

The Times Fantasy League World Cup 2002

Entry is just £5 with the competition winner driving off with a £61,000 Maserati 3200GT!  Simply select a team of 11 players by choosing a maximum of only one player from each country taking part in the competition in a 4-4-2 formation (one goalkeeper, four defenders, four midfielders and two forwards). Once the competition has started, you may make 12 transfers to your team throughout the whole tournament (a maximum of six per game phase).

FantasyChampions

FantasyChampions offers real-life performance fantasy football, based on the English Premiership.  In addition, there are Prediction Leagues for the World Cup, UEFA Champions League, Rugby Six Nations and more to come.  Entry to their competitions is usually between £2 to £5. The season long Premiership Manager game currently has 79 Managers, with a total prize money of £375.

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