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Previous Fantasy Sports Newsletters (FSN) by FISO - subscribe here Fantasy Sports
Newsletter 54 - 28 July 2002 After a month's rest
following 'World Cup excesses' we're back for pre-season training with a bumper
edition of fantasy sports news! Over 2,000 fantasy sports fans have already
subscribed to our newsletter and this is what we have in store for you today: [Confused with the
terminology and abbreviations used in Fantasy Sports and on the FISO Fantasy
Sports forum? Well we've
provided a useful summary for you here]. Contents: 1. Get your computer in
trim for the 02/03 Fantasy Football season! Some handy tips on how to speed up
your Internet Access and Download Speed. 2. News on the launch of
'major' Fantasy Premiership games for 2002/03 and details on the related FISO
mini/super-leagues. 3. FISO Forum - the
place for the latest news and views on UK fantasy sports games. 4. More new fantasy
football game reviews. 5. New reviews on
non-football fantasy sports games (including Snooker, Cricket, American Football
& Baseball). 6. Access to previous
Newsletters including a search facility, FISO contact details & How to
Unsubscribe from this newsletter. 1. Speeding up
Internet Access and Downloads - by FISO's resident IT expert, Roger Wilson. Find a reliable ISP:
The
speed of your connection often depends on your ISP’s connection to the
internet and the number of customers they have. For dialup connections, I’ve
always found Tiscali to be a reliable connection. Your computer:
Your
computer can’t affect the speed of your connection but it can effect the way
the speed is handled. Web browsers rely on the speed and power of your computer
the same as any other program. The main components controlling the speed of your
computer are RAM, the CPU and your hard drive. The
most effective upgrades are RAM and the CPU. These two items complement and
hinder each other. A shortage of RAM will negate the effect of the increase in
speed of an upgraded CPU, while a slow CPU will negate the effect of increased
RAM above 128MB. Another,
but less effective upgrade, is your hard drive. IDE hard drives are readily
available with a rotation speed of 7200rpm compared with 5200rpm on old hard
drives. The increase in speed will have an effect of the speed of your computer
but not as much as the RAM and CPU upgrades. Optimise
your computer:
Hard
drives become fragmented and once they reach more than 20% fragmentation the
computer will start to slow down. Fragmentation is caused by files being deleted
and the remaining gap being filled by another file. But if the file is too big
for the gap then part of the file is placed in the gap and the remainder is
placed in the next available gap. If that gap is too small then another gap is
found and so on. This can cause files to be scattered across a hard drive, thus
making the access to this file slower as the computer searches for all the
parts. The
easiest way of defragmenting a hard drive is to use Window’s own
defragmentation software. Norton also offer a piece of software called Norton
Utilities which contains a program called speed disk. This program defragments
the disk and places the files most used in a position on the hard drive where
access is quicker. For a reminder on Website Access Speeds see Fantasy Sports Newsletter 44 on 22 January 2002. This is where I took a look at the principles behind internet access speeds and looked at access times for five of the major fantasy football websites. 2. News on the
launch of major 2002/03 Fantasy Premiership games and details on the FISO
mini/super-leagues. The 2002/03 English
Premiership season promises 9 months of action-packed thrills and
spills and we don't want you to miss out on this excitement! Listed below
are the major fantasy football games that have already launched. So whether you
want to prove that you've got what it takes to beat many thousands of other
players or whether you're purely intent on winning that top prize, these are the
games to test you to the limit. Don't regret not entering enough
teams/competitions to keep you interested all the way through to next May - try
a wide range of games and enter a variety of teams. For comment and details
on each game, just click on the link below. Most of the games allow for
unlimited transfers before the season starts for real - so enter your teams now.
If you've got any questions on any of the games, just ask via our forum.
FISO Mini/Super-Leagues: For details on how to enter
any of the FISO Super/Mini Leagues entered into the above games, and details on
how the Super League prize money (up to £5,000 in each competition) will be
shared out in the event of a win, please click here. 4. More new fantasy
football game reviews. Are you more interested in
smaller fantasy football games based on the Premiership? Or are simulated
football management games your thing? Then these game reviews will interest you. Summit
Soccerleague was founded in 1993 and is a PBM (Play by Mail) football management
game using their own simulation software. You manage a fictitious team employing
fictitious players and have to manage your club's finances as well as the
players. The cost is £2.25 plus admin expenses per turn and overseas players
are welcome. MicroCoach
is a simulated football management game which is essentially played by normal
post, but managers can send their monthly returns via the Internet. The game is
now in its 8th season. Managers control a club with a squad of players and
stadium. They have budgets to improve both the players in their team and
the stadium by sending in their monthly return sheets which are sent out with a
colour magazine. Club names are fictitious but the players are taken from
real life, from leagues all over the world of football. Prior to each
season, each player is rated, based on real life performances and how they do in
the fully computerised game which runs all the matches in a detailed simulation. The
magazine includes all the results from the previous month in various
competitions. The league comprises 4 divisions with 20 teams in each - all
play all both home and away throughout the season which currently runs from
November to September, but from next year - seasons will run from January to
September. The game was started amongst friends and family, and although there
are members from all over the country and beyond, MicroCoach is still played in
a friendly club atmosphere and all members are invited to an annual barbecue at
the end of the season where all the cup finals in domestic and European
competitions are played. PFM
is a free, realistic simulated PBeM football management game. maninio.de is a German online
soccer manager game, where you can create your own team and play in 35 European
countries. Tipsters League offers a
football score prediction game, with three competitions running together, (plus
a lottery bonus ball game). The game is FREE to play at the moment and starts on
Saturday 10 August. All
You Fantasy Football League Pick an 11 player team for
the 2002/03 Premiership with one player from each club and 5 transfers allowed
(during January). Bonus points for a player of the month selection. A free to enter football
management game based on the English premiership results. Select your team of
eleven players (only one from each Prem club) and keep track of them throughout
the season in your own member area. You can make up to seven transfers during
the year. Dream Premiership is a
real-life performance based fantasy football game. ESL is a football management
simulated PBeM league using the @esms software. There are 2 divisions with 8
teams each, an FA Cup competition played by all the teams and a Champions
League played by the top 4 teams of the 2 divisions. Currently looking for
managers to join. Ultimate Manager is a new
free PBeM simulated football management game. It will be starting this Wednesday
(31st of July). All of the teams are from the English top 8, and will be
expanding after the 1st season which is 14 games. 5. New reviews on
non-football fantasy sports games (including Snooker, Cricket, American Football
& Baseball). FantasySnookerLeague.com is a
fantasy snooker league competition starting in September 2002 and based on the
real life performances of the top 32 players in the world. Your team is made up
by selecting 8 players and by choosing a ranking tournament to act as a bonus
round. Points are scored by match wins, frames won & lost, but only if your
selections reach the last 32 of any of the 9 ranking events throughout the
snooker season. The site includes league tables, fantasy stats, Pro tour results
and you can also login to your own team page to check out exactly how your team
is doing. This is the first season for FantasySnookerLeague.com and will
therefore be a trial season. Entry is free but restricted to 2 entries per person.
If there is enough interest this season, then the 2003/2004 season will see the
introduction of a small entry fee to fund prizes. HeySportsFans
Fantasy Football US based, real-life
performance Fantasy American Football game with 2 prizes for every 5 entries.
Budget and High Stake fantasy football leagues with free trades and lots of
winners. No draft, no salary cap - easy to play. Unlimited free trades. Both
Budget and High Stake Leagues. Weekly, league and overall pooled prizes. HeySportsFans Fantasy Baseball US based, real-life
performance Fantasy Baseball game with 2 prizes for every 5 entries. Budget
and High Stake fantasy football leagues with free trades and lots of winners. No
draft, no salary cap - easy to play. Unlimited free trades. Both Budget and High
Stake Leagues. Weekly, league and overall pooled prizes. FREE Fantasy Cricket World
Cup! Take any 1 of 63 countries and guide them to Fantasy World Cup glory!! PBeM
simulated game. US based Fantasy American Football Cafe - A
free cafe site catering to the fantasy football community with news, cheat
sheets, sleepers, NFL player rankings, strategy tips and advice. US based Fantasy Baseball
Cafe - A site dedicated to all fantasy baseball enthusiasts, featuring forums,
strategy articles, updates, draft rankings, cheat sheets, sleepers and humour,
all in a friendly cafe atmosphere. |
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