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Association football is the official name of the sport governed by the International Federation of Association football . It is known in some parts of the world as "soccer"; a derivative of the word "association". In others, it is known simply as "football". For more information on the sport, see association football.
CBS Sports began offering fantasy football leagues in 1997, [32] the same year that the fantasy news website now known as RotoWire was launched. [33] In July 1999, Yahoo began offering its fantasy football product for free, a decision that gave the site an advantage over its competitors. [ 9 ]
Fantasy football competitions based on a salary cap are the most popular. Under this format, the competition's administrators price every footballer based on their estimated scoring potential. [ 7 ] Players receive a limited amount of virtual currency to spend on footballers for their squad.
Fantasy football was invented in 1990 by Italian journalist Riccardo Albini. Inspired by fantasy baseball (also known as Rotisserie, from the name of the place where the first players met, New York City restaurant La Rotisserie Française), [2] Albini published fantasy football's rules for the first time through Studio Vit publisher, giving it the name Fantacalcio (calcio is the Italian word ...
The first detailed sets of rules published by football clubs (rather than a school or university) were those of Sheffield F.C. (written 1858, published 1859) which codified a game played for 20 years until being discontinued in favour of the Football Association code, and those of Melbourne FC (1859) which are the origins of Australian rules ...
FanXT is a fantasy sports site that provides fantasy sports platforms, namely for The Football Association, MotoGP, and Formula One.They are one of the first to develop a fantasy platform for the Premier League which allows users to set up their own leagues and act as commissioners, and the first few that launched a daily fantasy sports platform for football (soccer).
A dispersal draft is a process in professional sports for assigning players to a new team when an existing team folds or is merged into another team. Like most other sports drafts, most dispersal drafts are conducted in closed leagues and are intended to prevent bidding wars and to maintain a league's competitive balance when a folded or merged team's roster of players is absorbed into the ...
Fantasy football (Australian rules), a type of fantasy sport in which players assemble and manage virtual teams of real Australian rules footballers; Fantasy football (gridiron), a game in which the participants serve as owners and general managers of virtual gridiron football teams; Fantasy Football, a 2022 American sports film