Owen in form, Adams the donkey... (smallworld.com)

Member Name: KingHerrod

Product:	smallworld.com
Date:	16/02/01 (58 review reads)
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Advantages: Fantasy football with a difference, Free

Disadvantages: Need to monitor your team carefully,

Smallworld.com is a web site which allows you to play interactive sports management games, with your scores based on real life results in those sports.

The sports are mainly American and of little interest to us in the UK, who know that Football involves a round ball and you kick it, rather than throw it with your hands. But that is the Yanks for you, Football, Ahh yes you pick the ball up and throw it. Enough of the sidetracking.

Smallworld's English fantasy football is excellent, you start with £50 million and have to buy your team. Transfers can be made each week with any spare cash you have, you get money back for selling players and of course have to pay for the new players. Players then score points for goals, assists, tackles and passing accuracy. Nothing different there then. But where the site and game is clever is that the value of players change depending on the market. I.e if everybody is buying Michael Owen then his value will go up, similarly if Owen does not score and looks like a muppet and managers start to sell him his value goes down. This is where the game is addictive as you may buy a player for a small sum and then be able to sell latter at a much higher price. If you judge it right i.e just as a player loses form, then you will have made money and be able to afford the better more expensive players and thus probably score more points for your team.

You can set up scouts to track various players and analyse a wealth of statistics in far more depth than any fantasy game I have played before. In fact it is a footie fans paradise and is FREE to play and you are not engulfed with huge quantities of junk mail when you have registered.

This game adds a huge extra dimension to what has become quite a tired formula in the national newspapers. Best of all it costs nothing and there are good prizes to be won monthly and at the end of the season. Top prize is a trip to see the inter continental cup in Japan. r>
There is another footie game on the site, tip-em, much simpler, you just predict the outcome of the weekends premiership football matches, the person with the most correct tips at the end of the season wins a prize. The same as above.

This is an excellent site, well designed with innovative sports games, if you are a sports fan, then it is well worth checking out.