AFL Dream Team

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AFL Dream Team
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Screenshot of an AFL Dream Team
Type of site
 Sports
URL AFL Dream Team
Current statusPublic

AFL Dream Team is an online Australian rules football based fantasy football game that was created in 2001 by Vapormedia [1] and published by the Australian Football League (AFL) and Toyota. Participants assemble an imaginary team of real life players, limited by a salary cap, and score points based on those players' actual statistical performance on the field of play throughout the AFL home-and-away season. [2] It is the second most popular Australian rules football fantasy game behind News Corporation's Supercoach game. It is similar to an offline based game of the same name that was run in the 1990s by The Age newspaper in Melbourne.

Point scoring

Points are gained or deducted depending on the performances of 22 selected players for each round. Up to four emergencies can replace players in the team's starting 22, who did not play that specific round. If there is a 0-scoring player in a certain position and emergency is selected in that position, no points will be scored for that player. Meanwhile, the remaining five substitutes on the reserves list do not score, but can increase in value. Each week up to two trades can be made but if there are bye rounds that happen in generally round 10-14, the person playing is given 3 trades a week.

Points are awarded for the following achievements.

References

  1. ↑ Cooper, Adam (27 March 2012). "Fantasy sports enjoy very real growth". The Age. Melbourne.
  2. ↑ "Dreamteam 101". AFL Website. Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
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