“WALL STREET’S $1 MILLION FANTASY LEAGUE”

BASEBALL

Requires broad knowledge of players, including minor leagues

Paying attention to injuries is very crucial in fantasy baseball

SOCCER

Fantasy soccer revolves around individual leagues.

Major League Soccer (USA)

Premier League (England)

Serie League (Italy)

Scoring Categories:

Goals

Assists

Wins

GOLF

Choose golfer based on how you think they will perform.

Usually whoever has Tiger Woods does pretty well.

HOCKEY

Points given for goals and assists.

Points also given for penalty minutes (fights)

FOOTBALL

20 Million Participants

Least Time Consuming (Less than 30 min. per week)

Points given for touchdowns, yardage and field goals

Fantasy Football Scoring

Top 40 Quarterbacks

NORMAL FANTASY FOOTBALL LEAGUES

10 to 12 teams

Every NFL player up for draft

Participants gather to choose their teams

20 Million play worldwide

Stats gurus can sell their player advice for up to $600 per year

COMPETITIONS

World Championship of Fantasy Football:

Awards $350,000 to top player in “Main Event”

Awards $150,000 to top player in Platinum League (for experts)

Fantasy Football Open Championship (Las Vegas)

Sponsored by Papa John’s

$1 Million Prize

National Fantasy Football Championship (NBC)

2 Leagues: Each Winner gets $100,000

Winner of both gets $1 Million

ABOUT THE GAME

Lots of trash-talking involved

Legal on the internet because it’s considered a game of skill and not of chance

Top Websites:

ESPN.com

Yahoo!

CBS Sportsline

NFL.com

Fantasy football is the “new poker”

FANTASY LEAGUE MEMBERS

Paul Tudor Jones (helped built hedge-fund industry)

Jim Pallotta (Partial owner of Boston Celtics)

John Griffin (Blue Ridge Capital)

THE “WALL STREET LEAGUE”

The Wall Street $1 Million Fantasy League has been in existence since 2002

League will not exceed 10 teams

Holds draft on weekday after Stock Market close

1 minute time limit for each pick

Tele-conference drafting available

LEAGUE INFO

$100,000 buy-in

Winnings:

1st Place: $600,000 (6/10 of pot)

2nd Place: $300,000 (3/10 of pot)

3rd Place: $100,000 (1/10 of pot)

All $$$ goes to charity.

Team chooses charity to donate winnings to

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