Fantasy football is a fantasy sport

Fantasy sport

A fantasy sport is a game where participants act as owners to build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by the real individual players or teams of a professional sport...

 in which competitors score points based on the performance of players in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

. The two biggest competitions are the Herald Sun

Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital...

's Supercoach

Supercoach

Supercoach is an online Australian Football League fantasy football game in which the competitor takes on the role of coach and selector and guide his or her hand-picked team to glory against other teams. Supercoach is run by the Herald Sun in Melbourne...

 competition (which had 390,367 entries in 2010) and the AFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

's Dream Team

AFL Dream Team

AFL Dream Team, created by The Age newspaper in 1991, is a fantasy football game in which participants assemble an imaginary team of real life players and score points based on those players' actual statistical performance or their perceived contribution on the field of play throughout the 24 round...

 competition (which had 323,963 competitors).

Other competitions include Fox Sport

Fox Sports (Australia)

Fox Sports is an Australia group of sports channels. They are owned by the Premier Media Group, which is in turn owned by News Corporation, and Consolidated Media Holdings. Its main competitors are ESPN, which has little local content and the free-to-air digital channel One HD...

's Fantasy AFL, Yahoo!7

Yahoo!7

Yahoo!7 is a 50-50 partnership between the Seven Network and Yahoo! Inc. in Australia.As part of the Yahoo! Inc. and the Seven Media Group, Yahoo!7 brings together the online assets of Yahoo! Inc. and the television and magazine content of the Seven Network and Pacific Magazines...

's AFL Football Fantasy, Footytips, Ultimate Footy and FantasyFooty.net.au (formally My Fantasy Footy).

External links

• A short history of fantasy Aussie Rules football