Advanced Fantasy Football (AFF) is a highly competitive and strategic
form of 'fantasy football' played in separate leagues of up to 
twenty* 'managers'.

AFF is fairly simple to learn but is sophisticated enough to allow managers to use complex strategies in their attempts to win their league.

Advanced Fantasy Football's™  unique system (© Copyright) differs from standard fantasy football in the following ways:

1. Each football player is 'owned' by only one manager.

This is done via auctions, which you can organize yourselves, or use our unique internet auction system using  'sealed bids' which take place at the start of your season. During the season players may be transferred between managers for an agreed amount, or managers may use the 'spare pool' of players which no-one has yet signed.

2. Each club has a fictional 'bank account' which is used for the following:

1. for managers to buy and sell players during the season

2. to pay players wages during the season

3. to pay for your club's stadium 

4. to bank your gate receipts
   
   Players score points for your team in the usual fantasy football way but our unique system allows managers to buy and sell players to each other during the season. 
   By introducing points fines for going overdrawn (30pts per £1m) on your club's bank account - we have 'oiled the wheels' of the transfer market. Some managers will need to sell players to raise cash, whereas other managers can improve their teams by buying good players from struggling teams.  

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This is the basic principle around which the game is based:

During the season there are 3 'Pay Days'.
On these days, clubs receive income from gate receipts but must also pay players wages and any stadium costs. 
Each club's gate income is determined, on a sliding scale, by its position in its league. 
Teams at the top earn more gate income than teams near the bottom.
A mid-table club will usually be able to afford its wages and stadium costs out of its gate receipts.
As teams climb above mid table towards the top of the league they become 'better off' due to their increasing gate receipts, as successful teams are usually better supported.
(See graphical example)
However, as teams fall below mid table towards the bottom of the league they gradually become 'worse off' as their gate receipts fall below the amount required to pay their players' wages and any stadium costs.

We calculate these cash flows for you and they're shown on your league table, so it's easy to understand and you don't have to spend time doing the sums.  
 
If a club is overdrawn at the end of a 'pay day' it is fined points for every million overdrawn, which inevitably means that clubs going overdrawn will find it necessary to sell players to richer teams in the top half - and this unique mechanism 'oils the wheels' of the transfer market.
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'Cash rich' teams can make offers to clubs going overdrawn and transfers will take place between clubs - just as in the real premier league. 

This introduces an element of skillful bargaining into the game as, when buying or selling players, managers must try to haggle for the best deals they can get.

To find out more have a look at the basic rules.   

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 Please note - there are NO CASH PRIZES in Advanced Fantasy Football and this is for two reasons:

1. We are a specialist, niche market, 'cottage industry' offering a high quality product to fantasy football enthusiasts. Our managers only compete against the 20 managers in their league, not thousands of other managers, as occurs in standard cash-based fantasy games.

2. Introducing cash payouts would constitute a form of gambling.
Our mission is simply to offer fantasy football enthusiasts the best version of fantasy football available (at an affordable cost). 
Complying with gambling industry regulations would significantly increase our fixed costs, which we would then have to pass on to our customers.
   
 (Please note - it is legal for friends to 'pool bet' amongst themselves using fantasy football games).  
An effective way to stop collusion between managers playing AFF, is to introduce a 'payout system' for pooled bets within your own leagues which reflects each teams final league position. 
If you distribute pool bets according to each teams' position, there is no incentive for one manager to sacrifice his own team for the benefit of a friend's team in order to share any 'winner-takes-all' pooled bets.
An example of such a scheme is shown clicking here.

We re-iterate our position re gambling and emphasise that we never become involved in private disputes between members. We are in no way responsible for any losses incurred as a result of individuals privately betting on AFF results. We never enter into correspondence regarding disputed player scores and our decision on scores (and rules) is final.   

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COMMISSIONS

£50!! Commissions to 'League Controllers'
We pay £50 to anyone who starts up a NEW Advanced Fantasy Football League containing 20 managers (pro rata* see below).
 
After the first year, League Controllers earn £25 commission per season for a league of 20 managers (pro rata*).

A 'League Controller's only duties are to sign up members to their league and collect and submit members' details and fees prior to the start of the season.  

A 'New' league is defined as one where more than half of its managers are 'new' members. A 'member' is logged by their permanent e-mail address (not hotmail). 
Members' E-mail addresses are used for: 
1. registering AFF 'members'
2. sending out passwords
3. determining commissions
4. Places in Winners Hall of Fame. 
 (*pro rata: if your league contains less than 20 managers then deduct £5  for every manager under 20).
 
£20!! Commissions to 'Referrers'
We pay £20 to any AFF league member who is named as a 'referrer' by a new League Controller. 
WHAT?!!
That means you can earn money by just telling someone else about Advanced Fantasy Football if they then set up a league and name you as their referrer!
You will also earn repeat commissions! (£10) for every year that that league runs thereafter!!
 Of course, if you are going to set up a league, or even recommend us, you should be confident about the quality of our product and (given our track record and the positive comments we receive from those already playing) we have no doubts that you will be.

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