Shared Fantasy

Scott Hardie | September 5, 2015
Would it be viable to play a fantasy sports league in which the athletes are not exclusive? A few hundred people could play at once, all drawing from the same pool of athletes, sharing choices freely. Thus, the winning would come not from choosing the best players before someone else takes them, but from choosing more wisely than everyone else, and also from managing the bench more carefully (and more often) when injuries and slumps occur.

I think this would only work in a points-based league where you rack up the most points by the end of the season, not a head-to-head league in which your team plays a match against another each week, but it would allow for a huge number of competitors to play against each other at once in the same league instead of limiting the number to a dozen or so.

Would this be viable? Are there leagues out there like this that I just haven't heard of?

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