Re: Sports Simulations

From: ingram@dirac.phys.washington.edu (Doug Ingram)

Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 18:06:52 +0000

achamber@cs.weber.edu (Tony Chamberlain) writes:

>Hi, I'm fairly new to the group and I posted a request earlier but we had
>so many problems with our domain server, we got cut of from posting till it was
>fixed.  anyway, I'm really interested in any PBEM sport simulations.  Such as
>the type where each player controls a manager of a team and sends in stats on
>how they are to play the next game.

I'll repeat some of what I posted last time on this subject, in
a somewhat shorter format.  The five sports simulations I know of are
(3 soccer, 1 hockey, 1 Australian Rules Football):

- Experimental Electronic Football League (EEFL): wickart@ichips.intel.com
- United Electronic Football League (UEFL): billones@grebyn.com
- World Electronic Football League (WEFL): sarge@cs.uq.oz.au
- World Email Hockey Association (WEHA): creare!inb@Dartmouth.edu
- S. P. Australian Rules Football (SPARF): mel@soda.berkeley.edu

All five of these are currently in the middle of a season to the
best of my knowledge, but I believe each has some kind of a waiting list
for drop out replacements (rare) and end of season expansion, when it
occurs.  The rules for the three soccer games vary among the simulations,
with EEFL being the most complex by far.  EEFL is the most likely to be
accepting new entrants in the near future due to drop outs (because there
are so many managers in the league), and the season ends in about two months.

UEFL is unlikely to be accepting anyone new for a while, since the
season just started and only happens once per year (few managers, too).
WEFL may start its new season in a couple of months as well, but I don't
know if it will be expanding.

WEHA just started a season and may or may not expand next year.
There may end up being some drop outs who need to be replaced, so a wait
list here may be short.  I don't know too much about SPARF, but you can
find out more about the game by sending a null message with the subject
line "help" (no quotes) to munch@soda.berkeley.edu.

I'm told that there are wargame simulations ongoing that dwarf
the participation in these sport simulations, so you might want to watch
this newsgroup to find out about them.  And if you're interested in stuff
that has more to do with the real-world (like polling and predictions),
you should check out the appropriate rec.sport.* groups.

Hope this helps.

Doug Ingram -- ingram@u.washington.edu

>Any information at all will be appreciated.

>Tony chamberlain
>achamber@icarus.cs.weber.edu

References

Sports Simulations
achamber@cs.weber.edu (Tony Chamberlain)
Tue, 03 Nov 1992 16:02:54 +0000

Referenced By

Sports Simulations
achamber@cs.weber.edu (Tony Chamberlain)
Tue, 03 Nov 1992 16:02:54 +0000