AFL Dream Team, created by The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

 newspaper in 1991, is a fantasy football

Fantasy football (Australian rules football)

Fantasy football is a fantasy sport in which competitors score points based on the performance of players in the Australian Football League. The two biggest competitions are the Herald Sun's Supercoach competition and the AFL's Dream Team competition .Other competitions include Fox Sport's Fantasy...

 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 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...

home-and-away Season.

Point Scoring

Points are gained or deducted depending on the performances of your 22 players for each round. Up to three emergencies can replace players in your starting 22, who didn't play that specific round. If you have a 0 scoring player in a certain position and don't have an emergency selected in that position, you'll not score any points for that player. You can choose who on the reserves list you'll use as an emergency. Meanwhile the remaining five substitutes on your reserves list don't score, but can increase in value.

Points are awarded for the following achievements.

• Kick = 3 Points
• Handball = 2 Points
• Mark = 3 Points
• Tackle = 4 Points
• Free Kick For = 1 Point
• Free Kick Against = -3 Points
• Hitout = 1 Point
• Goal = 6 Points
• Behind = 1 Point