ABOUT US.....

ARTIFICIAL A-LEAGUE was created in 2018 by Rob Toddler & Nick Magers.

It is a 'football management' game based on Australia's top flight competition, the A-League.

The game was created as an alternative to the many 'points-based' fantasy sports games already out there, which we believe have become convoluted to the point where much of the fun has been taken out of playing fantasy sport.

Rob Toddler: "Nick and I had both played those fantasy leagues, the ones where it's you and 1,000 others, with most of them sharing many of the same players. These games generally use a points system that's based on the real-life player's assists, minutes played, yellow/red cards, and all types of increasingly abstract factors.
We realised this made the game so removed from what's really great about football: Simplicity... If you get goals, you win."

Artificial A-League (or 'AA-League') is different. It keeps things simple. You only sign midfielders and strikers to actually score goals. You sign goalkeepers to 'save' a goal. And defenders, who score rarely, to do both.
That's it.

And being a 'draft' style game, you're in a league with only 8-12 teams. So when you sign a player, YOU own them, nobody else.
That means that if you come out of the auction with the A-League's biggest marquee player, or the top A-League team's first choice goalkeeper, as far as your league is concerned ...they're yours only.

It's also a LIVE game. In AA-League, you know instantly how your team's going because the goals are updated LIVE on the website. So you can see your team's score AND their ladder position AS IT HAPPENS.


If this sounds interesting, sign-up HERE, create a team and join a 'Public Online league' now**, or contact us HERE and we'll get back to you.
(** Only available during A-League pre-season and regular season)


HOW A SEASON WORKS:

1) Register an account HERE if you don't have one

2) Log in continue with 'Create new team' (or select it from the Account menu)
     (You can join a Public Online League now, or apply for a Pro League)

3) During the A-League pre-season, submit bids for up to 15 players at a time. You can submit bids for FREE AGENT players, or beat an existing bid by 50% before it matures.
     (If you apply for a Pro League, you will be given a date to attend a player auction, which is usually a week or two before the A-League seaosn begins)

4) After the player auction, now that you have a squad, log in and select your starting team from your squad.
     (1 goalkeeper, 2 defenders, 2 midfielders, 2 strikers and 2 subs)

5) After that, you have no commitment. You can change your team each week and bid for unsigned players, or just let your team run. It's up to you.

If you win a Pro League, you may win a cash prize and/or be promoted to the league above (depending on your league's arrangements)
Work your way up the leagues!



If you have any questions ask us HERE

HISTORICAL NOTE:

ARTIFICIAL A-LEAGUE is based on two other very similar management games:
A Premier League "Play-by-mail" game popular in the UK and Australia in the 1980s/90s, and a long-running Sydney-based NRL fantasy game PRL (Pretend Rugby League) which has become an institution in Sydney's inner west since the 1990s.