"Site launches athlete stock market game"volume 8 issue 20, p.9 by Steve Jackson

A new intenet based interative stock market game is being launched called Prototrade.com. this is a complex game in which athletes are valued determined by a sophisticated "Moneyball" inspired system measuring their benefit to their team on every play and even based on trades, involving them or their own teammates.
This was developed by former Steinburg & Moorad employee Mike Kerns and MIT-trained quantitative analysis expert Jeff Ma. They don't want to call it a fantasy game because the belief is that you can not do all of this in a "fantasy game".
It is being launched from a 30 person company that has been working for two years to bring this sophisticated "market" to the internet. there will be a range from 5 dollar to 100 dollar games that will include the players on witch you may decide to represent or be a active GM towards.
I like this idea, it may sound as though the internet is becoming rediculas to alot of poeple who may get involved strickly to win (or lose) money, but I am more interested in the "experience". This may not have to do with my genereation but if there is a future sports marketer out there that wants to integrade a little more instruction into there curriculum than this is a good step to take. You don't have to spend any money, there is a finacial background that may be taught with out the "gamble". I do plan to take part in Protrade.com because I would like to make this industy a part of my like, and if that means it is going to be for work or for a past time than that is what I presume to do.