A Fantasy sport is a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams of a professional sport. Probably the most common variant converts statistical performance into points that are compiled and totaled according to a roster selected by a manager that makes up a fantasy team. These point systems are typically simple enough to be manually calculated by a "league commissioner." More complex variants use computer modeling of actual games based on statistical input generated by professional sports. Fantasy sports are also known as Fairy-Tale sports and Owner Simulation.

Some popular fantasy sports:

• Fantasy baseball
• Fantasy cricket
• Fantasy American football
• Fantasy football/soccer
• Fantasy basketball
• Fantasy golf
• Fantasy hockey
• Fantasy Auto Racing
• Fantasy Sports stock simulations
• Fantasy Waterski
• and in its own catagory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniball

Some sports writers criticize fantasy sports, especially those involving team sports, of focusing too much on statistics; a player on a real team might be a team player and help his/her team win championships, but with the advent of fantasy sports, team play does not matter as much as having good individual statistics.

Examples of successful online fantasy sports news sites include:

• Fantasy Football News
• Talented Mr. Roto
• GetSportsInfo.com
• My Fantasy Advisor
• FISO Forum
• Fantasy Fan Base