EA Sports is taking its gridiron-game expertise in a new direction this July, announcing today that it’s creating a fantasy football league. Known as “EA Sports Fantasy Football,” statistics nuts will be able to register at this URL starting July 21 and participate in their own, customizable leagues.
Like fantasy leagues on Yahoo!, ESPN or any number of other online outlets, EA’s program will offer a fully customizable Commissioner League for the commissioner and crew, as well as Public Leagues where individual fans can compare their stat-prediction skills with the rest of the community. The EA Sports Commissioner League offers full league-management capabilities such as rules and scoring systems for up to 32 team owners. It will also provide real world news and information.
All this customization isn’t free, though. To head up a Commissioner League, players will have to pay $99.99. For those who are less inclined to pay $100 for stat-monitoring, there will also be a Public Leagues that matches-up 12 players in a league where EA Sports picks the rules. That membership is $9.99.
Free to all subscribers will be a weekly Pick’em Game, where the participants who most accurately predict the weekly winning teams will earn weekly EA Sports incentives and the chance to win a season-long EA Sports reward. What the incentives and reward will be has yet to be announced.