Abstract: A fantasy sports game is presented in which participants act as “managers” to build or draft teams that compete against each other based on the statistics generated by the actual individual players or teams of a sport, whether professional, college, Olympic, or amateur. Unlike traditional fantasy sports platforms, in which participants of the game freely draft players, in turn, according to their respective strategies and preferences, the present invention comprises a pre-determined, position based “lead pick-forced pick” feature in which draft selections or picks and counter-picks are “linked” based on on-field positions of the respective sport. All forced picks are therefore based on limited discretion—a forced pick must select a pre-determined position player from the actual sports team that is opposing the team of the player the subject of the immediately preceding lead or smash pick.