Happy Thanksgiving! And idea for the day - True Fantasy Football

I hope you have a great day today eating your fill of your chosen turkey, pork, etc. I love this holiday as it's the gateway to starting up Christmas. My idea for today strangely coincides with this nice holiday:

You know about fantasy football, baseball, etc. where you (I think) collect an assortment of players across all the teams and accumulate their stats as they play throughout the year and sort of simulate what they would have done if they had played together as a team. [some additional explaination here]

My idea is this: Instead of just picking football players for a fantasy football league, imagine if you also picked a few baseball players as well? And even a few basketball, hockey, and even soccer players. The crux of the idea is to come up with some system by which the abilites and accomplishments of a given player in a given sport could be "translated" to another team/sport. This increases the number of players you could pick dramatically, as well as coming up with some really interesting competition. The idea is of course a soccer player might not be able to play basketball as well as an "official" basketball player, but if they do really well in soccer, that translates to pretty good at basketball somehow. I think this idea could spark whole new kinds of fantasy football, basketball, etc. leagues. You could even have interesting things where you pick all soccer players to play bowling or something :)


What do you think? Has someone already thought of this? I think it'd be really cool!

So while you are kicking back and watching that football game today, imagine if you could mix in a few of your favorite hockey players in there. The trick would be to come up with realistic translation "formulas" - but that would spawn all kinds of programs, websites, etc. etc.