Fantasy Football - Match AI

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I'm trying to program a Fantasy Football (soccer) Manager and I have been
surfing the web for examples.

The thing I noticed is that every decent Football Manager script/program
actually has routines to play the matches virtually. The entire match is
played based on settings like:

- ball handling
- stamina
- tactical insight

This sounds like a huge task if you have 350.000 members, like Hattrick.org
or fantasyfootball.co.uk

How can I accomplish something similair? Can anyone point me in the right
direction where I can learn more abouy these kinds of routines or techniques
to simulate matches?

Any help would be appreciated.

D. Tholen