A system for providing an interactive sports game to a plurality of participants wherein each participant wishes to form a fantasy sports team made up of actual players. The system is operable: (a) to solicit and accept from each participant an initial selection and purchase of players to form the participant's fantasy sports team, each participant purchasing the players using no more than a predetermined number of game value units initially allocated by a host controller; and (b) responsive to a request of a participant, to access the data storage and report a status of the participant's fantasy team, the status including information as to the performance and market value of the players on the participant's team. The number of game value units associated with each player varies in correlation with the demand of the participants for that player and a participant receives periodically a value-based reward correlated to the value and/or performance of the players on a participant's team.