ESMS INFORMATION

ESMS

ESMS is an acronym for Electronic Soccer Management Simulator. It is a program that allows people to run fantasy soccer management games that are mostly used in Play By Email games.

ESMS was initially created by Eli Bendersky (external link)

and Igor Oks, who started their soccer play-by-email journey in 1998, as managers in a fantasy league called WWISL, which used spreadsheets to ‘run’ games. The first official league to use ESMS was Global Internet Soccer League (GISL) in 1999.

Eli who was actively involved in maintaing the code stopped his involvement in the game in mid-2007. The last version released was ESMS v2.7.3.

ESMS is now undergoing a transformation and Dave Thacker (external link)

is now developing the latest version of ESMS in Ruby (external link)