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Kim Cramer and the members of her fantasy league are looking forward to an exciting season of marital strife and bliss.

That's because the game in Cramer's league is relationships and the players are husbands.

Well, not real husbands. The name of Cramer's Web site -- fantasyhusbands.com -- makes that clear.

More than 200 women have signed up to take the field of matrimony this fall, positioning fantasy guys in various relationship scenarios and piling up points each week if their man handles the situations best.

Cramer, a 40-year-old single mom from Tallahassee, came up with the idea after thinking about the incredible amount of time that men devote to fantasy football leagues.

"I just thought that women would love to have something to banter about and give the men a taste of what fantasy sports are," she says.

Here's how it works: Each week, players are given a marital relationship scenario. They then choose three husbands from a roster of 20, taking care to pick the person they think would respond the best in the scenario (based on the husband's "bio"). On Sundays, the husbands' actions are posted and scored. The player with the highest totals at the end of the season wins a prize.

Although the husbands aren't real, their answers are -- Cramer begged male co-workers, friends and acquaintances to provide responses.

Scenarios range from how a husband should handle a fight between his mom and his wife to what he should do when a football game and his daughter's birthday party are scheduled for the same time.

But these scenarios don't necessarily have simple answers. That's where marriage and family counselors Kay Colvin-Guthrie and Patty McAlpine come in. Not only do they judge the responses, they offer explanations and advice.

"Part of what I want to do is to teach women that are not married that this is what a fantasy husband looks like," says Colvin-Guthrie, who agreed to be the league's referee after a chance meeting with Cramer in a store line. "Then to the married women [we] want to be able to say here is what is appropriate for a husband to do and this is what is not appropriate."

The counselors "really give tangible, real-life relationship analysis that should be applied," Cramer says.

All this for only $9.95 per season?

Vicki Curtis-Stoner is sold. A 28-year-old Tallahassee woman, she participates along with several other women in her office. "We have playful arguments over it," she says.

The preseason is well under way. There are then two seven-week seasons, with the first starting Sept. 10.

"Aside from shopping or gossip columns, there isn't really anything that women can do with another group of women [over the Internet]," says Curtis-Stoner. "So this is really great."