self directed information processing may occur such an engine may be for example a business rules engine that is associated with one or more processors which may be resident locally and or at one or more servers general requirements for construction of generic architectures for neural engines and or networks as understood by those skilled in the art may be used in conjunction with the present invention to perform the novel functionalities as describe hereinthroughout further as used herein the term on line includes any network telecommunications including for example pc based internet communications intranet communications extranet communications cellular telephonic communications personal digital assistant communications and the like further as used herein the term fantasy sports is intended to refer to any recreational activity or professional social or the like activity in which real world athletes or entertainment figures are selected for placement as u201c players u201d onto a virtual team and wherein the statistics accumulated by those real world athletes and or entertainment figures affect the standing and or position of that virtual team within and or relative to for example a league of at least one similar team and further wherein one or more such virtual teams and the players thereon are controlled or influenced by the.