Forget Derek Jeter, you want Jessica Simpson on your team.

Well, that's if you're recruiting players for Tabloid Fantasy League.

An alternative to online sports leagues like fantasy baseball and football, Tabloid Fantasy League, www.tabfl.com, is designed for the celebrity-obsessed. Participants draft celebrity "players" and make predictions each week about which celebs will appear on the cover of four major tabloids: In Touch, Us Weekly, People and Star.

Signing up for the league is free, and winners can earn prizes like iPod Nanos and Coach bags. Tabloid Fantasy League co-founder Amanda Dalsing, a 25-year-old law clerk, said she came up with the idea last year while she was bored at work. She read on a blog that people were playing a fantasy tabloid game with pen and paper, and immediately told her sister, Amy Reif, and her boyfriend, Firooz Basri. Reif discussed putting the game online with her neighbor, Breht Burri, a web programmer.

"We started playing on paper, me and my sister and Firooz, and we made our own league," Dalsing said. "Then we started talking to Breht, and he created a database for us."

Dalsing said the four became equal partners in the enterprise, and began meeting to discuss how the online league would work. They looked at back issues of the four tabloids and compiled statistics on how many times celebrities appeared on the covers. The online league became available to the public Aug. 16, she said.

Sophia Aloia (sophomore-advertising), a celebrity-watcher who interned for OK! Magazine this summer, said she was excited to hear about the league.

"That sounds like so much fun, I'd definitely play it," Aloia said. "But it might be hard to guess who is on the cover."

Dalsing said that although the average player is a 26.5 year-old-woman, the league is not only for young women.

"We have players ages 18 to 61, both girls and guys," she said.

Tabloid Fantasy League offers two games, FaceFecta and TabFecta. In the FaceFecta game, participants can guess which stars will make the cover of each of the four tabloid magazines. If they match a correct celebrity to all four magazine covers, they become eligible to win a prize.

In TabFecta, participants draft their own fantasy team of 12 celebrities. Each week, they decide which 8 will be on the "red carpet" playing field, and which 4 will be "off stage." Points are then awarded depending on how many times a participant's "red carpet" players appear on the covers of the four tabloids.

Dalsing said participants can check out "celebrity box scores" on the site to see how their celebrities are doing.

"Angelina Jolie was number one until maybe a week ago," Dalsing said. "Now Jessica Simpson is ranked first."

Cory Zatek (sophomore-French education) said although he is very interested in the lives of celebrities, he doesn't think he'd play Tabloid Fantasy League.

"I don't really care that much about whose picture is on the cover of the magazine," Zatek said. "I would much rather guess who's going to do something outrageous or something like that."

Dalsing said the league has more than 700 participants and the number increases by about 30 to 50 people every couple of days.

Aloia said the league will give many women a chance to participate in a fantasy competition.

"Why should the boys have all their fun with fantasy football?" she said.