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What is Fantasy Football?
Fantasy Football is the single most all-encompasssingly addictive professional football activity that anyone can participate in.  I’ve roped in bosses, parents, siblings, girlfriends and frat brothers.  With the unprecedented popularity of the National Football league, fantasy football continues to grow and cross all types of social boundaries.  I’m still waiting for the day my grandfather asks me to help him draft his first fantasy football team.

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Fantasy Football is part video game, part real world professional franchise ownership.  It’s an opportunity for would-be professional franchise moguls to run their own NFL team.  Fantasy football owners form their own fantasy football teams comprised of real world professional football players and use their statistics each weeks to match up against other owners in weekly fantasy football contests.  Owners are responsible for selecting their own NFL athletes to fill out their fantasy roster.  This is called the fantasy football draft.  Fantasy owners can also make moves throughout the season to field a successful franchise.  These moves including player trades with other owners or the acquisition of additional NFL players out of the block of athletes that remain unselected on a fantasy team, usually called the waiver wire.

To begin, a group of fantasy owners gather to form a league of as many fantasy football teams as they want (usually a group of eight to fourteen teams).  A fantasy football starting lineup is usually comprised of one quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers, one tight end, one kicker and one team defense/special teams unit.  Fantasy owners are responsible for filling out this roster with NFL Players through the fantasy football draft.  During the fantasy football draft, the fantasy owners get together to select NFL players to form their fantasy football teams.  The draft begins with fantasy owners taking turns selecting NFL players from a pool of all players in the National Football League.  The draft order is set before the draft by picking names from a hat and every other round the draft order is reversed. Once a player is selected he is no longer eligible to be selected again.  After a predetermined number of rounds (usually fourteen to eighteen rounds), the draft is over and all remaining NFL players not selected to a fantasy football team compose the block of players known as the waiver wire players.  These players can be picked up by fantasy owners throughout the season in exchange for a player already on their fantasy football roster.  

After the draft the fantasy football season begins with week one of the NFL regular season.  Fantasy owners throughout the league are paired with another owner in a head to head matchup of their fantasy football starting rosters.  The actual statistics of the NFL players on each owner’s rosters are converted to fantasy points based on a league scoring system.  The fantasy owner with more points by the end of the weekend wins the match.  The fantasy statistics that are tracked and converted into fantasy points are touchdowns and scoring, yardage gained, and defensive statistics for sacks, interceptions, and fumble recoveries.  The conversion of statistics to fantasy points can break down in the following manner:

Points               NFL Statistical Category  
   6                      Touchdowns
   3                      Field Goals
   2                      Two Point Conversion
   1                      Extra points
   1                      Every 20 yards passing
   1                      Every 10 yards rushing or receiving
   2                      Sacks, interceptions, fumble recoveries

Throughout the season, team owners plays each of the other teams in the league.  By week 14 of the NFL regular season, the fantasy football teams with the best records go into a bracketed fantasy football playoff.  The fantasy football playoffs begin Week 14 and end week 16 to avoid the Fantasy Super Bowl being played on Week 17 of the regular season, when many teams are resting their starters for the NFL playoffs.  The winner of the Super Bowl claims a fantasy football championship for the year and bragging rights over the other Fantasy owners for the entire offseason.
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