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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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