how do people play fantasy football?

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how do you play fantasy football? fantasy draft? is it the same as pokemon or yugioh? can u bet money on it? who dictates who wins? wouldnt all the teams be different? is there a super computer who takes your fantasy drafted team and pit it against another fantasy team and then tells you the results?

Answer 1

To play fantasy football is easy, you either draft people in a live draft held by your league and there is a actual clock and actual players that you can choose from, an offline draft where the commisioner puts in the results of the draft, or either a autopick draft where a SUPERCOMPUTER does pick players to be on your fantasy team. The winner is the one usually with the better team, and the one that knows how to manage the team(ie. pickup, drop players, bench, etc.) The players that are drafted accumulate points during the week in several categories that are set in the league. In Yahoo, there are two ways where a league can be set, Head to Head, where two managers in a league put their two teams together, each week, and the players of the teams try to get more points in different categories than the other team, such as more TDs, more yards, things like that, and the winner is the one with the most categories won, hence the name, Head to Head. And the other way is Points Only, where players on the teams try to gain points, and what determines the place that they are in is how many points that they have.

Answer 2

Fantasy Stats? Fantasy stats would be "Matt Ryan is getting me 24 points a week for my fantasy team compared to Flacco getting you 18 a week!" Those TD totals and passing yard totals are just straight up stats. And there is more to a quarterback than wins. There's more to a team than it's QB. Did Flacco outperform Ryan this postseason? Absolutely, but you have to be reminded that Ryan had to play the two best defenses in the NFL in his postseason and had two decent leads blown by his own defense. Meanwhile, Joe Flacco had his defense playing stellar and Anquan Boldin catching everything he threw up there, not to mention Rahim Moore gifting game-tying TDs. Matt Ryan played well too considering the opposition.

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how do people play fantasy football?
how do you play fantasy football? fantasy draft? is it the same as pokemon or yugioh? can u bet money on it? who dictates who wins? wouldnt all the teams be different? is there a super computer who takes your fantasy drafted team and pit it against another fantasy team and then tells you the...

Answer 4

There are auction drafts as well. You get a budget and have to outbid the other participants to acquire a player. Winners are always determined by the stats. You could draft Peyton Manning, but if he's sitting on the Colts bench, he's worthless. People bet money on it all the time. It's called a pay league. You pay an entry fee and get a prize if you win while the commish or a website gets a big profit.

Live drafts are in real-time and you have to select a player within a time limit. Autopick drafts are operated by a computer using your rankings. They often do a very poor job of choosing your team. Offline drafts are a catch-all term for any draft that the website doesn't operate.

If it is a non-auction, it is typical to reverse the order between rounds for fairness. In doing so, all picks even out and there are no real advantages, at least in theory. But the real advantages or disadvantages of a slot to pick are so slight you don't really need to worry because the great players are always able to pick a winner no matter what the circumstances.

The key to the game is knowing more than anybody else and putting it all together to have the best information. Anybody can use a magazine, but the successful ones research what's going on and use that to win. Winners always separate from the pack by picking a team of players that overachieve. A veteran team's likely to be competitive, but a young team has a chance of winning a league.

In fantasy football, it is important to be deep at RB. You can have an average starting QB and average WR, TE, K, and defense, but win a championship if you have 2 great RBs and having 3 or 4 great RBs ensures that you'll be able to deal them or keep them. Back in 2004 when McNabb had his great season. Thomas Jones for Donovan McNabb was a fair trade until Jones got hurt in midseason. Most people overvalue their QBs or just undervalue what having 2 successful RB is worth.

Almost Every starting QB in the league will be worth about 20 points every week under the default Yahoo scoring system, but a top RB is worth 20-30 points while a bad one might be worth 5. Even if your QB has a bad week and gets 14 points or so, you're still gaining on the guy who has a top QB.