What is fantasy football (or any of the fantasy sports)?

Question

I hear about it every-so-often but have no clue what it is.

Answer 1

A game played by football fans in which participants draft their own team and compete with teams built by others. Scoring systems vary among fantasy football leagues, but most are based on points accumulated by players based on their real-life performance in a game on the same day.

Imagine using every player in the NFL. He doesn't have a team until you or one of the other team owner pick him in a draft. In a league usually consisting of 8-14 teams. Every team takes turns picking players usually in a random order set at the beginning of the "Draft". Along with a set scoring system, ill get into this later, So it will go team 1 then team 2 then team 3 and so on. Usually the next round will begin at the end, called a snake draft, so team 1 doesn't get an unfair advantage. So after picking a roster consisting of real NFL players filling in Positions on your own team i.e. 1 Quarterback, 2 Runningbacks, 3 Wide Receivers, 1 Tight End, 1 Kicker and 1 Defense. With all positions you pick individual players. Except for the defense, you pick an entire real NFL team Defense so you want to get a good one like the Baltimore Ravens or Chicago Bears. All others are filled by single players. Once a player is selected by a team another team can not select that same player.

So after you go thru a entire draft you begin setting your rosters which you fill by drafting. Putting certain players to start but you can choose who you can start week to week, because when you draft you will choose extra players which will not play every week on your team, called bench players. These players can be inserted whenever needed.

Then comes the schedule. Each team plays a different team each week until all teams are played then you start from the beginning again. IE Team 1 plays Team 2, Team 3 plays Team 4, Team 5 plays Team 6 and so on. But that is only week #1. Every week is rotated on who plays who.

Now determining who wins is the scoring system. A scoring system us based on your starting lineups stats based on a predetermined scoring system, i.e. a passing touchdown is worth 4 points, but a rushing or receiving touchdown is worth 6 point. 25 yards passing might be worth 1 point, as where 10 yards rushing or receiving could be worth 1 point. Everything has a set point value but every stat is not counted, only ones predetermined before your draft takes place.

So if you have Peyton Manning on your team and he throws for 250 yards and 3 Touchdowns he scored you 22 points.

You must figure out what all you players did in their real NFL games. All stats for one week must be from the same week and consist of only your starters. The same must be done for your opponent for the same week. If your playing team 7 in week 5 You count only week 5 stats for your starters in the NFL in the real week 5 in the NFL. Now total everything up and see who has the higher score between you and your opponent for the week, whoever has scored more points wins for the week.

Now you get to do the same thing for next week also, but you will be playing a different opponent. You do this until the regular season schedule is over then if you make the playoffs usually the top 4 or 6 teams, using record, play head to head single elimination until 1 team is left standing. That team is the champion.

One of the best parts is getting to name your team. You can name your team anything you want, it can be serious or funny. Whatever you choose...

I hope this helped you under stand. This can be done for any sport, including baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and even golf and nascar racing.

Answer 2

Fantasy sports is a way to create a team or league by drafting players you want or like. That's why it's called fantasy because in real life, I think every team would want a Ladanian Tomlinson, Peyton Manning, Chad Johnson, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, Albert Pujols, Johan Santana, etc.

Pick players to create a team that accumulates stats (so it's a little different than picking players that are a good fit for the team). Whether that's NFL, MLB, NBA you will go against other teams that have also picked from the player pool to compete in the various statistical categories. Then you just sit and hope you don't have any major injuries

Answer 3

Geez. Novels being written here. It's simple.

1. Pick your favorite sport.
2. You are now General manager of a "fantasy" or virtual team.
3. Pick (draft) players at all positions for that team.
4. Manage the team by plugging in your best players weekly.
5. Wins and losses are driven by player statistics.

It is popular in part because it adds a new, deeper level of investment in a sport. You take an interest in many players from all teams.

Try it.

Answer 4

Fantasy sports is basically just about having a draft of players that are actual professional players.....Example fantasy football you draft actual football players and you get points for how well these players play in games in actual life......The better they do the more points they get...So you are basically getting a taste of what being a manager of an actual team is like, minus all the money issues (most fantasy sports exclude money)......

Answer 5

it is were you pick a team from al the teams and by using their statistics when playing score your points. The person who picks the best team at end of seasonshould have the best score.