When was Fantasy Football created and by who?

Question

I finally found the answer...no one was even close.



Fantasy football stemmed from the ideas of a man named Wilfred Winkenbach. In the mid-late 1950s, he had developed the first fantasy sport, fantasy golf, in which each participant would draft a team of professional golfers and the lowest combined score at the end of a tournament would win. He then applied this concept to baseball, using home run hitters and pitching statistics.

By 1962, Winkenbach, who had owned part of the Oakland Raiders, had arrived at football, presenting his idea to two writers for the Oakland Tribune in a Manhattan hotel. The three quickly formed an eight-team league, based on the point system they came up with that night: ten points for an extra point, 25 points for a passing touchdown, 25 points for a touchdown reception, 25 points for a field goal, and 200 points for a punt, kickoff, or interception returned for a touchdown.

The early years involved few leagues, but serious players. Several people stoppe

Answer 1

No one ever took credit for creating Fantasy Football, but it has been around for quite some time.

Teachers at my high school used to play Fantasy Football before computers were used in the classrooms. I have talked to somebody that had to go through the stats each week in order to tally up the points.

It never exploded until the internet started... that is when it became easy to record stats, and have them instantly updated.

Answer 2

in the late 1980 these business men would get together at a rotaries (I Hope that how you spell it)chicken restaurant in NYC and then the new york newspaper started it an then it went on from there