Fantasy Football - What Is It?

By Wayne Harley


You may well have heard of it, your friends are playing it, you enjoy standard football, but what exactly is fantasy football?

Fantasy football is generally a fantasy sports game where participating players are termed owners. These owners belong to a particular arranged contending league. Each of these leagues receive what is termed as fantasy points based on information and stats from the real game of football; known as the National Football League. The actual life information which the expert athletes of the National Football League rack up is essential in identifying the victor of a fantasy football game.

The players or owners of the league utilize a listing of actual football players and they choose their fantasy team from among these players. The sources of this listing are players in the National Football League.

The positions to be selected by the owner of a fantasy football team consist of 1 or more running backs, wide receivers, quarterbacks, a kicker, a defense and a tight end; a set up related to the real National Football League teams.

Primarily based on genuine stats and reliant on the performance of the players, a fantasy football team can acquire fantasy points to face up versus the other football fantasy owners.

For instance, a player in the position of running back achieves a touchdown, then if that running back is on your fantasy team you will receive, in the world of fantasy football, a decided amount of points. Points are also commonly rewarded for yards ran, and in some leagues even the number of catches a player gets.

You will be chosen a match up towards one other team in your league each and every week. At the finish of the weeks football games, whichever fantasy teams players that the team chose to play has the highest sum of points wins that match up.

When the season ends, there will be a win-loss tally or record. This will establish your league's fantasy football standings and the very best teams will advance into a fantasy playoff bracket. The number of teams that make the playoffs is decided by each particular league.

Most of the football leagues put aside a few weekends of the month of the regular football season for the fantasy football playoffs. This playoff will decide the fantasy football league's victor or champion for the total season.

The amazing attractiveness of fantasy football is shown in the simple fact that in 2009, twenty seven million players enjoyed fantasy football league games. They totaled an average of 9 hours per week to play!




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