Global Sports: Learning About Fantasy Football

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Learning About Fantasy Football

By Wayne Harley


You may have heard of it, your pals are enjoying it, you enjoy regular football, but what precisely is fantasy football?

Fantasy football is essentially a fantasy sports game where participating players are referred to as owners. These owners belong to a distinct arranged competing league. Each and every one of these leagues receive what is known as fantasy points based on data and figures from the actual game of football; known as the National Football League. The real life information which the expert athletes of the National Football League build up is important in determining the victor of a fantasy football match up.

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 filled by the proprietor of a fantasy football team incorporate 1 or more running backs, wide receivers, quarterbacks, a kicker, a defense and a tight end; a set up similar to the actual 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 most total points is victorious of 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.

The majority of the football leagues choose 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 entire season.

The astounding popularity of fantasy football is reflected in the simple fact that in 2009, twenty seven million players played in fantasy football league games. They racked up an average of nine hours per week to play!




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