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Article #345: An Introduction To Fantasy Football

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Okay, let's get one thing straight right all the fantasy sports available and
off the bat, we are talking about continues to grow even faster with the
American football here, you know the explosion of websites and software to
sport with the funny shaped ball! Anyway, help with the game as well as the
let's not waste time on semantics I have proliferation of fantasy football
stuff to do. magazines available today.
The way fantasy football works is like Most fantasy football leagues will be
this, every participant or owner as we made up of around ten or twelve
are called in the Fantasy Sports World, individual teams which will have their
drafts or buys through an auction a team own mock drafts before the season starts.
of players. For the purposes of this Because you are drafting real players and
introduction we are going to assume the their performance really matters it pays
fantasy football league is NFL, but it to stay in touch with what is going on
could also be based on college players. with them during the off season and
The way the actual completion plays out pre-season. For example if you draft a
depends upon the individual fantasy Ricky Williams and he decides to go off
football league you happen to belong to. and smoke dope, too bad, you are screwed
In some fantasy football leagues the out of a running back! In some fantasy
winner is determined by total points at football leagues each owner must draft a
the end of a season, while others new team every year, while in others you
actually play against each other weekly may be allowed to keep a handful of
with the team having the best record at players which will not be entered in the
the end of the fantasy season being draft. Some leagues have even gone as far
declared winner of that fantasy football as to create so-called dynasty leagues
league. where an owner may maintain his team from
The internet has been responsible for the previous season and only draft
taking fantasy football from a hobby incoming rookies. This is very similar to
played out in sports bars and individual how a real football league works.
homes to a multi-billion dollar industry Players that are not drafted are
now according to the Fantasy Sports Trade designated as "free agents" and may be
Association. According to the FSTA, chosen during the season by trading
nearly twenty million players participate players that an owner may currently have
in fantasy sports and the industry has a and making them free agents. The rules
growth rate of around ten percent. that govern this practice vary from
Fantasy Football is the most popular of league to league.






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