What is the National Fantasy Football league?
The National Fantasy Football game has changed the vision of looking towards the real football game. You might get an invitation to play fantasy football from your friend or co-worker many times. You should know all about the game before jumping into it.
When you play fantasy football, you create a virtual roster of the real National Football league players. After creating a roster, you compete against the rosters of the other people and based on the real stats of the real games. The traditional leagues in the NFL are long (same player for the whole season) and in daily leagues (you draft a new player every week).
In fantasy football, the wins of the real-life NFL team are not important. There are few things that matter for this game within a game are — touchdowns, yards, and catches. The game is named “fantasy” because assembling your favourite player in different teams on the field is hypothetical only and it is a fantasy of some football lovers.
After fantasy cricket, fantasy football is the most popular fantasy sport in India. Overall, fantasy football represents the whole football culture and is a popular fantasy game. Fantasy football is the reason to cover football broadcasts with stats graphics.
Popularity and craze for football is the reason why the NFL promotes fantasy football.
Beginning of Fantasy Football
In the 1950s and 60’s people used to track the statistics of the players on pen and paper of their favorite baseball players. Fantasy baseball was the most popular at that time. Then at the beginning of the 1990s, numerous websites started offering automated leagues at zero cost.
In 1999, Yahoo became the first site to host numerous fantasy leagues for free. And the popularity of fantasy football has increased. Since then people are playing fantasy football for free and also paying money to get extra features.
In 2002, the National Football League conducted research to find out about fantasy players. And after seeing the popularity of Fantasy football, it started hosting leagues on its own website.
How does Fantasy Football work?
To play in a long season’s league, you register on online fantasy sports apps or websites. You make a team of either strangers or with your friend and name the team and here you become a team owner.
Before the season starts, you and the other owners hold a draft and pick the National Football player for your team. Each player is allowed to be only in one team during the respective league. After the draft, during the national football league, you can pick different players who are not drafted yet and can drop the ones you don’t want in your team.
After making a team, for the regular season, each week you select a subset of the players of your team. Generally, it is two running backs, two wide receivers, a tight end, a kicker, and a team defense. The numbers with respect to leagues. On a bye week, you take out the injured players from your team.
Every week your selected starters compete against the other starters. The points you get while playing fantasy football are yards, touchdowns, field goals, and other stats that your real-life player produces. At the end of the week, a team with maximum points wins the game. This cycle goes for the whole season and eventually, one team becomes the champion of the league.
Types of Players one should draft
The drafting of the position of National Football League players gets you additional points. Like sleepers, might be drafted low, but perform better and potential busts, players who might underperform this year.
However, if you don’t want to invest your time in drafting, leave it up to your league’s default ranking. If you do not want to do that also, ignore and focus on the game.