What is Fantasy Football ?
Fantasy Football gives you the opportunity to run your own team of professional football players. You draft your team of the best players from across the NFL and receive points based on those players’ performance in NFL games each week of football season. You set weekly lineups, propose, accept and reject trades, sign free agents, and compete against other teams in your league. If you have a group of friends you can form your own league using Football Commissioner. You can also join one of our existing Fantasy Football 2003 football leagues.
Fantasy football is a great way to follow NFL action while also competing with your family, friends, family, co-workers or even strangers for football bragging rights. You field a team of real NFL players and accumulate points based on their actual game statistics. Scoring systems and competitive formats vary from site to site and league to league, but the ultimate objective is to field the best team based on players stats.
Although fantasy football is huge these days and everyone seems to play it, there are some that dont know what fantasy football is all about. And those are the people that think fantasy football people are geeks or Star Wars fans or even Harry Potter fanatics. Some of that may hold true for some fantasy football players, but most are just average Joes. There are even a lot of professional athletes, celebrities and politicians that enjoy fantasy football. Fantasy football is a growing hobby or game whatever you want to call it that is catching the nation by storm. Millions and millions of people participate in fantasy football every year. So for those of you that dont know about the game, below is a brief explanation. Most of the people that play fantasy football are NFL fans. They enjoy watching football and playing fantasy football gets them involved in more games to watch on the weekends. If you dont like the NFL, you likely wont like to play fantasy football. A fantasy football leag
In the game of fantasy football, participants use the statistics of real football players and teams to compete against one another in a season of their own. There are many different ways that the game can be played, and a great variety of rules that govern how different leagues conduct their competition. The first known fantasy football game was created by a man named Wilfred “Bill” Winkenbach in 1962. He and several others created an eight-team league in which players drafted real football players from the AFL for their fantasy team. The “owners” from the eight teams would choose a limited number of football players from their rosters to compete head-to-head each week. Points were awarded to each player for corresponding scores in real AFL games, and winners were awarded money that came from a pool of all of the players. This is still one of the basic ways that the game of fantasy football is played today, and there are a great multitude of variations. One major difference today is th
Fantasy Football gives you the opportunity to run your own team of professional football players. You draft your team of the best players from across the NFL and receive points based on those players’ performance in NFL games each week of football season. You set weekly lineups, propose, accept and reject trades, sign free agents, and compete against other teams in your league. If you have a group of friends you can form your own league using League Manager 2004. You can also join one of our existing 4th Qtr Fantasy 2004 football leagues.
