FANTASY FOOTBALL GAME!

Fantasy Football!

Fantasy Football is a game in which the participants (called "owners") each assemble a team of real life NFL players and then score points based on those players' statistical performance on the field. Leagues can be arranged in which the winner is the team with the most total points at the end of the season or in a head-to-head format (which mirrors the actual NFL) in which each team plays against a single opponent each week, and at the end of the year the team with the best win-loss record wins the league. Some leagues even set aside the last weeks of the NFL regular season for their own playoffs.

Fantasy football has evolved in recent years from a simple recreational activity into a big business industry due to the Internet. Fantasy sports in general have grown into an industry that generates an estimated $100 million in annual revenue and involves about 30 million Americans, according to a Harris Interactive poll. Fantasy football has surpassed fantasy baseball in popularity and is now the most popular fantasy sport in the United States. And it is continuing to grow: the number of websites and magazines dedicated to fantasy football has increased substantially in each of the last several years.

Typically, a fantasy football league comprises 8–12 teams, which allocate NFL players among themselves by holding a draft or auction before the start of the season. Most leagues are "re-draft" leagues in which each team begins each season with an empty roster to be filled via draft or auction. (The drafts are usually held in serpentine fashion; i.e., the team picking first in the odd rounds will pick last in the even rounds.) Some leagues, however, are "keeper" leagues in which owners can designate a certain number (sometimes just one, perhaps as many as five) of players to keep on their roster from the previous season, removing them from the annual draft. Other leagues, termed "dynasty" leagues, take this further: the owner keeps his entire roster from the previous season (or at least the vast majority), with the annual draft consisting of only rookie players.

Undrafted players become "free agents" and are placed on "waivers". Owners may add these players to their team, and place unwanted players back onto waivers. Another way that fantasy football teams change over time is when owners trade players amongst themselves.

Scoring is based on the performance of each team's individual players in their weekly NFL games. A common format for a starting lineup is:

1 Quarterback
2 Running backs
3 Wide receivers
1 Tight ends
1 Placekicker
1 Team Defense

Some leagues use Individual Defensive Players (IDPs) instead of a Team Defense.

Players earn their team points based up their performance in their weekly games. A common scoring format is:

1 point for 25 passing yards
1 point for 10 rushing yards
1 point for 10 receiving yards
6 points for a rushing or receiving touchdown
4 points for a passing touchdown
-2 points for every turnover committed
1 point for an extra point kicked
3 points for a made field goal (with varying bonuses for long distance kicks)
Defensive scoring varies greatly from league to league.

Some examples of successful fantasy football leagues include:

Sandbox.com's fantasy football service
Yahoo.com's fantasy football service
Espn.com's fantasy football service
Some examples of fantasy football information sites include:

Fantasy Football Cafe
Fantasy Football Spiral
Fantasy Football Today

Fantasy football leagues have also been run for Association football.

Origins
For a detailed history of the origin of fantasy football see [1]. The original league, GOPPPL (Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League), was created in the fall of 1962 and first drafted in August 1963 in Wilfred Winkenbach's basement in Oakland California. Winkenbach was a limited partner of the Oakland Raiders. Another early pioneer of GOPPPL was Philip G. Carmona, a best friend of Winkenbach.

Mr. Winkenbach passed away in 1993 but as of May 2003 his wife still is a limited partner of the Oakland Raiders.

According to NFL.com[2], Fantasy Football began in 1962 among beat writers for the AFL Oakland Raiders.
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