What is Fantasy Football?

Fantasy Football is a game played by football fans in which participants draft their own team and compete with teams built by others. Scoring systems vary among fantasy football leagues, but most are based on points accumulated by players based on their real-life performance in a game on the same day.

Traditional Fantasy Football Leagues

 In a “standard” fantasy football league, there are typically 10 or 12 teams, and all of the team owners get together before the season starts to conduct a draft and select the NFL players that they want to be on their team. Each week of the season they conduct trades and transactions as needed to replace players that get injured or otherwise do not perform as well as expected. Then they submit a starting line-up consisting of their best players for the current week, and their weekly score is calculated based on the cumulative scores of all the players they selected as starters. A head-to-head schedule is created at the start of the season, and each fantasy team plays against one other fantasy team in the league each week. This type of system works great for a standard fantasy football league with a set number of teams.

“Start ‘Em Once” Tournament Format

 No Draft Required! You get a new starting line-up each week. In this format, the only limitation is that each NFL player can only be started once during the entire season. For example, if a team chooses to use Peyton Manning in Week #1, then that is the only time they can use him as their QB for the entire season. It simplifies the entire league so each contestant just has a simple weekly task of selecting a starting lineup. At the same time, a lot of skill is involved while trying to figure out who to start throughout the entire season andplanning for good match ups each week.