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Example of fantasy football, an ESPN championship score.Fantasy football is a game in which the participants serve as of professional teams. The competitors choose team rosters by participating in a in which all players of a real football league are available.

Points are based on the actual performances of the players in the real-world competition. The game typically involves the, or.There are two main types of fantasy football:.

Traditional in which the competition can run either for an entire or many seasons if it is a keeper league,. is an accelerated version in which the contests are conducted over shorter periods, such as a week or a single day. Daily fantasy football is managed by commercial internet companies who charge a percentage of each. In the United States, the two largest firms are.

Contents.History Modern fantasy football can be traced back to the late Wilfred 'Bill the Gill' Winkenbach, an businessman and a limited partner in the. In a hotel room during a 1962 Raiders cross-country trip, Winkenbach, along with Raiders Public Relations man Bill Tunnel and Tribune reporter, developed a system of organization and a rule book, which would eventually be the basis of modern fantasy football.The inaugural league was called the GOPPPL (Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League), and the first draft took place in the of Winkenbach's home in in August 1963. The league consisted of eight members, made up of administrative affiliates of the AFL, pro football journalists, or someone who had purchased or sold 10 season tickets for the Raiders’ 1963 season. Each roster consisted of the following in the GOPPPL: two quarterbacks, four halfbacks, two fullbacks, four offensive ends, two kick/punt returners, two field goal kickers, two defensive backs/linebackers and two defensive linemen. The current GOPPPL roster now includes two quarterbacks, four halfbacks, six wide receivers/tight ends, two kickers, two defensive backs, one return team, and a bonus pick for any position. As of 2012, the GOPPPL celebrated its 50th season and it still maintains its touchdown-only scoring heritage.In 1969, Andy Mousalimas, an original creator of GOPPPL and participant in the inaugural draft, brought the game to his sports bar, the King's X in Oakland where he added another couple of leagues.

When the patrons of other Oakland and bars visited for trivia contests they soon learned of fantasy football and passed the word about it. Due to the time-consuming nature of the game's scoring it was difficult to pick up and spread slowly across the country.The Indoor Football League (IFL) began in in the fall of 1980 by a group of six students at in Cleveland.

Charter members Tom Spear and Jeff Kornreich came up with the idea of forming a league after reading a short article by Glenn Ferry in the September 1980 issue of Inside Sports magazine. The history of the league has been documented in a video produced by the Fantasy Sports Network in their series 'Out of My League.' In 1985, The Grandstand Sports Services launched the first nationally available fantasy football leagues online through Q-Link (later ). Between 1985 and 1996, The Grandstand continued to improve on the game and the technology by being the first to offer automated drafting, real-time scoring, real-time trading and transactions, and continuous leagues.The first national fantasy football competition, Pigskin Playoff, was developed in 1989 by Lee Marc, Robert Barbiere, and Brad Wendkos of Phoneworks who teamed with a West Coast Ad Agency (Wakeman & deForest) to launch the game in 1990 in a number of newspapers throughout the country including the Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, Arizona Republic, Press Democrat. Archives of Pigskin Playoff are available online and in most public libraries.

Pigskin Playoff is what current Daily Fantasy Sports are modeled after in that it was the first game to allow significantly large numbers of participants to compete against one another for prizes and more importantly converted football statistics into a simple scoring system. Participants created a team of NFL players, earned stats for those players based on actual performance, traded those players on a daily basis, and accrued points in an effort to compete against one another to win prizes. The group filed and was awarded US Patents 5,018,736A and 5,263,723A, for Interactive Game System and Method; Interactive Contest System.In 1997, launched the beta version of the first publicly available free fantasy football website. The game immediately became widely popular. Within three years, all major sports media websites launched competing for fantasy football hosting websites.

The NFL released their own official game in 2010, NFL.com Fantasy Football, further driving industry growth. Fantasy football is now the single most important marketing tool for the NFL. Today, it is estimated over 19 million people compete in public and private leagues online nationally.In 2009, a fantasy football-based sitcom, was created by the husband-and-wife team of (, ) and (, ), who served as executive producers and directors. The series was produced by FX Productions.

League types. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.Find sources: – ( November 2016) There are many different methods of organizing fantasy football leagues, some of which may be combined. The two most popular league types are head-to-head and total points leagues. In head-to-head leagues, a fantasy team matches up against a different fantasy team from the league each week. The team that receives the most points of the two receives a win for that week.

Points are dictated by the scoring system that is either standard set by the website or custom set by the league. A team's total is the sum of all players' points who were placed in a starting slot by the team owner for the day they were playing (as opposed to being on the bench, in which any points gained would not count). Teams with the best win-loss record advance to the playoffs. If two teams have the same record, tiebreakers are employed based on league preference. Total points leagues are leagues in which teams accumulate points on an ongoing basis. The league standings are determined by the teams’ total points. The most popular total points leagues are 'best-ball' leagues, where the week-to-week roster management is removed.

Playoff leagues are also frequently total points leagues. All play leagues are leagues in which all teams play each other each week. For example, if there are 14 teams in the league, the top scoring team that week would post a 13–0 record, 2nd highest scoring team would post a 12–1 record and so on.

A Keeper style league allows teams to keep a set number of players from one year to the next and sometimes assign them contracts. In the first season of a keeper league, the draft is performed the same as any other standard league draft would be performed. In a keeper league you cut your roster limit to a certain number each offseason.

Keeper leagues can keep as few as 1 or as many as even 16 or more in deeper keeper leagues. If your roster limit is cut down in the offseason, it's a keeper league as opposed to a dynasty league where you maintain your entire roster.

A Salary cap league is a particular type of fantasy league which adds another factor of realism similar to the NFL: the salary cap. Each player has an associated salary and the total spent on all the players on a team has a maximum - the 'salary cap.' .

In Auction leagues, a team is composed of players who are bought auction-style during the draft, as opposed to using traditional snake drafts that are common in fantasy football. Each team is given a budget to bid on players. In Dynasty leagues, a team keeps all players from year to year and replenishes rosters through rookie drafts. Dynasty leagues are enhanced versions of keeper leagues. In dynasty leagues, your roster limit is unchanged in the offseason, or increases temporarily to allow the addition of rookies.

In Two-quarterback leagues, a team has the ability to start two quarterbacks in their weekly lineup. This changes the value of the quarterback position, as it doubles the number of quarterbacks able to start in any given week. However, in any fantasy football format, the number of quarterbacks who can start is determined by the league commissioner. In Empire leagues, teams compete in a dynasty-format and prizes are offered for league winners. A special side-pot is created from entry fees each year.

Once an owner wins the league two years in a row, the Empire pot goes to that owner, and the league starts over. SuperFlex Leagues are leagues in which teams can start a QB in the flex position. Generally, a superflex position is added in addition to traditional roster spots such as a flex position. Often, defenses and kickers are removed from these league formats. IDP or Individual Defensive Player leagues are leagues where teams draft individual defensive players in addition to offensive players, as opposed to drafting an NFL team's defense. Pirate Leagues are leagues where a winning team gets to choose a player from his opponent's roster.

is like traditional fantasy sports where players draft a team of real-world athletes who then score fantasy points according to set scoring rules. However, instead of being stuck with the same team through a whole season, daily fantasy sports contests last just one day (or in the case of NFL, one weekend). Users can play head-to-head or in larger field tournaments.

Both cash leagues and free contests are available for play.Draft Each season, fantasy football leagues hold a draft (note: in dynasty leagues, this normally consists of NFL rookies only), where each team drafts NFL players. These players are kept unless they are traded or dropped, whereby they enter a pool of unowned players that any team may claim. In most leagues, no player may be owned by more than one team, although some leagues do allow for this. There are essentially two types of drafts.

In a traditional 'serpentine' or 'snake' draft, owners take turns drafting players in a 'snake' method, i.e. The owner who picks first in the odd rounds picks last in the even rounds, in the interests of fairness.In an auction draft, each owner has an imaginary budget which he must use to purchase all his players in an auction format. Owners take turns nominating players for open bid. The owner who bids the highest on each player receives that player, reducing their remaining budget accordingly. Auction drafts are viewed as the more fair method since every owner begins on equal ground. A few leagues use a hybrid of the two styles, selecting a portion of their roster via auction, with the remainder selected through a serpentine method.The most commonly used strategies are value-based drafting and opinion-based drafting.

Value-based drafting entails projecting the total fantasy point value for each player in the draft and then figuring their value with respect to other players at their position, while standard opinion-based drafting requires ranking each player based on your opinion of worth or other people's opinion of said player's worth.Drafts can be conducted in 'live' or 'auto' formats. Live drafts involve players utilizing real-time strategy and reactionary measures to acquire specific available players. Auto-drafts use preliminary draft rankings set by each team to automate the draft cycle and establish the teams. Live drafts are often preferred to automated as they are believed to require more skill.The location of fantasy football drafts depends on the geographic location of each team manager. With the rise of the internet, all fantasy football providers have made online drafting an option for leagues in which the managers are too far away to meet up in person. Other leagues make a tradition of meeting up to draft, and in some leagues, managers travel cross-country to attend annual league drafts.

Group drafts conducted in-person are typically scheduled many weeks in advance. Common locations include boardrooms, offices, bars, or dining establishments. Once the league is full with team owners, the order of the draft numbers should be initiated by either a random in-person or computer-based draft order, or, in a keeper or dynasty league, the draft order runs in reverse order of the previous year's standings.Lastly, another addition that the ESPN fantasy football creators should incorporate in their next update include; live draft trades either for players or additional draft picks. Multiple draft picks can be traded for a player or a player can be traded for draft picks.

Draft picks can also be traded for more additional draft picks.Team rosters Each team is allowed a predetermined number of players on its roster, as well as a specified number at each position that can or must be used in each game (the 'starters'). Owners for each team then determine each week which players will start (within the rules) and which will be 'benched'. Just like in real football, bench players can become starters for various reasons: due to other players' injury, poor performance, or if another player's team has a that week.Each week, owners choose their starters for a game before a certain deadline.

Whether to sit or start a player is usually based on strategic considerations including the player's past and expected performance, defensive matchups, the team he is playing that week and so on.Starters Each team owner must designate which players from the team roster will be starters each week - i.e. The only players who will 'score' any points. The following example is similar to many common formats required for a starting lineup:. 1 (QB).

2 (RB). 2 (WR). 1 Flex (choose from RB/WR/TEs). 1 (TE).

1 (K). 1 Team Defense/Special Teams (D/ST). 6 Bench (BN)There are many variants on this.

Some leagues use individual defensive players (IDPs) (and in some cases a punter) instead of or in addition to a combined Team Defense/Special Teams. Some other leagues use separate Defense and Special Teams. Another variant is the 'flex' position, which can be filled by a player in one of several positions.

Flex positions are often limited to 'WR/TE', 'RB/WR', or 'RB/WR/TE'. Traditionally, this flex was required to be an RB, WR, or TE; however, some leagues allow any position to fill this flex slot as an 'OP' (any player who plays a position on offense) or 'superflex'. Some leagues also have a two-quarterback requirement for a starting lineup, providing yet another twist into the complexity of different scoring systems and lineups.Scoring configurations League managers earn team points based on their starting players' performances in weekly NFL games.

Players accumulate points based purely on their statistical output. For example, a touchdown might be worth six points while each yard passed, rushed, or carried may be worth a certain number of points, and so on.

In most cases, players earn points for passing, rushing, and receiving yards.Although kickers can theoretically score points through touchdowns or yards rushed and received, they mainly accumulate most of their points through field goals and extra points. The Team Defense / Special Teams position earns points through defensive plays (such as turnovers, safeties, and blocked kicks) and by limiting the offensive points of the opposing teams. Also, whereas points are awarded to players for positive plays, points are taken away from players for negative plays such as turnovers or missed kicks.Standard scoring The standard fantasy football scoring system comprises a well-respected baseline of statistic/point-value pairs designed to promote balance across the various fantasy positions. Fabiano, Michael (November 18, 2008). Retrieved 2011-10-03.

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