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The Games
Home » Fantasy Sports » Fantasy Sports: An Overview » The GamesPosted by Your Guide on May 2, 2006 8:38 PM
For those of you who are completely new to this concept, we should clarify exactly what happens in a fantasy league.
We will use football for our purposes, but understand that this is the general idea of what happens in all fantasy sports leagues. Each player in a league (a league usually consists of 8 to 12 players) selects a number of players from the National Football League: one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, and one flex (a flex player is a roster spot in which the fantasy owner can choose a player from a number of different positions). Each NFL player can only be selected once...Once he has been chosen by one fantasy owner, no other owner can select him. This is a fantasy draft.
Throughout the actual NFL season, the statistics of these selected players are tracked by a web service, like ESPN. Each week the fantasy owners can see how their teams are performing. If they are not pleased with their team’s performance, they can try to trade some of their players to other teams, or they can drop them altogether and add players from the “Free Agent” list (the list of actual players who were not selected in the draft and have not been added by another fantasy owner). At the completion of the season, the fantasy team with the most points (or the best performance) is the league champion.
This can take on many different looks in the different sports, which is something we will explore in our other articles on fantasy sports.
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