Fantasy Football Guide
Fantasy football Guide is generally a long season competition
played by NFL football fanatics in which participants draft
their own team and compete with teams built by others. Individual
game winners are determined by points accumulated by players
based on their real-life performance in a game on the same day.
Standard Draft Leagues
Standard fantasy football guide draft leagues are the most
popular and generally begin with teams selecting all their
players in a serpentine style draft. Owners then set their
lineups each week based on the number of players per position
allowed by league rules.
There are basically two different types of
standard fantasy football guide draft leagues; head-to-head
and total points.
In a head-to-head league, a team matches up
against a different team each week with the team receiving
the most points of the two that particular week being awarded
a win while the other team is given a loss. At the end of
the regular fantasy football guide season, teams with the
best won/loss records meet in the playoffs to decide an eventual
champion.
Total points leagues do not track wins and
losses, rather teams accumulate points on an ongoing basis
with standings being determined by the teams' total points.
The teams that build the highest total points at the end of
the regular fantasy football guide season advance to the playoffs.
Auction Draft Leagues
As with standard fantasy football guide draft leagues, auction
fantasy football guide draft leagues can utilize either a
head-to-head or total points system. The difference is that
owners are given a predetermined amount of money to bid on
players to fill their roster. Each owner may bid on any player
he likes, and individual players can end up on more than one
team. But if an owner overspends on one player, the rest of
his roster might suffer because he does not have enough remaining
cash to fill other positions with quality players.
Dynasty Leagues
Dynasty fantasy football guide leagues are for the serious
fantasy football owner and require a commitment over multiple
fantasy football guide seasons. After the initial draft in
a dynasty league's inaugural season, players remain on the
same roster from one season to the next unless they are traded
or released. Each year after the initial fantasy football
guide season, a draft is held for rookies only, so fantasy
owners must be more in tune to the talent in college than
an owner in a standard draft league.
This type of league also allows owners a more
realistic experience managing a franchise as they must take
into consideration how each transaction affects the future
of their fantasy football guide franchise.
Keeper Leagues
A keeper league is sort of a combination between a standard
fantasy football guide draft league and a dynasty league.
Each preseason, most of the players are drafted, however,
owners are allowed to keep a predetermined number of players
on their roster from the year before. Most league rules allow
only a handful of players to be retained by each team from
year to year.
IDP Leagues This type of league utilizes defensive
players on an individual basis rather than as a defensive
unit, which is common among most other types of leagues. The
additional players and positions to fill require owners in
an IDP league to do a lot more research to determine which
defensive players to draft, and when.
Survivor Leagues
Survivor Leagues can utilize any type of draft, however, they
usually use a standard or auction type. Systems of scoring
can vary as well, but what makes a survivor league unique
is that the team scoring the least amount of points in a particular
week is eliminated for the remainder of the season.
So in essence, on a weekly basis all a fantasy
football guide owner needs to do is avoid having the lowest
score of all teams in the league. Of course, as the as the
weeks go by and the number of teams drop, it becomes increasingly
difficult to do just that.
The last team remaining after all others have
been booted is the survivor and is crowned league champion. |
