fantasy football coming up

**acealive1** · 02-Aug-2009

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo....elect?.scrumb=

league ID is 217057

password is favre

draft is this coming saturday 4:30 pm EDT/ 1:30 pm PST

**Danny** · 02-Aug-2009

can you explain to me what these fantasy leagues are?, ive never got it myself.

capncnut · 02-Aug-2009

Originally Posted by hellsing

can you explain to me what these fantasy leagues are?, ive never got it myself.

Here you go, from Wikipedia.

Fantasy football is a fantasy sports game in which participants (called "owners") are arranged into a league. The person who creates the league is called the commissioner, and that person invites other owners into his/her league. Each team drafts or acquires via auction a team of real-life American football players and then scores points based on those players' statistical on-the-field performances. A typical fantasy league will employ players from a single football league, such as the NFL or an NCAA division. 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. At the end of the year, win-loss records determine league rankings or qualification into a playoff bracket. Most leagues set aside the last weeks of the regular season for their own playoffs.

**acealive1** · 02-Aug-2009

Originally Posted by capncnut

Here you go, from Wikipedia.

much appreciated, ol' chap

**AcesandEights** · 03-Aug-2009

Is it time for me to finally partake in a fantasy football league?

Only time will tell.

**acealive1** · 03-Aug-2009

Originally Posted by AcesandEights

Is it time for me to finally partake in a fantasy football league?

Only time will tell.

ah cmon, its a FREE league,man! im not like these asshats who charge for it.

**Danny** · 03-Aug-2009

Originally Posted by capncnut

Here you go, from Wikipedia.

huh. still dont get it myself, so your basically trading one player for another? to what end?, if thats it it seems kind of pointless to me, whats the actual point of this?

**krakenslayer** · 03-Aug-2009

Originally Posted by hellsing

huh. still dont get it myself, so your basically trading one player for another? to what end?, if thats it it seems kind of pointless to me, whats the actual point of this?

I think you start out by purchasing players in an auction, then every week your team of players is pitted (statistically, based on the individualy real-life players' performance that week) against other teams of players owned by other participants. Winning games gets you points, person with the most points at the end of the season wins.

Can anyone confirm if this is correct?

**clanglee** · 04-Aug-2009

Oh boy oh boy oh boy ohboyohboyohboy!!!!! I can't wait to miss this!!!!!

**Craig** · 04-Aug-2009

This is the only type of fantasy football I'm interested in:

I remember there was a fantasy football (soccer) league at my school and whoever came out top at the end of the season got some vouchers or something. To me it just goes to show sport can be as nerdy as anything else.