Fantasy Football Genesis

In the beginning men created the NFL and the football fans. The football fans were without interactive fun, and excitement. The men said, "Let there be TV contracts", and there were TV contracts. And they saw the football on TV and it was good. Then the men said, "Let there be a game in the midst of this NFL season. And let it divide the casual fans from the gamers." Thus men made the football game, and divided the fans which did not play from the fans who spent money to draft a team, and it was so. And they called the game Fantasy Football.

Fantasy football is easy to understand. Players start a league and draft teams made up of actual NFL players. Each player drafts their own team. How the NFL players do in their games affects the points the fantasy team receives.

In a standard league, each NFL player is individual, they can only be on one team. In some leagues an NFL player can be on multiple teams. Leagues where NFL players are not unique usually use salary caps for each team, with each NFL player assigned a salary. This results in owners not all taking the same player.

Most leagues play head to head with each team playing one other team each week. These leagues usually use a playoff system to crown a champion. The playoffs usually start before the end of the NFL regular season, and end on the last weeks of the season. Some leagues just have teams accumulate points for the course of the season to pick a winner.