What is a 'salary cap' style game in fantasy football?

What is a 'salary cap' style game in fantasy football?

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A salary cap style game in fantasy football is a way to play where you'll have a cap at the beginning of the season, let's say a million dollars, and the fantasy football league service will set a value for each player in the NFL. And you'll have to fit your entire roster into that million dollar salary cap. So you'll have to fit your roster into the budget constraints of the fantasy football league. Now this fantasy football league is a little different. A lot of times this will be a national contest, but I know some leagues that still do salary cap style games, though there aren't too many any more-Sandbox is one. It's a little different because multiple teams in your fantasy football league can have the same player. So, if you think a player, lets say Rudi Johnson of the Bengals, is undervalued as he's only costing three million dollars and you think he should be worth more than that, there can be a lot of teams in your fantasy football league that get Rudi Johnson. You could be going against a team that week and you could both have Rudi Johnson. So the best thing that you want to do strategy-wise in a salary cap fantasy football league is look for value. Because Ladanian Tomlinson or Peyton Manning are the best players, they're also going to cost the most amount of money. Maybe they'll cost forty million dollars, or whatever it is, and that will be too much for you. So you want to look at guys that are undervalued, maybe because their role on the team has changed or they have changed teams.