Fantasy Football Game Style And Scoring
What factors should I consider when selecting the scoring options for my fantasy football league?
When selecting the scoring options for your fanatasy football league, it all depends on how intense you want your fantasy football league to be. I think if you're starting off, make it a standard fantasy football league. Make it just a regular twelve team league with wide receivers and running backs. Once you get more into it, if you're really, really into fantasy football, that's when you can start considering the options, the individual defensive players and the cheaper leagues. In terms of what you want to put into the scoring system, in terms of what's going be scored, like if it's going to be rushing yards and receiving yards, I think it's best just to have someone who knows fantasy football. Maybe have them ask around the fantasy football league and get a consensus of what's the best way to do it and go from there. I think a scoring system is secondary, but once it's set just make sure you know it and follow it, and you scatter guys based on the scoring system.
What is 'total points' or 'fantasy points' scoring in fantasy football?
The total points scoring in fantasy football is different , it's more like fantasy baseball actually. What fantasy points are all about is that you score points just like in head-to-head, based on what your players do. So say our running back gets a hundred yards, that's going to be worth ten points. But the difference in a total points fantasy football league is that instead of adding those points up to go against a team every week, you're just going to add up all those points for the whole season. So basically you'll keep track of who's scored the most amount of points and just keep adding them up week by week by week. It kind of knocks out teams a little earlier and some teams will fall behind, so that's a negative of these types of fantasy football leagues, but it might be a little more fair in terms of the truly best team wins the fantasy football league. It depends for fantasy points leagues, there's going to be a lot of different types of scoring systems. They might get a little more involved where you get bonus points for scoring over a hundred yards, or they might get more involved in terms of defensive stats, like safeties and different things like that. I tend to see the total points as getting a little more creative in terms of what scores a point. But the big thing is, instead of facing a different team and having wins and losses you get to who scores the most points, whatever its going to be, wins the fantasy football league.
What is 'head to head' scoring in fantasy football?
Head to head scoring in fantasy football is basically when you go up against a different team each week of the season. You're just going to set a starting line up every week and your starting line up is going to go against another guy's starting line up. You set the head to head fantasy football scoring schedule up before the season even starts and whoever scores the most between you two, gets a win or gets loss. Basically you're just trying to get the most number of wins or losses by the end of the season. You usually have twelve or thirteen games during the year, so you play every team in the fantasy football league once and that's head to head scoring.
What factors should I consider when choosing the game style for my fantasy football league?
When choosing the game style for your fantasy football league you just have to kind of figure out what group of owners this is. So you decide, maybe with a consensus, what style you guys want to play. Now I think the most basic style is going to be a redraft where you have a new fantasy football league every year, head to head style. That's probably the most standard game style in fantasy football leagues. Now if you guys or the league decide you want something a little more intense, then you can go with an auction or IDP (Individual Defensive Players), or you can go for a dynasty or keeper fantasy football league - something like that. Basically I think you just want to decide what level of skill your players are at. You also want to make sure you can all show up at the same time for the fantasy football draft. Those are the main factors I think to consider when choosing the game style for your fantasy football league, it is just about getting a system that everyone in the fantasy football league is comfortable with.
What is a 'salary cap' style game in fantasy football?
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.
What is a 'full fantasy' style game in fantasy football?
A full fantasy style game in a fantasy football league is just another way of saying a kind of a standard head to head fantasy football league. It's really the most popular way to play. I think it's the way to go if you're just starting out in a fantasy football league. Teams will be drafted using an online draft usually and you'll pick the teams and you'll play a head to head season where all the owners will go against each other until you get to the playoffs and you have a single elimination fantasy playoffs to decide the winner.
What are 'roster options' in fantasy football?
The roster options in fantasy football leagues is basically how many players at each position you want to start depending on the week. So most fantasy football leagues will use one quarterback, so that's an option. But there is an option to start two quarterbacks as some leagues have two quarterbacks leagues. So commissioners, before the season starts, will decide what kind of fantasy football league it is. Now it really changes the strategy as say some leagues only start two wide receivers, but some fantasy football leagues start three wide receivers and a flex position player, which is a player that you can pick from a running back, wide receiver, tight end. So those are the different types of options that a commissioner has before the season and it really changes your strategy. In that last example I gave, if you're going to have three wide receivers and a flex, that will make wide receivers more valuable as you need more of them. You will need more to start every week so you're going to have to really build some depth. Instead of just getting a couple of star players, you're going to want to get five or six players. So basically, roster options in a fantasy football leage is just going to be how many starters there are going to be during the week. Now one other way roster options could come into play is that some leagues, and I dont like this, have a minimum requirement per position. Usually it'll just be a couple, but some fantasy football leagues require you to keep two kickers or four wide receivers at all times. So that's something you do have to be aware of and commissioners will decide before the season.
What are 'single leagues' in fantasy football?
These are very rare, but single fantasy football leagues would be if you're just drafting from the AFC or the NFC. So basically it really limits your player pool. Maybe you're only familiar with the AFC, so that would be a single league draft. If you really wanted to get intense you could do a single divison draft. You don't really see single leagues or single divison drafts too often, but it might be something good if your friends get together and you're really just into the AFC, therefore you don't have to worry about the NFC and you just pick those players.
What are 'waiver rules' in fantasy footbal?
The waiver rules are basically how your fantasy football league structures the free agent in waiver process. So once you draft a team at the beginning of the season, everyone's going to have, say fifteen players, but that's not all the players you're going to have for the whole season. Basically, every week you could pick up new players and drop players. Maybe there'll be a wide reciever that comes out of nowhere, or a running back has an injury, and a new running back has started. So you're going to want to pick up those players off of waivers. They vary a lot, depending on the fantasy football league. Some fantasy football leagues just let you pick up players all the time, as all the players are available, and you can pick up and drop at all times. But it's much more common that there'll be waivers at a certain time, say Tuesday or Wednesday morning. So it's then that you'll try to put in a claim for a new player. There's going to be a few players each week that are very popular, so people will all put in their claims. Depending on what your fantasy football league rules are, that will decide who gets the waiver claim, and it'll run the waivers. Usually after the week, once you get those players, it's just a free-for-all. After you run the waivers from there until Sunday when the game starts, you can just pick up and drop players at will.
What are 'trading rules' in fantasy football?
Trading rules would just be if there's going to be any rule system governing how trades happen in the fantasy football league. A lot of rules and a lot of fantasy football leagues don't have too many rules that have to do with trades, other than you have to keep the minimum number of players on your roster that's required. And also there's going to be rules for fairness. You just have to have rules that a bottom team isn't really helping out a top team, as maybe they're friends with them and their team really isn't very good. So there'll just be a rule stuck in there just in terms of fairness and that's where a commissioner gets involved within the fantasy football league. If everybody in the league is cool, you're not going to really need to use the trading rules too much. It'll all just be kind of common sense. It's only when people are trying to really take advantage of another owner that trading rules come into play within the fantasy football league.
What are 'fractional points' in fantasy football?
Fractional points in fantasy football leagues is a thing I like actually. It's a way for every yard to matter. So in a lot of fantasy football leagues, 80 rushing yards will equal eight points but 85 rushing yards will also equal eight points. So you're stuck on eight points until you get to 90 yards. Now if you use fractional points, which a lot of fantasy footbal leagues use, this would go for the passing yards and the kicking, even if you have yardage requirements or whatever. So if you have 85 rushing yards, you'll get 8.5 points. Instead of just rounding off, every yard that you get is taken into account. I don't see any downside to having fractional points within your fantasy football league because the stat system does it for you. They keep track, and that way if you get 89 yards, you're not screwed over by you only getting eight points.
How do 'special teams' and 'team defenses' earn points in fantasy footbal?
Special teams and team defenses earning points in a fantasy football league depends on the league itself. But the main way to score points is with sacks and then turnovers. So you can break turnovers into interceptions and also fumble recoveries. Other ways you can score points within your fantasy football league is by preventing points. Say you've got the Indianapolis Colts as your defensive team, if they only allowed five points in a game then that's going to score points for your fantasy football team because that's a very low amount. You also, in almost any league, get a bonus if your fantasy football defense and special teams get a shutout, so that really helps. Another thing for big scoring is if your special and defense teams get a touchdown. So if you get a kickoff return or a punk return that will give you usually six points. That's a big help when scoring in terms of fantasy football defenses and special teams. You can get a little more involved in some other stats like tackles or the amount of tackles in a game, but usually you don't see that. When I'm drafting a defense in my fantasy football league, I really focus on sacks, turnovers, and then how many points they allow.
