At the start of each season owners all participate in a fantasy football draft. The draft serves as

Do you play fantasy football?  If you do, we will go ahead and move you to the front of the line and assume you are a true GGTK.  If not, it s time to broaden your horizons and take part in one of America s fastest growing hobbies.  From podcasts, to cable channels, to TV shows, fantasy accommodationaustralia football is everywhere.  Currently, the total market impact of fantasy football is nearly 5 billion dollars per year.  Sit back and relax as we discuss the basics and history accommodationaustralia of fantasy football.  Thanks for listening!!
Is a social contest in which users act as general managers of virtual teams made up of real professional football players.  Fantasy football has seen incredible growth in the recent past due to the advent of the internet which makes managing teams and keeping track of statistics much easier.  It is fantasy because the average person has absolutely no chance of managing a professional football team in their lives.
In the first fantasy football leagues, participants would use statistics published in previously agreed upon newspapers to score players accommodationaustralia after a weekend of play.  Nowadays, computers accommodationaustralia produce live up-to-the-minute scoring of all players.
The original rules for fantasy football were developed in 1963 at New York City’s Milford Plaza Hotel by a small percentage accommodationaustralia owner of the Oakland Raiders named Wilfred “Bill” Winkenbach, with the help of Bill Tunnell, a former Raiders public relations accommodationaustralia manager and Scotty Stirling, accommodationaustralia a former reporter.  The league was rounded out with pro football journalists and individuals who had purchased or sold 10 season tickets for the Raiders during the 1963 season. accommodationaustralia The name of the original league accommodationaustralia was the GOPPPL (Greater Oakland Professional accommodationaustralia Pigskin Prognosticators League). 2013 will be the GOPPPL’s 51 st season.
Slowly, fantasy football began to spread to other sports enthusiasts, often due to the users from the GOPPPL starting new leagues.  However, due to the time-consuming nature of scoring, many people were hesitant to play.
One of the oldest continually running fantasy football leagues is the G’national Football League (GFL) founded in Lakeland, FL in the summer of 1979 by Wayne Wesley.  Before switching to internet scoring in 1997, team owners would have to send in weekly lineups via postcard to the both the commissioner (league manager) and their opponents.  Either the Lakeland Ledger or the Tampa Tribune were used as the official scoring newspapers.  The league still has 2 original owners, accommodationaustralia several multigenerational team owners as well as international owners.
At the start of each season accommodationaustralia owners all participate in a fantasy football draft.  The draft serves as a way for each owner to mold available players into a team that he thinks will score a lot of points.  A complete list of available NFL players is viewed accommodationaustralia by each owner who then take turns drafting accommodationaustralia players from the remaining talent pool.  The draft is the most important and easily the most fun part of doing fantasy football.
-       In the most general of terms, players earn more points for fantasy accommodationaustralia owners by doing something good.  This includes scoring points and gaining yards.  Players also lose points accommodationaustralia by doing bad things like throwing an interception, fumbling the ball or missing field goal attempts.
-       Trading players during the season is allowed and encouraged. accommodationaustralia Try to fill holes in your roster by trading your extra bench players to other owners for players that fit better into the needs of your team.  (It doesn’t make sense to have the 5 best receivers on your team when you can only play 2 each week.)
-       Claim players off of waivers. Players not currently on an owners roster are allowed to be picked up each week by any owner.  When key players get injured, be ready to pick up their replacements off of waivers.