skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Fantasy Sports
....
7:49 PM
John Ray
No comments
The world of fantasy football is a whole new world of excitement and fun. That is why it conquered the US in no time. People from all ages had already heard about fantasy football and had played it too. The power to manage your dream football team with all your favorite stars in it, plus the bragging rights you will get when you defeated your friends is the best part of fantasy football. Not to mention huge cash prizes offer by some fantasy sports site. Are you a fantasy football player? If you are, come and learn more about our favorite past time. If you aren’t, come discover the world of fantasy football and learn how to play and enjoy it.So just how does fantasy football work? Scoring in fantasy football is done through player achievements by means of stats. The essence of fantasy football is your team is comprised of pro football players playing for you against other players drafted by someone else. If your team’s points add up higher than your opponent’s points, you win the matchup and your game for the week. At the end of the season, the team’s with the best records will advance to the playoffs to play for the championship.The scoring settings change depending on how your commissioner makes the rules, but some typically scoring settings are +6 points for any touchdown, +1 point for every 10 receiving or rushing yards, +1 point for every 25 passing yards, -2 points for an interception (by the quarterback), +3 points for field goals made, +1 point for a sack by the defense, and so on.These are not absolute and it is highly recommended that you study your point settings closely before drafting your team. The reason is because your picks should depend on how your league scoring settings are. For example, if your league counts only +4 points for a quarterback touchdown but +6 points for every other touchdown, you should lower your relative value of quarterbacks in comparison to other positions.How to win at fantasy football?As you can see, your ability to predict which players will do well before the season starts will create a winning team. In fantasy football, the top stars are often called “fantasy football studs.” Your goal should be to have a team loaded with as many studs as you can get. These top stars are usually drafted in the first round, but as I mentioned earlier, you can sometimes find stars late in the draft. These fantasy football sleepers often make the difference between being a winner and just mediocre.I hope that by now, you have a clearer idea on how fantasy football works. If you are a beginner, I strongly advice to try fantasy football on a free site. Build your first fantasy football team without any fear that you will lose your hard earned money so that you can focus on your first game. Practice makes perfect. So make sure to practice first before really going on to the fight.
7:49 PM
John Ray
No comments
With the rapid growth of fantasy football in the US in recent years (and slowly taking over the whole world too), many Americans now want to join the fun and be involved in fantasy football league. There are many websites that offers fantasy sports (some are free and some are not) that you can join. There are also websites that offers huge prizes for winners. Many fantasy players always begin in joining a small fantasy football league to get a taste of the fun and excitement while also practicing to get the big prizes later on.You can join and organize a league taking anyone you like from friends, relatives to even co-workers. Getting your first fantasy football league ready doesn’t mean you have to follow any fixed standards as the idea primarily is to have loads of fun. There are no rights or wrongs out there when fun and unlimited excitement is what is aimed at.You need to get together a team for a league and they could comprise of 8 to 16. Depending on the resources in your locality you should get a team done. But you should also keep in mind that the intensity of the competition and the fun would get scaled down with too few teams. Owners in that case would find it hard to get top level players or get enough competition going. Your aim would be to keep the number of your teams as equal as possible.Depending on the number of teams in your fantasy football league, the number of divisions would be determined. For many, a total of 3 divisions is great and works well according to their requirement. For the success of your league and excellence in the game, you need to be very choosy while picking a commissioner. The choice of a commissioner can stand between success and failure in fantasy football. It is also among the most important fantasy football tips offered to people before they join up.Commissioners require to be trusted by all the other owners and under his or her watch rest the fantasy football drafts, games scoring and the league set up. It can be the most tedious of tasks and to help the commissioner along, an assistant is also roped in. It would require an extra position in fantasy football. For every season you should get together a plan of at least thirteen games that would exclude playoffs lasting for 3 weeks. Your nfl fantasy football season should not be lasting more than an actual NFL season in real terms. These are basically the rules followed in fantasy league football.Fantasy football drafts would depend on the league you set up. There are many leagues that just hold one draft at the initial stages during the league set up and after that, it is for the rookies. For selecting fantasy football players you got to have a draft during the league set up stage.You can go for an auction where very owner would be given a salary cap depending on a pre-determined amount. At least 15 players from each team will need to fill up the roster. One tight end, defense, quarterback and place kicker, 2 running backs and wide receivers are among the fantasy football picks.
5:33 PM
John Ray
No comments
Fantasy sports has become increasingly popular in today's society, as people enjoy living vicariously through their favorite players and teams. Fantasy sports can help fans feel like they are part of the action, as they root for their "teams" to do well each night. Internet access has allowed the fantasy world to expand by leaps and bounds as people have access to vast quantities of statistical information. Here are a few thoughts on how people can get started with itFind a league. Plenty of websites such as ESPN, Yahoo, and Fantasy Factor run free fantasy leagues. For the more daring player, pay leagues can also be found. Oftentimes, friends and co-workers are good people to play with and leagues can be easily set up. If no one else creates a league, a person can easily set up their own league and invite people to play.Learn the rules. The next step in fantasy play is learning the rules of that particular league. Various leagues have different rules for scoring, substitutions, and player-to-player competitions. It is important to understand these details so that people pick players accordingly.Do your homework. After understanding league rules, it is time to do homework on players. This is where people have to decide how serious they want to be. Also, people have to distinguish between "stars" and people who pile up stats. The two do not always go together.Read your history. Looking at players should also include at least a cursory look at previous seasons. Sometimes players were hurt or in different playing situations, which can make their current statistics a bit deceiving. Looking at past seasons can help in finding players that may have been forgotten because they are no longer on people's "radar."Pre-ranks and flexibility. Typically fantasy sports will have some sort of draft. Sometimes this draft is "live" and other times people put in their selections and the computer picks for them. What is important in this stage of the process is to have some sort of plan. People should rank their players so that when it is their turn, they have some idea of what to do. Usually in a live draft people will have limited time to pick. If they don't plan ahead, they may have to make a snap judgment, which may or may not end well.Leave your heart at the door. Finally, people have to remember that winning fantasy sports is about setting aside sentimentality. A person's favorite players may not be the best statistical choices, so if people want to win, they may have to leave their favorite players off of their "team." Other than that, fantasy sports should be enjoyed for what it is. Some people can get a bit obsessed, so people should make sure they can let it go before getting involved.Have fun. Most of all, people have to remember that fantasy basketball is about having fun. If people are getting all stressed out, then perhaps they should take a year off and re-evaluate. Getting started in fantasy basketball can certainly be an enjoyable diversion for some, but the result should not be concern and stress. If that is the case, people should look to get started with another hobby.
11:40 PM
John Ray
No comments
Long ago, it was a decision on whether to trade a piece of cardboard bearing one name for another. Baseball trading cards were the tools by which youngsters placed value on players. Today, children are able to use those same techniques in building and running a major league baseball franchise, a professional basketball team or its pro basketball equivalent. The children, acting as owners, attempt to make the same moves a general manager might make in hopes of strengthening a team. With the advent of the Internet, more and more children are finding their way into the virtual front offices of professional sports franchises. And the benefits are many. Here are some:1. Youngsters develop a plan in building their own team. They choose a team name and in some online leagues can decide on a team uniform color and logos. They must decide how to put the pieces of the team together.2. Most leagues begin with a player draft. This requires youngsters to again develop a plan, this one involving researching players and those players' chances of achieving success in the next season. This could be based on past performance, a different situation for a player such as a move to a new team, or just a gut feeling.3. Next, the children will watch how their teams perform early in the season. They'll find out quickly if their plan is working and which, if any, strategies they'll need to change. It's a lesson on problem-solving skills young people will find few other places.4. Since the fantasy games are based on statistics, children are constantly analyzing numbers, some without even realizing it. It's worth the effort, they soon find out, because the results of those numbers determine where the child stands in comparison with other teams in his league.5. Even with online leagues where children could compete against total strangers - overseen by an adult, of course - there is a social aspect to fantasy leagues. Most virtual leagues allow team owners to discuss with each other their teams and their strategies. They're likely to talk over possible trades, where they can learn that the best trades are those that benefit both parties. While school is in session, students can form fantasy football leagues and spend some of their idle school time discussing their teams and chances for a league title.Fantasy sports provide an avenue for those kids who haven't become the sports stars they thought they would already be. It gives a child a chance to compete in a virtual world when his physical means to gain that success doesn't measure up.Perhaps the best lesson fantasy sports teaches children is that putting together a solid plan and implementing that plan requires critical thinking skills. This allows a child to see a problem, visualize it, then break it down and begin finding solutions to the problem. So what are you waiting for? Try fantasy sports at a young age or let your child do it. It’s definitely a good recreational activity for youngsters.
11:37 PM
John Ray
No comments
Now, this is where most people fall off. The registration, the talking it up, and the draft are exciting, but the actual game play can seem rather boring. Basically, your team gets points based on how well each player on your team does in comparison to how well players on other teams do. This brings out the big difference on whether you’ll win or not: The adjustment of your fantasy team players.It doesn't take long to adjust your roster for each game; you just need to click the player you want to trade in, and their gone. But it would be hard to give them up or exchange them for other players, especially if they are your favorite players on the real world. Your loyalty to them will be gone. But such adjustment and changes on your fantasy sports is needed if you really like to win. Speaking of giving up fantasy sports players, here are two reasons why people give up their fantasy sports players.1. The Change to Fight. You change and trade players because even though you are losing, you still want to fight. You look for good trades and important players that would bring you on top. If you want to do this, then I really salute you. Just remember these few tips. In baseball, once the player has begun their game for that day, they are locked in their position for that day and cannot be moved until the following day. With football, you only have to adjust it once a week. Since some games have been on Thursdays the past few years, those players will lock then, but the rest will wait until Sunday or Monday, depending on when they play. If you are not able to check it every day, or week, you can plan ahead, adjusting your roster for the upcoming games rather than trusting yourself to check it prior to each one.2. Tanking. Giving up on a once-promising season once you've realized there is no hope to capture the championship. Letting your team fade away into the darkness, and in doing so, possibly compromising the integrity of the league.Everyone that's played fantasy sports has had a team that on draft day looked unstoppable, only to be riddled with injuries and sub-par performance leaving you, the owner/GM, scraping the bottom of the league's barrel. I have a football team right now, in fact, that is consistently inconsistent and frustrating me week in and week out. After a loss this past week, my 4th in a row, I have mathematically been eliminated from playoff contention. It's disappointing, I can't lie. Then this is what happens, tell me if you've seen this scenario before. An owner in your league, whose team currently resides in last place with no chance of a comeback, proposes a trade to a team close to the top of the standings. Looking at the trade offer, you immediately sense something fishy going on. The team in last place has offered up their best 3 players to the team in contention for a handful of injured backups. Obviously the last place team has given up and instead of just disregarding his team, he has elected to help a team with playoff possibilities by giving them his best players and therefore creating one super team that is virtually unstoppable. This affects the league in the same way as giving up because it unfairly creates a dominant team leaving the rest of the league fighting for second place.
Posted in: 
