Every year, around August, some of the most critical thinking occurs by sports fans. The idea is to create the best possible fantasy football roster one can possibly imagine, hey, that’s why it’s called, “FANTASY!” Ask anyone around, having the likes of Adrian Peterson, a healthy Tom Brady and Brandon Marshall on the same squad is only possible in the financially flowing world that is fantasy football. The ultimate goal is to assemble a winning fantasy football team, thus being justly rewarded.
Many leagues nowadays, require necessary dues that need to be paid just to enter. With the percentage varying in some money leagues, a portion or all of the money is given to the eventual winner. With respect to the money being thrown around in many leagues throughout the United States, many owners view their fantasy football as a religion.
It’s become a cult-like following in recent years, and remains ever-growing. Not just money is on the line here, but pride and bragging rights as well. Sometimes, rivalries have connections in fantasy football. You could be facing your cousin one week and then your brother the following week.
These leagues do indeed go way beyond the monetary nature of the working people; money isn’t what the people are in fantasy for. I mean let’s face it, how much is the dollar really even worth anymore?
The rules for vary with each league, but the object remains very true to itself: WIN! As we’ve seen in real sports time and time again, the best team isn’t necessarily the one that’s led their conference wire-to-wire. It can also be, and often is, the one who gets hot down the stretch.
Draft order seems very critical on draft day, yet usually is deceiving. Ultimately, and historically, whichever owner consistently wins and makes the necessary moves in “crunch time” walks away the winner, not the one who had first pick. Having the first pick and picking LaDainian Tomlinson always looks good. Then again, who’s to say LT doesn’t get hurt on the first play of the season, or possibly preseason for that matter. It’s an enormous level of risk and luck involved with each and every single selection.
One very important fact of fantasy football is a very unbelievable one. Leagues are not won drafting in the first 5-6 rounds; they’re rather won in the clutch. Knowing and correctly choosing the guys in the “middle of the pack” so to speak is where the brunt work is done. Bench players in fantasy can often play very similar roles and put up similar points as starters. The true winner emerges in the mid-rounds and drafts not the best on the board, but the one who gives their team the best chance to win. Much luck does go into this concept as well. Who would’ve ever thought that an un-drafted Matt Cassel would emerge out of nowhere in the place of an injured Brady and be the reason why one is still competing in their respective league. It’s just the way of the fantasy world.
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