Any sport would have their set of serious players and passionate followers; football is also no different. A little more than a million people play the game in the country. Moreover, the National Football League (NFL), which is a well known American football league, has the highest average attendance of any professional sports league in the whole world. The championship game of the NFL is called the Super Bowl, and it is the most watched club sporting event in the whole world. The NFL annually earns a revenue of around $10 billion. The statistics are staggering indeed.
Football is a sport that is played on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end by two teams that have eleven players each. Offense, defense, running, passing, downs, plays, turnovers, advance, end zone, touchdown, and field goal are prominent terms associated with this sport played using an oval shaped football. Wait, why are we discussing football here? We are curious about Fantasy Football, are we not.
What is Fantasy Football? An interesting name, really. Fantasy football is a game in which participants play the part or pretend to be owners or managers of imaginary professional football teams in the virtual world of the internet. The opposing teams recruit their team members by being part of a Draft, which is also called the player selection meeting. All the players of a real football league are available and can be chosen to be part of these fantasy football teams. Moreover, the accumulated points are entirely based on the actual performances of the players in real championship games. Fantasy football is a type of sports gambling that treads on the fine line between being legal and illegal betting.
The two types of fantasy football are called traditional and daily. Competitions in the traditional type are conducted by amateurs and can be based on every individual season; it can also run to many seasons if a keeper league is followed. In keeper leagues, each imaginary team can continue to own a certain number of players all the time. Each owner of a fantasy football league can select which players they would want to keep on their side.
When competitions are conducted on a daily basis or on a weekly basis, it is categorized under the heading Daily. Organized and managed by commercial internet companies, these are basically simple betting games, and participants are charged a particular fee to take part in these games. FanDuel and DraftKings are the top rated companies that are associated with this type of fantasy football. Worth billions of dollars, this kind of betting is increasingly being recognized and is even becoming fashionable because the prize money on offer is incredibly huge, which is close to a million dollars on a weekly basis.
