This fantasy sports introduction at gamerisms presents the knowledge required to participate in sports leagues. This comprehensive 5-part guide includes the basics, formatting, sports team options followed by a 2-part glossary, facts-trivia report and quiz.
Let’s begin with the basics.
The FS industry has been one of the fastest growing Sports and Gaming industries in the last five years. FS can be played in many variations and have been around for over 20 years, but the last 5 years have yielded astronomical revenue and user numbers resulting in a multi billion dollar industry played by over 100 million people all around the world. If you’re reading this guide, there’s a good chance that you have some idea of what Fantasy Sports is, but just in case, here’s the simplest way to explain.
If you are sports gamer, you are picking a sport, and assigning players from that sport to form a team that you will manage, and compete against other managers who have also assembled their own team.
FS Formatting
To participate, select the sport that interests you most and then join a league to compete in play. The most commonly played sport is fantasy football, followed by fantasy baseball, which will be detailed below. There are however many other sports that you can play including basketball, hockey, soccer and even MMA=Mixed Martial Arts. These sports are lumped together, because they are played on the international level.
If you’re wondering about individual sports like golf and Nascar, these are offered as well, and in several formats. Once you decide on your sport, you can join a public league on one of many sport sites, or you can join a private league, that requires an invitation.
Private leagues are typically a group of friends that know each other and will compete against each other. You may not know all league members, but if you receive an invite to join, it could be an awesome chance to meet people.
Once you have your sport and your league lined up, a draft date will be assigned. The draft date is the most exciting day of any respective fantasy sports season, because this is the day that you will get to choose your team. Once you choose your team, it will be matched up against other members of your league that have all selected their own team of players to compete.
Everyone thinks they have the best team on draft day, but the true draft day winner is not determined until the championship is awarded at the end of the season.
Drafting players really deserves its own section, but naturally it’s assumed you are at least a partial fan of the sport you are going to compete in. If so, you are going to draft players not only that you like, but that you think will be productive throughout the year. It is difficult to unpack any further without examining a couple of the bigger sports more closely.
Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football is definitely the most popular of the fantasy sports. At the end of the day, many people enjoy watching football, and fantasy football allows them to attach themselves to a sport they already love, while being heavily vested into player performance and game outcomes.
With football every league has its own settings, which will determine how many managers will join (usually 10-12), what size roster you will draft and how points are allocated. A standard fantasy football roster will have at least 1 QB, 2 WRs, 2 RBs, 1 TE, 1K and a Defense.
At this point you likely have an idea who you would prefer to fill those spots, but understand; you won’t get every player you want because there are others in the leagues who value the same players you do. The team you draft will likely be awarded fantasy points for TDs=touchdowns, any yardage metric, and sometimes receptions.
The next step is to draft your team. Traditionally drafts were snake drafts where every player would pick up the best player in the first round and the second round would happen in reverse order. After X amount of rounds (usually 15-17), your roster is full and you are ready to compete.
Every week you will match up against someone else in your league and if your chosen team accumulates more fantasy points than your opponents, then you WIN for that week.
Fantasy Football Abbreviations:
QB=Quarterback
WR=Wide Receiver
RB=Running Back
TE=Tight End
W/T=Wide Receiver/Tight End
W/R=Wide Receiver/Running Back
W/R/T=Wide Receiver/Running Back/Tight End
Q/W/R/T=Quarterback/Wide Receiver/Running Back/Tight End
K=Kicker
D/ST=Team Defense/Special Teams
D=Defensive Player
DL=Defensive Linemen
DB=Defensive Back
LB=Linebackers
DT=Defensive Tackles
DE=Defensive Ends
CB=Cornerbacks
S=Safeties
Fantasy Baseball
Fantasy baseball is possibly the purest of fantasy sports available. Baseball is a numbers game and fantasy baseball organizes all of those numbers in a format that allows the manager to track the stats their drafted team has accumulated.
With baseball every league has its own settings, which will determine how many managers will join (usually 10-12), what size roster you will draft and how points are allocated. A standard fantasy baseball roster will consist of at least one player who plays every position including pitchers.
The team you draft will likely be awarded fantasy points for hitting stats such as Runs, HRs, RBIs, and batting avg. on the offensive side and Ks, SVs, Ws, and ERA on the pitching side.
Once you draft your team, there no question that baseball is as much fun to follow as football or any other fantasy sports available.
Traditionally drafts were snake drafts where every player would pick up the best player in the first round and the second would happen in reverse order. After X amount of rounds (usually 15-17), your roster is full and you are ready to compete.
Baseball leagues can be both head-to-head or rotisserie which means your total stats in each category are tracked for the year and the higher you rank in each category the better your team is deemed.
Fantasy Baseball Abbreviations
P=Pitcher
C=Catcher
1B=1st Baseman
2B=2nd Baseman
3B=3rd Baseman
SS=Shortstop
OF=Outfielder
DH=Designated Hitter
1B=Single
2B=Double
3B=Triple
HR=Home Run
RBI=Run Batted In
R=Run
BB=Base on Balls
HBP=Hit by Pitch
SB=Stolen Base
CS=Caught Stealing
W=Win
IP=Inning Pitched
K=Strike Outs
ERA=Earned Run Allowed
H=Hit Against
BB=Base on Balls Against
HBP=Hits Batsman
CG=Complete Game
CGSO=Complete Game Shut Out
NH=No-Hitter
SV=Save
There are plenty of fantasy sports events/contests to play for passionate sports gamers, so go ahead and have fun!
Fantasy Sports Introduction is followed by FS glossary
Other FS pages are:
FS Terms- Part 2
FantasySports Facts-Trivia
Fantasy Sports Quiz
OR
Sportsbetting Online Guide
Soccer Quiz
Fantasy Sports Guide at gamerisms
This fantasy sports introduction at gamerisms presents the knowledge required to participate in sports leagues. This comprehensive 5-part guide includes the basics, formatting, sports team options followed by a 2-part glossary, facts-trivia report and quiz.
Let’s begin with the basics.
Fantasy Sports Basics
The FS industry has been one of the fastest growing Sports and Gaming industries in the last five years. FS can be played in many variations and have been around for over 20 years, but the last 5 years have yielded astronomical revenue and user numbers resulting in a multi billion dollar industry played by over 100 million people all around the world. If you’re reading this guide, there’s a good chance that you have some idea of what Fantasy Sports is, but just in case, here’s the simplest way to explain.
If you are sports gamer, you are picking a sport, and assigning players from that sport to form a team that you will manage, and compete against other managers who have also assembled their own team.
FS Formatting
To participate, select the sport that interests you most and then join a league to compete in play. The most commonly played sport is fantasy football, followed by fantasy baseball, which will be detailed below. There are however many other sports that you can play including basketball, hockey, soccer and even MMA=Mixed Martial Arts. These sports are lumped together, because they are played on the international level.
If you’re wondering about individual sports like golf and Nascar, these are offered as well, and in several formats. Once you decide on your sport, you can join a public league on one of many sport sites, or you can join a private league, that requires an invitation.
Private leagues are typically a group of friends that know each other and will compete against each other. You may not know all league members, but if you receive an invite to join, it could be an awesome chance to meet people.
Once you have your sport and your league lined up, a draft date will be assigned. The draft date is the most exciting day of any respective fantasy sports season, because this is the day that you will get to choose your team. Once you choose your team, it will be matched up against other members of your league that have all selected their own team of players to compete.
Everyone thinks they have the best team on draft day, but the true draft day winner is not determined until the championship is awarded at the end of the season.
Drafting players really deserves its own section, but naturally it’s assumed you are at least a partial fan of the sport you are going to compete in. If so, you are going to draft players not only that you like, but that you think will be productive throughout the year. It is difficult to unpack any further without examining a couple of the bigger sports more closely.
Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football is definitely the most popular of the fantasy sports. At the end of the day, many people enjoy watching football, and fantasy football allows them to attach themselves to a sport they already love, while being heavily vested into player performance and game outcomes.
With football every league has its own settings, which will determine how many managers will join (usually 10-12), what size roster you will draft and how points are allocated. A standard fantasy football roster will have at least 1 QB, 2 WRs, 2 RBs, 1 TE, 1K and a Defense.
At this point you likely have an idea who you would prefer to fill those spots, but understand; you won’t get every player you want because there are others in the leagues who value the same players you do. The team you draft will likely be awarded fantasy points for TDs=touchdowns, any yardage metric, and sometimes receptions.
The next step is to draft your team. Traditionally drafts were snake drafts where every player would pick up the best player in the first round and the second round would happen in reverse order. After X amount of rounds (usually 15-17), your roster is full and you are ready to compete.
Every week you will match up against someone else in your league and if your chosen team accumulates more fantasy points than your opponents, then you WIN for that week.
Fantasy Football Abbreviations:
QB=Quarterback
WR=Wide Receiver
RB=Running Back
TE=Tight End
W/T=Wide Receiver/Tight End
W/R=Wide Receiver/Running Back
W/R/T=Wide Receiver/Running Back/Tight End
Q/W/R/T=Quarterback/Wide Receiver/Running Back/Tight End
K=Kicker
D/ST=Team Defense/Special Teams
D=Defensive Player
DL=Defensive Linemen
DB=Defensive Back
LB=Linebackers
DT=Defensive Tackles
DE=Defensive Ends
CB=Cornerbacks
S=Safeties
Fantasy Baseball
Fantasy baseball is possibly the purest of fantasy sports available. Baseball is a numbers game and fantasy baseball organizes all of those numbers in a format that allows the manager to track the stats their drafted team has accumulated.
With baseball every league has its own settings, which will determine how many managers will join (usually 10-12), what size roster you will draft and how points are allocated. A standard fantasy baseball roster will consist of at least one player who plays every position including pitchers.
The team you draft will likely be awarded fantasy points for hitting stats such as Runs, HRs, RBIs, and batting avg. on the offensive side and Ks, SVs, Ws, and ERA on the pitching side.
Once you draft your team, there no question that baseball is as much fun to follow as football or any other fantasy sports available.
Traditionally drafts were snake drafts where every player would pick up the best player in the first round and the second would happen in reverse order. After X amount of rounds (usually 15-17), your roster is full and you are ready to compete.
Baseball leagues can be both head-to-head or rotisserie which means your total stats in each category are tracked for the year and the higher you rank in each category the better your team is deemed.
Fantasy Baseball Abbreviations
P=Pitcher
C=Catcher
1B=1st Baseman
2B=2nd Baseman
3B=3rd Baseman
SS=Shortstop
OF=Outfielder
DH=Designated Hitter
1B=Single
2B=Double
3B=Triple
HR=Home Run
RBI=Run Batted In
R=Run
BB=Base on Balls
HBP=Hit by Pitch
SB=Stolen Base
CS=Caught Stealing
W=Win
IP=Inning Pitched
K=Strike Outs
ERA=Earned Run Allowed
H=Hit Against
BB=Base on Balls Against
HBP=Hits Batsman
CG=Complete Game
CGSO=Complete Game Shut Out
NH=No-Hitter
SV=Save
There are plenty of fantasy sports events/contests to play for passionate sports gamers, so go ahead and have fun!
Fantasy Sports Introduction is followed by FS glossary
Other FS pages are:
FS Terms- Part 2
FantasySports Facts-Trivia
Fantasy Sports Quiz
OR
Sportsbetting Online Guide
Soccer Quiz
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