Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Process

Fantasy Football it is! Actually, my official title will be "How to have a successful Fantasy Football Draft". I'm going to attempt to have the booklet cover and back as a distressed-looking playbook. The inside cover will explain fantasy football. Here is what I've come up with so far for that:
How Does Fantasy Football work?
We’d be remiss to assume that everyone understands how Fantasy Football works, so here is a framework to get the novice up and running!

Fantasy Football has grown in popularity and become a multi-million dollar industry. The great thing about this hobby is that you can be as involved as you want to be depending on if the league is just for bragging rights or whether you are trying to win money. Each league can be unique in the way they are structured, but the basic concepts on how to play are simple:

1.Draft a team, choosing individual players from actual NFL teams.
2.Your fantasy football team will be assigned a weekly schedule in which you play the other fantasy teams within your league.
3.Your individual players are attributed fantasy points for their success during their actual NFL games. “Success” may include scoring touchdowns, catching passes, accumulating yards, etc.
4.The fantasy points which are accumulated by your players are totaled to give you your team score for that week.
5.Your team score is tallied against the team score of your opponent’s fantasy football team for that week, giving you a win or loss for that week.
6.Final win-loss records usually determine playoff seeding. Using the normal 17-week NFL regular season, a fantasy league might play a regular season of 14 weeks and leave the last 3 weeks for your fantasy playoffs. Hypothetically, in a 12-team league, only the teams with the top six win-loss records would qualify for the playoffs.
7.Last team standing wins the Championship and eternal Fantasy Football glory!

While the concepts above provide you a basic understanding of how Fantasy Football leagues are operated, there are some key steps you can take prior to your season to prepare yourself for Fantasy success. It all starts with your draft, so make sure you are ready by following these guidelines…


My process steps will be:
1. Know your League's Rules
2. Decide on a Keeper
3. Research Research Research!
4. Create a shopping list
5. Formulate Draft Day Strategy
6. Prepare your Draft Day materials

As you can tell by the FF explanation above, this will be a challenge due to the amount of copy, but I think it is a good thing in that that inside cover will allow me to come up with a typographical solution. We'll see how this evolves.






1 comment:

LaDonna LaGuerre said...

Cheers for having your idea down pat. You clearly have amazing time management and organizational skills.

PS - I like your idea. I'm a little anti-sports and even I'm interested.