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There are fantasy leagues for pretty much every sport, but fantasy football is the most popular in the US - an estimated 30 million people played it last year. It's a game in which people make a virtual roster of real nfl players It's called "fantasy" because to some of us, assembling the top players from different teams onto one hypothetical roster is what passes for some sort of bizarre fantasy.

The only things that matter are a few key numbers for the individual players on your fantasy team - like touchdowns, yards, and catches. It's all a game-within-a-game, in which the wins and losses of real-life NFL teams is unimportant. Traditional leagues are season-long (meaning you keep your players for the whole season), but daily leagues (in which you draft a new set of players each week) have skyrocketed in popularity over the last few years. When you play fantasy, you make a virtual roster of real NFL players, then compete against other people's rosters, based on the stats of all the players in real games. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/MCT via Getty Images) Some nice fellas conducting a fantasy draft. If you've received an invitation from friends or coworkers to play this game for the first time, this article is for you. It has changed the way real games are broadcasted and permeated pop culture to the point where it's the subject of a long-running sitcom.

The strange game has taken the country by storm over the last decade or so. Welcome to the bizarre world of fantasy football. Last year, millions of Americans spent countless hours researching the statistics of obscure football players.īefore the season, they "drafted" these players onto the imaginary teams that they "owned." Game after game, they tracked their play in the waning minutes of already-decided NFL games, celebrating in triumph when a player unknowingly gave them victory with a meaningless yard or catch.