Fantasy Sports, Daily and Weekly Fantasy Drafts for Cash Prizes

How long ago do you think the first fantasy football league was in existence? 20 years? 30 years? Guess again. Plans for the first fantasy football league started in 1962, by three football fans at the Milford Plaza Hotel in New York. What became known as the Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League started then, with the concept of fantasy football.

The first teams in the first fantasy football league had connections to the Oakland Raiders franchise. However, although word spread around Oakland over the next few years about fantasy football, it didn’t really catch on then. Through the years, fans in other cities started their own fantasy leagues, but it took the advent of the internet to make fantasy football a nationwide sensation. Nowadays, close to 20 million people play fantasy football, and it has been a huge marketing tool for the NFL.

At DraftStreet, we offer more than one type of fantasy football league to fit your needs. We have both snake draft leagues and salary cap leagues for you to play. And there are both free leagues, where you can win store credit, as well as pay leagues, where you have the chance to win cash and prizes.

Basically, the way you play fantasy football is this – you join a fantasy football league, which can have anywhere between six and 12 teams or so – and the teams compete against each other, based on what real-life players do on the field. Most of it is based on either scoring plays on the field, or stopping scoring plays. Depending on the settings of your particular fantasy league, you pick players such as a quarterback, wide receiver, running back, kicker, tight end, and the defensive team or players for your league.

The point system depends on which league you are in, and how it is run. So pay attention to the rules of your league. In addition, some fantasy football leagues are head-to-head, where you go up against one particular opponent each week, and have a different opponent the following week. Other leagues have a regular points system, where you get victories per week based on the total points you received, as opposed to all your other opponents. Again, it is important to pay attention to how your fantasy football league is set up, and how points are awarded.

You may find that playing fantasy football not just gives you something fun to do each week, but it increases your interest in the NFL as a whole. These days, joining a fantasy football league is the new American pastime. It’s a great way to build camaraderie at the office, and have good-natured trash talk with your co-workers.

Other people join fantasy football leagues to keep up with their real-life friends – it is a good way to compete against both old friends and new, enjoy yourself playing fantasy football, and tease your friends about who is winning – and losing – in the league. Have fun!