What are Fantasy Games? Fantasy games are a way for individuals to compete against each other to see who has the best managing skills in any given sport. Fantasy Football is traditionally considered the most popular of all fantasy games, followed closely by Fantasy Baseball.
The first order of business in creating any fantasy league is collecting its members. As "team owners", these individuals draft real-life, professional players to be members of their respective teams. The statistics these players generate in their real games are collected, and fantasy points are awarded based on these numbers -- the better a player performs, the more fantasy points he accrues for his owner's team. In fantasy football, these points determine a winner in a weekly head-to-head match-up of two of the league's teams. The team that accumulates the most victories over the course of the season -- and prevails in the postseason -- is declared the League Winner.
What is ESPN SportsZone's Fantasy Football '98? ESPN SportsZone's Fantasy Football '98 (FFL '98) is the closest thing you can find to buying your own franchise and becoming the team's manager, owner, and president all in one. All decisions are yours to make. Each team owner is supplied with all of the tools -- multiple draft methods, live box scores, unlimited waivers and trades, free agency, an all-empowering commissioner, chat rooms, league bulletin boards, sortable stats for all players, etc. -- everything needed to build a team in the best manner possible.
Statistical reports, expert analysis, and up-to-date feature articles from ESPN SportsZone are readily available to keep owners informed. Armed with this information, owners are free to create the team of their dreams. To win, an owner has to be crafty, as each team competes directly with nine other owners who are equally determined to come out on top. Owners can choose who they compete against and are free to join a league at their own level of competition.
During the final four weeks of the NFL season, the top four teams in each ten team league will play each other in the playoffs, while the remaining six teams compete in the consolation bracket tournament. Regardless of your regular season record, your team is guaranteed to play all 17 weeks of the NFL season.
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