Oscar Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Well, the NFL is coming and is the time for Fantasy Football, I´ve been thinking about making a league for the people here, I just need to know if at least 5 more people are interested on joining it, it can be either yahoo or ESPN (I dont like the NFL.com league), I didnt make a poll because I want to know exactly who is interested so please post here if you are, if I dont get at least five people interested in the next 3 to 5 days, then I wont make one. So post here if you are interested and what would you preffer (yahoo or ESPN). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 This is only for North American's then I guess, I don't know anything about the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris82 Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Yes, well, let me explain it then in a very basic way; There's a 100 yard field. Two teams are playing. You are either on offense or defense. Let's say Team A is on offense, team B on defense. Team B is trying to prevent Team A from driving the ball into team B's score area at one end of the field. To do that, the defense tackles the offense to prevent them from gaining a down, that is reaching 10 yards ahead of where they were on the first down. Offense gets 4 downs per 10 yards. If the offense doesn't drive the ball at least 10 yards within 4 downs, they get 2 options. Option one is to not go for the 1st down. This is when the offense is before the 4th down but after the 3rd down. If they decide to go for the 1st down, they make a normal play. If they don't go for it, they punt, or kick the ball to the other side of the field and the other team recieves the ball, making the defense now the offense and the offense now the defense. There is a penalty. If the offense punted the ball, the new offense on the other team would have to drive the ball down the field all over again, making it hard for your enemy. However, if the offense goes for the 1st down and doesn't make it, the defense get's a turnover on downs, meaning they get to drive the ball down to the touchdown area (score place) wherever the offense just was, making a score easy on their part. So if you have to choose between going for a 1st down and giving of the ball, you have to decide. Only go for it if you are really close to the next 10-yd line or you are really lucky and confident. Each touchdown (score) is worth 6 points. After a touchdown is scored, the team gets a chance for an extra point. They kick the ball above the goal post into a net. If it goes straight above the net or touches the net, they get an extra point after the touchdown. If it goes below or to the side, they don't get the point. Also, they may get two extra points by faking an extra point kick, in which they line up just like they are about to kick, and right before the kicker is about to kick, another teammate grabs the ball and runs it into the score zone (endzone). Hopefully you'll understand it better now. My favorite American football team is New England. (Even though I don't live in New England or the northeast and my cities football team sucks [Cleveland Browns]) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
888ball Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Ive never really understood American football, isn't it just rugby with forward passes and too much body armour? The only good sports America has produced are ice hockey and basket ball, although my favourite english teams for both went bankrupt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Err.. imo, the pads hurt worse when your blocking. ( Talking about me ) Id never get low enough to hit them in to stomach so Id end up getting their pads. My arms got all fucked from it :/ But I guess Im interested. Even though i've never played FF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Posted August 21, 2005 Author Share Posted August 21, 2005 Ok, so far just 1 person interested, is really easy to play, you just draft players, the you get point deppendin on how they do every game, really easy and is fun to play. @chris82, are you interested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris82 Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 Sure, never done it before but I like trying new things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Posted August 23, 2005 Author Share Posted August 23, 2005 Well, so far just 2 people, wasnt the best idea, I will wait until this weekend to make my desicion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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