Fantasy Football.
Those two words have almost become synonymous with NFL Sunday. From now until the NFL’s opening kickoff, millions of people will be conducting research, ranking players, holding fantasy drafts and coming up with witty team names.
America, you’re officially obsessed with Fantasy Football.
But it wasn’t always like this.
As technology has evolved over the years, Fantasy Football has evolved with it.
At the beginning of Fantasy Football’s ascent to national popularity, many of the things that are handled electronically today – scorekeeping, trades, waiver wire pickups, etc. – were managed by pen and paper. On Sunday evening and Monday morning, the league commissioner would sit down with the day’s box scores and a calculator and tally up the scores the old-fashioned way.
DIRECTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket, which has become increasingly popular among football fans, now includes features specifically catered to Fantasy Football. Player Tracker allows you to track the stats of up to 18 players throughout game day, and even gives you live “Big Play” alerts every time one of your players makes a game-changing play. The Game Mix channel even allows you to watch up to eight live games – complete with scores and game clock – on one screen.
On top of all that, the evolution of mobile technology has made it possible to follow your fantasy team from virtually anywhere. Thousands of fans at stadiums across the country are cheering just as hard for the Fantasy game on their Blackberry as the one that’s taking place right in front of them.
While we know how Fantasy Football started and how it got to where it is today, the bigger question still remains:
Where is it going?
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I was reading a "Should you use PPR" article the other day and the most interesting part was his thoughts on new metrics.
What if instead of the WR and QB both getting credit for the yardage on a 30 yard pass/reception, the QB only gets credit for the distance the ball is in the air and the WR only gets the distance after? They currently use Yards After Catch (YAC) as a standard metric, its just not used in Fantasy Football.
Example: For a 30 yard pass the Receiver would get the YAC and the QB would get 30 yards minus YAC (distance before the ball is caught).
I liken this to a lateral or backwards pass where the person who catches the ball gets credit for a rush not a reception.
That's a pretty awesome idea! I will be mentioning that in a column at some point -- very cool. (You'll get credit, I promise!)
Not sure I should get any credit, since the idea originally came from an article I read. Just wanted to drop a comment since I thought it was interesting and your readers might like it. I can link the article if you want.
Ahh, yeah, post a link, that would be awesome.
http://www.4for4.com/fantasy-football/2012/preseason/reconsidering-ppr-fantasy-football-league-commissioner
I wonder how small these comments get...