Fantasy Football Glossary 0 - F

1. Fantasy Football Glossary 0 - F
Are you starting to learn the craft of
playing fantasy football? Well, first things
first – you should know all the terms and
definitions before starting out to manage
and draft teams of your own. Let’s begin!
3rd year WR Rule
There was a belief among fantasy
footballplayers that almost all of the NFL wide receivers don’t “break out” until their
third year in the league. Good examples are as follows: Santana Moss, Chris Chambers,
Steve Smith and Javon Walker.
ADP
It is an abbreviation for Average Draft Position which means it’s a report listing the NFL
players by the position they were drafted in fantasy football on average. The source can
either be from mock drafts or the real ones. The ADP is also a good preparation tool for
drafting.
Auction Draft
This is a type of fantasy draft where owners are allotted a certain amount of fantasy cash
to fill their roster spots by means of bidding on NFL players. The owners get to take
their turns introducing an opening bid for a player.
Basic Scoring
In fantasy football, points are earned only when your starters get to score touchdowns,
field goals and extra points.

2. Bench Players
These are the players who aren’t included in the starting line-up and normally owners
don’t get to receive points for their performances.
Bust
This is what a player is called if he is predicted to have a poor season as opposed to
general expectations. The player in some case may be prone to injury, have a future star
behind them in the depth chart, or just won’t be able to live up to their hype.
Bye week
Out of 17 weeks in the NFL schedule each NFL team gets to play 16 games. The that they
don’t get to play is the ‘bye week’. When drafting, it is important to note that your
starters and backups don’t have the same bye week in fantasy football since one of the
primary reasons for backup players is to have coverage during a bye week.
Cheat Sheet
This is what a lot of good drafters use in order to list NFL players ranked in order of
predicted fantasy points; unfortunately there are no accompanying stats, so it may be
possible that it is not accurate for a league’s scoring system. Cheat sheets are also
available online in case you’ll need one. This is something you don’t really want to share
with others if you want to be in the lead.
Commissioner
The one responsible for maintaining the league is the commissioner, he is the one that
reports the results of the fantasy games, running the draft, collecting entrance fees if
there are any and he keeps the things running smoothly so it’s very important for him to
be honest and unbiased.
Cut or Drop

3. This is the term called when removing a player from your roster.
Deep League
This is a league that has more than 12 owners or a large team sizes. There are more
players on fantasy rosters in deep leagues than in a ‘normal’ league of 12 owners with
total rosters of 16 to 18 players (total of 192-216 players drafted).
Depth Chart
This is a team roster with players classified as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd string and there are
websites that has a depth chart that can be viewed for free.
Draft
This is a meeting of owners and commissioners prior to the NFL season.
Owners before the NFL season can select players for their team. There are a lot of
methods how, either by auction or serpentine method. Some leagues would give the top
spots in the draft to the teams with the poorest records from the previous season. Most
leagues only allow one fantasy team to own a particular NFL player.
Dynasty League
This is a type of league where an owner gets to keep his entire roster from year to year.
The next season a draft is held in order to improve their team. The draft order is
commonly based on the previous’ year’s finish. This is a long term commitment that is
why it is overshadowed by head-to-head league and Total-points league.
Fantasy Football
Players, called owners, earn fantasy points for the statistical performances of the NFL
players on their fantasy team. In most leagues, NFL Players are assigned to teams va a
draft. Each player can only on one team at a time and there are no limits to the total
number of players per team. The object of the game is to outscore your fantasy opponent

4. or other owners on a weekly basis so at the end of the fantasy season, you will have most
points to win (depends on the league, in this case - a head-to-head league).
FF
An abbreviation of Fantasy Football
Flex
This is a spot on your starting lineup that you can use more than one type of position
player.