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Do you still have that familiar itch to play fantasy football, even though the calendar has switched years? You're not alone -- many avid fantasy football competitors have turned toward playoff leagues to keep their fantasy addiction satiated through January. That'll leave just one month (and the short one, at that) till fantasy baseball permeates every inch of our lives.We're knee deep in fantasy baseball coverage already, but we want to help out our football-only owners that don't want the season to end. After the first half of the Cincinnati-New York game last Sunday, we started a playoffs draft through e-mail. I'll discuss the rules below, in case you and a group of friends want to play along but aren't set on rules. Once we've completed the draft (we're halfway through), we'll post the rosters for your amusement.
Rule No. 1: No bench, no lineups. Everyone plays every game.
Rather than worry about head-to-head fantasy matchups and redrafting every round, we're just going by total points accumulated in the playoffs by each player drafted. This has the added strategy of trying to nail your playoff predictions -- if you correctly predict a No. 3 to No. 6 seed making the Super Bowl and if you have multiple players from that team on your team, you stand a good chance of winning the whole thing.
Our starting lineups will consist of one QB, one RB, two WRs, one RB/WR flex, one TE, one K, and one DF. An eight-player roster sets up a fair snake draft; the team with the first pick of the draft will also have the last.
Rule No. 2: Keep scoring simple.
Here's what we're going with:
Passing: 20 yards per point, four-point TDs, minus-one point for interceptions Rushing/receiving: 10 yards per point, six points TDs.
Kicking: All FGs worth three points, XPs worth one point, no penalty for misses.
Defense: two-point sacks, three-point turnovers (INT/Fum Rec), five-point shutouts
Keeping a system simple like this will make preparation much easier while not unnecessarily taxing the person keeping score.
Rule No. 3: Have fun.
Try not to be hyper-competitive with this type of league, especially if you're in a playoff league with teams that you also played fantasy football with during the regular season. The NFL playoffs should take precedence over how well your fantasy team does; if you treat the playoffs as the main course and playoff fantasy football as a delicious side, you should have a fun-filled January.
Check back with us within the next few days for our roster. Here's a teaser: I was the only one smart enough (I hope) to not draft a QB in the first round.
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