European here. I have heard of the concept of fantasy football, but never quite gotten what is so appealing about it, how it works (you pick players from different teams?), and why grown (wo)men are willing to dedicate hours of their life to it. Please explain :).
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To a certain percentage of the United States, the NFL is similar to your country’s football leagues. Let’s say you like one particular team because they are from your hometown or you have always liked them. The teams one game comes on and you watch it, but you want to be more interested in the other games that do not feature your team.
Or in another instance, your team is extremely bad, the goalie allows every kick to score and you have no offense. Then just watching those games is miserable.
Fantasy football allows you to compete with a bunch of your buddies or even total strangers for money by using your knowledge of the sport to form an imaginary team that will score more points than the others in your league.
There are people who take it to an extreme, studying field conditions, etc. But most of us who play do it to just add to the participation in the sport and also trash talk your friends and compete with them. Of course there is also ways to gamble.
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