For people making their first move to play fantasy football, the terminology can be a bit confusing. Even a seasoned fan of fantasy football can struggle to figure out the meaning of certain NFL lingo. However, if you want to succeed in the league, you must know all the?fantasy football news?and jargon. Use the following comprehensive fantasy football glossary to help you understand everything from player positions to scoring in the leagues.?
- Average draft position (ADP):?ADP is a useful draft-building tool that lists NFL players based on where they are being picked in fantasy drafts on average.?
- Average depth of target (aDOT): this term describes how far down the field from the line of scramble a player draws a target.
- Auction draft: an auction draft is a style of fantasy football draft where team owners bid on the player they want to get. The owner with the highest bid gets the player. Each owner is given a specific amount of money to spend on players and they take turns presenting an opening bid for a player.
- Automated draft: automated draft method involves a computer choosing a player for a team. The automated draft algorithm is often run by draft software when a player does not arrive for their online draft.
- Bench players: the bench is a crucial feature of the fantasy premier league. Bench players are those who are on your team but whom you choose not to start. You do not receive any points for their performance as long as they are on the bench.
- Breakout: a player whose performance has improved significantly becomes the game’s best player, emphasizing his previous performance during his career.
- Bye week:?the entire NFL season runs for 17 weeks long but each NFL team only plays 16 games. From a fantasy aspect, owners generally try to reel their players’ bye week so their entire roaster won’t have the same bye week.?
- Bonus scoring: it is a customized scoring method that rewards players for completing a specific statistical benchmark. This can include:
- Additional points for receivers hitting 100 yards.
- Quarterbacks throwing for more than 300 yards.
- Kickers hitting field goals longer than 50 yards.
- Additional points for running back hitting 100 yards.
- Boom or bust: it describes players who normally have either very thriving or very unproductive weeks, or seasons. This fantasy football term is normally used to describe big play receivers that do not get a total of many catches or short yardage running backs, whose value is dependent on them scoring touchdowns on a few carries.
- Bust: a bust is a fantasy player who does perform great in the league. This player may have gone through a season-ending injury or was unable to perform well on the field. Fantasy owners attempt to predict fantasy football busts so they can avoid drafting them in the team.
- By-laws: By-laws are special rules that dictate the league. They involve special basic rules, such as playoffs, scoring and prizes. They can also direct off-field guidelines, like suitable language or what action to take in cases of suspect collusion.
- Cheat sheet: a cheat sheet is a drafting tool that offers a ranking list of players. It is used to help make a selection during a fantasy football draft. Every fantasy league can have a different scoring system. However, your cheat sheet is customized to your league’s frame. This ranking system makes it easy to evaluate the top players across all positions.
- Commissioner: the commissioner is an owner in charge of administering the league and implementing the by-laws. Commissioner is accountable for maintaining the league, reporting the results of the fantasy matchups, finalizing draft dates, collecting entry fees and running the draft smoothly.
- Deep league: a deep league has more than 12 teams. More players are rostered in these leagues, making them look deeper into the player pool than smaller ones.
- Depth chart: the deep chart represents the hierarchy of each team. It represents the highest players on the depth chart getting more playing time than lower players.
- Draft league: it carries a standard fantasy draft to decide team rosters. Most fantasy football leagues are draft leagues.
- Exempt: exempt is a rarely used roster designation. It is typically applied in case of significant off-field problems. It means that the player is not on a team’s active roster. From the fantasy football perspective, they will not be performing that week.
- Fleecing: fleecing happens in fantasy football when a trade is biased. The team on the losing side of the trade is said to have been fleeced.
- Waiver wire: waivers refer to a collection of players that are not on a team and cannot be added by any team. Players go on the waiver wire when a team cuts them or their weekly games.
Now that you know the meaning of various terms used in fantasy football, you can make an informed decision and draft your first team to win the league.
