This
year, Club B5 put together a Club B5 Fantasy
Football League. For those of you that don't
know what Fantasy Football is, here is an
introduction from the Sandbox.com website (the
site we used to host our league).
INTRODUCTION. Sandbox.com hosts, operates
and maintains an interactive fantasy football
game on the Internet that captures the
excitement of professional football, called
"Full Contact." Much more than
simply a game, Full Contact is a virtual
football community where throughout the
professional football season participants are
able to create or adopt at least ONE (1)
fantasy football team, and join at least ONE
(1) of several types of fantasy football
leagues.
Just a note...we did NOT
like Sandbox.com and we DO NOT recommend
anyone to use it for Fantasy Sports
purposes.
Simply put...
1) Players must get together and create a
league. We chose to have a 10 person league,
meaning that 10 Club B5 members joined this
league and drafted a teams made up of REAL NFL
players.
2) Once everybody drafts a team made up of
Quarterbacks (QB), Running backs (RB), Wide
Receivers (WR), Tight Ends (TE), Kickers (K)
and defensive Players (D), the fantasy
football host (Sandbox.com) creates a schedule
where everybody plays one another throughout
the regular NFL football season. An NFL player
cannot be on more than 1 fantasy team. Every
week each fantasy team has a different
opponent (fantasy team) and you must choose
what players you want to play that week to
earn points for you, and which players you
want to keep on the bench. For example, we had
a 10 team league, so there would be 5 match
ups each week...each team playing 1 other
team. Each fantasy team's goal is to outscore
their opponent by picking the NFL players that
they feel will give them the best chance of
winning, based on that players actual
NFL team's opponent, home field
advantage...etc.
Every
team must play:
1 QB, 1 RB. 1 WR, 1 TE, 3 Offensive Flex
(choice of RB, WR or TE), 1 K and 3 defensive
players.
3) A team
earns points based on what their actual NFL
players do statistically in their game that
week. Points are earned by the following:
| Touchdown
(TD) |
6 |
| 2
Point Conversion (rush, receive or
pass) |
2 |
| Every
15 yards (Rushing/Receiving) |
1 |
| Every
30 yards Passing |
1 |
| Fumble
(only if lost) |
-3 |
| Interception
(thrown) |
-3 |
| Field
Goal |
3 |
| PAT
(kicking) |
1 |
| 25
Return Yds. (Kickoff Ret./Punt Ret./INT
Ret.) |
1 |
| Solo
Tackle |
1 |
| Sack |
3 |
| Interception
(caught) |
4 |
| Fumble
Recovery (Defensive) |
4 |
| Safety |
5 |
For example,
if Tiki Barber, a Running Back on the NY
Giants rushes for 79 yards , receives for 31
yards, gets 1 touchdown and has 1 fumble, he
earns 6 points for the touchdown, 5 points for
the rushing yardage, 2 points for the
receiving yardage and -3 for the
fumble...giving him 10 points for that week.
Now, at the end of the football week, a
fantasy team's points are added up and if you
outscore your opponent, you win that week and
your opponent takes a loss.
Here is something to note for fantasy
football:
Just because you score the most points
throughout the football season does not
necessarily mean you're going to win the
season. Take for example The New york Passat
Driving Giants and The Wild Hares, the top 2
fantasy teams in points scored, finishing 2nd
and 3rd. They were beaten by the Millbrae
Mutalators that scored 1365 points. It all
depends on your weekly match ups. You can
score only 40 points in one week (which is
extremely low), but if you beat your opponent
who only scored 35 points, you still get a
win.
The 10 teams
in our league included the following, and are
listed in order of final placement along with
other information based on their fantasy
season:
| Rank |
Team
Name |
Owner
(Forum Handle |
Record |
Points |
| 1 |
Millbrae
Mutalators |
Dave
(dme79) |
13-4 |
1365 |
| 2 |
New
York
Passat Driving Giants |
Thanasi
(The GREEK) |
12-5 |
1558 |
| 3 |
The
Wild Hares |
Darryl
(dapperdill) |
9-8 |
1503 |
| 4 |
Lobich
Sixty9'ers |
Lorenzo
(lobich) |
9-8 |
1393 |
| 5 |
TSB
&
The control Arm Failures |
John
(Johnny B5.5) |
9-8 |
1339 |
| 6 |
Harvard
Gulch Underdogs |
Andrew
(shummer) |
8-9 |
1356 |
| 7 |
Furiators
Furious Few |
Joseph
(Furiator) |
8-9 |
1310 |
| 8 |
J-RAD's
Big Hurt |
Jared
(J-RAD) |
6-11 |
1321 |
| 9 |
Urlik's
Fire Dawgs |
Jeffrey
(Urlik) |
6-11 |
1239 |
| 10 |
Gaptoothed
Rednecks |
Patrick
(psm0110) |
5-12 |
1213 |
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Here
are a few key players from each of the fantasy
teams, and the amount of points they scored
all season:
| Millbrae
Mutalators (dme79's Team) |
| Eagles
QB: Donovan McNabb (208 points/20.8
points per game) |
| Cheifs
RB: Preist Holmes (283 points/20.2
points per game) |
| Bears
D: Brian Urlacher (145 points/9.1 points
per game) |
| New
York Passat Driving Giants (The GREEK's
Team) |
| Falcons
QB: Micahel Vick (241 points/16.1 points
per game) |
| Dolphins
RB: Ricky Williams (225 points/14.1
points per game) |
| Saints'
RB: Deuce McAllister (191 points/12.7
points/game) |
| The
Wild Hares (dapperdill's Team) |
| QB:
Drew Bledsoe (238 points/14.9 points per
game) |
| RB:
Clinton Portis (206 points/12.9 points
per game) |
| RB:
Shaun Alexander (202 points/12.6 points
per game) |
| Lobich
Sixty9'ers (lobich's Team) |
| Raiders
QB: Rich Gannon (292 points/18.2 points
per game) |
| Chargers
RB: LaDanian Tomlinson (217 points/13.6
points per game) |
| Rams
RB: Marshall Faulk (138 points/9.9
points per game) |
| TSB
& The Control Arm Failures (Johnny
B5.5's team) |
| Patriots
QB: Tom Brady (250 points/15.6 points
per game) |
| Steelers
WR: Hines Ward (166 points/10.4 points
per game) |
| Harvard
Gulch Underdogs (shummer's Team) |
| Saints
QB: Aaron Brooks (243 points/15.2 points
per game) |
| Colts
WR: Marvin Harrison (177 points/11.1
points per game) |
| Furiator's
Furious Few (Furiator's Team) |
| Cheifs
QB: Trent Green (247 points/15.4 points
per game) |
| Giants
RB: Tiki Barber (170 points/10.6 points
per game) |
| 49ers
WR: Terrell Owens (168 points/12 points
per game) |
| J-RAD's
Big Hurt (J-RAD's Team) |
| Packers
QB: Brett Favre (218 points/13.6 points
per game) |
| Raiders
RB: Charlie Garner (181 points/11.3
points per game) |
| Giants
WR: Amani Toomer (132 points/8.2 points
per game |
| Urlik's
Fire Dawgs (Urlik's team) |
| Colts
QB: Peyton Manning (253 points/15.8
points per game) |
| Bills
RB: Travis Henry (163 points/10.2 points
per game) |
| Bills
WR: Eric Moulds (143 points/8.9 points
per game) |
| Gaptoothed
Rednecks (psm0110's Team) |
| Titans
QB: Steve McNair (228 points/14.2 points
per game) |
| Saints
K: John Carney (131 points/8.2 points
per game) |
Congratulations to Dave (dme79) for
winning the first ever Club B5 Fantasy
Football league, and a special thanks to
Andrew (shummer), Joseph (Furiator), Jared (J-RAD),
Jeffrey (Urlik) and Patrick (psm0110) for
having pathetic teams that allowed for the
rest of us to dominate the league. 
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