This new wave of fantasy football has taken the National Football League  fans by storm. Fantasy Football is a sensational opportunity for people to have bragging rights in front of friends, win prizes, and to stay on top of current events that are stirring inside of the NFL. Playing Fantasy Football also gives the player the experience of being a real life General Manager in the NFL.

The first step in playing Fantasy Football is to start a league that consist of 12 teams, in other words, 12 people competing in the league. The second step is to create a draft, the players will be able to pick professional football players to fill up their roster. The scoring for the games is based on the players on each team, their real life statistics will be put into points and updated to that team’s roster. During the regular football season, the players that are chosen to be on the football line-up will determine if your successful during the week. Being on top of the NFL schedule, rosters, and stats is essential if you want to win the league.

One of the benefits that Fantasy Football has is that it helps with social skills. With the incentive to be first in the football league, players will constantly attempt to be careful in trying to get a trade, drop a player, or to get a pick in the draft from other players. Another benefit is that it’ll force players to know more about the league’s injuries, underrated players, watch the game, and much more which will help a person increase their knowledge about football.

In a numerous amount of ways, Fantasy Football can help a student to increase their skills in schools such as economics and their math skills. According to “Perspectives on Economic Education Research”, they believe that Fantasy Football can be an effective tool for teaching many economic concepts, including opportunity cost, comparative advantage, and gains from trade, markets behavior, including supply and demand shocks, consumer surplus, imperfectly competitive markets, game theory, and market interventions. Also, Fantasy Football can help someone to enhance their mathematical skills by being able to analyze graphs, and use addition and subtraction to add up skills and so much more.

Bibliography

Collins, Kyle. “Teaching Economics Using Fantasy Football”. Perspectives on Economic Education Research. PDF. http://cobhomepages.cob.isu.edu/peer/links/volumes/10.1/Collins.pdf . Accessed 20 September 2017.