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Q: What is Fantasy Football? A: Fantasy Football gives you the opportunity to run your own team of professional football players. You draft your team of the best players from across the NFL and receive points based on those players' performances in NFL games each week of football season. You set weekly lineups, propose, accept and reject trades, sign free agents, and compete against other teams in your league. If you have a group of friends you can form your own league using Football Commissioner. Learn more about Fantasy Football. A: There are different versions of CBSSports.com Fantasy Football 2011. The Gold version costs $39.99 per team, with a $200 league champion prize! The Platinum version costs $99.99 per team, with a $600 league champion prize! The Diamond version costs $249.99 per team, with a $1,600 league champion prize! The Double Diamond version costs $499.99 per team, with a $3,500 league champion prize! Fantasy Football 2011 includes a free version of our Fantasy Football game for beginners with no prize for the league champion. Fantasy Football Commissioner is offered for those that want complete control and ultimate customizability at a cost of $179.99 for your entire league to play the whole season online. A: Yes, you can play Fantasy Football 2011 for free! CBSSports.com offers the most comprehensive free game on the market for beginners to learn the most popular fantasy game in the world! First-timers and inexperienced users can experience the nuances of fantasy football and master all the great features CBSSports.com Fantasy Football offers in a more relaxed and less competitive atmosphere. Free leagues are not eligible for league champion prizes. A: The Free game is more relaxed, less competitive, and intended to introduce Fantasy Football to first-timers and inexperienced players. The Pay Single games offer better competition with the chance to win league prizes for the more dedicated and experienced players. A: If you want to create a fantasy football league for a group of your friends, Football Commissioner lets you set up and run the league to your exact specifications. Acting as the league commissioner you can customize the scoring system, the rules, and the schedule based on your wants and needs. In Fantasy Football 2011, you can own a team in an already existing league and compete against other users. For these leagues, we act as commissioner and set all the rules for you. You simply manage your team and try to beat the rest of the league. A: Joining a league is easy! You can either join a public league or start a private league. Public Leagues are open to anybody. If you create or join a Public league, you will have no control over who joins the league. Be sure to read the description of the league you want to join to make sure it suits your needs. If you know all the owners who are going to be in your league, or you want to recruit individuals, you may want to join or create a Private league. The person who creates a Private league sets a password and other owners use that password to join the league. If you already know all of the owners in your league and want complete control of your league's rules, you should also check out the CBSSports.com Football Commissioner, our powerful and fully-customizable stats service. A: Once you win any CBSSports.com Fantasy League, you are eligible to play in our Winner's Leagues. Enjoy the increased competition as you battle against past League Champions for ultimate bragging rights! A: Yes. You can create a "private" league, set a league password, and tell your friends to join. If you already have an existing league, and want to make all the rules and act as commissioner, you should check out CBSSports.com's Football Commissioner. A: Each league consists of 12 teams. You will manage one of the teams. You will play a weekly Head-to-Head system, where you're matched up with one team each week and the standings are determined by win/loss record. For details, please see the game's Official Rules.
A: You can schedule e-mail delivery of all the reports in your Fantasy league. When the reports arrive in your inbox, we refer to them as E-Reports. This includes statistics and standings reports, as well as news updates about your players and more. You can even have customized reports e-mailed. For instance, let's say you need a quarterback. Sort the free agent report to display the top scoring QBs available at the top, then have the report e-mailed every week. A: Absolutely! We post player news as it happens along with strategic analysis to help team owners make the right lineup decisions. Also, a list of all current NFL injuries and playing status is right on your league's site. Plus we have a full editorial schedule, with Fantasy articles and analyses from our experts throughout each week A: To provide an equal opportunity for all owners to add players to their rosters that are new to the free agent pool, a Waivers process is used. For more details on the waiver process, please see the game's Official Rules. |
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