Fantasy suicide sports

Fantasy suicide sports
Fantasy suicide sports are popular fantasy sports games which combine the statistic analysis of traditional fantasy leagues and the “use ‘em and lose ‘em” aspect of suicide sports.
Fantasy suicide football
Overview
The most commonly played of all fantasy suicide sports is fantasy suicide football. Basic leagues are set up where one commissioner organizes a group of participants, known as “team owners”, to compete against each other. Each week team owners select 1 quarterback, 1 running back and 1 wide receiver for their team. The amount of players chosen is the commissioner’s option, he may choose to add additional players such as a tight end or a second wide receiver. This makes the league more difficult as the player pool diminishes much quicker. Points are awarded based on passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, touchdowns and two-point conversions. Negative points are accumulated for negative yards, interceptions & fumbles. The suicide aspect of the game is that you may only use each player once per season.
Scoring
Scoring is at the discretion of the commissioner, but most points system mimic that of of your typical fantasy league.
League Format
The league can be formatted in one of two ways, head to head or overall points. Both versions are played during all 17 weeks of the NFL regular season. Fantasy Suicide Football does not have a playoff.
In the head to head format, team owners are matched up against each other each week. The team with the highest total fantasy points is awarded a win. The team with the best record at the end of the year is the league champion.
Points based leagues do not have match-ups. Instead players accumulate points each week and the team with the highest total at the end of the year is the champion.
Strategy
Fantasy suicide football strategies can differ from player to player. Some team owners choose to look at the match-ups and pick the players facing the worst rushing or passing defenses that week. Others like to use the best positional players early as to avoid missing out on the opportunity to use premier players should they go down to injury. Yet another strategy is to delay using the best players as to accumulate points late in the season.
A more advanced strategy mixes a combination of the above approaches. In this scenario, team owners map out when the best players are facing the worst defenses and save them for those weeks. Also, towards the end of the year, team owners study who their opponents have/have not chosen yet and pick defensively around this. Sleeper picks are picks that are out of the normal for a given week, They are high risk/high reward picks in the sense that if they work out, the owner is awarded points that very few or no other team owners are awarded. The downside is that if the pick flops, it puts the team at big disadvantage.
History
Popular fantasy sports websites such as The Sporting News and CBS Sports currently run fantasy suicide sports leagues.
The Sporting News has branded their version as "3 For All" and they ran both regular season and playoff versions during the 2008/2009 season. 3 For All allows each user to put in 1 to 5 teams for varying fees. There are also prizes for the top 50 finishers, over $6,000 total. First place in the 2009 playoff version was awarded $500.
CBS Sports has also been running a sponsored version of fantasy suicide football for Sprint called Sprint Fantasy Pick. In this version, users not only compete against each other, but also against The NFL Today team of Boomer Esiason, James Brown, Shannon Sharpe, Bill Cowher & Dan Marino. The league had over 20,000 sign-ups for the 2008 regular season. Weekly prizes of $500 were awarded for the highest points, as well as a $5,000 Grand Prize at the end of the season.
Example
Head to Head League Format</br>
Team 1
<ul><li>QB - Tom Brady <ul>
<li>300 yards passing, 3 TDs, 1 INT</ul>
<li>RB - Michael Turner<ul>
<li>125 yards rushing, 10 yards receiving</ul>
<li>WR - Calvin Johnson<ul>
<li>89 yards, 2 TDs, 1 Fumble</ul></ul>
Team 2
<ul><li>QB - Peyton Manning<ul>
<li>325 yards passing, -5 yards rushing, 2 TDs</ul>
<li>RB - Adrian Peterson<ul>
<li>167 yards rushing, 2 TDs</ul>
<li>WR - Randy Moss<ul>
<li>67 yards, 2 TDs</ul></ul>
Scoring
Team 1 = 56.4 points
<li>QB = ((300/25) * 1) + (3*4) + (1 * -1) = 12 + 12 - 1 = 23</li>
<li>RB = ((125/10) * 1) + ((10/10) * 1) = 13.5</li>
<li>WR = ((89/10) * 1) + (2* 6) + (1 + -1) = 8.9 + 12 -1 = 19.9</li>
Team 2 = 67.9 points
<li>QB = ((325/25) * 1) + ((-5/10) * 1) + (2 * 4) = 13 - .5 + 8 = 20.5</li>
<li>RB = ((167/10) * 1 ) + (2 * 6) = 16.7 + 12 = 28.7</li>
<li>WR = ((67/10) * 1) + (2 * 6) = 6.7 + 12 = 18.7
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