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The Sexy Truth about Fantasy Football

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According to a new survey from Yahoo! Sports, the average fantasy football player spends more than 4 hours a week prepping for their fantasy matchup, an amount of time that would earn them more than $500 working a minimum-wage job over the course of a full season. Additionally, 8% of fans admit to spending more than 10 hours a week preparing for fantasy football – the same percentage of fans, coincidentally, who report that they have been dumped due to a fantasy football obsession.

Other key findings include:

  • Fantasy football over sex?While 16% of respondents would give up sex for the entire season to win their fantasy league, more (19%) are willing to give up their mobile phone. The most respondents, 39%, would give up beer to win their league.
  • Fantasy football and real money

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    75% of fantasy football players are willing to bet on fantasy football, with 12% open to wagering more than $250 in their league.
  • Favorite teams vs. fantasy teams


    35% of fantasy football players have rooted against their favorite NFL team when they had a fantasy player on the opposing team.
  • The most powerful man in sports


    Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner, was considered by the most respondents (26%) to be the most powerful commissioner in professional athletics by a significant margin — more than the NBA’s David Stern (10%), MLB’s Bud Selig (9%) and the NHL’s Gary Bettman (3%) combined.
  • Gender bias?


    43% of fans think we are more likely to see a woman become President of the United States than be in charge of a professional sports league as a commissioner, and 25% think neither is likely.
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Tips for Dealing With People With Fantasy Football Addiction

TIPS FOR DEALING WITH PEOPLE WITH FANTASY FOOTBALL ADDICTION

1. People with chronicfantasy football addiction seem unreliable (we can’t count on ourselves). When feeling better we promise things (and mean it); when in serious fantasy football addiction, we may not even show up.

2. An action or situation may result in fantasy football addiction several hours later, or even the next day. Delayed fantasy football addiction is confusing to people who have never experienced it.

3. Fantasy football addiction can inhibit listening and other communication skills. It’s like having someone shouting at you, or trying to talk with a fire alarm going off in the room. The effect of fantasy football addiction on the mind can seem like attention deficit disorder. So you may have to repeat a request, or write things down for a person with chronic fantay football addiction. Don’t take it personally, or think that they are stupid.

4. The senses can overload while in fantasy football addiction. For example, noises that wouldn’t normally bother you, seem too much.

5. Patience may seem short. We can’t wait in a long line; can’t wait for a long drawn out conversation.

6. Don’t always ask “how are you” unless you are genuinely prepared to listen it just points attention inward.

7.Fantasy football addiction can sometimes trigger psychological disabilities (usually very temporary). When in fantasy football addiction, a small task, like hanging out the laundry, can seem like a huge wall, too high to climb over. An hour later the same job may be quite OK. It is sane to be depressed occasionally when you hurt.
8.Fantasy football addiction can come on fairly quickly and unexpectedly. Fantasy football addiction sometimes abates after a short rest. Fantasy football addicted people appear to arrive and fade unpredictably to others.

9. Knowing where a PC is, such as a couch, a bed, or comfortable chair, is as important as knowing where a bathroom is. A visit is much more enjoyable if the fantasy football addicted person knows there is a PC if needed. A person with chronic fantasy football addiction may not want to go anywhere that has no PC.

10. Small acts of kindness can seem like huge acts of mercy to a person in fantasy football addiction . Your offer of a pillow or a cup of tea can be a really big thing to a person who is feeling temporarily helpless in the face of encroaching fantasy football addiciton.

11. Not all fantasy football addiction is easy to locate or describe. Sometimes there is a body-wide feeling of
discomfort, with hard to describe fantasy football addiction in the entire back, or in both legs, but not in one particular spot you can point to. Our vocabulary for fantasy football addiction is very limited, compared to the body’s ability to feel varieties of discomfort.

12. We may not have a good “reason” for the fantasy football addiction. Medical science is still limited in its understanding of fantasy football addiction. Many people have fantasy football addiciton that is not yet classified by doctors as an officially recognized “disease”. That does not mean it is not real.

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 Tips for Dealing With People With Fantasy Football Addiction
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Tips for Dealing With People With Fantasy Football Addiction

TIPS FOR DEALING WITH PEOPLE WITH FANTASY FOOTBALL ADDICTION

1. People with chronicfantasy football addiction seem unreliable (we can’t count on ourselves). When feeling better we promise things (and mean it); when in serious fantasy football addiction, we may not even show up.

2. An action or situation may result in fantasy football addiction several hours later, or even the next day. Delayed fantasy football addiction is confusing to people who have never experienced it.

3. Fantasy football addiction can inhibit listening and other communication skills. It’s like having someone shouting at you, or trying to talk with a fire alarm going off in the room. The effect of fantasy football addiction on the mind can seem like attention deficit disorder. So you may have to repeat a request, or write things down for a person with chronic fantay football addiction. Don’t take it personally, or think that they are stupid.

4. The senses can overload while in fantasy football addiction. For example, noises that wouldn’t normally bother you, seem too much.

5. Patience may seem short. We can’t wait in a long line; can’t wait for a long drawn out conversation.

6. Don’t always ask “how are you” unless you are genuinely prepared to listen it just points attention inward.

7.Fantasy football addiction can sometimes trigger psychological disabilities (usually very temporary). When in fantasy football addiction, a small task, like hanging out the laundry, can seem like a huge wall, too high to climb over. An hour later the same job may be quite OK. It is sane to be depressed occasionally when you hurt.
8.Fantasy football addiction can come on fairly quickly and unexpectedly. Fantasy football addiction sometimes abates after a short rest. Fantasy football addicted people appear to arrive and fade unpredictably to others.

9. Knowing where a PC is, such as a couch, a bed, or comfortable chair, is as important as knowing where a bathroom is. A visit is much more enjoyable if the fantasy football addicted person knows there is a PC if needed. A person with chronic fantasy football addiction may not want to go anywhere that has no PC.

10. Small acts of kindness can seem like huge acts of mercy to a person in fantasy football addiction . Your offer of a pillow or a cup of tea can be a really big thing to a person who is feeling temporarily helpless in the face of encroaching fantasy football addiciton.

11. Not all fantasy football addiction is easy to locate or describe. Sometimes there is a body-wide feeling of
discomfort, with hard to describe fantasy football addiction in the entire back, or in both legs, but not in one particular spot you can point to. Our vocabulary for fantasy football addiction is very limited, compared to the body’s ability to feel varieties of discomfort.

12. We may not have a good “reason” for the fantasy football addiction. Medical science is still limited in its understanding of fantasy football addiction. Many people have fantasy football addiciton that is not yet classified by doctors as an officially recognized “disease”. That does not mean it is not real.

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Is There any Downside to NFL Prize Money Leagues?

Playing fantasy football for prize money adds an extra element of excitement to the game. Leagues of varying size jackpots can spice up the fantasy experience for many men.

 

Although playing for money is meant to be fun, the mere existence of it can be problematic. Negative consequences are possible for both individual team owners and entire leagues.

The rest of this article discusses complications concerning fantasy football prize money and how to best deal with them.

Spending Limits
Every summer you probably start getting invitations to sign up for fantasy football leagues. This might come from other guys you know or maybe online fantasy site ads. Both of these may promise very high payouts to the winner, depending upon the league.

Generally those with the biggest prizes will require the most upfront cash from team owners. Several Internet sites offer high stakes fantasy football, charging entry fees in the thousands. At this point, it must be determined how much you can really afford to spend and lose.

Many men do not think of fantasy football as “gambling” in the traditional sense. Despite this, the same potential pitfalls do exist. Even though you might be confident about winning, there are certainly no guarantees of it.

League Dishonesty
Unfortunately stories exist of league commissioners or other members mishandling collected prize money. Before turning over any cash, you should evaluate who is in the league. If you feel uncomfortable about things, it might be best to avoid the entire situation.

Sadly there is also cheating that can occur during the season that might even involve a league commissioner. A large jackpot might tempt owners into some form of collusion or other unfair behavior. Unbalanced trades or teams purposely losing to help others are two common types of dishonesty.

As was mentioned earlier, there are plenty of places online to play fantasy football. If choosing to do so, you should make sure the site is legitimate and will actually pay any winnings. Legal aspects such as age or particular state restrictions should be adhered to as well.

Playing at Work
Be aware of all company gambling regulations before joining a league at your workplace. This is very important since many employers have severely cracked down on fantasy football. You must keep this in mind, even if majority of league activity is off site and in non-working hours.

Fidelity Investments fired four employees in 2009 for this at a Texas company office. A few emails belonging to the league commissioner were intercepted and found with fantasy related content in them. Reportedly league buy in was only $20, but all four were still terminated since company policy was violated.

Although the Fidelity case in an extreme example, it should still serve as a warning. In these tough economic times nobody wants to be out of work. This is especially true for fathers that are supporting a family.

Effect on Friendships
Fantasy football disputes have unfortunately created many rifts among even the best of friends. Some grudges and hard feelings have lasted quite a few years. Since cash is the primary cause for much of this, you may want to think twice before joining a money league with friends

A lot of disagreements stem from team owners failing to pay a required entry fee. Rules usually say that those missing the payment are not invited back the next year. In a league of good friends that owner might anticipate an exception; only to be angered when he does not get it.

Any type of dishonesty or even allegations of it can harm the loyalty a group of guys might have. Obviously overall trust would be lost for a person who squandered league funds or even accidentally misplaced them. Any type of cheating by someone, prove or not, can strain the most solid of friendships.

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The Science Behind NFL Fantasy Football Addiction

35 million people are doing it.  Every year, millions of Americans get to fulfill their fantasies.  They do it in groups, usually with friends and aquantainces, but some of the more hard-core will even play our their fantasies with complete strangers.

I’m referring, of course, to fantasy football.

Despite having an almost-unhealthy interest in football, this is the first year that I’m joining a fantasy league.  My group wanted to do college instead of pro, so I went along.  I figured I’d spend a few minutes looking over the players in our selected conferences, just so I had an idea who the hot prospects were.

Instead I spent hours ranking the top players at each position, evaluating their production from last year, their projected points for this year, and what kind of gum they chew.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who’s had this experience.  There are even seriousscientists studying fantasy football. What is it about fantasy football that draws us in so obsessively?  Here are five reasons why we play.

Variable Reinforcement

If you give a lab rat a lever to press for a reward (a food pellet, or maybe some nachos) there are a few ways to arrange the schedule of reinforcement.  You can give the rat a reinforcer every time (continous reinforcement), or every three times, (fixed ratio reinforcement), it presses the button.  This is predictable, boring, and it doesn’t take the rat long to figure it out.

Or, you can screw with the furry dude’s head and provide the treat randomly after he presses the button.  Sometimes he has to press the lever two times to get a treat, sometimes twenty.  This is called variable ratio reinforcement, and it is powerful stuff.  Of all the different reinforcement schedules, it is variable reinforcement that causes the rat to press the lever most frequently, and makes him least inclined to quit.

The same effect works on humans.  Gambling, especially slot machines, work on a system of variable reinforcement.  You press the lever, sometimes (ok, usually) nothing happens.  Sometimes you win a little bit, and every great once in a while, you win a lot.  The system of variable reinforcement is enough to keep us coming back.

There is an element of variable reinforcement in fantasy football similar to that in gambling.  Every season you prepare for the draft, and every week you make substitutions, and maybe even trade for some new players.  Even if you put the same number of hours in each week, sometimes your picks will pay off; you’ll win big and look like a genius.  Sometimes you can’t catch a break, and all your moves backfire.

It’s that random payoff that makes the game exciting.  Imagine if the number of points your team scored was directly proportional to how many hours you prepared each week.  The game would cease to be worth playing- it would be too much like work!

Competition

There are guys who will treat a game of checkers like the world championships.  Competition is a central part of human existence.  For those of us born without the requisite physical skills (Usain Bolt runs the 100 faster than I run the 40) to compete on the field, fantasy football offers a way to compete in sports mentally.  Even better, we can compete while sitting on the couch in our underpants.

While pure mental competition in games like chess is often reserved only for the devoted, there is enough luck in fantasy football to level the playing field.  Just as a beginner can beat Doyle Brunson at poker for one night if he’s running lucky, so can any fantasy player beat the most knowledgeable analyst if things go his way.

Comradery

A league is a great way to stay in touch with your buddies when you’ve moved apart (say you’re living in South Korea, for example).

Teams to Root For

Most men would like a job as a football coach or general manager.  Most men will never have such a job.  Fantasy football not only allows someone access to this, well, fantasy, but it offers several opportunities to get closer to the sport of football.

It increases your knowledge of the game, which always comes in handy in bar trivia and winning small bets.  It provides a rooting interest in games you would otherwise ignore.  If Jacksonville is playing Minnesota, I’m probably not going to watch . . . unless I have Adrian Peterson going.  Even better, if your team sucks (and mine do) then fantasy football provides a way to spend your Sundays other than screaming in frustration at the TV or mowing the lawn.

Illusion of Control

This is another psychological element that influences why we play.  When people perceive that their actions have an effect on outcomes, they believe they have control over the outcomes, even when those outcomes are largely random.

I’ve seen this often at the blackjack tables.  A player will get blame for taking a card that would have busted the dealer, or credit for taking a card that would have made the dealer’s hand, even though the next card out of the shoe is random (unless you’re counting, but I don’t think there are too many counters at the $5 tables).  By being allowed to hit or stay, players believe they have a much larger influence over the course of the game then they actually do.

People are prone to believe they have some measure of control, even in random situations.  Why do so many people wear their lucky shirt for big games?

The same effect occurs in fantasy football.  Sure, you choose your team and set your lineup, but there are a huge number of factors that will affect your team that you don’t control at all.  Injuries are the obvious choice, but there are many other factors.

How many times does the coach give the ball to your player?  Both the offensive and defensive gameplans have an affect.  Will the opposing defense try to take away the #1 receiver (your guy) and leave the TE open all day (your opponent’s guy)?  Something as simple as your receiver making a big catch and being forced out at the one yard line instead of stretching over the goalline can make the difference in a close game (especially if they give it to the RB, who just happens to be on your buddy’s roster).  Will that rookie with great potential you so wisely drafted turn into a playmaker, or ride the bench?

While it’s true you can research some of these things (if you really want to be obsessive), there is still a lot of luck in the game.  That’s one of the things that makes it so accessible to so many people.

But no matter how much you study and prepare, you’re not in control.  Yet we think we are, which is another thing that draws us to the game.

Conclusion

There are powerful psychological factors that draw us to fantasy football.  In particular, the variable reinforcement provided by the game, along with the illusion of control that we experience, stimulate our minds in ways that make the game hard to resist.

Throw in the social elements of competition, comradery and greater access to our favorite sports, and it’s no wonder that fantasy football is played by millions of people.

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The Dangers of Untreated Fantasy Football Addiction

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In 2007, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association reported that an estimated 30 million individuals over the ages of 12 on up have participated in playing fantasy football. This proves that sports fans are increasingly becoming more and more addicted to playing fantasy football. When considering the definition of addiction, thoughts that commonly run through someone’s mind are referring to drugs and alcohol, and not necessarily fantasy football addiction. But with the addiction to fantasy football rapidly on the rise, it has managed to make its mark as an unofficial and unexpected addiction to some. Whether it’s playing fantasy football just to win some money, or for the feeling of authority of pure entertainment, there’s no question fantasy sports are slowly becoming an addicting sport.

It can be said that men everywhere have created their own self-addiction to fantasy sports. Whether it’s the fall season and football season is about to take off, or it’s March and spring training for Football is in session, the addiction never really stops. It’s a year-round leisure pursuit that has captivated the lives of sports fans. The phenomenon is a timely and tedious process that requires sports knowledge and sometimes a lucky charm. A typical fantasy football draft can take anywhere from one to five hours to complete. Individuals that are participating in the game, break down player stats, injury reports and opposing predictions when creating rosters.

When dealing with addiction, denial is often the primary psychological indicator that someone is involved with a personal struggle—for example, asking someone who religiously takes part in fantasy leagues on a daily basis at the expense of other responsibilities when claiming it’s nothing important to them. A lot more woman are starting to take notice when their husbands are starting to stay on the computer all the time. It might not be what you think; he could be part of the growing addiction of Fantasy Football.
A clinical psychologist warns that extreme football fanaticism may actually be an addiction that can damage life’s most significant relationships. Even in parts of the country where football madness is normal, the psychologist states that Fantasy Football fans need to become more alert to the danger Fantasy Football turning into obsession. Over-indulging in sports viewing can negatively impact a person’s quality of life. The psychologist says it isn’t only about the number of hours you spend in front of the television or computer, but how that involvement might be taking you away from everyday, real-life commitments.
Are you an addict? Answer the below questions to find out if you have a Fantasy Football Addiction:

  1. Do you have football on your mind even when you are involved in other activities?
  2. Do you prioritize the game over significant events in your life such as birthdays, anniversaries and key social gatherings?
  3. Do you feel depressed, angry or become violent if your favorite team loses?
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The Basis of Fantasy Football Addiction

Before we discuss the effects of fantasy football addiction , let’s remember  what  fantasy football means? It is an interactive virtual type competition wherein people control their professional players in football games .

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The person that manages the game is like a general manager of the football team. If you are going to play fantasy football, the players that you are going to control are all  NFL players.. In fantasy football, there are different terms that you can encounter like drafting, trading or dropping players, trading, and changing rosters. Because of technology especially the internet, fantasy football has become popular to a large number of Americans.

 

Online games like fantasy football are admired by millions of people across America  especially young adults, thus, many parents are looking for ways to cure fantasy football addiction of their children. But not all about this game is negative. Study shows that this mind game is best for people who are physically incapacitated. What’s best about this game, the player or the so called manager is able to make his mind workfaster and able to develop his forecasting skills. These are the required skills when playing fantasy football. If you are intrigued about this game, you are free to visit the rest of our website at www.ff-winners.com.

 

Actually, fantasy football is not primarily a  physical activity. This is for people who love football but unable to go to the field. There are many reasons behind why people are having fantasy football addiction. This may be because of busy schedules or they are physically incapable. Nonetheless, fantasy football is for everybody who loves playing football!

 

 The Basis of Fantasy Football Addiction