As if 30 teams in every sport's major or Premier league weren't enough, the fantasy sports player assumes there were one more team. And that he owned it. As the usual player can barely pay his share of the month's rent, it is clear why this pastime uses the word "fantasy." The fantasy player is blissfully free of other real-world issues:
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| - As if 30 teams in every sport's major or Premier league weren't enough, the fantasy sports player assumes there were one more team. And that he owned it. As the usual player can barely pay his share of the month's rent, it is clear why this pastime uses the word "fantasy." The fantasy player is blissfully free of other real-world issues:
- A fantasy sport (also known as rotisserie, roto, or fairy-tale sport; or owner simulation) is a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams of a professional sport. Probably the most common variant converts statistical performance into points that are compiled and totaled according to a roster selected by a manager that makes up a fantasy team. These point systems are typically simple enough to be manually calculated by a "league commissioner." More complex variants use computer modeling of actual games based on statistical input generated by professional sports. In fantasy sports there is the ability to trade, cut, and resign players, like a real sports owner.
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| - As if 30 teams in every sport's major or Premier league weren't enough, the fantasy sports player assumes there were one more team. And that he owned it. As the usual player can barely pay his share of the month's rent, it is clear why this pastime uses the word "fantasy." The player's imagined role as the owner lets him dictate player negotiations and trades. He does things real owners don't do, because they have real money on the line and do not want to drive the value of their franchise to zero. The fantasy player can indulge whims, such as assembling a team of only white people, unceremoniously firing athletes who test positive for marijuana or go to an Obama rally, and assembling a team of athletes who have cuckolded one another, secure in the knowledge that their performance will be exactly what it is in the real world, and wife-stealing and personality issues will never get in the way. The fantasy player is blissfully free of other real-world issues:
* Will someone sue me if I do that?
* What if athletes come to realize that I am a bastard to work for?
* Can someone please tactfully tell the Breast Cancer Awareness people to piss off?
* Would anyone pay real money to come to a game at a club where a douche like me is the owner?
* Will they keep paying after five losing seasons?
- A fantasy sport (also known as rotisserie, roto, or fairy-tale sport; or owner simulation) is a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams of a professional sport. Probably the most common variant converts statistical performance into points that are compiled and totaled according to a roster selected by a manager that makes up a fantasy team. These point systems are typically simple enough to be manually calculated by a "league commissioner." More complex variants use computer modeling of actual games based on statistical input generated by professional sports. In fantasy sports there is the ability to trade, cut, and resign players, like a real sports owner. It's estimated by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association that 16 million adults in the U.S., age 18 to 55, play fantasy sports. Fantasy sports is also popular throughout the world with leagues for football, cricket and other non-U.S. based sports.
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