2007 College Fantasy Football
CFN Scoring & Ranking System
Top 50 Players
| Quarterbacks
Running Backs
| Receivers
| Tight Ends & Kickers
Conference Rankings
ACC |
Big East
| Big Ten
| Big 12
| C-USA
MAC
|
M-West
| Pac 10
| SEC
| Sun Belt
| WAC
College fantasy football
hasn’t taken off like it has for the NFL for one main reason ... it's tough
to do. It's easy when there are only 32
teams to deal with, but with 119 teams and 11 conferences plus independents,
it's just too hard. The other problem is an unbalanced schedule. How do you
play head-to-head with all the bye weeks?
To be honest, you need to
know how fantasy football works before even attempting to play it on a
college level. If you’re unfamiliar with fantasy football, do not
start off by playing college fantasy football.
It's just too tough. If you want to start a league that works, here
are the suggestions for scoring systems, leagues and how to play.
THE LEAGUES
Unless you and your friends
are die-hard college football fans and able to keep track of every team and
every conference, here’s how you should play college fantasy football that
can be fun for you, while keeping it simple and easy.
1) Only pick from the big six conferences. If you’re big-time college
football fans, you’ll know the main players in the ACC, Big East, Big Ten,
Big 12, Pac 10 and SEC. It's more fun when you can watch your players on
TV. Another method is to pick 25 teams to choose from. Maybe look at the
preseason Top 25 and make a rule you can only pick players from those
teams. OR...
2)
Only play one conference. If you and your friends love the Big Ten,
just do a Big Ten league. If two of you are Florida State fans and your
other friends are Gator die-hards, play a conference fantasy football league
where you pick from the ACC and the friends pick from the SEC to create a
conference rivalry. The key is to keep it simple; otherwise it's way too
difficult to keep track of every team.
3) You can either play head-to-head, giving each team several reserve
players to plug in during bye weeks, or base the scoring over the entire
season. One key note, count ONLY Division-I games and come to an agreement
on one game for each team that should get thrown out so you can eliminate
the obvious blowout. To keep it even easier, you can opt to play only
conference games. That way you don’t have to deal with the teams that load
up on non-conference cupcakes.
SCORING SYSTEM
KEEP IT SIMPLE. NCAA stats
are always sketchy at best, and if you're planning on finding the totals
from a backup Eastern Michigan running back, you’ll need to make it as basic as possible. If
you want to throw yards into the mix, here's the Collegefootballnews.com
Scoring System, which you can use as the official source to base your
league:
Passing: Once again,
keep it as easy as possible. Don’t add in interceptions and don't get too screwy
with other odd pass ratings. Running QBs can be a nightmare to score.
- 3 points per touchdown pass.
- 1 point for every 50 yards passing.
- 1 point for every two-point-conversion pass.
Rushing: (keep in
mind this applies to QBs and WRs too)
- 6 points for TD
- 3 points for every 50 yards rushing
- 2 points for every two-point-conversion
Receiving: (keep in
mind this applies to RBs too)
- 6 points per TD
- 3 points for every 50 yards receiving
- 2 points for every two-point-conversion
Kicking: (this is
obvious)
- 1 point per extra point, 3 points per field goal
Defense: Please do
not use defenses unless you’re a die-hard player.
-
Total points. You lose one point for every point your D gives up. This might
take you into the negative point total, but that's part of the deal.
