Green Fantasy Football scouts your fantasy league for you so that you know everything important about your schedule — what's realistic, which of your weekly matchups are more manageable or important towards securing a first round bye or playoff spot, which free agents could impact those matchups.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Hit the "Add League" button in the Videos page and follow the instructions. For some platforms and depending on which app, it may be easier to do this in an app or a desktop Chrome browser.

They start with an attribution of why your most recent matchup went as expected or didn't. You need this over time to judge us. Then they determine the state of your team in the regular season. They already scouted everyone's remaining matchups, who is projected to beat whom, where in the standings that will leave you, and what range of free agents might affect which of those outcomes. Working backwards, the videos assume you want a first round bye or will settle for a playoff spot, and they highlight anything you can do to get there playoff-ready. Sometimes acting weeks early on a defense can flip a matchup with a team that wants your first round bye because of a few critical points in a specific week. The videos always speak to whether there was anything playoff relevant. They don't replace Tuesday night reading and podcast listening, but you're in a dark cave wandering around if you're depending on the current standings and your next opponent to understand how your season's going.

It’s not actually about environmental consciousness. It refers to future matchups of individual players when you're looking in your platform at your lineup for a specific week. There is a column to list the rank of the player's real-life opponent against your player's position on the season, and platforms historically color code these. There is no reason to get to the playoffs and not see green there. We can't control what actually happens when the games start, but we can help you all season long plan for anything that didn't happen in the first few rounds of the draft.

This question clearly isn’t for a potential user about to sign up and add a league; it’s buried as the last FAQ for someone interested in what Green Fantasy Football does. But, here we go.

At a high level, fantasy football is a social game that uses real-life data. A fantasy league typically includes a 14-week regular season for 10-16 fantasy teams (run by real people – friends, family members, colleagues) followed by a single elimination playoff (most commonly three weeks for six teams with two first round byes as an example). In any given regular season week in a fantasy league, each team has an opponent (e.g., 5-7 matchups with two of the 10-16 teams). In any of these weeks, a team’s objective is to outscore (more on this later) its opponent in order to win its matchup. There are standings in the regular season tracking seeding, and playoffs are single elimination where the league’s champion that season survives its single elimination postseason matchups.

A single matchup’s scoring is determined by fantasy points accrued by designated NFL players on each team’s roster. (These are real-life NFL players, but they do not know or care about this specific fantasy team.) A fantasy team starts certain NFL players based on restrictions on the players’ position in real football. In a given week, these real-life NFL players accrue real-life statistics (e.g., a wide receiver in a specific week might have 5 receptions for 50 yards and 1 touchdown, no passing/ rushing yards/ touchdowns, no two-point conversions) in their actual NFL games. Each league has a scoring system for how these real-life stats translate into fantasy points (e.g., it could include .5 fantasy points per reception, .1 fantasy points per receiving or rushing yard, 6 fantasy points per receiving or rushing touchdown = 13.5 fantasy points in that “5-50-1” example from before).

There are also roster restrictions based on league rules. The fantasy season kicks off with a draft – typically the most fun part of the football season – because there is only one instance of an NFL player in a fantasy league's universe. Drafts are the initial way in which fantasy teams in a fantasy league compete for filling out their rosters with NFL players (e.g., a turn-based or bidding system for selecting the NFL players). Undrafted NFL players who were eligible to be drafted go into a large free agency pool after drafts. Teams then can trade players amongst themselves, but they mostly will add NFL players from the free agency pool (and drop players from their existing roster). The portion of players drafted and even rostered mid-season tends to be a small portion of the NFL players with potential for fantasy impact, and real-life football is volatile over the course of an NFL season with a lot of unforeseen development. The bulk of post draft fantasy football action is about these additions of players from the free agency pool at the cost of dropping players from the existing roster into the free agency pool in order to make the required room for the incoming player. It is a bizarrely emotional process to fake drop a real-life player who doesn’t know or care about your fantasy team. However, in any active league (one worth playing in), the eventual champion will have done a pretty good job with active management of their roster over the course of what feels like a very long season with the addition of helpful free agents before competitors could add those same real-life players to their fake football team’s roster instead.

That’s pretty much it. There’re some more details, but you have the gist.