FANTASY FOOTBALL GUIDEBOOK
Fantasy Football Guidebook: Your Comprehensive Guide to Playing Fantasy Football is a 2007 reference book by Sam Hendricks that describes in detail the various strategies, tips and rules of how to play fantasy football. The early chapters include the history of fantasy football, the basics, types of leagues, scoring systems and types of drafts. Once this ground work is set then the book delves into deeper topics such as ranking players, draft day tips, draft theories/strategies and advanced draft theories.
Fantasy Football Guidebook sets itself apart from other books on fantasy football with two complete chapters dedicated to auction drafts (Chapter 11 Auction Tips and Chapter 12 Auction Strategies). Additionally, Individual Defensive Players (IDP) and Keeper/Dynasty leagues are also examined in detail. Roster management is discussed in Chapter 13 Start/Bench Strategies, Chapter 14 Free Agency Upgrade and Chapter 15 Trades.
The latter chapters explore the high stakes leagues such as the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF) and National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and preparations for them (Chapter 16 and 17). Commissioners will be interested in Chapter 18 Rules Variations and Chapter 19 Commissioner Information. Finally, the last few chapters cover injuries, resources and fantasy football enjoyment.
Ch 1 Introduction
Ch 2 The Basics
Ch 3 History of Fantasy Football
Ch 4 Types of leagues
Ch 5 Scoring systems
Ch 6 Types of Drafts
Ch 7 Ranking Players
Ch 8 Draft Day Tips
Ch 9 Draft Theories/Strategies
Ch 10 Advanced Draft Theories
Ch 11 Auction Tips
Ch 12 Auction Strategies
Ch 13 Start/Bench Strategies
Ch 14 Free Agency Upgrade
Ch 15 Trades
Ch 16 WCOFF, NFFC and AFFL
Ch 17 WCOFF Preparations
Ch 18 Rule Variations
Ch 19 Commissioner Information
Ch 20 Psychology of Fantasy Football
Ch 21 Individual Defensive Players (IDP) and Defenses
Ch 22 Keeper/Dynasty leagues
Ch 23 offensive Skill Positions (QB, RB, WR and TE) –How to find the sleepers or breakout players)
Ch 24 Injuries
Ch 25 Miscellaneous
Ch 26 Resources
Ch 27 Fantasy Football Enjoyment.
Hendricks has published two other books: Fantasy Football Almanac and Fantasy Football Almanac 2008 and a third, Fantasy Football Almanac 2009, is due for release on 1 May 2009. He is currently working on a fifth book about fantasy football.
• Awards
• Award-Winning Finalist in the Sports category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards sponsored by USA Book News
• Named one of Top 4 Fantasy Football Books of All-Time by RotoNation.com
See also
• Fantasy Football (American)
References
• Hendricks, S. (2007) Fantasy Football Guidebook. Virtualbookworm.com. ISBN-10 1602640203, ISBN-13 978-1602640207
• Hendricks, S. (2007) Fantasy Football Almanac. Virtualbookworm.com. ISBN-10 1602640327, ISBN-13 978-1602640320
• Hendricks, S. (2008) Fantasy Football Almanac 2008. Virtualbookworm.com. ISBN-10 1602641945, ISBN-13 978-1602641945
External links
• www.FFGuidebook.com
• www.sam-hendricks.com