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Fantasy Football, where millions of players compete in one league, and every top team has a Mohamed Salah, is just too boring. It was boring then, it is boring now.

I much prefer the US fantasy sports format with a draft and only a dozen of players in one league, such that there is only one team which has a Mohamed Salah.

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I always thought fantasy sports leagues were careful about allocating budgets so that if you bought any one of the top 3-5 available players, you'd have trouble making the rest of your team well-balanced.

Depends! Generally to win a typical redraft 12 team league you need to hit on your first two draft picks, and then a couple more late round picks that outperform, and then have the rest of your team be at least okay. The top two picks are mostly luck, so the skill is finding those two high-value-low-cost late rounders. For daily fantasy you’re really hunting out guys that have the potential to have a one game fluke but are cheap (ex. a backup player that has 2 touchdowns in a game for the first time ever). When that happens pretty much all the top teams will have one or more of those players.

Someone had already talked about the draft-based variants, so I was considering the non-draft case, mostly because sports teams where I live don't have a draft system.

I have read up on draft systems, and while I basically get the mechanics of how they work, I don't have a good feel for how getting (or missing) your pick at a particular stage of the draft plays out.

This was an element I was curious about and didn’t get, I assumed most fantasy football groups had a draft and a player couldn’t be in one team. TIL I guess.

Both types exist and have for a while. The “one league” model focuses on who can pick the “perfect team” whereas the many league model focuses on drafting the best remaining player each round.

Ah, I didn't know that the draft model has existed for Fantasy EPL. That's great!

Wow, being from the US, I assumed that is how all fantasy sports work… TIL

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