How does the NFL draft work?
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I believe it is like the WWE Raw/SmackDown Draft they have once a year.  But I believe the NFL draft really is random unlike WWE.
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The NFL combine has already taken place.  The only thing left is individual "pro day" workouts being held by prospective draft picks.  I think virtually all of those have also already been held at various University sites around the country.  The only thing left is the April NFL Draft.  In the future, the NFL combine tryouts are by invitation only.  You must get the approval of an NFL Scout, front office/league/committee member, or petition the league office with a tape of your on field highlights and you will recieve a letter.  Or you can go to open team tryouts which some teams will have.  I know the Dallas Cowboys have held an open tryout before in the past where a lot of Arena League, Canadian League, and semi-pro players have went through a two week tryout just to get into training camp and get a look.  Also there are anywhere from 4-8 teams that will conduct a kickers tryout camp.  It seems that its virtually a revolving door when it comes to rookie kickers in this league.  Well, thats about it.
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Fantasy Sports is where you create a team from a roster of players.\n\nTheir performance of the field generates a set number of points for your team, as well as how the team performed.\n\nFor example, in football, you desingate your team as Pittsburgh, but you have Ricky Williams as your running back.\n\nYou get points as to how well the individual performed and the team.\n\nThere are leagues where they have drafts for players and even trades during hte season.\n\nYou pay into it and the person with the most points wins.\n\nThere are also organized contests, which you can see in the paper as well.
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It's going to take more than a few explanations here and watching one game to do it.\n\nEssentially, a team has 4 "downs" (tries) to advance the ball at least ten yards. If they're successful, they get 4 new downs to try to gain 10 more yards - if they don't think they'll get the 10 yards, they "punt" (kick) the ball to the other team. It's akin to claiming the territory behind them, while the other team defends the remaining territory behind them. The "line of scrimmage" is the point the offense last reached and is somewhat like the "border" between these territories. If a team advances the ball into the "end zone," that's called a "touchdown" and they get 6 points. And then there are the "point-after-touchdown" (PAT) plays, either a kick for 1 point, or a 2-point conversion that is tougher to convert. If the offense doesn't feel they can score the touchdown (TD), they attempt a field goal (for 3 points) by kicking the football through the goalposts.\n\nBasically, the object is to outscore the opponents.
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You must mean Fantasy Draft. It doesn't start until about a month or two before the NFL season starts. Wait until about the start of august and go to NFL.COM. A fantasy draft is when you enter a league and compete against other managers every week of the NFL season until a champion is crowned. I did it for the first time last year and it is well worth the time and effort. You can also partake in one of the fantasy drafts on Yahoo.com but like i said, give it till the beginning of august. An offline draft is just you and whoever you choose to join, if you do the draft on yahoo, then the individual who you elect as the commisioner reports the results to yahoo. Good Luck
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U make a team, 1st without any player. then u get in a league with other teams & managers. After that, u should draft players; also u can get ur team drafted (auto draft).\nur scores are based on real players. it means u urself don't get scores, but the players on ur team do it by their performance in real matches. just u should change ur roster, drop & add players and trade with other teams.\nThere are 2 types of leagues: custom & public. C league is made by people & has chosen & different settings, But P league is made automaticly & has constant settings. \n-all are free !!!!!-Good Luck
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I've played yahoo fantasy football for a few years now and they usually open it up middle July at the earliest to the beginning of August. The drafts can be held up to the first regular game is played usually, there can be some exception to that though. Don't worry about missing it, they post it on their home page as soon as it opens. And the NFL training camps are not open yet, hell the draft picks haven't even begun signing yet. All they are having now is mini camps and they can only have a couple of them before the actually training camps open later in the summer.
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Running Backs, Draft Running backs.  It all depends on how your league scores.  But there are only so many good running backs out their. You can usually always find a WR later  since 2-3 will play at one time where usually on 1 rb will play.
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Read all about it.  \n\nOften there are bets, like each owner gives an amount of money at the beginning of the season and the winner gets it all or split up between top places.  You can also bet on highest stats per week.  Like if the stat for the week is TD's, you can win an amount if a player on your team has the most.  But there are also several "free" leagues as well.
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*find some old football jerseys and have the people who draft those players wear them, have a 'photo op' just like they do in the real nfl draft and take pictures.\n\n*get a chunk of green astro turf carpet to place under the draft table.  hire cheerleaders and pipe in crowd noise and jock jams.  get yellow penalty flags to 'challenge' other players picks.\n\n*big screen tv playing old football highlights, especially those of your opponent's key players (like carson palmer) getting his knee blown out. cool!!!
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Yes - two - including a first rounder.  Check out this link:\n\nhttp://www.nfl.com/draft/drafttracker/school/SC
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The odds are pretty hard but even if you dont get drafted you can still be some one in the NFL. Below is a list of Undrafted players that have had productive careers.
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The teams get seeded 1-6 based on records. The 1-4 seeds are division champs and the 5 and 6 teams are wild card teams. \n\nOn wild card weekend in both conferences, The 3 seed hosts the 6 seed and the 4 hosts the 5, even if the 5 seed has a better record. Both conference's top seeds get a bye. (4 games this weekend)\n\nThe next weekend, the Divisional Round, the 1 seed gets the lowest seed that advances (which could be 4, 5, or 6) and the 2 seed hosts the highest seed that advances (3, 4, or 5). (4 more games, bringing the total to 8)\n\nIn the Conference Championship round, the highest seed which advances hosts the lower seed to determine who plays in the Super Bowl. (2 games, bringing the total to 10. This is either a team's 2nd or 3rd game depending on the seed).\n\nIn the Super Bowl, the AFC and NFC Champions play at a neutral site to determine that season's champion. (The 11th game and a team's 3rd or 4th).
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Tom Brady - drafted in the 6th round of the 2000 draft.  \n\nHow did that work out for the Patriots.
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There's 60 picks in the draft.  About 40 of them will be college players, maybe 20 of them are in the tournament, with the others coming from teams that didn't make it.  The rest will be foriegn players.  A few may try out as unrestricted free agents as well.
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In football, a player in a position can choose from a set of numbers designated to their position.  \nAll sports: Rookies sometimes don't get the numbers they want because they are already taken by someone else on the team, and some teams retire the numbers of great players and nobody can ever wear the number on that team.
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You just decide what fantasy sport you want to play.  Yahoo fantasy sports is a good site and I like the way their leagues are set up (I've played in others and they were not as user friendly).  You can sign up to play in a public league and you'll be randomly assigned to a league.  Your team will be picked by autodraft then but you can still trade players and pick up other players.  Then it's just a matter of keeping your line up set to play.  Basketball and baseball take more work because they have so many games but you can set your line up for several days in advance. \n\nIt's really fun if you have enough friends and coworkers to have a private league where everyone in the league knows everyone.  You can do a lot of smack talk and make crazy trades and it's really fun.  It's really fun too if you can do a live draft (where everyone is either on line at one time choosing or you actually go to a sports bar and pick in person).  Just a warning for a live draft---that is alot of work for the commissioner because then they have to go in and assign all the players to each person's team.  Autodraft is easier but not as much fun.\n\nJust go to the yahoo fantasy website and you can get started.  It's fun and I hope you get a good team the first time out!\n\nOops---I thought of one more thing.  In some leagues you have a maximum number of times you can play a position, or maximum number of innings pitched, etc. so you might want to check on that too.  It's bad at the end of the season when you are all out of players because you didn't know about that and sometimes started people just to be starting them.