The League is a favourite show among me and my buddies. Check it out if you have a chance.

The League is one of the best shows on TV. Check it out if you have a chance.

As a Canadian there is a very good chance that you have participated in a fantasy hockey league with your friends at some point in your life.  I was involved in hockey pools with my buddies as early as grade 4 and in more recent years we have added NBA and NFL fantasy leagues to our yearly sports knowledge competitions.

Season long fantasy leagues with buddies are great, but there is one flaw.  The season is a long time frame and if you fall behind early it is easy to lose interest in the league.

That’s where daily fantasy leagues come in.  Daily fantasy sports is still relatively new and we are currently right in the middle of the daily fantasy boom.  Investors are clamoring to get a piece of the pie because daily fantasy is being seen as the next big thing in online betting, similar to the poker boom in the early 2000’s.

Sports Betting Canadian PicturePlus, fantasy sports is considered a “skill game” so it not even really considered gambling.  You can even deposit and withdraw through Paypal because of this ruling.

How fantasy sports is considered a skill game and poker is not is beyond me, but I’m definitely not mad about it.

Daily fantasy basically takes the thrill of a season long fantasy league and condenses it into a single day or week league.  You pick your team for that day/week and battle other fantasy players with the top teams for that night winning the prizes.

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Picking Players

The first thing you have to do is find a contest.  First, select your sport and then figure out if you want to play a double up or a guaranteed prize pool (GPP) contest.  Once you have those questions answered, decide how much money you want your entry to cost and you’ve found your contest.

Next you will have to pick your lineup, while staying under the salary cap of $50,000.  Each player is assigned a salary based on their point potential that week.

Keeping with the NBA example you will need 2 point guards, 2 shooting guards, 2 small forwards, 2 power forwards and 1 center to round out your lineup..

Scoring

It’s very important that you understand the scoring for your fantasy league.  The scoring plays a huge factor in which players are the most valuable at each position in your league.