Fantasy football how-to guides

Step-by-step walkthroughs of the things people ask about most: drafting, playing your first season, and trading.

• How to Draft a Fantasy Football Team

  Work out which positions your league actually makes scarce, then draft on tier breaks instead of rankings.

• How to Play Fantasy Football: A Beginner's Guide

  The rules, plus the weekly routine that decides most of a season and that most beginner guides leave out.

• How to Trade in Fantasy Football

  Why two-for-one offers get rejected, and how to build one the other manager has a reason to accept.