Fantasy Football Salary Cap Game

A fantasy football salary cap game is an exciting format that forces participants to select a team whose total salary falls beneath a predetermined level. The actual annual salaries of real-life NFL players are used, though the various leagues may calculate them differently. Some formats use a particular player's salary for the upcoming season while others use the average of a player's stipend over the life of the guaranteed portion of his contract. For example, a player may be paid $5 million in the last year of a four-year, $18 million contract. Formats using the average earnings would calculate that player's cost at $4.5 million ($18 million divided by four years).

Challenge Yourself with the Fantasy Football Salary Cap

Since the cap is in play in the NFL--intended to level the playing field among big-market and small-market teams, many fantasy football leagues follow suit and use it as a restriction, guarding against the possibility of participants loading up their teams with expensive, high-performance players. Games that use the cap are intensive tests of a participant's skill and knowledge of the game, forcing them to seek out value for their money rather than simply choosing the highest-paid (and usually superior) players. It is more akin to the challenges faced by NFL general managers on a seasonal basis.

Fantasy Sports Game Master offers a unique, online football format, being the only league that permits players to hand select the exact lineups they want in order to qualify for rolling weekly cash prizes. In addition to the weekly $500 online awards, a grand prize of $10,000 is awarded at season's end.