Why Fantasy Football Matters
(and Our Lives Do Not)
Gallery Books · Print & ebook · August 1, 2006
Talking Trash, Trading Studs, and Drafting Sleepers -- an Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Obsession U.S. businesses lose $200 million in productivity each football season because employees are managing their fantasy squads instead of working.
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- Who it’s for
- Fantasy football’s pre-draft antics, trades, free agency, rituals, and superstitions take center stage.
- Themes
- Fantasy football culture, League rituals and superstitions, Fantasy sports obsession
- Genres
- Fantasy Sports, Sports, Sports Writing
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Talking Trash, Trading Studs, and Drafting Sleepers -- an Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Obsession U.S. businesses lose $200 million in productivity each football season because employees are managing their fantasy squads instead of working. In Why Fantasy Football Matters (And Our Lives Do Not), two grizzled veterans revel in the addiction that is fantasy football.
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From pre-draft hijinx to post-draft trash talk, from tumultuous trades to the perils of free agency, it celebrates the eccentric personalities, absurd rituals, and hilarious superstitions of one of the most fanatical fantasy leagues on earth. With humor, insight, and a dash of advice, Why Fantasy Football Matters celebrates the thirty-two million Americans who prefer managing their fantasy squads to relaxing with loved ones. And it gives girlfriends, coworkers, and sports purists all the proof they need to accept that this is an obsession that really matters.
League Rituals
Fantasy football’s pre-draft antics, trades, free agency, rituals, and superstitions take center stage.
Come here for
- Pre-draft hijinks and post-draft trash talk
- Tumultuous trades and the perils of free agency
Expect
- League personalities, rituals, and superstitions
- Humor, insight, and a dash of advice
Where it sits
| Sports | 90% |
|---|---|
| Fantasy Sports | 53% |
| Sports Writing | 49% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sports Betting
- Fantasy Sports
- Sports
- Authors
- Erik Barmack, Max Handelman
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Published
- August 1, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Fantasy football culture · League rituals and superstitions · Fantasy sports obsession
- Reading lane
- Sports Betting