Welcome again to a different season of Fantasy Billboard! To rejoice the opening of coaching camp, I’m offering the Final Fantasy Billboard Soccer Terminology Glossary — a flip-flop mashup of tongue-in-cheek definitions that nails each the tradition and the absurdities of the sport. Fantasy Soccer isn’t all about profitable but additionally appreciating the camaraderie, trash speak and chaos of all of it.
FANTASY BILLBOARD ACTUAL vs. FACTUAL
SLEEPER
Precise: An underperforming participant you suppose will “wake up” with good stats this season.
Factual: The proprietor who naps between picks once they have the twelfth slot within the Fantasy Draft.
HANDSHAKE AGREEMENT
Precise: A verbal commerce deal between two house owners.
Factual: A non-binding manner for a dishonest proprietor to screw you out of a deal.
TRADE VETO
Precise: League members can vote to cancel any commerce they suppose is unfair.
Factual: League crybabies can determine who will get to play of their sandbox.
GHOST OWNER
Precise: A group supervisor who stops setting lineups after Week 4.
Factual: A group supervisor that units his telephone on “Do Not Disturb” when his group is 2-9.
KICKER
Precise: The man who can win or lose you the week with 13 or zero factors.
Factual: Once you’re up by some extent and your QB tosses an INT, costing you 2 factors and also you lose…that’s the kicker!
BYE WEEK
Precise: The week your participant doesn’t play.
Factual: When your whole beginning roster disappears and your group loses 137-29.
REACH
Precise: Drafting a participant in a a lot earlier spherical than he’s worthy by an overconfident proprietor.
Factual: The excuse an overconfident proprietor makes use of when his overzealous picks don’t pan out.
GODFATHER OFFER
Precise: A commerce supply so ridiculously good youse can’t refuse it.
Factual: A commerce supply so ridiculously good youse ought to refuse it.
STEAL
Precise: Getting a High 10 performer in one of many final rounds of your draft.
Factual: What occurs when a Fantasy proprietor doesn’t pay his entry charge.
FANTASY EXPERTS
Precise: Veteran Fantasy advisors like Jeff Mans, Adam Rank, Cynthia Frelund, Michael Fabiano, yours actually, and so forth. (Your drunk, loudmouth brother-in-law isn’t an knowledgeable).
Factual: Any current Fantasy Soccer Champion. They need to all write a ebook entitled, “I’m Great. You Suck. This Is How I Did It!”
MOCK DRAFT
Precise: Follow makes good. Many websites supply a service that means that you can take part in imaginary drafts to prep for the upcoming season.
Factual: What each partner does when their vital different takes Fantasy Soccer too severely.
DART THROW
Precise: Selecting a participant in a draft with no thought how he’ll carry out.
Factual: Taking a flyer on the Giants’ rookie QB Jaxson Dart.
YAC
Precise: Yards After Catch is simply that; the variety of yards a participant runs for after receiving a ball.
Factual: What an proprietor did over the bathroom when he needed to begin Daniels Jones at QB final 12 months.
CHEAT SHEET
Precise: A device that managers use throughout a draft, itemizing gamers from finest to worst.
Factual: A device that philanderers use throughout a tryst, itemizing romantic companions from finest to worst.
TANKING THE SEASON
Precise: Giving up on the season properly earlier than it’s over to realize a greater draft place for the next 12 months.
Factual: The proper excuse for kicking awful house owners out of your league.
STASH
Precise: Preserving a participant in your roster that presently has no worth however hopefully will earlier than lengthy.
Factual: What “adult movie” stars appear to suppose is obligatory facial hair.
TRADE BAIT
Precise: A superb participant you don’t want in your roster that entices different groups to commerce for him.
Factual: A pepperoni pizza may land you Phil Simms in a commerce in 1989.
HIGH FLOOR
Precise: A participant whose worst efficiency remains to be higher than most gamers.
Factual: What a stoner says when he smokes an excessive amount of pot and falls flat on his face. “Hi Floor!”
HAND CUFF
Precise: A backup participant that might substitute a beginning participant due to suspension, damage or poor play.
Factual: Enjoyable and video games for frisky people.
COLLUSION
Precise: When two rapscallion house owners work collectively to stack a group with their finest gamers, often when one of many rat-bastards has been eradicated from the playoffs.
Factual: What occurs when two rapscallion house owners run at full velocity in the direction of one another.
RANKINGS
Precise: Gamers listed from finest to worst primarily based on predicted Fantasy factors.
Factual: When a group’s Fantasy draft stinks to excessive heaven.
HAMMY
Precise: Any one of many 5 tendons behind the knee, generally known as the hamstring.
Factual: Simply as a calf pull has nothing to do with cows, a hamstring is devoid of pork.
IR SPOT
Precise: Injured Reserve spot the place you’ll be able to stash ailing gamers.
Factual: A spot the place you place gamers who’re “emotionally injured” as a result of they play in Cleveland.
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