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Chief Meteorologist wrote: The weather at game-time only affects the air pressure inside a football at a very minimal level. So, the only times I'd have an advantage would be for Patriots games.

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Chief Meteorologist wrote: I'd like to try my hand at Fantasy Football, but I don't know the rules all that well. If you can enlighten me, I'm happy to give it a try.

The rules can vary league to league, but essentially you try to pick players that you know will play on a regular basis and hopefully themselves score at least once a game if not more. It's a different mindset because you are focused on the individual players; however, you have to take into account how well the whole team plays against their opponent that week (for example, Manning has a horrible record playing in Foxboro in cold weather, so while he's great to have on your fantasy team, if he's playing an away game against Belicheck in December, you will want to have a backup QB on another team who you can play instead). Most leagues award 6 points for touchdowns scored by wide receivers and running backs, 3 points for kickers making field goals, etc, same as the team actually scores, but then there can also be points scored by defenses for forcing turnovers and preventing an opponent from scoring at all - it depends upon what the participants want to set up. You can also allow negative points to accumulate, say for example, taking away 4 points for every interception by a QB or fumble by a running back.

To make a short story long, I'm not 100% what our exact league rules are, but they are spelled out somewhere in our league website once you get registered. If you aren't comfortable picking your own players, you can do an auto-draft where ESPN chooses your team for you. The last two winners of our league used autodraft so it's not a death sentence to go that route.