Rules-The Basics 2013 update

*15 Events
*15 picks per team
*You don't have to pick every event
*Snake Draft
*Scoring

*15 Events

Each league may be different, you and your friends can decide on which events you want to do, but our experience of last Olympics says 15 events is the perfect number.  It gives all competitors a chance to do research on 15 events, any more and it would be hard to keep up with all of the competitions going on.  15 events gives you an opportunity to do the research and it gives everyone the oopportunity to watch the events you've picked.


*15 picks per team

With 15 events, it mkakes sense to have 15 picks each. 

*You don't have to pick every event

Fantasy olympics is much different than football or baseball.  In football a running back can score by rushing or receiving, in baseball they can score by hitting homeruns or stealing bases, in the olympics your pick can only score in that event (ex: michael phelps can only score in swimming the 100m, not in diving).  Now, when  you pick events to watch, some are based on strength of competition, while others are picked due to tv time(this will be discussed later in depth when I discuss choosing events). If Men's basketball is one of your events than it will be hard for everyone to get a basketball team, as soon as USA is picked no one will want to pick another team.  So instead teams can opt to not pick a basketball team and pick two (or as many as the want) from an event with a wider field (ex:marathon). 

*Snake Draft

For those of you that have never had a fantasy draft (which I'm assuming is very few, if youre in deep enough for fantasy olympics than you're in too deep already) here is a sanke draft: 10 guys, 10 picks per round.  The guy picks last in round 1 (pick 10) he picks first in round 2 (pick 11). If you need more of an explanation of that, try a mock football or basketball draft

*Scoring

Basic scoring is:

Gold- 5 points
Silver- 3 points
Bronze- 1 point

Thats a July update for the 2014 winter Olympics.

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