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Positions

Use the Positions box to choose which NFL positions you will use in your league. Check the boxes of the positions that your league will include in its NFL player pool. Almost all leagues use the core set of positions, which consists of quarterback (QB), running back (RB), wide receiver (WR), and place kicker (K). Many leagues also use tight ends (TE) and choose a team defense (D). Some leagues also use individual defensive players: defensive linemen (DL), linebackers (LB), and defensive backs (DB).

Quarterback options | Tight end options | Kicker options | Defenses

Quarterback options Individual QB | Team QB
You have the opportunity to choose between Individual QB and Team QB. We at FantasyBowl.com prefer the Individual QB option.

Individual QB
If you choose to use Individual QB, your league will handle actual quarterbacks by name, just as you'd do with running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, etc. For example, your team owners will draft Daunte Culpepper (QB/Min) and Jeff Garcia (QB/SF).

But if your QB gets injured before halftime and sits out the rest of the game, you're out of luck -- he's done and you'll get no more points out of him unless he hobbles back out onto the field.

Team QB
If you choose to use Team QB, your league will handle quarterbacks by team. In other words, you'll draft all the quarterbacks from one NFL team as a single player. For example, your team owners will draft Minnesota QB and San Francisco QB.

With this option, if Daunte Culpepper throws a TD pass but breaks his leg in the process and misses the rest of the game, the fantasy team that started Minnesota QB will get Culpepper's points in addition to any points that his backup generates throughout the remainder of the game.

Tight end options TE as TE position | TE as WR position
If you'd like to use NFL tight ends in your league, check the TE box and decide which tight end option you'd like to use. Your choices are the TE as TE position option and the TE as WR position option. We prefer the TE as TE position option.

TE as TE position
With this option, your league will treat the tight end position as its own roster position -- TE -- just as QB, RB, and WR are their own positions. Tight ends will have their own lineup slots, stats categories, waiver pool, etc.

TE as WR position
With this option, your league will consider tight ends to be wide receivers. They are lumped right in with the rest of the wide receivers, and they are counted in the same stats categories as wide receivers. When inserting tight ends into your starting lineup, they will be considered to be wide receivers and will count against your total allowed wide receivers.

Kicker options Individual K | Team K
You have the opportunity to choose between Individual K and Team K. We prefer the Individual K option.

Individual K
If you choose to use Individual K, your league will handle actual kickers by name, just as you'd do with running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, etc. For example, your team owners will draft Jason Elam (K/Den) and Adam Vinatieri (K/NE).

As a team owner, you have to be careful with this option. If your kicker gets cut one week, as can often be the case, you may have to do some waiver wire maneuvering to pick up another kicker. Or just hang onto him and wait for some other team to pick him up! Hey, it's happened before!

Team K
If you choose to use Team K, your league will handle kickers by team. In other words, you'll draft all the kickers from one NFL team as a single player. For example, your team owners will draft Denver K and New England K.

This option is not geared towards injuries, as is the Team QB option. Instead this Team K option frees fantasy owners from having to keep up with the revolving door policies of many NFL teams regarding the hiring and firing of kickers...not only from season to season but also from week to week!

Defenses
The Defense position encompasses an entire NFL team's defense and special teams. Team owners will draft a team defense, as in the Seattle D.

The owner that puts the Seattle D in his starting lineup will get points for defensive and special team stats. Defensive stats are categories like safeties, sacks, interceptions, fumbles returned for touchdown, etc. Special teams stats include punt return yardage, kickoffs returned for TD, etc.