As another week of fantasy football ends, players are anxious to see who won the most fantasy points and who in the group chat will be the butt of next week’s jokes. The game invented in the 1960s by Bill “Wink” Winkenbach, an investor in the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, differs from the online version played by 29 million Americans today, but still serves the same purpose.
According to an article by CBS Sports, in its early days a fantasy football draft featured twenty players.
In today’s game, league members fill 16 roster spots in a starting lineup of nine players with seven on the bench.