(November 5, 2017 at 9:08 pm)Hammy Wrote: Hey guys, thought I'd let you all know that when I finally get some money together to buy a Madden game I'll really get into football and end up joining the AF fantasy football league if you guys will welcome me. I've expressed a desire to learn football before, and I've enjoyed watching it with Tibs, and Emjay, but the thing with me is I'm very much a kinesthetic learner, so I never really remember rules until I start trying to put them into practice. I don't learn very well by spectating. So, for me, the best way to learn this game is to play it. So I'm gonna save up a bit of money and buy a video game of football, and then if you will all welcome me I'll be joining this league if that's okay.
Football is easy.
You run from east to west, or west to east. When you have the ball, you have 4 chances, called "downs" to advance the ball 10 yards. If you get past that 10 yards on any combo of your 4 chances, you keep the ball. If you don't and it is 4th down, and your offence does not think it can get the yardage, they opt to punt the ball to the other team. BUT if they are close enough to scoring, the can opt to kick the ball through the "uprights", those yellow sticks in the endzone you see if you have ever watched, for 3 points.
Touchdowns are worth 6 points, you get a chance after the touchdown to add to it 1 point by kicking through the uprights for 1 point, or run or pass for 2 points.
The only other scoring that exists is if you(being the offence) get a player caught in their own endzone. That is called a "safety" and that is worth 2 points.
Outside that the rest is strategy. Penalties either move the ball forward or backwards, adding or subtracting to where the offence is, depending on if the offence or defense commit the penalty.
Strategy and penalties take time to understand. But the game really is as simple as advancing the ball forward in 4 chances to keep the ball. Chess as far as what the pieces can do, is more complicated.
