Fantasy owners spend the vast majority of their draft preparation focusing on player evaluation, cultivating lists of players they like and those they want to avoid. This is reflected in typical fantasy coverage. We talk about sleepers, busts and breakouts. We go through every fantasy position. We talk about bounceback and regression candidates. We rank players, and we rank them again, and then we rank some more. All of this is done with an extreme focus on players, but we cannot divorce them from the environments they inhabit.
Among the four major sports we follow in the United States, football is the ultimate team game.