Talk:Fantasy football (gridiron)

message: I suggest those two articles are merged here (they have problems with WP:GNG and this article is rewritten into a wider Fantasy football (Internet) article, describing this phenomenon. It's doesn't make much sense to divide it by rules; the subvariants of it (association, American, Australian(!)) are not important enough to warrant their own articles. Not that the name fantasy football (game) might be problematic given the existence of the popular Blood Bowl board and video game (there is also an unreferenced stub at fantasy football (board game) which I just prodded; I don't think there are any other notable games in this category outside the BB anyway). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:56, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: While I agree that the American football variant is far more prominent than the other versions of fantasy football, I feel that the distinctions in the rules (particularly between American and association fantasy) do merit having them in separate articles. The American football article currently outlines history of the game, team roster formats, and scoring configurations; in my opinion, to have separate sections doing that for all three versions would make the article too long and difficult to navigate. Puhala,ny (talk) 19:36, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

text: I'd oppose this merger. The current content in fantasy football (Australian rules) doesn't reflect the sourcing that's out there – if that were to be included, the article would clear GNG at a canter and very probably become long enough that a merger would be impractical. And that's just for a sport virtually unfollowed outside its home country, so I'd expect soccer would have even more sources available. I also agree with Puhala,ny's point about how having to cover the distinct history and rules of every fantasy football format in a single article would make the article difficult to follow. It would be comparable to merging chess, checkers and go into a single article because they're all board games played with black and white pieces. – Teratix ₵ 12:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

text: Oppose. Completely different games DiamondIIIXX (talk) 04:08, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Fantasy football (Australian rules)]] and [[Fantasy football (association)]] 

message: Dear Wikipedia-
I am questioning why you deleted the section in the history of the league founded in 1980 at Case Western Reserve University(See below). Besides the original citing by Mark Podolski, we were specifically cited recently in a book by Larry Schechter, The History of Fantasy Sports, as the second oldest fantasy football league still in existence(Page 40). None of the other leagues that you grouped us with in the most recent wikipedia entry were covered as extensively as we were in Mr. Schechter's book. My request is to reinstate the original post below due to the recent book coverage and the fact that we are actually the oldest "private" league still in existence.
Thank you for your consideration!
In 1980, a group of six students at Case Western Reserve University inof Cleveland, Ohio foundedin the Indoor Football League1980, another still in operation today. Charter members Tom Spear and Jeff Kornreich came up with the idea of forming a league after reading an article in the September 1980 issue of Inside Sports magazine that outlined the basic concept of fantasy football.<ref name="Podolski" JeffK1958 (talk) 17:47, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questioning an Edit