Daily fantasy sports sites ordered to shut down in Nevada

[Jim Lane]

39. Different indeed. They're usually based on individual players' performances

I don't know exactly how DraftKings works but I think it's similar to the season-long fantasy football leagues except that, with DraftKings, your team roster can change completely from week to week. Either way, you prepare a lineup for your "team" -- it's not really a team, that's why this is fantasy, your lineup might include players from several different teams as long as they're all on your fantasy roster. You might have, for example, a quarterback, a wide receiver, a tight end, and a running back, who in real life play for four different teams playing this Sunday in four different cities (or two of them might even be on opposing real-life teams). Real fantasy leagues generally consider more than four positions but I don't want to type them all out. The fantasy league has a formula for converting each player's individual performance into points on a common scale. A wide receiver's total for the day might be multiplier A times the number of yards on receptions plus multiplier B times the number of touchdowns minus multiplier C times the number of fumbles. In any given week, your team's performance is based on adding up the points for all the players that were in your lineup that week.

In the example you give, the question about Team A's touchdowns would be how they were scored. If all were rushing touchdowns by a particular running back, then the points go to whichever fantasy team had that running back in its lineup that week. If Team A used two different running backs, the total of five touchdowns would be irrelevant for fantasy purposes; what would count would be which player scored each one. Credit for the five touchdowns might be divided between two different fantasy teams.