What is Fantasy Football anyways?

So,...a colleague of mind suggested that I join a fanatsy football league.  When I told him I had no interest in football, I didn't realize that he was actually talking about (what we Americans know as) SOCCER.  It then dawned on me that perhaps he was referring to English football. Hmm...I really didn't know much about the sport.  Maybe it wasn't so bad?  Being that I had a lot of free time on my hands, I decided "what the heck" and proceeded to login and create an account on fantasy.premierleague.com

Username created.  Password created.  What next?
The nice thing about this website is that it is relatively user friendly and self explanatory.  Even though I didn't know much about football, I understood the basics: You have the equivalance of 100 million pounds to spend on what you perceive to be the ultimate team. Simple enough.  In selecting your team you realize that there are 4 main positions, goalie, defender, midfielder, and forward.  Again, pretty easy to figure out.  In the game, you can only pick 3 members off the same team as well. 

Being the competitive person that I am and understanding the premise of the game, I decided to do some research on all the players all of which was available on the site.  I selected my players and BAM I had a team...my dream team!

So in summation fantasy football (NOT American football) is a process in which you pick who you believe are the best players from all the teams that play in the English Premier League.  You put them onto your so called "fantasy team" and you wait for gameweek 1.