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Select your team and head on out to the Playoffs. If you can survive the
competition, the Super Bowl trophy is yours!
As General Manager of your very own franchise, this is your chance to take the
reigns and make all of the personnel decisions. Below, we’ve broken down the
stages you’ll encounter on your never-ending pursuit to build a football dynasty:
REGULAR SEASON: Using either the standard or fantasy-draft roster, you have
the power to switch your depth chart, add free agents, release players, trade with
other teams, resign players, and even extend contracts. But use caution, all of
your decisions must abide by the dreaded salary cap—be sure to acquire players
who give the biggest bang for your buck.
POST SEASON: Your team qualifies for the playoffs if it has one of the top records
in the conference. There, you will have to win the Wild Card, Divisional, and
Conference games before reaching the ultimate goal: The Super Bowl. Of course,
the season doesn’t end after that, because the best in the NFL soon set off to
Hawaii to battle it out in the traditional Pro Bowl.
RETIRED PLAYERS: Once the season is completed, your team will enter a re-tool-
ing period. Certain players on your team will decide to hang up their jerseys for
one reason or another, and your job is to go out and try to find their replacements
via free agency, draft, or trade. Good Luck.
RE-SIGNING PERIOD: Some players on your team will find that their contracts
have expired. It’s your job to determine whether or not they were essential compo-
nents of your team. If they were, you might want to re-sign them to another con-
tract in the form of more money or more years. Otherwise, you’ll probably want to
take the risk and lose them to free agency in hopes of finding a better replacement
elsewhere.
Build your own fantasy tournament or full fantasy league with this game
mode. All available players will be placed in a giant free agent pool, then it’s
off to the draft. Once your team is built, you can take part in a Fantasy
Tournament (4-, 8-, or 16-team single elimination) or play a full Fantasy
League season. Draft your players, build your team, and play some football!
NOTE: You can either draft the team yourself or press the Start but-
ton to have the CPU automatically complete the draft order.
Choose either to play in a new tournament or load a previously saved
one. Select your teams, and determine human or CPU control for each
of the 4, 8, or 16 teams that are participating in your tournament.
