Auction Draft - A fantasy football draft giving a pre-determined amount of fantasy cash to each owner to bid on NFL players in order to fill their roster.
Basic Scoring - A fantasy football scoring method where points are only earned when your team starters score a touchdown, field goal and extra points.
Bench Players - Players on your roster which you do not start. In most fantasy football leagues you do not score points for bench players' performance.
Commissioner - The leader of a fantasy football league. A fantasy football commissioner manages all aspects of the league, including organizing the draft and reporting the results of fantasy games.
Cheat Sheet - A pre-season tool that helps with your fantasy football draft. A cheat sheet ranks NFL players in order of their predicted fantasy football points. Cheat sheets are based on current player news and injury reports. Dr. Stats fantasy football cheat sheets are customizable based on your league's scoring system.
Cut - When a team owner removes a player from their fantasy roster.
Depth Chart - Information about whose starting and who's on the bench on actual NFL teams. Depth Charts assist in the fantasy football draft and during the season.
Draft - Team owners and the commissioner meet pre-season for team owners to select fantasy players either by auction or draft.
Dynasty League - A long-term fantasy football league where team owners keep their entire roster each year. The draft is held in order to improve your team and the order is based on your previous year's finish.
Injured Reserve (IR) - Some fantasy football leagues have the option of sending injured players to the Injured Reserve for a designated number of weeks. Another player can be added to the fantasy team because the IR player does not count against the player limit. If the player returns to the line up before the designated number of weeks has passed, the fantasy owner cannot earn points for that player, until that players is activated and removed from the IR.
Keeper League - A fantasy football league where some players are retained by a team owner each year.
Owner - The decision-maker for a fantasy football team.
Performance Scoring - In addition to scoring points when your fantasy football team starters score touchdowns, field goals and extra points, owners also receive points for yardage, receptions and various other NFL stat categories.
Pickup/Waiver - When a team owner adds a player to their fantasy roster.
Projections - A prognosticators prediction via statistics of any given NFL player for the year head.
Red Zone - The area on a football field between the end zone and the 20 yard line.
Rookie - A first-year NFL player.
Roster - A set of players that makes up your fantasy football team.
Serpentine Draft - The fantasy football league commissioner draws owners' names from a hat to decide the order of the first draft round. The order is reversed in the second round, and so on.
Sleeper - A lesser known NFL player (not expected to perform or not known for performing at a high level) who a fantasy football team owner believes will have an exceptional season.
Starters - The players a fantasy football team owner chooses to activate each week for a game.
Stud - An NFL player who has proven to be a top scoring player at his position.
Target - The number of times a receiver is thrown to during a game.
Trade - Exchanging players from one fantasy football team to another.
Vulture or to Vulture TD's - Generally a RB in fantasy football, this is a player that may not be the premier RB for a team, but is called upon often near the goal line, because of size or goal line power.