When the Internet started to become popular and accessible in the 1990s, these fantasy leagues, including fantasy basketball<, had been popularized as well. The game was easier to play then because the participants could check the basketball statistics via online data, and they can update the fantasy basketball games at hand.
Players of fantasy football are called general managers or GMs. The general manager is responsible for picking and drafting real life NBA players for their fantasy basketball teams. These GMs also have to compute the statistics based on the NBA.
The game garnered real recognition when media outlets began establishing and making popular fantasy sports leagues. Today, there are quite a number of sites, like Fantasy Factor, that host fantasy games, including fantasy basketball games that cater to specific formats and lets participants own actual and specific NBA players.
Fantasy basketball leagues have tracked three to as much as 11 categories. If a fantasy basketball league has three categories, it usually involves NBA statistics for points, rebounds and assists. When fantasy basketball involves five categories, it will include blocks and steals aside from the points, rebounds and assists. Eight category fantasy basketball leagues involve points, rebounds, assists, blocks, steals, free throws, 3 point field goals or goal percentages. Nine category leagues include points, rebounds, assists, blocks, steals, free throw, 3 point field goals or goal percentages and the additional turnovers category. If you are wondering, some sites do accept the foul statistics as a category but this is done very rarely. There are leagues that choose to focus on the rebounds and break it into two types, which are the defensive rebound and the offensive rebounds.


