Fantasy football draft season is here—and it’s no longer a boys’ club.

Of the 62.5 million people playing fantasy sports in the U.S. and Canada, 35% are women, according to the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association’s 2023 survey. The trend is only growing: Women 35 and older visiting the Yahoo Fantasy app—the top-rated app for fantasy football—grew 61% year over year as of last month.

For the uninitiated, fantasy football lets players draft their own teams of real NFL athletes. Those teams compete in a league that runs alongside the NFL season. When your quarterback throws a touchdown or your running back racks up yards, your fantasy score goes up too. Draft days usually happen in late August or early September, just before the new season kicks off.

One all-female Yahoo Fantasy league, Te

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