ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly from training camp through the Super Bowl with answers to a new question being posted Thursday morning. How the guest experts responded when we asked them: What fantasy playoff leagues, if any, do you participate in?

DAVID DOREY

Of course I play in post-season fantasy football! On our message board, we have a post-season contest that enters its 23rd year where you pick an NFC and AFC team from all available players and then ride that lineup as long as it lasts for total points. We have another contest where you pick players each week for a lineup but cannot pick anyone you picked before. I also play in RTSports Fantasy Championship Postseason Shootout where you build a team from all available players and ride them through the playoffs but can only have two players per team. Postseason contests and leagues are a great way to wind down from the season -- highly recommended.

Dorey co-founded The Huddle.com in 1997. He's ranked every player and projected every game for the last 23 years and is the author of Fantasy Football: The Next Level. David has appeared on numerous radio, television, newspaper and magazines over the last two decades.

MICHAEL NAZAREK

Yes, I recommend MyFFPC.com for their fantasy playoff challenge event format. It's a great way to extend your fantasy season!

Nazarek is the CEO of Fantasy Football Mastermind Inc. His company offers a preseason draft guide, customizable cheat sheets, a multi-use fantasy drafting program including auction values, weekly in-season fantasy newsletters, injury reports and free NFL news (updated daily) at its web site. He has been playing fantasy football since 1988 and is a four-peat champion of the SI.com Experts Fantasy League, a nationally published writer in several fantasy magazines and a former columnist for SI.com. He's also won nearly $30K in recent seasons of the FFPC High Stakes Main Event. www.ffmastermind.com. Nazarek can be reached via email at miken@ffmastermind.com.

IAN ALLAN

I’ve tried a few different games. I haven’t found one that I really love. For myself, when the postseason comes, I prefer to focus more on the real-life action, seeing which players, coaches and teams can come out on top when the stakes are at their highest.

Allan co-founded Fantasy Football Index in 1987. He and fellow journalism student Bruce Taylor launched the first newsstand fantasy football magazine as a class project at the University of Washington. For more than three decades, Allan has written and edited most of the content published in the magazines, newsletters and at www.fantasyindex.com. An exhaustive researcher, he may be the only person in the country who has watched at least some of every preseason football game played since the early 1990s. Allan is a member of the FSTA Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame and the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame.

SAM HENDRICKS

I love a fantasy playoff contest. I run one in my local league as an add on that is included in the entry fee for the league. Winner of the contest gets a free entry into the league next year. Pretty standard format. Kind of draft and forget. -Fill out a roster of 10 (QB,RB,RB,WR,WR, TE,K,DEF, Flex1, Flex2) using scoring rules from the league. It is scored throughout the playoffs and in the Super Bowl players get double points. -No owner can have the same roster so it is first submitted counts but you can change it up until the first kickoff of the first playoff game; then the rosters are frozen for entire playoffs. But each roster must have some difference from those already submitted. No ties in playoff contests.... -And the kicker (excuse the pun) is only one player can be selected from each NFL playoff team. So you can only pick one of the Patrick Mahomes OR Tyreek Hill OR Travis Kelce. One of them but not all of them. And with 14 teams in the playoffs this year, you have to pick which 4 teams will not have a player on your team. Fun and it lasts thru the Super Bowl.

Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips and Fantasy Football Basics, all available at ExtraPointPress.com, at all major bookstores, and at Amazon and BN.com. He is a 25-year fantasy football veteran who participates in the National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th and 16th overall in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC). He won the Fantasy Index Open in 2013 and 2018. Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.

SCOTT SACHS

I play DraftKings and FanDuel during playoff time, both individual games and combinations. Truthfully, I prefer Kickers as part of the lineup, but I'm probably in the minority. I'm also part of a group that does weekly challenges on FanDuel. Playing fantasy playoff contests certainly increases my rooting interest and FQ (Fun Quotient) in each of the games, even those with teams I never root for like Pittsburgh or Baltimore.

Sachs runs Perfect Season Fantasy Football, offering LIVE Talk & Text consulting. He has multiple league championships including 2 perfect seasons. Scott is a past winner of the Fantasy Index Experts Poll and a 2-time winner of the Experts Auction League.

ANDY RICHARDSON

The last couple of years I've done the FFPC Playoff Challenge, where you set a lineup before the start of the postseason and get cumulative points from those players. I've also done (and won, thanks C.J. Anderson) the RealTime Fantasy Sports one where you set a roster before the start of the postseason and then set lineups throughout with whichever players advance each week. I think I prefer the latter one (too much luck involved in the first for my money), but both have their appeal. The ones I've moved on from have new drafts after each round. I guess I'd just prefer to relax a little more in January, with basically a one-time commitment to the whole playoffs, rather than have a new league each week.

Richardson has been a contributing writer and editor to the Fantasy Football Index magazine and www.fantasyindex.com since 2002. His responsibilities include team defense and IDP projections and various site features, and he has run the magazine's annual experts draft and auction leagues since their inception. He previews all the NFL games on Saturdays and writes a wrap-up column on Mondays during the NFL season.