Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Fantasy Football Woes
Fantasy Football
600 point drops in the DJIA? (stock market for you financially challenged.) That’s nothing when compared to a 1 point loss (151 - 150) in week 5 of my fantasy football league. Despair, Frustration, Black snowy field with a black crow, all these images fit this feeling of stark hopelessness to lose by 1.
A loss like this leaves a fantasy manager (FM) to –
A) look at his draft choices: “Why did I choose this guy? He was supposed to go off! He’s underperforming. Oh man, I knew I should have picked up that sleeper, I KNEW he was a great value.”
B) look at his roster assignments: “What?! The Vikings were playing the Saints and Adrian “All Day” Peterson ran for 30 yards against that terrible rush defense? Unbelievable. Larry Johnson? 4 yards? Really? After two 100+ yard weeks? Did they make a mistake and suit up some other guy named Larry Johnson? And he attempted 5 rushes?” Great offensive play calling there. I couldn’t make this stuff up.
C) to suddenly become vocal about all the point system inequities. “It’s ridiculous that this FM gets +2 for a fumble recovery but I only get +1 for an interception” or “the +1 for completions overshadows’ For example, a FM’s QB goes 10 for 10 and 50 yards passing, he gets 12 points and BEATS my QB who goes 10 for 20 and 325 yards, 11 points. Stupid.
So I look at all my mistakes and complete discrepancies in fairness across the leagues and I click on “week 6”… and start all over again.
600 point drops in the DJIA? (stock market for you financially challenged.) That’s nothing when compared to a 1 point loss (151 - 150) in week 5 of my fantasy football league. Despair, Frustration, Black snowy field with a black crow, all these images fit this feeling of stark hopelessness to lose by 1.
A loss like this leaves a fantasy manager (FM) to –
A) look at his draft choices: “Why did I choose this guy? He was supposed to go off! He’s underperforming. Oh man, I knew I should have picked up that sleeper, I KNEW he was a great value.”
B) look at his roster assignments: “What?! The Vikings were playing the Saints and Adrian “All Day” Peterson ran for 30 yards against that terrible rush defense? Unbelievable. Larry Johnson? 4 yards? Really? After two 100+ yard weeks? Did they make a mistake and suit up some other guy named Larry Johnson? And he attempted 5 rushes?” Great offensive play calling there. I couldn’t make this stuff up.
C) to suddenly become vocal about all the point system inequities. “It’s ridiculous that this FM gets +2 for a fumble recovery but I only get +1 for an interception” or “the +1 for completions overshadows’ For example, a FM’s QB goes 10 for 10 and 50 yards passing, he gets 12 points and BEATS my QB who goes 10 for 20 and 325 yards, 11 points. Stupid.
So I look at all my mistakes and complete discrepancies in fairness across the leagues and I click on “week 6”… and start all over again.
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