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Bragging, venting, crowing, grieving. (1 Viewer)

Winning easy this week in my two leagues to go 8-5 in both. Should finish 3rd in both league looking good for the playoffs.

 
Currently 33.9 ahead of 2nd place for the scoring title (3rd place is 99.5 points back). He has Jordan Reed going tonight, and our season goes through week 14 (we play each other next week).

If Reed has a quiet night (~6 points PPR; not likely), then I have a chance to beat him next week for both the division crown AND the points title, which is a nice chunk of change. If Reed gets more, I can't win the division but can still win the points.

 
Currently 33.9 ahead of 2nd place for the scoring title (3rd place is 99.5 points back). He has Jordan Reed going tonight, and our season goes through week 14 (we play each other next week).

If Reed has a quiet night (~6 points PPR; not likely), then I have a chance to beat him next week for both the division crown AND the points title, which is a nice chunk of change. If Reed gets more, I can't win the division but can still win the points.
The 'ol triple crown! Good luck.

I am always in favor of teams who achieve those accomplishments getting cash for it. To me, it marks the true league winner because the playoffs are such a crap shoot. To have best record, most points, and take care of your division/top seed tells the story you had a great year.

 
Pretty crushing finish to the season. Started out 0-5, got back to 6-6, then lost this week in a fairly close matchup, needed Dez to score 20. Landry killed me, as did losing Eifert and starting Stafford over Tyrod. Was fourth highest scorer, just a frustrating season.

 
In 6 leagues this year.

Was the highest scorer in 4 leagues, 3rd highest in the other 2.

I missed the playoffs in two leagues, one of which had the highest scoring team this year, as well as the last 4 years.

Easily the most disappointing strong fantasy year for me.

 
In 6 leagues this year.

I missed the playoffs in two leagues, one of which had the highest scoring team this year, as well as the last 4 years.

Easily the most disappointing strong fantasy year for me.
Its to be commended that you made the playoffs in 4 of 6.

Thats where the skill is.

If you truly want to look at it from a variance standpoint, if you were to actually MAKE THE PLAYOFFS in all six out of six, then that would no doubt take some luck also.

Rejoice in the fact that you made it in 4/6, that is still a very good year...and you may still yet win a championship or two.

I was lucky enough to make it in four of four, so no #####ing here.

Highest scoring team in 3/4 and in the 4th I am only about 17 points from the top there also.

(In all honesty, I am not at all happy with that one team I didn't lead the league, for a multitude of reasons.)

I drafted Jeremy Hill, Demaryius and Russell Wilson in that league, all of whom severely let owners down this year.

I cut Russell Wilson like 4 weeks ago, and sleep better at night because of it.

Narrowly missed a bye in this league, which coincidentally is the biggest $$$ league I am in.

Several of my guys are in terrible matchups this week, and I am running into a monster team, so I will likely lose, what can you do.

The "skill" got me there to the playoffs and put me in a position to get lucky, so maybe I will get lucky now.

I think thats pretty much all any of us can do really.

TZM

 
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Currently 33.9 ahead of 2nd place for the scoring title (3rd place is 99.5 points back). He has Jordan Reed going tonight, and our season goes through week 14 (we play each other next week).

If Reed has a quiet night (~6 points PPR; not likely), then I have a chance to beat him next week for both the division crown AND the points title, which is a nice chunk of change. If Reed gets more, I can't win the division but can still win the points.
The 'ol triple crown! Good luck.

I am always in favor of teams who achieve those accomplishments getting cash for it. To me, it marks the true league winner because the playoffs are such a crap shoot. To have best record, most points, and take care of your division/top seed tells the story you had a great year.
Reed scored 6.3. Barring any stat corrections, my rival tied his game 88.9-88.9, and then lost n a tiebreaker (bench points). We actually don't play each other next week, so I still need to have him lose to the guy I beat this week.

I'm in another league where I'm the 2nd high scoring team and ALSO in the same division with the top scorer. We're both 10-3 and we DO play each other next week. He's 100 points ahead in the points race, though so I'm not catching him there.

 
A tale of three leagues:

League 1: 2qb PPR, went from 6th place to clinching the bye in the past 3 weeks, and recorded the highest score in league history this week at 189 points (average winning score is about 115). Lost 4 of my top 5 draft picks (Charles, Ben, Romo, Dez) for periods of time.

League 2: Dynasty PPR. Somehow made the playoffs despite having no viable tight end and running backs of dubious quality. Dalton and receivers and that was it. This team has one and done written all over it.

League 3: Beer Spot league. Started out 4-0 and finished 6-7 mostly because, if I had a flex choice, I chose... Poorly. Woodhead's slow down hurt. Live by the Smurf, die by the Smurf. Missed the playoffs because I lost last week by 0.1 points. Meanwhile a resurgent Furley went from 2-7 to the playoffs by winning four straight games.

 
The Lions and Browns got nothing on me. I had 2 ways to make the playoffs. Win myself or have another guy lose.

The other guy was way behind going into SNF with Antonio Brown and the Steelers kicker. Despite Brown's big day he was still losing by 4 points before Brown returned that punt for a completely meaningless TD. Why he's even in the game at that point, I have no idea.

Then last night I'm about 12.48 points ahead with him having DJax left. 44 seconds left and he beats me by less than half a point.

Thanks DJag for trying to be a hero on that kickoff that lead to needing a TD instead of a game winning FG. Thanks for running in that TD McFadden, you selfish #####. Get 2 yards, go down and your team can kick a chip shot FG with no time left. I wish that would have cost you the game. Thanks Tomlin for putting your best player on the field up 28 points with 4 minutes left in the game. It's not like people get hurt on punt returns or anything. It's not like a fair catch would have made any sense in that situation either.

Ok. I feel better now. ;)

 
Currently 33.9 ahead of 2nd place for the scoring title (3rd place is 99.5 points back). He has Jordan Reed going tonight, and our season goes through week 14 (we play each other next week).

If Reed has a quiet night (~6 points PPR; not likely), then I have a chance to beat him next week for both the division crown AND the points title, which is a nice chunk of change. If Reed gets more, I can't win the division but can still win the points.
The 'ol triple crown! Good luck.

I am always in favor of teams who achieve those accomplishments getting cash for it. To me, it marks the true league winner because the playoffs are such a crap shoot. To have best record, most points, and take care of your division/top seed tells the story you had a great year.
Reed scored 6.3. Barring any stat corrections, my rival tied his game 88.9-88.9, and then lost n a tiebreaker (bench points). We actually don't play each other next week, so I still need to have him lose to the guy I beat this week.

I'm in another league where I'm the 2nd high scoring team and ALSO in the same division with the top scorer. We're both 10-3 and we DO play each other next week. He's 100 points ahead in the points race, though so I'm not catching him there.
In the latter league (auction dynasty), I went 10-3 despite having Luck and Bell as my 2 highest-salaried players. I grabbed DeAngelo a couple weeks before Bell got hurt, and him going to IR freed up enough cap space that I could usually outbid others for the "hot" FA RB (like Langford).

Luck's injury allowed me to drop him and reacquire for about 25% less, which should allow me to bring all of my "studs" (Luck, Bell, AJG, Hilton, Watkins) back next year and still have cap space to fill my roster. (And Bell's injury helped because salary increases are based on year-end positional ranking, so his salary will only go up 1 unit, rather than 10 if head finished in the top 10 RBs)

 
Redraft 12 team league: thank God this dumpster fire of a season is over. Drafted way early bc of stupid reasons. Kept Kelvin Benjamin. Kept CJ Anderson. Drafted Jordy Nelson. Drafted Eddie Lacy. Next year I'm drafting the day before the season starts and the hell with anyone else that can't make it then.

Redraft 10 team league: clinched playoffs two weeks ago, claimed #1 seed this week. Still a little bit bitter though, because I was undefeated and took my first loss this past week. Started Landry over Crabtree, lost by 3 points. Landry is the epitome of 7 catches for 50 yards...can't even muster 30 measly yards in this game?! Now I get to navigate the playoffs playing Dalton/Bortles matchups...*says silent prayer*

 
Jeremy said:
The Lions and Browns got nothing on me. I had 2 ways to make the playoffs. Win myself or have another guy lose.

The other guy was way behind going into SNF with Antonio Brown and the Steelers kicker. Despite Brown's big day he was still losing by 4 points before Brown returned that punt for a completely meaningless TD. Why he's even in the game at that point, I have no idea.

Then last night I'm about 12.48 points ahead with him having DJax left. 44 seconds left and he beats me by less than half a point.

Thanks DJag for trying to be a hero on that kickoff that lead to needing a TD instead of a game winning FG. Thanks for running in that TD McFadden, you selfish #####. Get 2 yards, go down and your team can kick a chip shot FG with no time left. I wish that would have cost you the game. Thanks Tomlin for putting your best player on the field up 28 points with 4 minutes left in the game. It's not like people get hurt on punt returns or anything. It's not like a fair catch would have made any sense in that situation either.

Ok. I feel better now. ;)
That sounds like the exact same speech I gave on my couch last night. I don't know how I think of myself as a reasonably intelligent man and yet I continue to participate in something that takes so much time and ultimately comes down to 3rd string running backs like buck Allen and c. West, couches and player playing ######## football like you described, and professional real life teams actually paying and playing worthless players like Matt casell.

There is no way to build a set of rules for this game that don't ultimately come down to the dumbest, most random luck. It's crazy to see fantasy teams that are loaded with what should be real life studs and those teams consistently get beat down by teams rolling out guys like buck Allen and Travis Benjamin and players playing the Titans, etc.

 
Statistical oddity in our league points to the inherent problem with H2H formats. 12 team league - Top 6 make playoffs. Top 2 get bye in first round. The team with the #1 overall seed was 10th in point scored, 10th in breakdown (record if all play), but tied with 4 other teams for 1st in best record at 8-5. But due to schedule he was 5-1 in division (weak division) giving him the tie breaker for the #1 spot. Meanwhile the two teams that finished dead last and second to last had the 4th and 6th highest scoring teams - but BRUTAL schedules.

Looked back at our records and this years #1 seed had the lowest season points for any #1 seed in the history of our league (in it's 23rd year). Brutal.

 
Statistical oddity in our league points to the inherent problem with H2H formats. 12 team league - Top 6 make playoffs. Top 2 get bye in first round. The team with the #1 overall seed was 10th in point scored, 10th in breakdown (record if all play), but tied with 4 other teams for 1st in best record at 8-5. But due to schedule he was 5-1 in division (weak division) giving him the tie breaker for the #1 spot. Meanwhile the two teams that finished dead last and second to last had the 4th and 6th highest scoring teams - but BRUTAL schedules.

Looked back at our records and this years #1 seed had the lowest season points for any #1 seed in the history of our league (in it's 23rd year). Brutal.
H2H really doesn't make much sense at all in this game except from the perspective of people trying to maintain realism and emulate something or feel like there Is a personal stake in the contest by knowing the opponent and following their achievements. I get it. I think we all do, but it IS majorly flawed. Then again, so is having a bye in your playoffs. People will say "well, that's one week you can't lose" but it is also one week you could have eliminated the team you needed to. Your players get no benefit from it. If nothing else, It's a week where you can sit on "bye" and watch your stud get lost for the season.

All in all, leagues need to try to find ways to support the better teams in leagues to make it worth the work of the entire season. I have played in leagues where MFL's all-play is used more. I think that makes sense. Rewarding teams that scored more points is always something worth considering over a H2H game. I am sure if enough people really gave it some thought, there would be some clever solutions but we tend to be like lemmings and just keep following that same path that was trailblazed for us 30 years ago.

 
Well I started 9-0 had a 200 point lead on total points competition.

Then...

I lost Dion Lewis, Kennan Allen, D. Freeman, Matt Forte, (E. Sanders for a short period), and now Gronk.

Bad news: I'm rolling a 4 game losing streak into the playoffs and surrendered my total points lead over those 4 weeks (costing me prize money).

Good news: I still locked up the top seed and a first round bye. Freeman and Forte are back. Gronk will hopefully be back after this week, and Brock Osweiller will hopefully need to chuck the rock against Pittsburgh in two weeks. :football:

 
My one non-playoff team out of 3 this year consisted of: Luck, Forsett, Lacy, Cobb, Calvin, Jeffery, Decker, Diggs, Barnidge, Rudolph, McFadden, and Starks. That has to be the all disappointment team.

 
On one team I lost Lewis, Forsett, Hyde, and Ingram.
We have an interesting draft setup - you have to have 1 QB, 1 RB, 1 WR/TE, 1 K, 1 DL, 1 LB, and 1 DB after the first 7 rounds - before you can start getting additional players at any position. With that in mind here is why my team finished 4-9.

1 - Dez Bryant

2 - Tony Romo

3 - Navarro Bowman (solid)

4 - Morgan Burnett - injured for most of the season

5 - Mason Crosby (average to solid)

6 - Mark Ingram (average to IR)

7 - Olivier Vernon - invisible first 4 weeks then cut

Losing top two picks early was brutal, but having Ingram as RB1 was even worse. But the worst part was whenever I picked someone up to cover for a weakness - that player would proceed to get hurt. Tyrod Taylor, trade for Carlos Hyde (then he got hurt), Reggie Bush (when Hyde went down), Danny Amendola (okay should have predicted that), Eric Kendricks, Steve Johnson....the list goes on. Strange year where whatever I touched turned to dust.

 
Playing in 2 different leagues this week with a chance to win my division. I have OBJ in one, and I'm going against him in the other.

Hoping for a big day, as the league where I own him has a bigger $ difference for division vs wildcard than the other one.

 
Poor lineup choices are going to end my season. Winston over Fitz, Hightower over Crowell and Powell. Damn.

Eta: not so fast my friend

 
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Well my playoffs ended early. Rawls out. Waited all morning for word on Jordan Matthews. Was going to play Nelson Agholar instead then last second they said he's in and looks fine. Bortles crapping the bed.

Fitting end to a crappy year.

 
Favored by 10-15 in both my Yahoo money leagues, win and in, will lose by at least 30 in both. My teams feature Eifert, Kelce, Calvin, Rawls, Ware. Up against a Fitz/Marshall stack in one league and Wilson/Baldwin in the other. Oh well.

 
Started the week with a 33+ point lead in total points - last week of regular season.

He's now up 42.5 with Landry going Monday, while I still have Beckham/Hopkins/Bryant/RRodgers left, so I'm going to need those guys to do better than Rawls and Draughn did in the 1:00 games :hot:

 
Started the week with a 33+ point lead in total points - last week of regular season.

He's now up 42.5 with Landry going Monday, while I still have Beckham/Hopkins/Bryant/RRodgers left, so I'm going to need those guys to do better than Rawls and Draughn did in the 1:00 games :hot:
And of course since I finally benched Cobb, Rodgers is going to throw to him ALL ####### DAY

 

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