Fantasy gods....Please Help Me! (1 Viewer)

[Varmint]

Sure...hind sight is 20/20 so the answer is in the stats...

...but HOW could THIS team...a team with such opening day promise....be 4-6?

QB.....J. Cutler

RB.....M. Lynch

RB.....L. Tomlinson

WR....R. Moss

WR....E. Royal

PK.....J. Elam

DEF...Tenn.

I started out at 4-0 and have lost the last 6 weeks.

Luckily...I am still in the hunt for a playoff spot but I totally expected to have secured a playoff spot by this time.

WHY do I play this game?

Any other "great" opening day teams on paper....floundering entering Week 11 ?

 

[Ozymandias]

Sure...hind sight is 20/20 so the answer is in the stats......but HOW could THIS team...a team with such opening day promise....be 4-6?QB.....J. CutlerRB.....M. LynchRB.....L. TomlinsonWR....R. MossWR....E. RoyalPK.....J. ElamDEF...Tenn.I started out at 4-0 and have lost the last 6 weeks.Luckily...I am still in the hunt for a playoff spot but I totally expected to have secured a playoff spot by this time.WHY do I play this game? Any other "great" teams on paper....floundering?

Because if you didn't play the game your life would be an empty shell, devoid of meaning or significance.Highs only come because there are lows.

 

[Interseptopus]

It's fantasy football. It's not all skill, it's a lot of luck. Tough luck for you. I could have told you preseason that Moss and LT would not be the top players at their position this year, even top 10 (called it). Same with Lynch, thought he'd have a very down year.

Sure it happens to other people, that's why fantasy football is so awesome. If the season was decided on who had the best team post-draft it wouldn't be exciting

 

[MCguidance]

 

[Marc Levin]

Some years you can be a top-3 scorer and have a losing record. It happens.

 

[Varmint]

It's fantasy football. It's not all skill, it's a lot of luck. Tough luck for you. I could have told you preseason that Moss and LT would not be the top players at their position this year, even top 10 (called it). Same with Lynch, thought he'd have a very down year.

Sure it happens to other people, that's why fantasy football is so awesome. If the season was decided on who had the best team post-draft it wouldn't be exciting

I thought I had it all..I was telling the league that Denver would be a "pass first" team and backed it up by not keeping S. Young...opting to get J. Cutler

I expected Buffalo to make a good run with a dominant ground game. So I landed M. Lynch

I couldn't get B. Marshall but I had high expectations for that rookie...E. Royal.

I had faith that Atlanta would keep Elam in range.

I sat and waited to get the Tenn DEF/ST...and got them CHEAP!

I had hoped that LT's decline would make him just a "decent" #1 back...on par with the others....

I even got D Sproles as an insurance policy and had J. Shockey and C. Johnson on my bench all season.....not expecting much...just "bye week filler".

The "long shots" I had planned....came to fruition....(Cutler, Royal, Elam, Tenn.)

My "sure bets" floundered. (Lynch, LT, Moss)......NOBODY could have sseen the Brady injury.

Of course...the most dominating team in the league (if you can call them that) on paper, had the worse auction of the league.

The gods have a sense of humor....

 

[jurb26]

It's fantasy football. It's not all skill, it's a lot of luck. Tough luck for you. I could have told you preseason that Moss and LT would not be the top players at their position this year, even top 10 (called it). Same with Lynch, thought he'd have a very down year.

Sure it happens to other people, that's why fantasy football is so awesome. If the season was decided on who had the best team post-draft it wouldn't be exciting

You called a Brady season ending injury?

 

[Varmint]

Sorry....I don't remember making any excuses....

 

[MCguidance]

Sorry....I don't remember making any excuses....

 

[moviedude25]

It happens to everyone. Just the way it goes

 

[Varmint]

Sorry....I don't remember making any excuses....

You DO know what the shirt means...don't you?I think that the thread has more to do with "the best laid plans of mice and men"....rather than excuses for why the team is floundering....

You'll catch on.

 

[MCguidance]

Sorry....I don't remember making any excuses....

You DO know what the shirt means...don't you?I think that the thread has more to do with "the best laid plans of mice and men"....rather than excuses for why the team is floundering....

You'll catch on.

 

[Utter Chaos]

There's a team in my league that was in second place and averaging 100 points a week. Last week he scored a record low of 24 points and his team isn't bad at all. They just all had a bad week at the same time.

QB Jake Delhomme - 0 points

RB Chris Johnson - 2 points

RB Rudy Johnson - 0 points

WR Lee Evans - 3 points

WR Greg Jennings - 4 points

WR Steve Smith - 0 points

TE Ben Watson - 1 point

K Nate Kaeding - 8 points

D Buffalo - 7 points

Steven Jackson - Injured

Donovan McNabb - 26 points on bench

Ted Ginn - 14 points on bench

 

[Pack43]

Some years you can be a top-3 scorer and have a losing record. It happens.

In one of my leagues, I have the 2nd highest total points and I'm 4-6. The points leader is also 4-6.

 

[puckalicious]

The worst thing you could do now (I'm guilty of this) is trade your underperforming studs for average players, or to change your draft strategy next year.

One year I finished with the most points but failed to reach the playoffs. I had the most points scored against by a wide margin and it was just really, really bad luck. But I felt I needed to "shake things up" the next year and did HORRIBLE.

Stick with the tried and true, and hope for the best. It's really still mostly a crap shoot.

 

[munchkin]

The FF gods work in other ways as well. I had C Johnson, Westy, L Evans and S Smith in my line-up and won thanks to the other teams even poorer performance.

As a Pats fan I have to say that Moss is a great athlete with nearly all the skills a receiver could ask for; his problem is toughness. He does not live by the "no pain-no gain mantra" thus rendering the middle of the field a no-Mas zone. That catch at the end of the Jets game showed his ability. Unfortunately the rest of the game showed off his in-abilities.

 

[Couch Potato]

Sometimes I think the FF gods must be female. How else could some Sundays go so miserably?

 

[Varmint]

Sometimes I think the FF gods must be female. How else could some Sundays go so miserably?

OMG!! I had never thought of that!! ...I'm screwed.

 

[Interseptopus]

It's fantasy football. It's not all skill, it's a lot of luck. Tough luck for you. I could have told you preseason that Moss and LT would not be the top players at their position this year, even top 10 (called it). Same with Lynch, thought he'd have a very down year.

Sure it happens to other people, that's why fantasy football is so awesome. If the season was decided on who had the best team post-draft it wouldn't be exciting

You called a Brady season ending injury?

No, Read what I said, I said that Randy Moss would not be the #1 WR this season, much less top 10. I predicted LT to fall out of the top 10 and Moss to fall out of the top 5. I never said I called Brady's injury. In fact, I just thought Randy would not do as well. He'd still be a decent WR1 for a fantasy team, but if you drafted him as the 1st WR off your board then I think that was a mistake. He was not going to repeat those numbers. There were much better WRs that I liked this season to be in the top 5. Randy was not one of them. The fact that Brady got hurt has nothing to do with my prediction. Just so happened that's how it worked out.

 

[wilked]

bump, make sure this stays on 1st page

 

[Interseptopus]

It's fantasy football. It's not all skill, it's a lot of luck. Tough luck for you. I could have told you preseason that Moss and LT would not be the top players at their position this year, even top 10 (called it). Same with Lynch, thought he'd have a very down year.

Sure it happens to other people, that's why fantasy football is so awesome. If the season was decided on who had the best team post-draft it wouldn't be exciting

I thought I had it all..I was telling the league that Denver would be a "pass first" team and backed it up by not keeping S. Young...opting to get J. Cutler

I expected Buffalo to make a good run with a dominant ground game. So I landed M. Lynch

I couldn't get B. Marshall but I had high expectations for that rookie...E. Royal.

I had faith that Atlanta would keep Elam in range.

I sat and waited to get the Tenn DEF/ST...and got them CHEAP!

I had hoped that LT's decline would make him just a "decent" #1 back...on par with the others....

I even got D Sproles as an insurance policy and had J. Shockey and C. Johnson on my bench all season.....not expecting much...just "bye week filler".

The "long shots" I had planned....came to fruition....(Cutler, Royal, Elam, Tenn.)

My "sure bets" floundered. (Lynch, LT, Moss)......NOBODY could have sseen the Brady injury.

Of course...the most dominating team in the league (if you can call them that) on paper, had the worse auction of the league.

The gods have a sense of humor....

Lynch, LT, Moss were far from "sure bets." You can make a case for Moss and LT but Lynch no way. The logic you'd use to defend LT (so many years of dominance) basically says Lynch wouldn't do as well. Sophomore RBs usually have poor seasons. Lynch was the weakest of the preseason top 10 Rbs in my opinion. I didn't think he belonged there.

No RB has ever lead FF at RB more than 2 seasons in a row, ever. LT had 2 seasons, playing the law of averages this year was destined to be a down year. It was only a matter of time. If I was in a position to draft LT I wouldn't have, or I would have tried to trade him. I had a bad feeling about him this season.

Moss... yes no one could have seen the Brady injury, but if you thought he was a lock to repeat last year then what are you smoking. The reason Moss was so effective is because people couldn't double him with all the other weapons out there. Losing Stallworth was bigger than most people want to admit or will even agree with me about. I said a long long time ago that losing h im would decreae Moss' output and even Welker. Welker is most effective as a slot WR. Teams have more game film on how NE uses Moss. Again, sophomore season, I did not see him repeating those numbers. It was close to impossible unless Brady was going to break his own record. And those Patriots are clearly not the exact same team from last season. Therefore you cannot call him a "lock".

if anything I think your lock was Cutler. You can make a case for LT and Moss, but after that your team wasn't that great. Royal came out of nowher eon my radar, props to anyone who called that one, but after those 3 your team didn't look that fantastic.

 

[Das Boot]

Textbook case.

 

[Beef Ravioli]

Textbook case.

I may get hammered for this question and maybe it is very obvious to everyone else, but what in tarnation is the finger pointing into the shirt mean?Thanks!

 

[Das Boot]

Textbook case.

I may get hammered for this question and maybe it is very obvious to everyone else, but what in tarnation is the finger pointing into the shirt mean?Thanks!

This is from the sticky note in the FFA, the thread in question makes for pretty amusing reading:10. Point to the shirt

This comes from this thread. We got spammed by a dude trying to push the worst t-shirt ever. The shirt had excuses for why your fantasy season went poorly. When someone whines about why they did poorly the FFA response may be "point to the shirt". Go read the thread. It will make more sense.

 

[Beef Ravioli]

OH

 

[EdwardCat]

Textbook case.

I may get hammered for this question and maybe it is very obvious to everyone else, but what in tarnation is the finger pointing into the shirt mean?Thanks!

This is from the sticky note in the FFA, the thread in question makes for pretty amusing reading:10. Point to the shirt

This comes from this thread. We got spammed by a dude trying to push the worst t-shirt ever. The shirt had excuses for why your fantasy season went poorly. When someone whines about why they did poorly the FFA response may be "point to the shirt". Go read the thread. It will make more sense.

Aye, but it makes no sense to use it in this thread. The poster of the shirt in this thread should really read up on it. This is the most often mis-used icon next to the fishing icon.

 

[Beef Ravioli]

Textbook case.

I may get hammered for this question and maybe it is very obvious to everyone else, but what in tarnation is the finger pointing into the shirt mean?Thanks!

This is from the sticky note in the FFA, the thread in question makes for pretty amusing reading:10. Point to the shirt

This comes from this thread. We got spammed by a dude trying to push the worst t-shirt ever. The shirt had excuses for why your fantasy season went poorly. When someone whines about why they did poorly the FFA response may be "point to the shirt". Go read the thread. It will make more sense.

OK - I scanned the thread. Has he updated the shirt, since it first came out? Did you really buy one? Perhaps a new excuse should be, "my QB ran out of the endzone". Thanks again for the info. It will always make sense now!

 

[Das Boot]

Textbook case.

I may get hammered for this question and maybe it is very obvious to everyone else, but what in tarnation is the finger pointing into the shirt mean?Thanks!

This is from the sticky note in the FFA, the thread in question makes for pretty amusing reading:10. Point to the shirt

This comes from this thread. We got spammed by a dude trying to push the worst t-shirt ever. The shirt had excuses for why your fantasy season went poorly. When someone whines about why they did poorly the FFA response may be "point to the shirt". Go read the thread. It will make more sense.

Aye, but it makes no sense to use it in this thread. The poster of the shirt in this thread should really read up on it. This is the most often mis-used icon next to the fishing icon.

Actually it fits this thread perfectly, the guy that created the shirts described the shirt's intended use in his original thread.

 

[Pat Patriot]

The FF gods work in other ways as well. I had C Johnson, Westy, L Evans and S Smith in my line-up and won thanks to the other teams even poorer performance. As a Pats fan I have to say that Moss is a great athlete with nearly all the skills a receiver could ask for; his problem is toughness. He does not live by the "no pain-no gain mantra" thus rendering the middle of the field a no-Mas zone. That catch at the end of the Jets game showed his ability. Unfortunately the rest of the game showed off his in-abilities.

I think this year has seen the best blocking in his career out of Moss. Cassel has missed Moss on 3 absolutely WIDE OPEN TD's of 40-50 yards. Add those 3 TD's to Moss' stats and what would you think of his season? He would have 8 TD's and 750 yds after 9 games. I think the perception of Moss would be a lot different. He is working with a very inexperienced QB.Belichick was on WEEI yesterday and said that he felt after viewing the film that Moss was the most dominant player on the field. The dominance was in the amount of coverage that he drew from the Jets allowing the rest of the team to pile up 374 yards passing. Plus his blocking downfield. Obviously, some of that was stroking his Superstars ego but Belichick isnt known for doing a lot of that.

 

[gonzobill5]

It's fantasy football. It's not all skill, it's a lot of luck. Tough luck for you. I could have told you preseason that Moss and LT would not be the top players at their position this year, even top 10 (called it). Same with Lynch, thought he'd have a very down year.

Sure it happens to other people, that's why fantasy football is so awesome. If the season was decided on who had the best team post-draft it wouldn't be exciting

I thought I had it all..I was telling the league that Denver would be a "pass first" team and backed it up by not keeping S. Young...opting to get J. Cutler

I expected Buffalo to make a good run with a dominant ground game. So I landed M. Lynch

I couldn't get B. Marshall but I had high expectations for that rookie...E. Royal.

I had faith that Atlanta would keep Elam in range.

I sat and waited to get the Tenn DEF/ST...and got them CHEAP!

I had hoped that LT's decline would make him just a "decent" #1 back...on par with the others....

I even got D Sproles as an insurance policy and had J. Shockey and C. Johnson on my bench all season.....not expecting much...just "bye week filler".

The "long shots" I had planned....came to fruition....(Cutler, Royal, Elam, Tenn.)

My "sure bets" floundered. (Lynch, LT, Moss)......NOBODY could have sseen the Brady injury.

Of course...the most dominating team in the league (if you can call them that) on paper, had the worse auction of the league.

The gods have a sense of humor....

Lynch, LT, Moss were far from "sure bets." You can make a case for Moss and LT but Lynch no way. The logic you'd use to defend LT (so many years of dominance) basically says Lynch wouldn't do as well. Sophomore RBs usually have poor seasons. Lynch was the weakest of the preseason top 10 Rbs in my opinion. I didn't think he belonged there.

No RB has ever lead FF at RB more than 2 seasons in a row, ever. LT had 2 seasons, playing the law of averages this year was destined to be a down year. It was only a matter of time. If I was in a position to draft LT I wouldn't have, or I would have tried to trade him. I had a bad feeling about him this season.

Moss... yes no one could have seen the Brady injury, but if you thought he was a lock to repeat last year then what are you smoking. The reason Moss was so effective is because people couldn't double him with all the other weapons out there. Losing Stallworth was bigger than most people want to admit or will even agree with me about. I said a long long time ago that losing h im would decreae Moss' output and even Welker. Welker is most effective as a slot WR. Teams have more game film on how NE uses Moss. Again, sophomore season, I did not see him repeating those numbers. It was close to impossible unless Brady was going to break his own record. And those Patriots are clearly not the exact same team from last season. Therefore you cannot call him a "lock".

if anything I think your lock was Cutler. You can make a case for LT and Moss, but after that your team wasn't that great. Royal came out of nowher eon my radar, props to anyone who called that one, but after those 3 your team didn't look that fantastic.

1. There is no law of averages.2. Lynch was his #2. That should have been a sure bet.

Tough luck is all it is. That, and failure to adapt.

 

[GoBills02]

I have scored the 3rd most points in my 12 team league, but I'm 2-8. Got to play the top scorer 6 weeks in a row, while I was the 2nd highest in points. Love this game.

 

[Tommax]

I have scored the 3rd most points in my 12 team league, but I'm 2-8. Got to play the top scorer 6 weeks in a row, while I was the 2nd highest in points. Love this game.

PTTS!

 

[Andy Herron]

You drafted poorly, plain and simple.

 

[Interseptopus]

You drafted poorly, plain and simple.

 

[Ducegonads]

Was team depth an issue during bye weeks?

QB.....J. Cutler - Nice player great numbers

RB.....M. Lynch - Has yet to break 85 yds rushing in a game. 6 tds

RB.....L. Tomlinson - Started slow, career touches catching up with him. 5 tds

WR....R. Moss - Brady, Brady, Brady. Triple coverage??????

WR....E. Royal - Nice hit on the rookie. Has to split with BM.

PK.....J. Elam - Getting great numbers in ATL.

DEF...Tenn. - 24 sacks, 14 picks, 5 fum. Only 1 return for a TD

I heard of better teams with worse records. Sounds like #$%# luck & tough bye weeks.

 

[Das Boot]

Textbook case.

I may get hammered for this question and maybe it is very obvious to everyone else, but what in tarnation is the finger pointing into the shirt mean?Thanks!

This is from the sticky note in the FFA, the thread in question makes for pretty amusing reading:10. Point to the shirt

This comes from this thread. We got spammed by a dude trying to push the worst t-shirt ever. The shirt had excuses for why your fantasy season went poorly. When someone whines about why they did poorly the FFA response may be "point to the shirt". Go read the thread. It will make more sense.

Aye, but it makes no sense to use it in this thread. The poster of the shirt in this thread should really read up on it. This is the most often mis-used icon next to the fishing icon.

From dkeato's website (the guy that created the shirts):Are you a fantasy football team owner? If so, then you have heard every excuse in the book.

“Oh my, I started the wrong kicker……”

” Boo hoo, my team is better than this………”

"My team is much better than this on paper..."

Give me a break.

The next time your opponent starts laying on the BS lines, point to the shirt.

Was his running back pulled at the goal line? Point to the shirt.

Did he start the wrong kicker again? Point to the shirt.

 

[Riffraff]

Be glad you got 4 wins. You could have 0.

Teams that look good on paper in August rarely look good in December.

 

[Marc Levin]

Textbook case.

I may get hammered for this question and maybe it is very obvious to everyone else, but what in tarnation is the finger pointing into the shirt mean?Thanks!

This is from the sticky note in the FFA, the thread in question makes for pretty amusing reading:10. Point to the shirt

This comes from this thread. We got spammed by a dude trying to push the worst t-shirt ever. The shirt had excuses for why your fantasy season went poorly. When someone whines about why they did poorly the FFA response may be "point to the shirt". Go read the thread. It will make more sense.

Aye, but it makes no sense to use it in this thread. The poster of the shirt in this thread should really read up on it. This is the most often mis-used icon next to the fishing icon.

From dkeato's website (the guy that created the shirts):Are you a fantasy football team owner? If so, then you have heard every excuse in the book.

“Oh my, I started the wrong kicker……”

” Boo hoo, my team is better than this………”

"My team is much better than this on paper..."

Give me a break.

The next time your opponent starts laying on the BS lines, point to the shirt.

Was his running back pulled at the goal line? Point to the shirt.

Did he start the wrong kicker again? Point to the shirt.

POTT ...