Sanity check (1 Viewer)

[King of the Wolfies]

This is my 5th FF season and the fifth time I've been one of the highest scoring teams while also being one of the most scored against. I'm averaging 123 pts in a league that averages 100, and barring a collapse by Eli against a crappy team tomorrow, I'll be 3-3. In past seasons, I've started 0-7, 3-5, 3-3, and 2-5. When you score well but continue to lose, how do you convince yourself not to just stop playing? I wouldn't mind if it was the occasional season, but 5 for 5 seems to be the FF gods hate me. Any good ways to appease the FF gods? Anyone ever traded an entire team just to break your luck?

[End of rant]

 

[AnonymousBob]

Maybe you draft good players that end the season well but you're not accounting for early season matchups.

 

[piratemike]

Play rotisserie. It's much less agonizing.

 

[AnonymousBob]

If this has happened to you for five years running, there's only one common factor: you. Not sure what you're doing wrong, guy, but perhaps you should contact LHUCKS. That guy knows everything.

 

[kutta]

You just gotta take it easy. As much as we think we have control over this goofy habit of ours, we don't. Worry about the things in your life that you can control. Draft the best team you can, make the best moves you can, play your best lineup, and if you lose, then you lose.

It's been said a million times about poker and FF, but it always bears repeating: There is more luck involved than good players want to admit, and more skill involved than bad players want to admit. Do your best on the skill part, and don't sweat the luck part.

 

[King of the Wolfies]

Maybe you draft good players that end the season well but you're not accounting for early season matchups.

You missed that part where I'm averaging 123 and the rest of the league averages 100. I've scored 85, 123, 123, 124, 128, 157 and am soon to be 3-3, without a miracle. Its not that my team sucks, its that I always seem to play the highest teams each week. Btw, I lost the game I scored 157. Whats rotisserie? Not sure if I've heard of this kind of league.

 

[numberSE7EN]

My league gives a decent payout for most points scored on the season. Last season i was below .500 but I won the points championship and was rewarded nicely.

 

[spitkickers]

Half of the problems this year are injuries and last minute scratches/additions anyway (Rudi Johnson/Dominic Rhodes/LaMont Jordan this week alone - Santonio Holmes last week, etc), it's hard to beat anyone up for having a losing record at this point. I consider my winning and middle of the road teams lucky and only lucky at this point. Crap shoot and all that. Homework only goes so far when people like Kevin Curtis come out of nowhere and several top 2 rounders go down for the year early (S Jax, Andre Johnson, so on). In FF leagues, strength of schedule means a lot (Sportsline is pretty good about this), so if your SOS is first, it would make sense that you could be putting up great numbers but just facing the wrong teams at their right time bye week/health wise. It is definitely one of the ultimate in frustrations. At the same time, it is a long season, and shouldn't last forever...especially with all the players going down all over the place. Which is horrible, but seems the norm rather than the exception.

 

[AnonymousBob]

Maybe you draft good players that end the season well but you're not accounting for early season matchups.

You missed that part where I'm averaging 123 and the rest of the league averages 100. I've scored 85, 123, 123, 124, 128, 157 and am soon to be 3-3, without a miracle. Its not that my team sucks, its that I always seem to play the highest teams each week. Btw, I lost the game I scored 157. Whats rotisserie? Not sure if I've heard of this kind of league.

I know you're doing well this season, what does "one of the highest scoring teams" even mean? You're slightly above average? Way ahead of the other owners? Do you have one or two terrible owners that are killing the scoring average? It sucks you've had such a bad run but if this has happened for five years IN A ROW, it's time to stop blaming it all on luck and take a painful look in the mirror. Everybody is going to have an injury plagued season here and there. We all have weeks where we play some clunker team that blows up thanks to some obscure player. But five years running? It's either something you're doing wrong or God hates you.

 

[King of the Wolfies]

Maybe you draft good players that end the season well but you're not accounting for early season matchups.

You missed that part where I'm averaging 123 and the rest of the league averages 100. I've scored 85, 123, 123, 124, 128, 157 and am soon to be 3-3, without a miracle. Its not that my team sucks, its that I always seem to play the highest teams each week. Btw, I lost the game I scored 157. Whats rotisserie? Not sure if I've heard of this kind of league.

I know you're doing well this season, what does "one of the highest scoring teams" even mean? You're slightly above average? Way ahead of the other owners? Do you have one or two terrible owners that are killing the scoring average? It sucks you've had such a bad run but if this has happened for five years IN A ROW, it's time to stop blaming it all on luck and take a painful look in the mirror. Everybody is going to have an injury plagued season here and there. We all have weeks where we play some clunker team that blows up thanks to some obscure player. But five years running? It's either something you're doing wrong or God hates you.

I'd stop blaming it on luck if there was some other reason. I'm playing about as well as possible with the occasional exception where some scrub comes out of no where and explodes on my bench. For instance, last week I started Keith and this week Watson. i picked up Curtis the week before he blew up because I saw that he was heavily targeted. i attributed the lack of production to McNabb being rusty and have been rewarded twice now. My whole problem is my opponents alwasy seem to string together 3 or 4 players that go way over average (this week for instance, LJ, Thomas Jones, JAX, Eric Johnson and Burleson all scored their highs or close to their highs for the season. Usually I scored high enough to withstand one or two opponents players blowing up, but this is getting frustrating. I don't mind losing, but ths is getting to me. I checked the leagues top scores and I have 5 of the top 24. Last year i was ousted out of the playoff race in week 14 because a team that averaged 79 points for the season and rarely scored over 100, managed to score 114. i have many other examples but I dont want a 5000 word essay here....LOL So its not the losing that concerns me, but how do others deal with it when it happens game after game, year after year? What other kind of leagues are there that don't rely on H2H?

 

[bonesman]

ouch

 

[Wadsworth]

So you are 3-2 going into this week and likely to end up 3-3, your teams is playing well and scoring point... Remind me again what the problem is? There's nothing wrong with 3-3. Just keep scoring points and it will likely work out. The guys that is second in scoring in my main league is 1-5. He's played the weekly high scorer 4 our of 6. So you've had some bad, at least you are still 3-3- and in the hunt. It could be a lot worse.

 

[Harjiran]

I can relate to what you're going through. A couple years ago, I had a sick team with Peyton, LJ and S. Alexander and I was scoring 100+ on a regular basis, but it seemed like every week, whoever I was playing against would have someone blow up and I'd wind up losing by 2-3 points. Somehow I limped into the playoffs at 7-6, totally discouraged and wondering why I was wasting my time, but then my team just started rolling and I won it all. So hang in there. Luck is a fickle thing and it can suddenly swing in your favor. Your goal should be making the playoffs and then anything can happen. When you finally win it, all this will just be water under the bridge.