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So what's the best/worst luck story of your league this year? (1 Viewer)
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SeniorVBDStudent
Footballguy
From the NEVER GIVE UP file, in my money league....
Drafted Brady in the first and Colston in the second.
After 7 weeks, 1-6 record, last place in points.
After 13 weeks, 7-6 record, 5th in points and last spot in the playoffs.
Acquired McNabb, Berrian, Muhammed and others through the course of the season through aggressive trading.
NEVER GIVE UP!
Drafted Brady in the first and Colston in the second.
After 7 weeks, 1-6 record, last place in points.
After 13 weeks, 7-6 record, 5th in points and last spot in the playoffs.
Acquired McNabb, Berrian, Muhammed and others through the course of the season through aggressive trading.
NEVER GIVE UP!
wadegarrett
FFA Legend™
Ed Hoculi cost me my season.
That's all I got.
That's all I got.
Kuz
Footballguy
In my 14 team league.. it was my team.. We scored the 2nd most points & missed the playoffs. We lost this week by 1 point & if we had won we would of ended up in 2nd place.. We played Deangelo Williams & lost by one point & missed the playoffs. Really bunched up this year in that league..
blackjack23
Footballguy
For the first time in my league history, the highest scoring team did not make the playoffs. They had a horrible start due to a bad team and have been on fire recently. The team has scored the league high in points three times this year. His team: McNabb, Slaton, MJD, TO, Evans, SSmith, TGonzalez, TB DEF. Pretty damn scary. Good thing I dont have to face them.
14 points ahead of my opponent going into last night, with MJD and Andre Johnson still to play. He only had Slayton left. This was for the final playoff spot in a 12-team league. There was no way I was going to be knocked out of the playoffs, OR WAIT......
I AM OFFICIALLY RETIRING FROM FANTASY FOOTBALL!!
i have the worst luck. this stuff happens to me every single year i play and i am not exaggerating.
I AM OFFICIALLY RETIRING FROM FANTASY FOOTBALL!!
i have the worst luck. this stuff happens to me every single year i play and i am not exaggerating.
PosterNutBag
Footballguy
I am in a very competitive 12-team league (every owner gives 100% even if they are out of it). This one team got the final playoff spot with the 6 seed over another team since he beat him in their only H2H regular season meeting. This team has the 2nd worst All Play record in the league at 44-99, yet finished at 7-6. He has the 2nd worst points for in the league, too, with only 883.40 (or 68.0 ppg) ... for comparative purposes, the best points for is 99.5 ppg and there are 2 other teams above 90ppg and 5 other teams at 80.0ppg or higher. Just to show you even more how lucky this team is, the only team worse than him this season was 1-12 (lost Brady in Quarter 1 of the season) and had an all play record of 34-109 (just 10 games worse) and averaged 67.6 ppg. These teams look so similar on paper, yet one benefited greatly from the H2H schedule, while the other crashed and burned.
blackjack23
Footballguy
PosterNutBag
Footballguy
I actually think All Play is a better first tiebreaker, but people in the league are VERY vehement in their support for H2H. Their case is that we are a H2H league and we all know ahead of time that every single game could be very important in the end. I agree with you in that H2H is not good for tiebreakers. I acknowledge that the league is H2H, but for me it should end right there with your record and ties should be broken by the best way possible to determine which team is truly more deserving.I think All Play trumps Total Points (even though many times they yield the same result) b/c you could have a situation where one team has just a few more total points than another (virtually equivalent) and I think it makes more sense to reward the team who was the more consistent performer throughout the season over the one who have a monster week and scored 140 pts when the next best team only had 100 pts that week. To me, the mark of a better team is consistency, so I would rather a team be scoring 10 more points in 4 straight games than 10 less in 3 of them and 40 more in one of them.blackjack23 said:
Mr. Know-It-All
Footballguy
Dude in our league missed the playoffs despite having 4th most points scored this year...8 teams out of 12 make the playoffs. Unfortunately (for him, but not for those of us that made the playoffs) he had over 200 more points scored against him than anyone else.
In my other league, we had 4 teams tied for the same record with only 3 able to make the playoffs (the three other playoff spots were locked up by teams with better records). The guy that didn't make the playoffs happened to have 4 of his 5 losses against thsoe teams he was tied with so he missed the playoffs on head to head...despite having the 3rd highest points scored in the league for the year. Of those 4 losses, 3 were by less than 5 points and two were by 2 or less.
In my other league, we had 4 teams tied for the same record with only 3 able to make the playoffs (the three other playoff spots were locked up by teams with better records). The guy that didn't make the playoffs happened to have 4 of his 5 losses against thsoe teams he was tied with so he missed the playoffs on head to head...despite having the 3rd highest points scored in the league for the year. Of those 4 losses, 3 were by less than 5 points and two were by 2 or less.
Hue G
Footballguy
I can't think of a good argument for the 1st tie breaker not to be total points. In my bigger money league one of the two wild card spots is allocated to the team in the league that didn't qualify for the playoffs but had the most points of the teams that didn't, this usually assures that the best teams get into the playoffs, I actually slipped in through this wild card spot this year otherwise I wouldn't have made it though I have the 2nd most total points in our league.blackjack23 said:
Lott's Fingertip
Footballguy
10 teamer: 2nd highest scoring team missed the playoffs (6 of 10 make it). It's a dynasty league, and we have a 4 team playoff for the #1 rookie pick. That team doesn't even have his own 1st round pick.
Same league, my team was 3-5... and I have won 5 straight to get a week 14 bye, beating the #1 scoring team this week to secure the bye.
12 teamer: 6 teams make the playoffs, the 3rd highest scoring team misses.
8 team redraft: out of my four leagues, this is the team I thought would really make some noise. Heading into this week I was in 6th place with two weeks left in the regular season. I HAD to win. I was playing a team that has rattled off 5 straight wins in impressive fashion. He had MJD and a 6.34 point lead going in to Monday night... I had Andre Johnson.
I won by .06 points and still have hope.
Same league, my team was 3-5... and I have won 5 straight to get a week 14 bye, beating the #1 scoring team this week to secure the bye.
12 teamer: 6 teams make the playoffs, the 3rd highest scoring team misses.
8 team redraft: out of my four leagues, this is the team I thought would really make some noise. Heading into this week I was in 6th place with two weeks left in the regular season. I HAD to win. I was playing a team that has rattled off 5 straight wins in impressive fashion. He had MJD and a 6.34 point lead going in to Monday night... I had Andre Johnson.
I won by .06 points and still have hope.
PosterNutBag
Footballguy
There is a fine line for most people. My one league has tons of trash talking amongst friends, so we like the H2H format for that reason alone (it's more fun to talk trash to your opponent than to no one person in particular). I just draw the line there with H2H and say H2H is just for determining your record and All Play should be used for all tiebreakers.
belljr
Footballguy
They are already making fun of me on our site BUT....The season has now ended.I had the Steelers Defense when their lateral return for a TD was canceled.So without that TD I only needed 3 points out of Evans that Monday night. IN a PPR league. So 2 catches for 10 yards I win. He gets 1 target, no catches so I lose.I went from a BYE to playing in the first round :(CrossEyed said:
-baller
Footballguy
earlier in the season guy goes into monday night w/an ~11 point lead and toomer + nyg def (vs cle) to play, which should have been a slam dunk as his opponent only had jamal lewis left.
as you might remember, cle ran over the giants that night giving him -1 for their def, toomer got 0, while jamal lewis picked up about an extra point just running out the clock to give his owner a half point upset.
so, the way it all shakes out, if the nyg def owner loses this week that will cost him a playoff berth.
as you might remember, cle ran over the giants that night giving him -1 for their def, toomer got 0, while jamal lewis picked up about an extra point just running out the clock to give his owner a half point upset.
so, the way it all shakes out, if the nyg def owner loses this week that will cost him a playoff berth.
LondonGold
Footballguy
Dynasty league
Most points in the league but ended up in last place...what are the odds? Talk about un-freakin-lucky!
Here is my starting lineup....keep in mind it's a TD-only!
E. Manning
Jacobs
Hightower
Forte
R. Moss
Jennings
L. Moore/K. Walter
Gates/Gonzo
Baltimore D/ST
J. Brown/Bryant
Most points in the league but ended up in last place...what are the odds? Talk about un-freakin-lucky!
Here is my starting lineup....keep in mind it's a TD-only!
E. Manning
Jacobs
Hightower
Forte
R. Moss
Jennings
L. Moore/K. Walter
Gates/Gonzo
Baltimore D/ST
J. Brown/Bryant
PosterNutBag
Footballguy
I didn't mention this, but the 7-6 team I referred to in my first post in this thread essentially can thank the NYG D for his playoff spot. He was losing by 2.5 pts heading into MNF that particular week and his opponent only had the NYG defense. My league gives a range of positive/negative pts for defensive yardage and total points allowed by a team. NYG scored -6 pts (worst possible point total for a defense in my league) in this game since they did not have any positive pts (sacks, turnovers, etc.). Anyway, had this not occurred, the 7-6 team would not have made the playoffs.
Chicago Hooligan
Footballguy
My brother has been in Iraq all year and hasn't tended to his team since the draft. Now his "auto-pilot" squad has recovered from an 0-4 start to finish 7-5, win a wildcard game last week and looks to beat my #1 team (which I think is likely) this week.
Chaka
Footballguy
Best luck: Traded Trent Edwards & Michael Bush for Thomas Jones & Joe Flacco in Week 4
TJ hadn't done much to that point and his owner was convinced he was gassed, Edwards had been playing well and the TJ owner had Bulger, Palmer & Flacco in a start 2QB league.
Obviously since then TJ has been the #1 RB in our league and Flacco has pushed Delhomme to my bench.
Edwards & M.Bush haven't been working out so well for him.
TJ hadn't done much to that point and his owner was convinced he was gassed, Edwards had been playing well and the TJ owner had Bulger, Palmer & Flacco in a start 2QB league.
Obviously since then TJ has been the #1 RB in our league and Flacco has pushed Delhomme to my bench.
Edwards & M.Bush haven't been working out so well for him.
supermark_28
Footballguy
I started 7-0 and have managed to lose 6 in a row and a spot in the playoffs.. I know,point to the shirt..
RUSF18
Footballguy
In a 14 team league, I'll probably miss the (6 team) playoffs with the highest point total in the league, having outscored the second highest scoring team by over 100 points in these 13 weeks.
There's a division winner that I have outscored by 225 points, or 17.3 points a week. This is a league where 90 points is pretty much a guaranteed win.
Sucks for me, but what can you do. I'm trying to institute a "division winners get byes, rest of spots go to 4 highest-scoring non-division winners" system for next year, as we went through something similar two years ago. Not much luck so far.
There's a division winner that I have outscored by 225 points, or 17.3 points a week. This is a league where 90 points is pretty much a guaranteed win.
Sucks for me, but what can you do. I'm trying to institute a "division winners get byes, rest of spots go to 4 highest-scoring non-division winners" system for next year, as we went through something similar two years ago. Not much luck so far.
crowe1130
Footballguy
This 10-team-league squad didn't make the playoffs. Finished as second-highest scorer at least 4 or 5 times, but happened to be playing the one team that could have beaten them each time.
Guy had a nearly perfect draft and then made really smart trades early in the year. Just couldn't catch a break.
QB: Cutler/Orton
RB: Portis/Westbrook/DeAngelo/Hightower
WR: B Marshall/Fitzgerald/Roddy White/Colston/Avery
TE: Owen Daniels/Zach Miller
PK: Kaeding
DT: Chargers/Dolphins
At least he'll have the solace of seeing half his team drafted in the first 3 rounds next year!
Guy had a nearly perfect draft and then made really smart trades early in the year. Just couldn't catch a break.
QB: Cutler/Orton
RB: Portis/Westbrook/DeAngelo/Hightower
WR: B Marshall/Fitzgerald/Roddy White/Colston/Avery
TE: Owen Daniels/Zach Miller
PK: Kaeding
DT: Chargers/Dolphins
At least he'll have the solace of seeing half his team drafted in the first 3 rounds next year!
PosterNutBag
Footballguy
holy crap ... if i didn't know better, i would say you are making it up ... that team is clearly a playoff team
notdarkyet
Footballguy
This team has one loss in a 12 team league, standard scoring:
QB: D Brees, B Quinn , C Pennington
RB: R Bush, R Grant, B Green-Ellis, C Williams, D Rhodes, E James, T Bell
WR: G Jennings, R E. Williams, A Randle El, H Douglas, N Washington, R Brown
TE: T Heap, V Davis
K: S Gostkowski, J Elam
DST: Titans, Colts
Fantasy Gods are shining on him so far this year. I still cant believe it.
QB: D Brees, B Quinn , C Pennington
RB: R Bush, R Grant, B Green-Ellis, C Williams, D Rhodes, E James, T Bell
WR: G Jennings, R E. Williams, A Randle El, H Douglas, N Washington, R Brown
TE: T Heap, V Davis
K: S Gostkowski, J Elam
DST: Titans, Colts
Fantasy Gods are shining on him so far this year. I still cant believe it.
crowe1130
Footballguy
Yeah, it seems fake or like a guppy league supersquad, but neither is the case. It's a 17-year old, very competitive league.He traded his second and fourth round picks to get an extra late first, so his draft started out:Rd 1. WestbrookRd 1. PortsRd 3. ColstonRd 5. MarshallRd 6. R. WhiteRd 7. CutlerHe then made a bunch of moves in the first three weeks that got him Fitzgerald and DeAngelo (just before they both blew up).I actually felt bad for him. But not THAT bad.
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Ridgelake
Footballguy
One guy in our league went 0-13. He was last in points scored and highest in points against. He drafted Brady in round 1. It was just comical how bad of luck he had.
His team actually wasnt terrible. Farve, MJD, Slaton, CJ3, Megatron, Coles, Plaxico, Packers D, Akers were some of his better guys.
His team actually wasnt terrible. Farve, MJD, Slaton, CJ3, Megatron, Coles, Plaxico, Packers D, Akers were some of his better guys.
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Well, I was down by 2 points against my opponent. I had the Eagle D against Seattle. Eagles are up 2+ TD's with 40 seconds left. Wallace drops back to pass, and I get a sack. That's 1 point. They are not rushing to the line. 10 seconds left and Wallace completes a dump off pass. I'm thinking, game over. But Holmgren calls a timeout with 3 seconds left? For what? Wallace drops back to pass, I get a game ending sack. So we ended up tied. Well, I won my division, my opponent won his division - but that tie gave me the bye and he has to play this week. If he would have won we would have been tied with record, and he would have had the tiebreaker on head to head and points.
In another MNF game, I had the Charger D. Favre ON FIRE the second half, killing me. I go from being up 10 to down 1 with a minute to go. Clemens comes in, throws a pick in the end zone, I win by 1.
In another MNF game, I had the Charger D. Favre ON FIRE the second half, killing me. I go from being up 10 to down 1 with a minute to go. Clemens comes in, throws a pick in the end zone, I win by 1.
videoguy505
Footballguy
I think a team that missed the playoffs by 1 game lost earlier this season when his QB took 3 consecutive -1 yard kneel-downs to ice a victory.
In the league I've been running since the 90's, 10 of the 12 teams finished either 7-6 or 6-7, the team that everyone thought had the worst draft finished with the best record in the league (8-5), and the 3 highest scoring teams all finished 6-7 and missed the playoffs. Absolutely unreal. Crazy season...
PosterNutBag
Footballguy
That's very interesting. I know people throw out that "the highest scoring team or teams missed the playoffs" quite often. I am often curious as to how much higher scoring these teams are than the league average. For example, in your league with so many teams so close together I could see the highest scoring team being at, say, 1200 pts for the season and then the next highest at 1197 and the next highest at 1195 and then the 10th highest at 1150. So, if that were the case, being the highest scoring teams really isn't indicative of having the best team since there were many teams closely bunched together.So, what was the difference b/w the 3 highest scoring teams and maybe the next 3 highest scoring teams (point totals)?
PosterNutBag
Footballguy
That's rough.
PosterNutBag
Footballguy
That sounds like dumb luck since not only did you drop Rodgers, but nobody in your league was savvy enough to pick him up before you could?
Spike
Footballguy
In a Zealots Field league, a team, needing a win in week 13 to get in the playoffs, scores 192.65. (Scoring 150 points in one of these games is pretty good.)
And plays a team that scores 197.74.
They're the 3rd highest scoring team in the league (1921.26) and they're watching the playoffs from the cheap seats.
And plays a team that scores 197.74.
They're the 3rd highest scoring team in the league (1921.26) and they're watching the playoffs from the cheap seats.
Lobary
Footballguy
In my primary money league (12-teamer), the owner with the highest total points finished 6-7 and missed the playoffs. He got screwed by the matchups by playing the guy with high points last week, when he would've beaten nine other teams, which put him in a win-and-need-help situation this past weekend.
He won easily and also notched high-score for the week, but he needed one of two other teams to lose. Both teams won, eliminating him from the playoffs. Those two teams have the second and fourth-worst total points scored. But what's even more tragic for him is the fact that one of those two teams had three wins this year by a combined total margin of 3.3 points! That lucky ####stick won one matchup by .46, another one by .20, and another one by 2.64.
If any one of those victories gets flipped, Mr. High Points is in the dance.
He won easily and also notched high-score for the week, but he needed one of two other teams to lose. Both teams won, eliminating him from the playoffs. Those two teams have the second and fourth-worst total points scored. But what's even more tragic for him is the fact that one of those two teams had three wins this year by a combined total margin of 3.3 points! That lucky ####stick won one matchup by .46, another one by .20, and another one by 2.64.
If any one of those victories gets flipped, Mr. High Points is in the dance.
super sleeper
Footballguy
I'm in two leagues, a keeper and a redraft. Neither league has playoffs. I am leading in points in both leagues, yet only 6-6-1 in one and 7-6 in the other with no chance of winning either as there are 10-3 teams in both leagues.
My only solace is that the highest point-scorer gets 15% of the pot and a weekly high score bonus in one league, and I've already won 5 weeks.
My only solace is that the highest point-scorer gets 15% of the pot and a weekly high score bonus in one league, and I've already won 5 weeks.
Not a lucky year:
Team 1 (10-team league): 1st in points 10-3 made playoffs
Team 2 (12-team league): 3rd in points 5-8 missed playoffs
Team 3 (12-team league): 1st in points 5-8 missed playoffs
Team 4 (14-team league): 1st in points 7-6 made playoffs
In the 14-team league, I finished second in weekly points four times and lost all four. Changed the team name to Everybody's Homecoming Game.
Oh, and in the FBG $35,000 contest, I was team 254 this week, missing the cut by .45 points. If Matt Turk handles the snap and Kris Brown makes the 27-yard field goal, I advance.
Team 1 (10-team league): 1st in points 10-3 made playoffs
Team 2 (12-team league): 3rd in points 5-8 missed playoffs
Team 3 (12-team league): 1st in points 5-8 missed playoffs
Team 4 (14-team league): 1st in points 7-6 made playoffs
In the 14-team league, I finished second in weekly points four times and lost all four. Changed the team name to Everybody's Homecoming Game.
Oh, and in the FBG $35,000 contest, I was team 254 this week, missing the cut by .45 points. If Matt Turk handles the snap and Kris Brown makes the 27-yard field goal, I advance.
I was actually down by 30.3 with Slaton to go. Late in the 4th.. he scored, and i though there is still hope if he breaks a 40 yd touch. What do i know. Next play, Onside kick, Houston Recovers at the 40. Next play. Slaton 40 yard touchdown. 182 yds and 2 Touches were enough. Along with the 2 catches he had....
Best luck-ME
Worst Luck- #1 seed
Best luck-ME
Worst Luck- #1 seed
Wilbur Wood
Footballguy
I was 7-6 in my big $$ league. I was first in overall points scored by a margin of almost 200 pts for the season.
Fortunately, I pushed through a rule change 2 years ago to award the final Wild Card playoff slot (6 playoff slots out of 14 teams) based upon total points instead of W/L record. So I'm in the playoffs (although no 1st round bye as arguably I was best team in the league during the regular season based upon total points and CBS Breakdown Record).
Fortunately, I pushed through a rule change 2 years ago to award the final Wild Card playoff slot (6 playoff slots out of 14 teams) based upon total points instead of W/L record. So I'm in the playoffs (although no 1st round bye as arguably I was best team in the league during the regular season based upon total points and CBS Breakdown Record).
WampusCat43
Footballguy
Both sides of the coin:
Got Forte and V Jackson in a trade for Portis the day before he got hurt. Then Vjax's bagel last week cost me a playoff spot.
Got Forte and V Jackson in a trade for Portis the day before he got hurt. Then Vjax's bagel last week cost me a playoff spot.
Lobary
Footballguy
The guy in my league who missed the playoffs at 6-7 scored a league-high 1470 pts, compared to the league average of 1356. Only two other teams cracked 1400 points and they were both barely above that mark. Not surprisingly, they have the best records (9-4) and the first round byes.He had these guys on his team:McNabbSchaubRodgers (traded for Rodgers late in the season)FitzgeraldSteve SmithCurtisAveryLTTurnerDeAngelo WilliamsStewartSlatonSchefflerKeller
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FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
Towards the end of the year I played a team who's first round draft pick I had traded for. If I won, the draft pick would be 1st overall AND I would get a 1st round bye in the playoffs. If I lost, I become the #4 seed in the playoffs and that draft pick could possibly drop all the way down to 5th.
So, basically, it was a huge game.
In the end, I went into the MNF game with a solid lead and Brian Westbrook still to go, and my opponent had only Desean Jackson left. In the end, I lost by 0.01, which in our scoring system is ONE YARD.
One more yard from ANY of my players and I would be sitting on the 1st overall draft pick and a first round bye in the playoffs. What makes it all the more painful is that I had to sit and watch Brian Westbrook get stuffed on 4th and 1 to end the game.
So, basically, it was a huge game.
In the end, I went into the MNF game with a solid lead and Brian Westbrook still to go, and my opponent had only Desean Jackson left. In the end, I lost by 0.01, which in our scoring system is ONE YARD.
One more yard from ANY of my players and I would be sitting on the 1st overall draft pick and a first round bye in the playoffs. What makes it all the more painful is that I had to sit and watch Brian Westbrook get stuffed on 4th and 1 to end the game.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
I lucked out in that I still managed to make the playoffs, but I had lousy scheduling luck. 4 times I was the second highest scoring team for the week and lost. On the flip side, twice I was the highest scoring team for the week and won by less than a point over the 2nd highest scoring team.
