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Courtjester
The Town Drunk
I shall and I must....my choices at QB for my Super Bowl team (yes, I hate playing week 17 too) are Garrard (not playing) Matt Schaub (not playing) and John Kitna (has completed more passess to the other team than his own players).
Yep, I deserve it and the ultimate insult is I am going to lose the title to my wife 
Yep, I deserve it and the ultimate insult is I am going to lose the title to my wife I don't normally complain about FBGs rankings, but playing Pittman and Toefield over Pierre Thomas (and Chatman/Morris) really ticks me off and I need to vent. I am in a PPR league, so already I have at least 15 points more sitting on the bench because they predicted a 50/50 split with Stecker and I think somewhere was a mention that Stecker might even start. Arrrrrrrrghhhh. I am still ahead, but it is going to be way too close and I could easily see the switch I made this morning costing me the title. I knew I should have just stuck with it, but all these switches occurred and I thought that those two seemed to be deemed as getting the bulk and they obviously haven't.
LionsFan78
Footballguy
kenny watson
EDIT: Ok, better 2nd half.
EDIT: Ok, better 2nd half.
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jagbag
Footballguy
Add Deangelo ####### Williams to the ####### list####### Colston and Palmer
monessen
Footballguy
I don't know what Kenny Watson did to warrant venting, but anyway .. .
There are fools like me who played Seattle's defense in our lineups today who forgot that Holmgren + defense = zero, whether it is a playoff game or Super Bowl with Bettis knocking linebackers down like ten pins, or even being unable to stop Chris Redman. Sure, Seattle fans can say the 'Hawks really had no motivation to win, but there are teams in the same boat who didn't turn in such a sorry performance to a pathetic offense today. Seattle's D plays well in their house, but that's about it. Whether it's the Redskins or Vikings that visit there, I can only hope the "Holm"team gets their butts kicked.
There are fools like me who played Seattle's defense in our lineups today who forgot that Holmgren + defense = zero, whether it is a playoff game or Super Bowl with Bettis knocking linebackers down like ten pins, or even being unable to stop Chris Redman. Sure, Seattle fans can say the 'Hawks really had no motivation to win, but there are teams in the same boat who didn't turn in such a sorry performance to a pathetic offense today. Seattle's D plays well in their house, but that's about it. Whether it's the Redskins or Vikings that visit there, I can only hope the "Holm"team gets their butts kicked.
mightyeskimo
Footballguy
So I've been perusing the boards a bit and I continue to notice a trend. An annoying trend. A false trend. A trend with absolutely no basis of fact that is proven to be ridiculous countless times but people still argue it as if it actually makes sense. This trend has been around a long time on these boards and it's grown to such obnoxious status that I believe it now deserves it's own icon to identify to everyone, even more clearly, it's stupidity. Here is the trend of which I speak.
Player X has started Y games this year. If you divide his stats over Y starts and multiply by 16 games Player X will achieve 2 million rushing yards, 4 million passing yards, 7 million combined TD's, cure cancer, bring peace to the Middle East, and rid MLB of anabolic 'roids.
Swimmers of the Shark Pool I implore you, help me end this travesty. Or, just help me identify it on these boards more clearly. We need an icon for this brainlessness. How about a finger pointing at the N-ary Summation Symbol?
Player X has started Y games this year. If you divide his stats over Y starts and multiply by 16 games Player X will achieve 2 million rushing yards, 4 million passing yards, 7 million combined TD's, cure cancer, bring peace to the Middle East, and rid MLB of anabolic 'roids.
Swimmers of the Shark Pool I implore you, help me end this travesty. Or, just help me identify it on these boards more clearly. We need an icon for this brainlessness. How about a finger pointing at the N-ary Summation Symbol?
mightyeskimo
Footballguy
Those aren't bad. And they are classics on this board it's true. I'm just looking for something new.
LionsFan78
Footballguy
posted at 10 rushes - 9 yards. Oh wellI don't know what Kenny Watson did to warrant venting, but anyway .. . There are fools like me who played Seattle's defense in our lineups today who forgot that Holmgren + defense = zero, whether it is a playoff game or Super Bowl with Bettis knocking linebackers down like ten pins, or even being unable to stop Chris Redman. Sure, Seattle fans can say the 'Hawks really had no motivation to win, but there are teams in the same boat who didn't turn in such a sorry performance to a pathetic offense today. Seattle's D plays well in their house, but that's about it. Whether it's the Redskins or Vikings that visit there, I can only hope the "Holm"team gets their butts kicked.
PennStater77
Footballguy
Going for high points..T.J. Duckett and Kevin Walters were great starters..
Just shoot me... If I had played him and Stecker with a zero instead of these two stiffs that were the highest ranked of any of the RB leftovers, I would pretty much have the championship in the bag. Now, I just have to hope I can hold out.I don't normally complain about FBGs rankings, but playing Pittman and Toefield over Pierre Thomas (and Chatman/Morris) really ticks me off and I need to vent. I am in a PPR league, so already I have at least 15 points more sitting on the bench because they predicted a 50/50 split with Stecker and I think somewhere was a mention that Stecker might even start. Arrrrrrrrghhhh. I am still ahead, but it is going to be way too close and I could easily see the switch I made this morning costing me the title. I knew I should have just stuck with it, but all these switches occurred and I thought that those two seemed to be deemed as getting the bulk and they obviously haven't.
MG345
Footballguy
Looks like it was out of his hand at the moment of contact.
plinko
Footballguy
I did the same thing and I will lose because of it. I didn't look at FBGs rankings at all, it was the right move and it didn't pan out. So it goes.Pittman though.. probably wouldn't have touched him.
I think the Week 17 lesson with Toefield & Pittman is obvious - don't mess with anybody on teams who are locked into their playoff spots, ever. Gotta remember that.
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Pittman was ranked #8 in PPR cheatsheets.I will lose by 2 freaking points because they got me combined 4 points. Unbelievable. Every single player that I passed over or dropped would have won me the championship. Chester, Musa, Najeh*, Darius Walker, Maurice Morris, Chatman, Booker, Pierre Thomas, etc. I had Chatman and Thomas as my starters at 12:00pm.plinko said:
* Najeh was put out of waivers by our commish since a team that shouldn't have picked him up did and the commish thought it was more fair to take him out of play. I actually put in a waiver wire pickup for him. Color me tickled because the commish put out a warning about that and that owner was out of the playoffs last week, so no need to do a pickup. Makes me a wee bit more pissed to know that now.
ETA: Even the guys who took Toefield and Pittman's carries/receptions would have won me the game. Oh well, c'est la vie, I out thunk myself.
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Courtjester
The Town Drunk
Not to quote myself, but I won by 2 points.....Courtjester said:I shall and I must....my choices at QB for my Super Bowl team (yes, I hate playing week 17 too) are Garrard (not playing) Matt Schaub (not playing) and John Kitna (has completed more passess to the other team than his own players).
bulger2holt
Footballguy
Anyone who plays in a league with a week 17 SB doesn't deserve to vent.
If you don't care about Week 17 then why are you here?
I had the best team in my league by far and if we had our championship last week, I would have probably lost in the first round of the playoffs since my best players were Brady, Romo and TO and they all had their worst weeks in week 15 (they got 16 total points versus an average of 70+ ppg).Playing in week 17 is not that bad as long as your league allows for waivers for all teams left. Unfortunately, it is a lot easier to make mistakes. Isn't it obvious based on his login? He was out of the playoffs weeks ago, so he has nothing better to do. Everyone he is making fun of made it to their league SBs. Kind of ironic, huh?If you don't care about Week 17 then why are you here?
plinko
Footballguy
I'd go so far as to say that in Week 17, he who knows THE NFL the best should win, every time. Moreso than any other week. As stbugs said... as long as you are allowing waiver pickups 
Further on that.. any league who shuts off pickups in the fantasy postseason is as BS as any.
Further on that.. any league who shuts off pickups in the fantasy postseason is as BS as any.
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GregR_2
Footballguy
I can handle that I lost my Super Bowl this week. I can handle that my opponent and I tied for best record in the regular season and he barely edged me the final week in total points, giving him our division championship and the bye and I had to play through the wildcard round to get back to him. I can handle it that I suffered injuries to key players leading up to the Super Bowl, and that both of us lost some of our key starters to teams resting players, but that I lost more of them than he did.
I can handle it that I made it to the Super Bowl in both leagues that I play in, and lost both. I can handle it that not winning either of them snaps an 8 year streak of me winning a championship every year in at least one of the 2-3 leagues that I played in each year.
But what I can't handle is that Chris Freaking Redman almost single-handedly accounted for his margin of victory over me. He started Chris Freaking Redman, because he was the only QB left on his roster (Ben) or on waivers who was playing a full game, and that won it for him.
Ok, I feel better now.
I can handle it that I made it to the Super Bowl in both leagues that I play in, and lost both. I can handle it that not winning either of them snaps an 8 year streak of me winning a championship every year in at least one of the 2-3 leagues that I played in each year.
But what I can't handle is that Chris Freaking Redman almost single-handedly accounted for his margin of victory over me. He started Chris Freaking Redman, because he was the only QB left on his roster (Ben) or on waivers who was playing a full game, and that won it for him.
Ok, I feel better now.
You know, I think I would feel a lot better if I only lost because of good moves my opponent made instead of realizing that every single decision I made this morning was wrong and that because I only lost by 2, every single decision could have won me the game had I done the opposite.
I just lost my league by ONE POINT. We are both 13-4 on the year, and the first tie-break is season points. I was down by 60 going into the week and thanks to Fitz, Moss, and Edwards almost made the comeback complete. Oh, and I am a Westy owner. If he had scored that TD instead of going down, I win the league. Fantasy football will drive you to drinking.
monessen
Footballguy
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GregR_2
Footballguy
Oh, I've got that going for me too though that's in the "I can handle it" class. I could have beat even his ideal starting lineup if I'd started just 3 different players out of my 15 starters. It's more that I got beat by a total scrub who hasn't done much of anything in the NFL, that I was joyous he was having to start.You know, I think I would feel a lot better if I only lost because of good moves my opponent made instead of realizing that every single decision I made this morning was wrong and that because I only lost by 2, every single decision could have won me the game had I done the opposite.
The Duff Man
Footballguy
My league was over in Week 16 but I just noticed this. I was high scorer 6 of 16 weeks in the league. The guy who won it was high scorer once....week 15 when he knocked me out after my first round bye.
I picked up Ahmad Bradshaw and Pierre Thomas early in the week, off waivers as I agreed with the general FBG concesus that my two studs, Ryan Grant and Earnest Graham were going to be short time plays if they even made it on the field. On Wednesday, it was revealed that Bradshaw was a likely bench for the weekend so I picked up Michael Bennett, over Pittman who was also available, because Pittman was questionable and I got the impression from the week 16 game that Bennett was carrying a bigger share of the load.Going to bed Saturday night, I had Bennett and Pierre Thomas set to start. Sunday morning, I too read that Stecker was not placed on the inactive list and was a likely starter. I saw that Thomas dropped way down on the Sunday morning cheatsheet so I trusted that FBG knew more than I did. I looked at the two highest ranked free agents on the sheatsheet. That was Toefield and Pittman. The rationale for these ranking, as I could find it, were Taylor and MJD were inactives, and Pittman was to get the start. Trusting my tools (FBG), I picked them both up and started them.I ended up losing in the Superbowl, but would have won with Thomas and Bennett.I know, I know...I don't normally complain about FBGs rankings, but playing Pittman and Toefield over Pierre Thomas (and Chatman/Morris) really ticks me off and I need to vent. I am in a PPR league, so already I have at least 15 points more sitting on the bench because they predicted a 50/50 split with Stecker and I think somewhere was a mention that Stecker might even start. Arrrrrrrrghhhh. I am still ahead, but it is going to be way too close and I could easily see the switch I made this morning costing me the title. I knew I should have just stuck with it, but all these switches occurred and I thought that those two seemed to be deemed as getting the bulk and they obviously haven't.
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