Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Title says it all: what is best in life, FF-wise
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What’s the Best Feeling in FF? (3 Viewers)
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rockaction
Footballguy
None of the above. I actually like that I just wind up learning what I learn about the game. I'm able to discuss it at a pretty deep fan level even if I'll probably never get the X's and O's (which I get the sneaking suspicion is really necessary to really know the game) of it. But knowing all the players and what position and where they play—how good they are and what they do and how they function as a member of their team—is nice.
The one thing it does do is make me realize how few guys make it and how hard so many of them work only to not quite achieve what they want to achieve. Their unfulfilled journey sort of bolsters me and puts it in perspective when I put in a ton of work to FF and it doesn't go like I want it to go. I honestly think of them and how in their own minds and souls their journey must feel so crucial and so vital—and to us it's a distant proposition and we're potentially unfeeling about all the hard work, blood, guts, sweat, and effort they put into this endeavor. I'm able to sort of feel their humanity when I think about it that way, and it helps keep my own FF exploits in perspective. A lot of people put a lot into this and it's not about me at all. It's the game.
So, heck, FF is a little bit of a life lesson if you look at it with a considered perspective. You're gonna work your *** off at it, but once you get to a high enough level of competition you're going to fail most of the time. That's just the way it is. You hit the ultimate goal and won't get the ultimate satisfaction.
You’re left saying, “That guy holding the trophy went on a run, dammit! He was 6-6 and not even filling in his lineup Week Eight and I know he just read Yahoo! two minutes before the draft while I . . .”
Nah, what I do is think about that journey they took. Someone recommended a poem to me the other night. Great stuff. It is called “Ithaka” and it was written by a man named Constantine Cavafy. The story of the poem and its existence is much different than the average journey of our football heroes.
Cavafy was an obscure poet who lived in Greece, and often wrote in Greek. He lived at the turn of the century and slightly beyond, and he lived by candlelight. He was unattractive, and it was said that he would arrange his nightly candlelight so guests couldn’t totally see his face. He hated sentimentality, and was a stern and rigid poet, but he was a generous person and spirit by most accounts.
Anyway, one of the few sentimental poems he ever wrote and selected for publication amazingly gets read during a national broadcast to the enormous audience attending and watching Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s funeral on television by a fellow poet who was chosen to eulogize her. It’s a stunning poem about the Ancient Greek and Homeric hero Odysseus and his journey back home to Ithaca from the Trojan War, only it is a metaphor about our journeys in life. Here you all go.
Ithaka
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean - C.F. Cavafy
How’s that for getting heavy on a light-hearted question. FF is life, bro!!!
The one thing it does do is make me realize how few guys make it and how hard so many of them work only to not quite achieve what they want to achieve. Their unfulfilled journey sort of bolsters me and puts it in perspective when I put in a ton of work to FF and it doesn't go like I want it to go. I honestly think of them and how in their own minds and souls their journey must feel so crucial and so vital—and to us it's a distant proposition and we're potentially unfeeling about all the hard work, blood, guts, sweat, and effort they put into this endeavor. I'm able to sort of feel their humanity when I think about it that way, and it helps keep my own FF exploits in perspective. A lot of people put a lot into this and it's not about me at all. It's the game.
So, heck, FF is a little bit of a life lesson if you look at it with a considered perspective. You're gonna work your *** off at it, but once you get to a high enough level of competition you're going to fail most of the time. That's just the way it is. You hit the ultimate goal and won't get the ultimate satisfaction.
You’re left saying, “That guy holding the trophy went on a run, dammit! He was 6-6 and not even filling in his lineup Week Eight and I know he just read Yahoo! two minutes before the draft while I . . .”
Nah, what I do is think about that journey they took. Someone recommended a poem to me the other night. Great stuff. It is called “Ithaka” and it was written by a man named Constantine Cavafy. The story of the poem and its existence is much different than the average journey of our football heroes.
Cavafy was an obscure poet who lived in Greece, and often wrote in Greek. He lived at the turn of the century and slightly beyond, and he lived by candlelight. He was unattractive, and it was said that he would arrange his nightly candlelight so guests couldn’t totally see his face. He hated sentimentality, and was a stern and rigid poet, but he was a generous person and spirit by most accounts.
Anyway, one of the few sentimental poems he ever wrote and selected for publication amazingly gets read during a national broadcast to the enormous audience attending and watching Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s funeral on television by a fellow poet who was chosen to eulogize her. It’s a stunning poem about the Ancient Greek and Homeric hero Odysseus and his journey back home to Ithaca from the Trojan War, only it is a metaphor about our journeys in life. Here you all go.
Ithaka
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean - C.F. Cavafy
How’s that for getting heavy on a light-hearted question. FF is life, bro!!!
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TheWinz
Footballguy
I can pinpoint my single best moment. 2021 FF Championship. I am down by 6 with less than a minute remaining in the Monday Night game. Then this happens and I take the crown...
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Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Man I feel this one. I voted for the Conan answer for the lol’s, but the entire 2023 playoff run & championships my adopted team (took over in 2022) was pretty magical.I can pinpoint my single best moment. 2021 FF Championship. I am down by 6 with less than a minute remaining in the Monday Night game. Then this happens and I take the crown...
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In round 1 Julian Love’s 2nd pick clinched it for me against the 3-seed (I was a WC team)
Round 2 my scrappy team put up the single highest scoring game in league history. I won by 100+ points.
Facing the 1-seed, came down to MNF. My friend was in from MX staying at my house, making fun of me for being a ball of nerves over a fake football matchup. Once she knew it was a decent $ league she started rooting for me. We had like 30 lead changes. I had 2 IDP-ers (LB & DL) & a RB, my opponent had 3-4 players but was down 15 points or so. I got a sack out Granderson to win it all. He had like 3 points all game, and had just missed having a sack 3x. He actually had one but an accepted penalty by the Saints negated it.
That was the best FF feeling ever. Of course I have yet to see my enemies driven before me or hear the lamentations of their women, and I imagine that would be pretty nifty too.
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Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Being totally prepared for Draft Night, you don't have to own it but being aware and not caught by surprise
Ilov80s
Footballguy
That is a beautiful answer. Following a long you really do get a small sense for who all these people are who journey into the NFL trying to fulfill their lifelong dream. It's interesting and often quite dramatic to see how it shakes out for all of them because they are all big, strong, fast, etc. so it's not about that. It's about grit, commitment, luck and maybe even something else that we can't quite put our fingers on.None of the above. I actually like that I just wind up learning what I learn about the game. I'm able to discuss it at a pretty deep fan level even if I'll probably never get the X's and O's (which I get the sneaking suspicion is really necessary to really know the game) of it. But knowing all the players and where they play—how good they are and what they do and function as to their team is nice.
The one thing it does do is make me realize how few guys make it and how hard so many of them work only to not quite achieve what they want to achieve. Their unfulfilled journey sort of bolsters me and puts it in perspective when I put in a ton of work to FF and it doesn't go like I want. I honestly think of them and how in their own minds and souls their journey must feel so crucial and so vital—and to us it's a distant proposition and we're potentially unfeeling about all the hard work, blood, guts, sweat, and effort. I'm able to sort of feel their humanity when I think about it that way and it helps keep my own FF exploits in perspective. A lot of people put a lot into this and it's not about me at all. It's the game.
So, heck, FF is a little bit of a life lesson if you look at it with a considered perspective. You're gonna work your *** off at it, but once you get to a high enough level of competition you're going to fail most of the time. That's just the way it is. You hit the ultimate goal and won't get the ultimate satisfaction. That guy holding the trophy went on a run, dammit! He was 6-6 and not even filling in his lineup Week Eight and I know he just read Yahoo! two minutes before the draft while I . . .
How's that for getting heavy on a light-hearted question. FF is life, bro!!!
rockaction
Footballguy
Even more poetic response. Thanks, Ilov.
FarFromHome
Footballguy
I've never actually heard the lamentation of women. I respect Conan so much it has to be that option. Ha ha
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
That is a great feeling - wish I’d included that as an option. Solid.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
I won a championship in my home IDP league - I forget which year, but the LCG was on Xmas eve & we had a football game? I had a LB & my opponent a DL.
With less than a min left in the game, my LB chased a dude out of bounds and was awarded the cheapest tackle of all time. He was like 2 yards behind the dude.
I won by .02 points.
The guy I beat still brings it up every draft, & his wife mentioned it to me at a get-together a couple years back. That’s probably as close as I’ll get to hearing the lamentations of their women.
FarFromHome
Footballguy
Hilarious. Most may or may not know what this phrase specifically means. It's not a sexual thing or anything. It's literally your fantasy team has caused your opponents so much pain that his wife begins to grieve in sorrow. Like causes his spouse sorrow. Bwahahahaha. That's how I roll....
efactor
Footballguy
Well, obviously winning is paramount, but knocking out your biggest rival is a close 2nd.
Sometimes you get to do both. In our local league you get to choose who you play in the playoffs. In 2023, I finished 2nd in the regular season and after the #1 seed took the worst of the playoff teams for round 1, I picked to play the #3 seed just because I wanted to be the one to bounce him. The text I got when I announced I was selecting him was pretty hilarious. Ended up winning the whole thing that year so it all worked out. He's a good enough guy and all but always whining about trades made and a general pain in the assssssssssssssssss.
Sometimes you get to do both. In our local league you get to choose who you play in the playoffs. In 2023, I finished 2nd in the regular season and after the #1 seed took the worst of the playoff teams for round 1, I picked to play the #3 seed just because I wanted to be the one to bounce him. The text I got when I announced I was selecting him was pretty hilarious. Ended up winning the whole thing that year so it all worked out. He's a good enough guy and all but always whining about trades made and a general pain in the assssssssssssssssss.
Pickle Rody
IBL Representative
I get the MOST satisfaction when I do not ignore my gut feelings, I take the advice of my gut, and ultimately my gut is proven right. Especially when that advice is contrary to contemporary thinking.
S A T I S F A C T I O N !
ETA: Winning a championship is satisfying also, no doubt.
S A T I S F A C T I O N !
ETA: Winning a championship is satisfying also, no doubt.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Conan taught me many things as a young child.
The strength of steel, the importance of strategy, and what is best in life.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
darksideofoz
Footballguy
victory BJs
I'm guessing. Still haven't convinced the wife to agree to such a side bet.
I'm guessing. Still haven't convinced the wife to agree to such a side bet.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
My league credibility soared when I snagged Puka in the 5th in a couple of leagues.
I still look at one league member with respect for their flag planting on Mahomes in his 2018 50 TD season. I never saw it coming. He crushed 2 redraft leagues with that late round pick.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I would love a dynasty “I told you so” team of Hurts, Bucky Irving, Kyren, Amon Ra, Puka, Nico. I might like that more than even winnings title lol.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Ironically that team would probably also win titles.
rockaction
Footballguy
Dr. Octopus drafted him in our Summerpalooza redraft league in the FFA in 2018. I had his name typed in all with Kansas City red lettering and the song picked out from Buddy Holly (we have to pick a song from a hundred mile radius of the player's birth or college). I had "Everyday" all cued up and linked and I swear to God like a thunderbolt Doc picked him and almost won the title because of it. (I got lucky and beat him in the quarters that year). Before anybody laughs, the Summerpalooza league is the hardest redraft league I've played in. What's crazy is Eephus has won it three times, I think, and he doesn't follow it hardcore (I don't think). He just freaking knows how to play the game. It's ludicrous but perfect. It's all about music in the end.
Man, crazy but almost the same exact experience and I consider that my single greatest fantasy play.I can pinpoint my single best moment. 2021 FF Championship. I am down by 6 with less than a minute remaining in the Monday Night game. Then this happens and I take the crown...
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For me it was year 10 of a league I had never won. FFPC format so 4 teams make the final 4 for last two weeks and I was actually in third place before that run. Carried me to a championship and if all that is not rewarding enough Najee played for my favorite team, Steelers, and I had acquired him before the season in a straight up swap for Dalvin Cook in a trade most people thought I lost.
zamboni
Footballguy
I settled for Brandon Jacobs victories, but so be it.
zamboni
Footballguy
You are way too eloquent than any of us could hope to be. Don’t mean to shrink down your post to the bolded, but to me it’s all about randomness. I don’t care how much anyone knows about the ins and outs of the game - randomness is king in fantasy football. And the uncertainty is what typically brings us back year after year despite how much we think we know and how much it frustrates us.None of the above. I actually like that I just wind up learning what I learn about the game. I'm able to discuss it at a pretty deep fan level even if I'll probably never get the X's and O's (which I get the sneaking suspicion is really necessary to really know the game) of it. But knowing all the players and what position and where they play—how good they are and what they do and how they function as a member of their team—is nice.
The one thing it does do is make me realize how few guys make it and how hard so many of them work only to not quite achieve what they want to achieve. Their unfulfilled journey sort of bolsters me and puts it in perspective when I put in a ton of work to FF and it doesn't go like I want it to go. I honestly think of them and how in their own minds and souls their journey must feel so crucial and so vital—and to us it's a distant proposition and we're potentially unfeeling about all the hard work, blood, guts, sweat, and effort they put into this endeavor. I'm able to sort of feel their humanity when I think about it that way, and it helps keep my own FF exploits in perspective. A lot of people put a lot into this and it's not about me at all. It's the game.
So, heck, FF is a little bit of a life lesson if you look at it with a considered perspective. You're gonna work your *** off at it, but once you get to a high enough level of competition you're going to fail most of the time. That's just the way it is. You hit the ultimate goal and won't get the ultimate satisfaction.
You’re left saying, “That guy holding the trophy went on a run, dammit! He was 6-6 and not even filling in his lineup Week Eight and I know he just read Yahoo! two minutes before the draft while I . . .”
Nah, what I do is think about that journey they took. Someone recommended a poem to me the other night. Great stuff. It is called “Ithaka” and it was written by a man named Constantine Cavafy. The story of the poem and its existence is much different than the average journey of our football heroes.
Cavafy was an obscure poet who lived in Greece, and often wrote in Greek. He lived at the turn of the century and slightly beyond, and he lived by candlelight. He was unattractive, and it was said that he would arrange his nightly candlelight so guests couldn’t totally see his face. He hated sentimentality, and was a stern and rigid poet, but he was generous person and spirit by most accounts.
Anyway, one of the few sentimental poems he ever wrote and selected for publication amazingly gets read during a national broadcast to the enormous audience attending and watching Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s funeral on television by a fellow poet who was chosen to eulogize her. It’s a stunning poem about the Ancient Greek and Homeric hero Odysseus and his journey back home to Ithaca from the Trojan War, only it is a metaphor about our journeys in life. Here you all go.
Ithaka
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean - C.F. Cavafy
How’s that for getting heavy on a light-hearted question. FF is life, bro!!!
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Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
That’s the old “I’d rather be lucky than good”. But of course the combination can be deadly.
I remember one year in my home redraft league just breezing through the draft, getting my targets every round, feeling relaxed all day - I rolled that league. Only lost 1 game all year & the LCG wasn’t close. Every one of my players hit, the injury bug avoided my roster. Even the schedule worked in my favor - I swear I missed every opponent’s 1st round picks all year with the BYEs. In the playoffs I crushed my 1st round opponent but would have lost to either of the other two teams. Then in the LCG, I crushed my opponent, but again would have lost to both the teams playing for 3rd & 4th place.
I’d love to say it was skill, but so many factors were just random. I helped to put my squad in a position to capitalize on the good fortune I had, but it still came down to a lot of random luck.
rockaction
Footballguy
You are way too eloquent than any of us could hope to be. Don’t mean to shrink down your post to the bolded, but to me it’s all about randomness. I don’t care how much anyone knows about the ins and outs of the game - randomness is king in fantasy football. And the uncertainty is what typically brings us back year after year despite how much we think we know and how much it frustrates us.None of the above. I actually like that I just wind up learning what I learn about the game. I'm able to discuss it at a pretty deep fan level even if I'll probably never get the X's and O's (which I get the sneaking suspicion is really necessary to really know the game) of it. But knowing all the players and what position and where they play—how good they are and what they do and how they function as a member of their team—is nice.
The one thing it does do is make me realize how few guys make it and how hard so many of them work only to not quite achieve what they want to achieve. Their unfulfilled journey sort of bolsters me and puts it in perspective when I put in a ton of work to FF and it doesn't go like I want it to go. I honestly think of them and how in their own minds and souls their journey must feel so crucial and so vital—and to us it's a distant proposition and we're potentially unfeeling about all the hard work, blood, guts, sweat, and effort they put into this endeavor. I'm able to sort of feel their humanity when I think about it that way, and it helps keep my own FF exploits in perspective. A lot of people put a lot into this and it's not about me at all. It's the game.
So, heck, FF is a little bit of a life lesson if you look at it with a considered perspective. You're gonna work your *** off at it, but once you get to a high enough level of competition you're going to fail most of the time. That's just the way it is. You hit the ultimate goal and won't get the ultimate satisfaction.
You’re left saying, “That guy holding the trophy went on a run, dammit! He was 6-6 and not even filling in his lineup Week Eight and I know he just read Yahoo! two minutes before the draft while I . . .”
Nah, what I do is think about that journey they took. Someone recommended a poem to me the other night. Great stuff. It is called “Ithaka” and it was written by a man named Constantine Cavafy. The story of the poem and its existence is much different than the average journey of our football heroes.
Cavafy was an obscure poet who lived in Greece, and often wrote in Greek. He lived at the turn of the century and slightly beyond, and he lived by candlelight. He was unattractive, and it was said that he would arrange his nightly candlelight so guests couldn’t totally see his face. He hated sentimentality, and was a stern and rigid poet, but he was generous person and spirit by most accounts.
Anyway, one of the few sentimental poems he ever wrote and selected for publication amazingly gets read during a national broadcast to the enormous audience attending and watching Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s funeral on television by a fellow poet who was chosen to eulogize her. It’s a stunning poem about the Ancient Greek and Homeric hero Odysseus and his journey back home to Ithaca from the Trojan War, only it is a metaphor about our journeys in life. Here you all go.
Ithaka
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean - C.F. Cavafy
How’s that for getting heavy on a light-hearted question. FF is life, bro!!!
Thanks, man. I really appreciate your saying that. I agree with you about randomness—it’s devilish. You can be the best and never win your league—or sometimes at the least you might suffer for years. It’s crazy how the randomness gets you.
I was talking about X’s and O’s in just the football sense, but you could fully get those also and you’d lose at FF. Think about the pros in their own FF leagues, losing because of luck. Imagine that. Must drive them nuts.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Now you’ll just do it for free? lol
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
The biggest Taco in a league I used to be in would literally do no research, and would show up with a 3 month old magazine he purchased on the way to the draft.
Bear in mind, that was during the internet age, so he chose to prep this way.
One year he had the *worst* draft I’ve ever seen anyone have - because he checked nothing but that magazine he was not aware that 9 of his 1st 10 picks were hurt to varying degrees. Which, of course, is why they slipped to him.
The first 2 weeks he could barely field a team. He started 0-2. But then a funny thing happened - all his dudes started getting healthy. He ran the table the rest of the way, culminating in a LCG win for the championship.
Me, a FF die-hard who poured dozens of hours into research, missed the playoffs that year.
Taco turned out to be a savant. To be fair, he’s never won anything since, and that was 20-some years ago.
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
Just did a 12-team SF start-up from 1.04
It was crazy how many of my targets fell to me. The first 11 rounds were basically perfect. Seemed like whenever I had a tough decision coming up, a team in front of me would take the lesser of the picks I wanted, helping me avoid having to decide while also letting my preferred target fall to me.
It really is a great feeling, you’re right.
FootballDiehard
Footballguy
For me, crushing the draft is the best feeling. But it takes a lot of "cooperation" from fellow drafters to get into "crush" territory. It happens. But nearly as often as I'd like.
zamboni
Footballguy
I’ve stopped walking away thinking I’ve crushed a draft. Every time I think so, the players don’t work out as initially thought. I usually make my bones in waivers either way.
joey
Footballguy
1000% this
(Redraft, of course)
I usually feel pretty good when I leave my draft (of course I got players I targeted…they’re MY rankings so of course I’m choosing players higher in MY rankings). When I look back at my draft near the end of the year, I find that I only roster a hair over half of my drafted players. Injuries, underperformance, etc lead me to out work my opponents on the waiver wire.
Only occasionally have I left a draft totally disappointed and wasn’t able to at least compete that season.
joey
Footballguy
My greatest recent moment was winning the inaugural SharkPool FFPC dynasty league. I drafted Win Now, but my 2 uber-stud WRs (Adams and Evans) had down years. I made the finals (4 team, 2 week total points format in FFPC) and wasn’t doing great until…..that Sunday in Week 17 when both Adams and Evans had something like 40 point days. BOTH a went off and I won it all against so many familiar folks on this board. Felt so damn good.
(2nd best recent feeling: repeating as champ in that league)
(2nd best recent feeling: repeating as champ in that league)
titusbramble
Footballguy
It's either drafting Nacua late in a rookie draft and looking like a genius, or clicking reject without offering a counter on ridiculous trade offers
FarFromHome
Footballguy
Pass. Ha ha(2nd best recent feeling: repeating as champ in that league)
joey
Footballguy
3rd best moment: beating @FarFromHome and others in the 1st annual SharkPool Home League Uno.Pass. Ha ha(2nd best recent feeling: repeating as champ in that league)
FootballDiehard
Footballguy
If nothing else, it's way easier telling yourself a happy story about a draft before the season than after
Hot Sauce Guy
Footballguy
This has been a much more entertaining topic than I expected. 
joey
Footballguy
I’m lucky to have won a couple of times against board members. If not, I’d beThis has been a much more entertaining topic than I expected.
Gatorade
Footballguy
I took over my first dynasty team in 2007 after someone quit after the draft. The next year my first three draft picks in the rookie draft were;
Ray Rice
Matt Forte
Jamal Charles
I was so happy with that draft, unfortunately the rest of the team sucked.
I had Adrian Peterson in a keeper league for several years. Every year the Minnesota fan in that league tried to trade for him. I was either first or second in that league for four straight years. He finally made me an offer I could not refuse. That was the year Peterson got hurt and he finished next to last in that league. His wife was last.
One year I was winning every trade in a league at work. As a group they all decided to stop trading with me that year .
Ray Rice
Matt Forte
Jamal Charles
I was so happy with that draft, unfortunately the rest of the team sucked.
I had Adrian Peterson in a keeper league for several years. Every year the Minnesota fan in that league tried to trade for him. I was either first or second in that league for four straight years. He finally made me an offer I could not refuse. That was the year Peterson got hurt and he finished next to last in that league. His wife was last.
One year I was winning every trade in a league at work. As a group they all decided to stop trading with me that year .
