I’d be inclined to start Hightower. He is going to get almost all the carries plus he’s very good at catching the ball as well. If the field is as frozen and messy as it is supposed to be in Minnesota, I don’t see the Vikes taking a chance on injury with Peterson in a meaningless game.
I have and need Bowe in 3 weeks, and Cassel isn’t starting. Fuckbubbles.
Damn the nature of head to head/playoffs is fickle. I got in the playoffs in all 4 of my leagues, and I was the leading points scorer in 3, and I may not make the championship game in any.
The skill of fantasy football is making the playoffs. The luck of fantasy football is how well you perform once you get there.
The skill is scoring as many points as possible. Everything on top of that is just a way to add some meaning to individual weeks. Even getting to the playoffs with a head to head forum has a large randomness factor - in last year’s big league, I scored the most points out of 20 people but finished 15th because every single person I played scored their freakishly high score of the year against me.
Which is why I’ve been making frequent updates in my leagues of what the pure scores are.
Sigh.
League semifinal game was tied going into MNF, opponent had more bench points. If I had been around the computer Sun morning I would have played Austin Collie and avoided problems.
But I had AP and was confident. Found out he was scratched and had a choice of Taylor or Gerhart. All I needed was a point this week, so I went with Taylor, assuming that he would surely get 10 yards, and that he’d be more useful on my roster next week than Toby.
Damnit.
It just seems that way because in the playoffs one week can make or break you and everything carries more importance.
There’s just as much luck involved during the regular season, you just have longer to recover and overcome.
Bench Vick today because of the weather? On the waiver wire are Sanchez, Tebow, Hill, Henne, McCoy, and Kerry Collins.
Consolation round game, but I’m playing for pride.
I’d probably play Hill (if he’s fully healthy) but that’s from the hip. They’re saying the SNF game might be delayed.
Edit: ESPN says the game will be Tuesday. So I’d probably just roll with Vick, hoping the weather improves.
It has officially been delayed now.
I wouldn’t bench Vick for weather conditions anyway.
Yahoo lists Phi/min players on a bye. That can’t stay that way I assume but if for some bizarre reason they do that start phi/min players normally and I’ll fix it in my leagues.
Here’s the final standings for the regular season. Congrats to SenorBeef for running away and hiding, topping both lists with a whopping 9% lead over second place. Unreal.
Aggregate Rank through week 14
Potential…Record…%…Lgs…Actual…Record…%…Coach…
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SenorBeef…484-216…69%…4…SenorBeef…494-206…71%…88% B+
furt…203-133…60%…2…Petey…192-116…62%…84% B
Munch…358-244…59%…3…Munch…353-249…59%…88% B+
Petey…176-132…57%…2…furt…191-145…57%…81% B-
RetroVertigo…319-255…56%…3…Justin_Bailey…237-183…56%…86% B
Ellis Dee…342-274…56%…4…VarlosZ…402-326…55%…87% B
Hamlet…403-325…55%…4…Hamlet…397-331…55%…85% B
Justin_Bailey…230-190…55%…2…Ellis Dee…334-282…54%…85% B
VarlosZ…380-348…52%…4…RetroVertigo…285-289…50%…83% B
Frosted Glass…215-205…51%…2…Frosted Glass…208-212…50%…86% B
RNATB…166-170…49%…2…RNATB…158-178…47%…82% B-
Jules Andre…138-170…45%…2…Jules Andre…142-166…46%…88% B+
Omniscient…263-353…43%…4…Omniscient…265-351…43%…83% B
dalej42…100-320…24%…2…d_odds…99-321…24%…84% B
d_odds…99-321…24%…2…dalej42…96-324…23%…83% B-
Also, please come join the Playoff Fantasy Challenge.
I haven’t really been hiding, just lazy. I’ve been meaning to run the stats through the playoffs to come up with final scores for the year.
My playoff results were dissapointing, but only in light of how dominant I was during the regular season. If you’d have told me a few months ago I’d finish top 3 in all 4 of my leagues, I’d have been pretty happy. I was about a combined 8 points away from winning 3 of them.
The left column is potential scoring and right is actual scoring, right?
I meant “running away and hiding” in the sports context, where you didn’t just run away with it, you were so far ahead nobody else could even see you.
Yep, Potential on left and Actual on right.
Ah sorry, I thought you were implying I was eerily quiet after my relatively dissapointing playoffs.
To toot my own horn, none of the other top 5 people in there are in 4 leagues. The more leagues you’re in, the more any lucky/flukey results in one league will be dragged down by lesser results in other leagues… it’s much easier to have an unusually good year in one or maybe two leagues. But to be consistently successful across several leagues is rarer. We haven’t had these sort of stats over the years, but I’d suggest my fantasy year overall this year is probably the best multi-league overall year as anyone has had on the boards ever.