# First Annual SDMB Fantasy Football Guillotine League - Cecil’s Chopping Block **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [August 6, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749 "2025-08-06T00:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/261 "2025-10-16T19:26:34Z")
Here’s how much variance is in the weekly results. Omni has more total points than Justin does. Omni was eliminated 2 weeks ago! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/262 "2025-10-16T21:22:49Z")
Wow. That’s kind of incredible. Also, sorry Omni! ---
**Author:** ![Calder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Calder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calder)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/263 "2025-10-16T23:00:37Z")
Best Ball is geared towards fantasy football fans who find the process of the draft as the most fun. It is a way to manage 15 fantasy football teams without the time commitment such a thing would normally take. The cynical part of me thinks it is for players who want to say I always knew that Rico Dowdle was going to be awesome. I drafted him in several of my leagues. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/264 "2025-10-17T18:28:23Z")
Once again, a mediocre showing by my one of my players on TNF has put me squarely on the chopping block. Hoping for a couple of miracles on Sunday and Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/265 "2025-10-19T18:51:08Z")
It’s starting to look like I finally put the wrong players on the bench. Maye and Hunter posting 20+ (and at halftime for Maye) along with Swift going off could mean bad things. Oh, and I still don’t know if Jacobs is going to play. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/266 "2025-10-19T21:07:34Z")
My bench consists of a full starting roster (my QB2 is on bye), but it’s put up nearly 100 points. They’re going to outscore my starters, who I’m convinced are going to tank me. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/267 "2025-10-20T00:14:31Z")
Looks like Bo Nix saw my team at halftime and said, “Nah.” ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/268 "2025-10-20T00:16:01Z")
And I am officially done. Lead me to the gallows. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/269 "2025-10-20T01:24:08Z")
Any last words? ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/270 "2025-10-20T01:28:55Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Any last words It’s been fun, and good luck to the remaining six! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/271 "2025-10-20T07:22:32Z")
Yahoo projects that I’m SAFE, but I don’t feel very safe. For Monday night, I’ve got a 17-point lead and Nico Collins versus Railer’s Amon-Ra St. Brown and Caleb Otton. It’s probably going to be very close. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/272 "2025-10-21T02:44:51Z")
As of the start of the second game, you need a bit over 10.6 from Nico Collins. Start of the second, he has 1.1. It’s gonna be CLOSE. ETA: And Collins just dropped 2.5 points. I’m glad I’m not having to worry about this one. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/273 "2025-10-21T09:41:58Z")
I went to bed after the baseball game and watched none of the late NFL game. I was shocked when I woke up this morning and was still alive. That’s two weeks in a row that I’ve finished one chop away from being headless. Nerve-wracking, to say the least! ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/274 "2025-10-21T10:14:51Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > And I am officially done. So I’m pretty sure that’s not what “official done” means. People have been way too early to (definitively) declare their own deaths. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/275 "2025-10-21T11:45:04Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > People have been way too early to (definitively) declare their own deaths. I think of it as reverse psychology. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/276 "2025-10-21T11:57:12Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > People have been way too early to (definitively) declare their own deaths. A lifetime of never winning a fantasy football league has conditioned me to expect disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/277 "2025-10-21T14:32:21Z")
I couldn’t keep almost missing the chop forever and this weekend was just a bad one for almost my entire team. So off I (finally) go to the gallows. But that was fun and I’m looking forward to playing again next year. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/278 "2025-10-26T20:29:26Z")
Oof. Judson’s out early, Bijan has a down day - and not a massive performance anywhere else yet. My projections show me well below everyone else. And now… The end is near… Something something… And I did it my [favorite projection system’s] waaaaayyyyy… ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/279 "2025-10-26T22:24:17Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > My projections show me well below everyone else. My current players are not performing well. I may be right there with you soon. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749/280 "2025-10-26T22:28:43Z")
No way I’m falling for the old “I’m so going to lose” reverse jinx again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-annual-sdmb-fantasy-football-guillotine-league-cecil-s-chopping-block/1021749.md?page=15)