# SDMB Big League Fantasy Football 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 19, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241 "2018-07-19T23:52:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/142 "2018-12-10T08:42:46Z")
So I was thinking - my team this year is among the most dominant that we’ve ever had in this league, right? 1664 regular season points. How does that stack up? Highest score per year: 2017: 1402 2016: 1509 2015: 1406 2014: 1483 2013: 1507 2012: 1532 2011: 1522 2010: 1530 2009: 1409 So I beat the next best regular season score in league history by 132 points, which is a pretty huge margin, a whole week worth of a good score. Str8dope my foot this year actually has the third highest score ever in this league, and he also lost in the first round of this playoffs. So out of 4 games we had this playoffs, 2 of them featured 2 of the top 3 all time scorers in our league losing. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/143 "2018-12-10T11:03:59Z")
8 of the 20 highest scores ever were from this season, a product of the league being pared to 18 teams. \*1664.64 \*1534.58 1532.53 \*1532.19 1530.93 1522.25 1520.49 1513.62 1509.53 1507.59 1507.57 \*1498.30 1483.91 1476.46 1474.28 \*1473.58 \*1471.92 1471.56 \*1460.98 \*1444.42 Below I’m showing the totals from all seasons since I took the time to figure that out, if anyone wants to play around with the numbers or make adjustments to this year’s totals. 1187.89 1246.28 1176.08 1197.51 1409.90 1367.52 1394.80 1244.87 1286.87 1158.94 1356.65 1285.13 1208.37 1169.90 1137.75 1363.44 1285.26 1399.29 1138.89 992.93 1530.93 1307.19 1252.58 1141.85 957.02 1418.54 1389.96 1417.50 1034.46 951.50 1520.49 1379.42 1291.87 1292.73 1062.85 1368.49 1328.51 1252.41 1183.26 863.53 1223.30 1522.25 1429.58 1096.26 949.48 1383.28 1231.48 1195.26 1071.52 966.49 1336.11 1389.10 1267.45 1194.09 1122.94 1332.92 1398.94 1298.07 1213.37 957.24 1334.93 1296.32 1276.20 1268.53 1086.93 1288.91 1289.00 1144.30 1108.55 1098.86 1334.77 1374.48 1293.97 1190.02 1144.11 1532.53 1195.74 1331.58 1440.49 1085.63 1402.27 1378.12 1222.46 1237.74 1045.05 1427.50 1238.99 1300.46 1253.71 1194.03 1253.51 1507.57 1382.52 1193.46 1078.65 1474.28 1471.56 1381.33 1232.39 1127.27 1476.46 1305.59 1296.84 1403.93 1376.10 1483.91 1264.93 1231.12 1154.38 1112.06 1346.21 1290.95 1310.55 1131.24 1289.84 1346.49 1373.01 1146.49 1221.51 1214.89 1335.92 1291.64 1323.07 1291.61 1140.70 1365.31 1416.17 1190.12 1310.37 1200.79 1386.32 1292.88 1184.88 1350.05 1013.51 1406.67 1303.36 1281.75 1151.90 1101.83 1416.06 1280.94 1265.58 1214.80 1068.31 1436.95 1273.01 1507.59 1171.94 1091.60 1509.53 1284.36 1280.88 1145.04 1279.57 1513.62 1402.76 1343.84 1252.42 1191.74 1314.26 1403.34 1218.70 1097.13 1438.24 1303.54 1370.28 1284.70 1199.58 1189.05 1239.32 1162.07 1106.59 1236.95 1231.00 1140.62 1113.19 1056.22 1152.93 1094.73 1534.58 1664.64 1471.92 1348.40 1532.19 1377.52 1345.61 1498.30 1473.58 1460.98 1444.42 1418.29 1228.37 1240.10 1182.63 1209.25 1188.78 982.87 ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/144 "2018-12-10T11:06:26Z")
That’s true. I didn’t think of the 18 man league changing things up. Still, even adjusting for that, my team was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/145 "2018-12-10T11:17:20Z")
Well yeah, it clearly looks like the best regardless. Mine might not be top 10 all time. I might have been on that trajectory before week 13. Last week knocked my weekly scoring average down 3 or 4 points. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/146 "2018-12-10T15:01:44Z")
Oh. Now my 9th place team that had the 5th best score of the season tries. They’d beat everyone but Derrick Henry this week. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/147 "2018-12-10T21:05:38Z")
My team has 167.93 this week, and I still have one player left to play tonight. Definitely too late to be helpful. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/148 "2018-12-11T06:05:06Z")
And there it is: the top 4 teams all eliminated in the first week of the playoffs. I got my worst score of the year. Oh well, that’s it for another season I guess. Best of luck to the four teams still alive. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2018, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/149 "2018-12-11T06:06:38Z")
SHENANIGANS. shenanigans. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/150 "2018-12-11T15:15:18Z")
Two of the teams who won were among the top 4 scoring teams on the season. The other two were, I guess, extraordinarily lucky. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/151 "2018-12-11T15:50:00Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > The other two were, I guess, extraordinarily lucky. You rang? Based on how everything shook out, if I had won my last regular season match, I would have lost in the playoffs. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/152 "2018-12-11T17:07:10Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > Two of the teams who won were among the top 4 scoring teams on the season. The other two were, I guess, extraordinarily lucky. I think at least three of the four results were well within the realms of predictability. In the 4 v. 5 game, it was actually not too surprising at all that #5 won, given his almost 300-point higher PF over the course of the season In my game (3 v. 7), I had about 100 points more over the course of the season, but that’s less than 10 points per game, and it really doesn’t take much of a swing each way to change that around. I also made a couple of bad lineup calls, and could have squeaked out a win if I’d put the right players on the field. C’est la vie! Even the 1 v. 8 game wasn’t that much of a surprise. The #1 team had a good season, but his exceptional record was as much a product of a low PA tally as it was a high PF tally, and he only scored about 36 points more than the #8 team over the regular season. The only real surprise was 2 v. 7, where #2 had scored over 300 points more than #7 over the course of the season, but still ended up losing, largely thanks to sub-par performances from two of the players who had been massive for him all season - Gurley and Ertz. Anyway, that’s the way it goes. I had a fun season, and I’m looking forward to next year. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/153 "2018-12-11T17:25:17Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > The only real surprise was 2 v. 7, where #2 had scored over 300 points more than #7 over the course of the season, but still ended up losing, largely thanks to sub-par performances from two of the players who had been massive for him all season - Gurley and Ertz. Given that I lost in the finals by 1/2 point last year I figure I was just due a little luck. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/154 "2018-12-11T18:03:18Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I think at least three of the four results were well within the realms of predictability. > > In the 4 v. 5 game, it was actually not too surprising at all that #5 won, given his almost 300-point higher PF over the course of the season. Right. My point was that it was not surprising that the higher scoring teams for the season got wins in the playoffs. And the luck I was referring to for the other two (#6 & #7) wasn’t just for winning their playoff games. They had bottom half PF scores, but got lucky in matchups. PA is pure luck in fantasy, unlike in real games. It isn’t that surprising that they won, necessarily – there’s always a random factor, and that’s why they play the games, as they say. But it’s certainly more surprising, and more lucky, than the result for the #5 & #8 teams, who were top 4 in PF. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/155 "2018-12-17T01:55:31Z")
Going into the Sunday night game there’s a pretty good chance that the bottom seeds will sweep again. We may have a 7v8 final if Goff outplays Foles and Brees has a typical game. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/156 "2018-12-17T15:29:48Z")
There we go. If Brees manages to score 13 fantasy points tonight our two bottom seeds will play for the championship next week. Strangest fantasy season in a long time. At least the consolation bracket went chalk. The championship game everyone expected will still take place next week. It’s just the 5th place game. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/157 "2018-12-17T17:47:08Z")
Well, my luck finally ran out. Second highest score, but had the misfortune of going against the highest score. Worst part is I picked up the Indy defense for next week, but didn’t play them, which would’ve put me over the top. Oh well, I’ve secured my highest finish since 2014 and bounced back from my #19 finish last year. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/158 "2018-12-18T04:33:04Z")
> [@Pixel\_Dent](#): > > There we go. If Brees manages to score 13 fantasy points tonight our two bottom seeds will play for the championship next week. Strangest fantasy season in a long time. You know what’s even stranger? Drew Brees scoring 7 fantasy points and losing the game for **Garcon’s Cedilla**. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/159 "2018-12-18T04:54:40Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > You know what’s even stranger? Drew Brees scoring 7 fantasy points and losing the game for **Garcon’s Cedilla**. Garcon’s had also added and deployed Ian Thomas for MNF, who had two early catches and after that nothing. In the bigger picture - one of the Keenan Allen owner casualties. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/160 "2018-12-18T16:01:52Z")
Last year going into the finals I spent 3 days agonizing over my last roster spot needing to decide on one of 4 players. In the end I chose Trey Burton who put up a 0 and I lost by 1/2 point. (About two months later Burton threw the Philly Special pass in the Superbowl, so my patience paid off.) This year I’m throwing darts at my roster. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241/161 "2018-12-23T16:29:00Z")
We have our championship game. The Dented Pixels (Pixel Dent) vs John’s Dandy Team (Hamlet), who happened to be the 5th and 7th seed going into the playoffs. What a topsy turvy playoffs we’ve had. The third place game is Garcon’s Cedilla vs Rough and Tumblrs. The fifth place game is Exploding Pancakes vs The Str8dope My Foot, which was originally probably the favorite to be the championship game. My team would’ve fell apart on the finals week anyway, with Josh Gordon suspended, Aaron Jones on IR, and Todd Gurley 50/50 to play. And the 7th place game, Mundi Madness vs Inglewood Chargers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-big-league-fantasy-football-2018/818241.md?page=9)