One of the nice things about having a friendly, established, communicative league like this is that I trust people to do the ethical thing. To me, tanking is unethical because it distorts the parity mechanism we have for evaluating the strength of teams and giving them proportional aid in improving them.
There’s also a concern that a deliberate tank would otherwise affect things outside of that game. It won’t in this case, but if someone started to tank in week 10 when it was clear they wouldn’t make the playoffs, they might give some unearned wins to some other team which would then unfairly affect the playoff picture.
Maybe there’s some sort of exception that I’m not thinking of at this moment, but in general, I feel like we all have an obligation to try to put forth our best effort to win every week.
Yeah I still started my best lineup even though I’m eliminated. It’s my duty to the league and I wouldn’t want anyone else to tank if the roles were reversed.
Alright then. I didn’t do any celebrating last night because I was actually kind of confused / felt bad about the RNATB thing, that he was blindsided by losing the playoffs.
But… it’s pretty legit. He started 8-3 and finished off the season with a 3 game losing streak. I started 3-6 and finished the season off with a 5 game winning streak. He had a chance to beat me last week and retain the division, and I won convincingly. He only outscored me by 30-40 points on the season, which is pretty close. My division win, while definitely unexpected a few weeks ago, is just.
This is my 6th year in a row making the playoffs, missing out only on our first year, in which I came in last. It is the longest such streak in our league, probably be 2 years.
Let’s hope I don’t get my annual third place finish.
Yeah, don’t feel bad. My team is not healthy and was not going anywhere in the playoffs (especially without Dalton).
Since the end of last week’s games I have lost Mark Ingram, Dalton, Martellus Bennett, V-Jax, Spencer Ware and Marquess Wilson. And of course, I lost Edelman a couple of weeks earlier, and I lost Nuk Hopkins’ guaranteed garbage time catch-fest because Hoyer got knocked out of last night’s game. I probably would not have been starting Wilson anyway but he was very productive earlier in the year.
I would say this was kind of a blessing in disguise since I had zero chance of winning the championship and my draft pick will be better now, but I traded my first round pick away. My consolation prize is that **Justin **is going to lose and **Stringer **is going to win, so the pick I swapped it for will be slightly better.
I’m also still mathematically alive in an almost solely theoretical sense. Lamar Miller had a 37 point game earlier in the year. If he can manage 321 total yards and three TDs (with 13 catches) I will be victorious.
Starting Landry sure added some extra excitement, but motherfucker, Tannehill targeted him 18 fucking times. AND he was returning punts. Gah!
If the numbers hold, Petey wins the #2 pick by the slimmest of margins:
1469.38 Petey
1469.74 Ellis
Boooooo!
On a related note, I am constantly berating myself for not embracing my inner homer in last year’s draft. I could (should!) have Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr as my two starting WRs. So pissed at myself.
I haven’t been able to pay much attention to fantasy football this year so I haven’t been following the standings that closely (just playing my best lineups and seeing how things end up in week 15), but I am rather annoyed that I was 2nd in points scored and finished 6th. In the history of this league nobody who finished in the top 2 in points has missed the playoffs.
I guess scoring under 100 points on three separate occasions is what did me in this year. Previous to this, I had only scored under 100 points three times in the previous 6 years combined.
Bleh. I scored under 100 five times (three of those games coming in the last four games, natch). Oddly, I actually won two of the five.
Well, I have to say that I was absolutely wrong about Beckham being Hakeem Nicks/Mario Manningham/Other Steve Smith version 2.0. Or 4.0. Whatever.
He pretty much singlehandedly put me in the playoffs for my money league last night (which I was about to be bounced from by almost exactly the same premise as here: guaranteed wild card, except that the one guy who I would not have beaten on points lost in the final week and became the wild card himself).
Well, a sincere congratulations to **furt **on his division championship; as we’ve just seen, those things are hard to win! Two of the three teams that seemed to have it all sewn up lost it.
Link to the last time we did this.
Total Points Scored: 19,424.35 (+22.56 over last year)
Average Points/Team: 1,618.70 (+2.89)
Average Team/Week: 115.62 (+0.13)
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Northeast Division (19-13): 1649.15 –> 117.80/ppg (+9.11 from last year)
Midwest Division (13-19): 1618.83 –> 115.63/ppg (+0.63)
Sunbelt Division (16-16): 1588.11 –> 113.44/ppg (-9.34)*
Top Scores of 2015 (150+)
– I’m surprised Hamlet isn’t over .500.
– Stringer has never had a losing season.
– The Sunbelt Division is 120-104 in inter-divisional games; the Northeast and Midwest are each 108-116.
Highest All-Time Single-Season Point Totals: (1800+)
He has the worst luck. If you look back at his 2009 record points score he went 8-6 in the regular season and didn’t even win his division (Stringer won one more game despite scoring 250 fewer points). Of course, I handed him AP so maybe his luck wasn’t that bad.
