The playoff teams are ranked 1, 2, 3 and 6 in actual points scored and 1, 2, 3 and 7 in potential points scored. These final two weeks have moved me up to reasonably passable as a playoff team, though still definitely the clear underdog.
I fucking knew it. I go all fucking year not mentioning my injury luck and the second I do, Keenan Allen goes down with an injury and puts up a goose egg.
In other news, I finally found a replacemement for TJ Yeldon by signing Damien Williams (RB-KC) as a free agent on Wednesday, and he promptly put up 27.30 points last night, woohoo! Good thing, too, as my other two starting Chiefs (Travis Kelce and the kicker) underperformed.
That was a really tough blow. I thought I was done for after my only healthy QB got hurt, but Allen’s 0 and Mahomes having a pedestrian game gave me a slim chance. As it is, you have the better match ups, and I’m forced to start a waiver QB in the playoffs. I don’t look forward to trying to win it all with free agent QBs.
Does anyone remember if we ever made a rule covering whether we’d be able to trade outside of the trade deadline? Yahoo has a mandatory trade deadline, but we may have discussed in the past allowing people to make trades beyond that point using manual player moves. Before I dig back through tons of threads, I figured if anyone happened to remember if we ever discussed this.
What a weird playoffs, not just for our league but for everyone. There are a ton of top seeded teams who are up there because they owned all the players who’ve been hot and consistent up until last week, and who all laid an egg in the playoffs. I had what might be the best team the big league has ever seen and got creamed by getting a bad week out of all of my players, especially Gurley, who put up like 3 points after averaging 28 or somewhere about there. All 4 of the top seeds in the big league lost, and it looks like the 4 remaining highest seeds may have lost this week.
This year has to be one of the biggest disconnects between regular season and playoff performance we’ve ever seen in fantasy.
So, both of our games are going down to the MNF game.
Hamlet needs 13.86 points out of Michael Thomas to beat Jules, something that yahoo thinks is 56% likely to happen.
Ellis needs 15.81 points out of Christian McCaffery to beat RNATB, something yahoo thinks is 61% likely to happen.
Yay McCaffrey! That TD pass put me comfortably over the top to win my game and advance to the championship.
It should be noted, however, that except for McCaffrey, every clear starter on my team significantly under-performed across the board. Compared to projections: Big Ben -9, Jarvis Landry -6, Christian McCaffrey +1, Tavis Kelce -5, Sterling Shepard -4, David Njoku -3, KC Kicker -6.
The only reason I won this game was the stellar 27.30-point day from Damien Williams (RB-KC) who I signed as a free agent (after the waivers period) on Wednesday afternoon while setting my lineup. If I hadn’t signed him, I would have actually scored 82.35 and lost by 20 points. Even with perfect prediction, my max potential would have been 90.45 and still lose by 10. (My only other option at RB2 was TJ Yeldon, who scored 1.6.)
All this to say that I also suffered the same “guys who were hot all season totally collapsed in the playoffs” as everyone else, but somehow I miracled a last-minute win from the free agent pool.
I think the part that bugs me the most was the hope I had. I should have known better than to expect not to get fucked by injuries, but being relatively healthy for most of the year was such a shock, I guess I forgot. Still, most points in the league and a solid roster going forward isn’t a bad season.
Man, Jules called it in his playoff analysis - Ellis definitely peaked at the right time. That was a pretty good run, riding waiver darling Damian Williams to the promised land. Congrats.
Yay, finally my first FF championship ever, in any league, woohoo!
I have finally overcome sleeping through the first three rounds of the inaugural draft, which is absolutely brutal in a dynasty league. (I planned to take Aaron Rodgers in the first round, and he was available, but because I didn’t pre-rank, yahoo autodrafted me the 30-year-old about-to-retire Brian Westbrook instead.)
I had been secondarily rooting for dale during the season; I’m happy to represent the perennial doormats with this win.
Reminder that I’d like to revisit the missed extra point scoring next year.
Having thought more about it, I think a missed extra point should either be worth 0 or -1, preferably 0. Definitely no worse than -1. Here’s my thinking:
30-39 yard FG
+3 success
-2 miss
Make 1 Miss 1 Total: +1
Extra Point
+1 Success
0 Miss <=== my recommendation
Make 1 Miss 1 Total: +1
I originally said make it the same -2 on a miss as a 30-39 yard FG, but that’s clearly uneven because a successful extra point is only worth 1, not 3.
I’m fine with either eliminating kickers or reverting to standard scoring.
I spent a lot of time researching rookies this season for the draft, but I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no way to pick a kicker except for maybe they play for an indoor team or in a warm weather city.
Congratulations Ellis Dee. I said it would have been well-earned if you managed that miracle, and you did. Well done for consistently putting in effort every season and turning around that inaugural draft.