It’s hard to believe I won a game against the #1 seed with John Beck posting less than 2 points as my QB and all of my Packer starters on a bye, but I’m going to do it with room to spare.
Gotta get some wins to get back into the playoff race… I have the points, but I’m only 4-4.
Actually my prospects are pretty good. I’m projected to score an average of 130 points for the rest of the season and I’ve already had the hard part of my schedule, and I have a chance to face Isotopes and RNATB to gain in the division lead. I think there’s a decent shot I win my division this year despite the really bad start.
I just realized I miss the GM/Head Coach rankings this year. It was fun to see how poorly I picked my lineups every week.
Also I feel like talking about my team because I’m obsessed with this league…
I traded Pierre Garcon to Varlosz for Mike Williams before last season and spent the last year kicking myself for it. But so far this year Garcon has been the 8th best WR and Williams the 60th. Not that Garcon was in my lineup for his 2 biggest games, but still! Crazy how fast fantasy football changes.
My 3rd round pick Antonio Brown is so sneaky-good in this league because of return yards. He is currently WR10 (with only 1 TD) and is an every-week 3rd WR for me.
Don’t get too excited, Beef. You’re going down like a three dollar whore.
I am especially disappointed because I think I have like 98% of my possible points this season. Easy to have a great HC ranking when you have no depth at all.
I keep meaning to do the GM/coach rankings but the prospect of doing 8 weeks for 5 leagues is daunting and I put it off. I suppose I could do it one league at a time.
If you’re interested, though, I can send you the program and you can do it yourself. You just need to copy/paste the text from the roster pages for every team every week into the program and it spits out the results. It’s simple and well designed.
I would be very interested in the program, send me a PM about it?
I’m not obsessed (I’m in too many leagues to commit to one), but I enjoy this league. With the deep rosters, deep starters, and dynasty setting, an emphasis is put on finding guys who are under the radar. One thing I’m realizing though is that it doesn’t necessarily negate the lottery factor inherent in fantasy football. Injuries, massive fluctuation in scoring (Austin Collie, from #1 WR to garbage in one year, while Steve Smith rises from the fantasy grave), and the head to head nature will still kill a season in this league just like every other. I’ve been in the top 4 scorers every year (including this one) in this league and once #1, and have one third place finish to show for it.
But I do like the emphasis on finding hidden talent. This year, I drafted and made moves to revamp the bottom half of my roster, in the hopes of grabbing more guys who will be good in a couple years. It’s been interesting. Not necessarily fun (I’m 3-5 despite being #4 in points scored), but interesting. And I pay a lot more attention to the rosters in the NFL. For example, I heard that Ahmad Bradshaw’s foot injury might be worse than suspected, so I checked his backups and went to pick them up (I do love me some DaRel Scott), only to be beaten by another player. It’s fascinating.
I scooped up DJ Ware in every league I’m in. Raced to get there when the news broke. Watch Da’Rel Scott get all the reps and Jacobs all the TDs. It’s been that kind of year.
Yikes, I’m not getting any Green Bay points because their defense is scoring them all.
I changed our league’s trade deadline to make it as late as possible (12/2), as in previous years.
Sorry I haven’t been around much to participate in the thread or respond to trade offers; it’s the combination of having an awful, overstuffed fantasy season in general, and having some actual real-world scheduled responsibilities for the first time since college (which takes some getting used to, believe me). I’ll try to do better on both counts in the coming weeks.
I have a 12 point lead and McCoy against Omni’s Roethlisberger.
Justin Bailey has a 4 point lead and Forte against RNATB’s Boldin and DeSean Jackson.
I can’t believe I’ve only scored 107 points on a day where Green Bay put up 48. I’ll probably win, because McCoy is awesome, but it’ll be a close one.
The Raiders D sucked. I figured playing against Tebow was a good opportunity but they scored -6. Atlanta is on my bench with 18. Damn.
Also, someone take Tony Gonzalez. I’m not gonna start him ahead of my other guys but he’s a top 5 TE still.
Game of the Week hasn’t disappointed.
Yup, Monday night is going to be very interesting. But damn, who knew Eddie Royal was going to return to form this week and I left him on my bench!
Who knew Eddie Royal was ever going to return to form?
Tebow makes everyone look good.
Edit: Actually, I think I had Eric Decker in all my leagues and totally bailed on him last week under the assumption that Tebow couldn’t make any receiver viable. Woops.
That’s exactly why I left Royal on the bench and started McGahee over Brandon “Mr. Inconsistent” Jacobs. Tebow’s for real! Start spreading the news!
Somebody please stop letting RNATB win games.
Tell Matt Forte.
It’s certainly not out of the question that I lose this week. DeSean has pulled a bit of a disappearing act lately and Forte has been super-productive, other than scoring touchdowns.
Certainly Forte has the better matchup.