My wife takes a dim view of fantasy sports . “Sports betting ,” she says immediately. It’s a shame. She’d be really good at it.
This football season I’m involved in two fantasy leagues, one at work and another run by some guys at the Record-Journal.
If you’ve never played here’s the very brief explanation. Each team is made up of actual pro football players. Their statistics are used to calculate your score.
All of a sudden you’re watching the NFL and rooting for individual performance and not teams. .. or the actual game! Is that taking the sport out of sports? Probably.
Teams in both my leagues are chosen in a live draft where each team owner picks in order. Nerve wracking! I spent both drafts second guessing my earlier choices. I can’t imagine the pressure in leagues where the player draft its an auction and you have to be worried about choosing the right players at the right price.
Throughout the season I’ll decide which of my players play each week as I’m matched head-to-head against another team.
I am ill suited for sports, but I’m perfect for fantasy sports. It’s nearly100% a number game. I love math. I love stats .
If you run into me this football season and I start talking about a breakout star on a distant team that’s out of contention you’ll know why. I apologize in advance.
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To The Fantasy Football Finals
I enjoy the game, but I’m terrible with names. Usually I don’t know players and still manage to mispronounce their names!
I Never Played The Game. That was Howard Cosell’s book. The title works for me too. There was good reason I was always chosen last in sports!
I’m not much better as a fan. I enjoy the game, but I’m terrible with names and who’s with which team. Usually I don’t know the players and mispronounce their names! Potent one-two punch!
Things have been better with fantasy football. I’ve done well over the years. I’ve certainly done better at fantasy football than real football! I’m a math guy and it’s a math game.
I snuck into the playoffs in our league at work then won in the first round. This week I’ve got the good fortune of playing a team with Eli Manning as quarterback. Oops. He had a negative score.
My opponent and I both have a single player to go, but I’m up by 35.45 points. That’s a huge margin.
A win this week and I’m in the championship game next week. Imagine how I’d do if I knew what I was doing!
Fantasy Football Moves To The Playoffs
We’re down to six from the original fourteen. Two get a bye this week. The other four play the first of three playoff rounds. Oh… I have no idea what I’m doing.
We’re entering the playoffs in my fantasy football league at work. I’m still in the hunt. No one is more surprised than I! There were even two bad weather weeks where I forgot to update my roster and ended up getting creamed!
We’re down to six from the original fourteen. Two get a bye this week. The other four play the first of three playoff rounds.
Oh… I have no idea what I’m doing.
I enjoy football and understand the game, but I don’t know that many players. My moves have mainly been statistical except when they’ve been recommendations from my wife. She is the football maven in the family. Helaine is responsible for my drafting LeSean McCoy and picking up Carson Palmer at just the right time.
Now it’s one and done. I’d like to see the championship round. I probably won’t.
It’s Fantasy Season
Make no mistake about it. I will embarrass myself.
It’s Fantasy Football season. Count me in! I did this a bunch of times back at the old place. Now there’s a new group with whom I can embarrass myself!
Make no mistake about it. I will embarrass myself.
To understand Fantasy Football you’ve got to forget football is a team sport. Each player is split out as an individual and his stats establish your score.
“It’s sports betting,” says Helaine.
How can she say that about my team, The Incontinent Poodles?
Actually she’s got a point. You don’t care if the team on the field wins or loses as long as your players (often playing against each other in real life) do well. That subtracts from the purity of the game… though maybe it’s a little late to worry about purity in sports.
I’ve already downloaded a “draft kit” to help me better understand my options. It’s 79 pages long. This is serious stuff. I guess what I’m saying is, beyond a few superstars I don’t know too much!
My work league’s draft is being held Sunday in Windsor. I’ll probably just line up my choices beforehand and let the computer act as my surrogate. Windsor’s a long drive on Sunday morning.
I look forward to this every year. It’s likely everyone else in the league will know more than me. No one will have a better time.