Fantasy football: The elimination
Dec. 16th, 2014 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiFrom the Yahoo automatic recap:
"If [Adam's team] had played [the top seed] every week, they would be 5-9 this season."
and
"[Adam's team] ranked first in the league in points per game with 103.65."
So I guess that's consolation?
I could, theoretically, have made it closer if I'd started Golden Tate instead of Josh Gordon, Jordan Reed instead of Martellus Bennett, Vincent Jackson instead of Megatron (ha!), and Joe Flacco instead of Peyton (yeah, right), but even those bits of hindsight would have left me with a (closer) loss. The other team got huge performances from Beckham and Antonio Brown and the Baltimore defense, and just had my number this week. My offense, as has been often the case, was pretty much all about Foster and Bell.
Ah, well.
Side story: Junior year of high school, I qualified for the NY State debate championships, where I promptly went 0-4. And led the entire division in scoring (Lincoln-Douglas Debate in the '80s used a 0-30 point scale; I managed to lost big and lose close each time). Guess this is the fantasy football version of that.
Anyway, now I get to play for third place, for the second year in a row. I do appreciate how far I've gotten -- we've got a pretty parity-heavy league, with no team having fewer than four wins or losses.
"If [Adam's team] had played [the top seed] every week, they would be 5-9 this season."
and
"[Adam's team] ranked first in the league in points per game with 103.65."
So I guess that's consolation?
I could, theoretically, have made it closer if I'd started Golden Tate instead of Josh Gordon, Jordan Reed instead of Martellus Bennett, Vincent Jackson instead of Megatron (ha!), and Joe Flacco instead of Peyton (yeah, right), but even those bits of hindsight would have left me with a (closer) loss. The other team got huge performances from Beckham and Antonio Brown and the Baltimore defense, and just had my number this week. My offense, as has been often the case, was pretty much all about Foster and Bell.
Ah, well.
Side story: Junior year of high school, I qualified for the NY State debate championships, where I promptly went 0-4. And led the entire division in scoring (Lincoln-Douglas Debate in the '80s used a 0-30 point scale; I managed to lost big and lose close each time). Guess this is the fantasy football version of that.
Anyway, now I get to play for third place, for the second year in a row. I do appreciate how far I've gotten -- we've got a pretty parity-heavy league, with no team having fewer than four wins or losses.