2008 Fantasy Football Rundown

Alrght since Champ said he wanted to read it, might as well post it. Sup Champ?! Anyway, somehow I found my way into three leagues this year (geek check!). The first two I purposefully joined ($100 league through work, $20 league through Cardplayer) and then the third league I helped out my friend from work who's never played before but wanted to get a free league going to learn, so I said w/e fuck it and joined as the 8th team.

So first off, my $100 league turned out to only be eight guys (two guys flaked on draft day, wtf?!) after being a 10-man league forever, so yeah, the teams came out kinda stacked. By the way, kind of a weird set-up...1 QB, 2 RBs, 4WRs (TEs count as WRs) 1 DEF, 1 Kicker, 20yds rush/run = 1 pt; 50 yds/pass = 1 pt, 6pts/TD...kinda odd, a lot of people I tell the league about hate the way it's set up...I've gotten used to it. Oh and there's no playoff system, best record at the end of the year wins...

So yeah, the first four picks were something like (Brady, LT, AP, Addai) and so I took Westbrook. I remember really wanting Addai, but decided Westbrook would work out okay. After that I can't really remember much, except I took Lynch 2nd round, Fitzgerald 3rd, then I got Turner in the 4th...blah blah...I had a pretty solid team and someone ranked me as the 2nd best looking team preseason. I know that doesn't mean dick, but at least someone liked how my team was set up. My one HUGE weakness was going to be QBs. Basically the 2nd and 3rd round was the round all the solid QBs went, so I said fuck it and decided to wait until the mid rounds to get a QB. I took all my RBs and WRs early (we have to start 4 WRs/TEs, so I loaded up) and didn't take Matt Hasselbeck until somewhere in Round 9 or 10. I also picked up Garrard and Delhomme, and just prayed one of these three would have a breakout year (if you've been following this year at all, you'll note none of the three have done shit). I almost took a shot and went with Kurt Warner, that would have been nice.

Basically what I learned from this league this year is that I am the luckiest motherfucker on the face of the Earth (*knock on wood* don't jinx me please). I knew it was going to be a good year as soon as week 1 when I was facing the commish's team with a three point lead going into the Monday night game...he had McFadden and his defense going and only needed four points to beat me (my guys were done), three to tie. Well obviously he only scored two points somehow (I think his D put up a goose egg) and I held onto a 53-52 (lowest scoring game of the week) victory. After that I seemed to face the lowest scorer each week and I'd repeatedly have to show up to work and say "I rallied my troops around, we played a close game, but we squeezed out a victory. That's what good teams do baby." I currently have a 1.5 game lead (I tied in week four or some shit) with four weeks left to play...HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD!!!

The CP league I decided to screw around a bit and take Brady in the first round with the 6th overall pick (I made sure to stay old school with the $100 league and take two RBs first). Let's just say after that my draft didn't look all that great, and once Brady went down in week 1, I all but gave up on that league.

The free league was an autodraft where you could pre-rank your players. I was definitely not going to spend the time pre-ranking players, especially since I really wanted a live draft, so I just left the rankings as they were and came back to a team where my first pick was S-Jax (I really didn't want S-Jax on any of my teams this year) and then my next three picks were all WRs (wtf...Moss, Andre Johnson, Fitzgerald). At least I had solid receivers...right? My backs ended up being S-Jax, Turner, Ronnie Brown (he didn't even sniff my starting line-up until after he blew up in one of those early weeks). Funny sidenote, Moss has been riding the pine in this league pretty much since week 2...and no one wanted to give me a good trade for him since Brady went down and we're all kinda stacked, so he's been on my bench except when he has had good matchups.

Anyway, somehow I made a couple good waiver wire moves (I picked up Steve Slaton off the free agent wire, traded Calvin Johnson for someone I can't remember because I was deep as fuck at receiver) and actually put a good team together. I started caring about this league once I figured out how much shit talk there would be, so I started getting into it and making my team as good as possible. The regular season just ended with me at 10-3, best record in the league, most points scored, yada yada, looking to take home the $20 trophy my buddy bought for the winner of the league.

So that's it for now, actually have a 4/8-Kill Cache Creek trip planned for Friday night, wish me luck, hopefully I'll have a good update for you guys Saturday. Thanks for reading.