BT Fantasy Football League #2 (Page 10)

amd723 - 2012-12-06 12:29 PM I can't believe my team that was hit with at least 3 players going on IR and another 4 or so who have missed weeks and weeks, backed into the playoffs! It still stinks, but I smell an upset. Either that or I will be completely destroyed

Brady and Hernandez, in a likely shootout with Houston, scare me.

amd723 - 2012-12-06 2:56 PM

zaichikmiller - 2012-12-06 12:56 PM

amd723 - 2012-12-06 12:29 PM I can't believe my team that was hit with at least 3 players going on IR and another 4 or so who have missed weeks and weeks, backed into the playoffs! It still stinks, but I smell an upset. Either that or I will be completely destroyed

Brady and Hernandez, in a likely shootout with Houston, scare me.

That's why I originally drafted them, then Hernandez screwed it all up!

You cleaned my clock

If you're referring to me, you're wrong. I had a great season and enjoyed it immensely. This week's playoff game didn't go the way I would have liked it to, but half the teams that made the playoffs are in the same boat. And of course I have to say, "at least we made the playoffs!"

It's a mix of luck and skill. Based on a lot more than this season, I would opine that skill in pre-draft analysis, drafting and team management matters more over the course of the season, whereas luck becomes more important when you get to single-game-elimination playoffs.

Been doing this for eighteen years, one league continuously and various others sporadically over the years, paid and free leagues. When I started, internet leagues weren't prolific if they existed at all. I didn't even own a PC. For the first three years we faxed our lineups into a service. We did not get the week's results faxed back to us until Wednesday morning. We would have to watch the Sunday 6pm SportsCenter (NFL Primetime) with pencil and paper in hand and try to catch all of our scoring plays.

In the continuous league, I'll bet I've won the regular season division championship ten times and only missed the playoffs three times. However, I've only won the playoff championship three times. In two of those three playoff wins, I wasn't regular season champ. As I posted previously, in the playoffs, in one game, anything can happen.

In that league, thank goodness we have prize money for the regular season champs and for the regular season high scorer, though the bulk of the money goes to the playoff winners. Only three teams in each of two divisions (six total) make the playoffs, and the division champ gets a first-round bye. All four of the teams playing this week outscored the two division champs, who luckily were on byes.

It's the mix of skill and luck that makes this fun.

It was a rough year for my fantasy teams. It wasn't directed just at you, but at all 4 of you who will be joining me on the sidelines.

Personally, I think it is half luck and half skill. For instance AP. He was a big risk/reward guy. If anyone expected him to be on pace for 2000 yds, they were definitely a vikings homer. In a head to head format, luck has everything to do with it IMO. No one in our league was affected, but in my other league my Seahawks' D took down our head and shoulders favorite (through trades/drafting/luck he had RG3/Megatron/Marshall/Green/Forte/Martin/Witten). The guy who beat him isn't terrible, but when the Seahawks score 36 points, it's hard to overcome. 

I look forward to next year already and we will have to resurrect this league. It was a very competitive, close league. Those are the best/most frustrating kind.

#6 seed looking good...  Sorry Harold!      NEXT!!! 

Yup  we need to get the same group together next season!

Better to burn out than to fade away.  After your 170 point week I thought it'd be you and John racing to 200 pts in the final.

In the other BT league, all the favorites won.

So what you are saying is that you hustled us?

I think its all about skill when I am winning,  and all about luck when I'm losing.   There is a lot of luck even on the football field.    So we have to be lucky to have drafted someone who is lucky on the field even.    I dunno.   AND I HAD LUCK  then traded him.  what does that mean?  silly I had Luck on my side then willingly traded it.   hmmm

So  like Ann Marie  we are plying each other this week right?    Want to bet the sig line thing?     You have to sport the "Gotta hand it to Oriolepwr,  I can learn much from this fantasy football Guru"    On your BT sig line for say 2 weeks.    And I will change mine to a tasteful Homage of your choosing, should you get lucky and beat me.  :-D 

Ok you got it.  Let the best (or luckiest team win)  This makes things more interesting for all of you already out of the playoffs!   HA!