{"id":84,"date":"2006-12-28T00:35:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T05:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dilettantes.code4lib.org\/2006\/12\/28\/second-place-is-first-place-loser\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T00:35:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T05:35:15","slug":"second-place-is-first-place-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/2006\/12\/second-place-is-first-place-loser\/","title":{"rendered":"Second place is first place loser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, my inaugural fantasy football season is over. Somehow, despite not having a freaking clue of what I was doing (and it being a year I actually have watched the least <\/em>football in… ages), my team somehow limped into the championship game against Jeremy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I knew I was screwed. I barely got past Carol<\/a> in the playoff round; we were tied going into the Monday night game. It boiled down to Peyton Manning (my team) having a great game and T.J. Houshmanzadeh (Carol’s team) merely showing up.<\/p>\n

And then I immediately overanalyzed my team and choked. Fearing that the Bears were going to sit all their starters (since their playoff position is decided), I benched Desmond Clark for Alge Crumpler (no net difference in points this weekend) and I benched Bernard Berrian (eight points) and played Lee Evans instead. This would, on the surface, seem ok, but to get Lee Evans, I dropped Travis Henry (another career day and how about them Titans, y’all?) leaving God knows how many points sitting in free agency.<\/p>\n

I then focused all of my attention on matchups and injuries. I benched Fast Willie since he was facing the Ravens (good choice) and substituted him with Deuce McAllister (who probably had one of his best games of the season) — so that was a total net gain. Since I had cut Travis Henry (ugh, why?) and Joseph Addai (meh) for the Dolphins defense (more on that in a bit), I started Marion Barber III alongside McAllister. This dude… When he’s on my bench he scores, like, 5 TDs\/game. When I play him he runs 6 times for 3 yards.<\/p>\n

My wide receivers were a mess. Marty Booker was hurt, so I traded him for Braylon Edwards who subsequently sucked. I didn’t play Laveranues Coles, since he was “questionable” and this worked out fine since he got hurt (I mean for me, not him).<\/p>\n

So, I didn’t play the Dolphins’ defense in the end. In my angst, I read several articles by fantasy football pundits (what kind of a job is that?) talking about how overmatched the Bears defense was for the Lions.<\/p>\n

Man, they sucked. For two weeks in a row.<\/p>\n

So I lost. And I’m not even sure I “beat myself” (to use football losing team jargon). I’m not even sure that my poor choices could overcome that day Steven Jackson had.<\/p>\n

Anyway, fantasy football was fun. I came, I saw, I lost to Jeremy.<\/p>\n

Better luck next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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