In this crazy addiction we call fantasy football fun I find it incredibly frustrating to set a good solid roster. This year more than any other year I have played I go to set my roster and I see that I have a player projected to score like 15 points therefore he is set to start, but when it is all said and done he got me a super dooper 5 points. There is nothing like when you log into your fantasy football manager on Sunday morning and you notice that you are projected to beat your opponent by 20 points you feel powerful and dominating. Then when Sunday rolls around you lost by 40 points and you feel disgusting and somewhat dirty. In the following paragraphs I will go in detail why I believe this crazy world of fantasy football is so frustrating.
My first example will be the quarter back position. Drew Brees last year in my opinion was the quarter back to have he consistently put up very favorable numbers week after week. So this year I am sure that many people got him as soon as they could this year in the draft. However he has probably been one of the most inconsistent qbs this year. So when you were drafting and you saw the opportunity to jump on Brees you went for it and you thought to yourself “oh yeah domination in the qb position” but really not so much his inconsistency has probably been more harm than good in some instances. I for one am lucky enough to have Phillip Rivers as my quarterback, but even with him, who has put up solid numbers all year for me, his team’s performance has been lackluster. Lucky for me I don’t care how the Chargers do I just care how Rivers performs, but that is my point what “good” data can you use to set a solid roster.
The position I find the most frustrating is the running back position. Running backs are crucial in almost every fantasy football league but they are so hard to predict. Everybody knew that Chris Johnson was going to be the overall number 1 pick in the majority of the leagues. I also think that everybody knew that CJ wasn’t going to have the kind of year this year that he had last year. Defenses had the whole off season to strategize ways to stop Johnson but if you had the number 1 pick in your draft you had to get him based on his potential. Don’t get me wrong Chris Johnson has been more than productive for you if you are lucky enough to have him but his numbers are not like last years and last year you could have picked up as a free agent. I was big on Shonn Greene this year before the draft I thought he is going to be the man for the Jets. My thought process was LT is done and Greene is going to be the feature back. I actually passed on LT in the draft in hopes to get Greene and I ended up with neither which in my case produced crap for the running back position. Looking back I am not that upset that I missed out on Greene but boy was I wrong on LT!
Although I guess if fantasy football was easy it would lose its appeal. By playing fantasy football we, the mere mortals of the world, get to see a very small insight of what it is like to be a NFL manager. This weekly frustration that we have of setting the best possible roster to win our weekly match is what the real NFL managers face on a daily basis. NFL managers also can’t project what an individual player will do no more than an ESPN analyst or you and me. The frustration is the luring factor to fantasy football because you make it your mission to figure it out better than anybody else and dominant your league. I raise my glass to those who have it figured out but I ask you is it skill or is it luck?
Things to check out this week:
Sportsnation ESPN2 4:00 pm Eastern (You will love it)
Modern Family 9:00 ABC Wednesday
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