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Fantasy Football: Weeks 8-11 Aftermath

Yeeeeaaah, so I have a lot of catching up to do, so let’s get to it.

Prior to week 8, I had offered up a couple of trade that would have upgraded a couple of my opponents but would have upgraded me even more over the multiple trades; in other words, I make 2 opponents ~5 [...]

19Nov2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Fantasy Football: Week 7 Aftermath and Making Trades

I’m catching up with this, any anyway I got creamed. 63 points in a league where about half the teams cross the century mark each week - yep, ker smackers. What happened?
Nothing happened, that’s what. Barring a bye or two I was starting what should be a 1st string team:

QB - Peyton Manning
WR - Plaxico [...]

27Oct2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Fantasy Football: Week 6 Aftermath

Really, Peyton Manning? Really, Marvin Harrison? I lost by more than you would’ve covered, so thanks for that. :p Yes, the Ceiling Cats are down to 2-4, getting pasted 108-91. Let’s take a look, shall we?
I’m going to stop trying to be clever, because clearly I’m not very good at it. At least, so far [...]

15Oct2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Fantasy Football: Week 5 Aftermath

Let me paint a picture for you. Yahoo! projected that this week’s game would be a 96-96 tie. Yes, the projections are often wrong, but there’s a consistency in the wrongness that you start to get a feel for after awhile. So no, it wasn’t going to be 96-96, but a pretty high-scoring affair seemed [...]

7Oct2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Fantasy Football: Week 4 Aftermath

Streak!
After squeaking out a win by a single point last week, this week’s version of Ceiling Cats was high score in the league, beating my opponent by a comfortable margin. As I’m learning more and more each week, a lot of it was luck. For example, Santana Moss and Terrell Owens both had bit point [...]

1Oct2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Fantasy Football: Week 3 Aftermath

Success!
Finally, a couple of moves that I made paid off. I dropped Cleveland’s Derek Anderson from my bench and picked up Jay Cutler (I know, obvious in retrospect but at the time it was mildly risky). I sat my #1 QB, Peyton Manning, figuring Indy’s weak line play was going to continue. Not that it [...]

23Sep2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Fantasy Football: Week 2 Aftermath

Wiiiiiight.
So, last week we were giving our condolences to (also known as “laughing our asses off at”) Brain of Belichick, whose 1st pick (Tom Brady) had gone in the crapper. Welp, as you may recall from my post last week, my own stud 1st pick, #1 overall, was LaDanian Tomlinson, Mr. Turf Toe himself. God [...]

17Sep2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Fantasy Football: Week 1 Aftermath

My match-up for week 1 was against the Belltown Motherbuckers (a co-worker’s dog’s name is “Bucky” and we work in Belltown). According to the projected scores I’m supposed to win comfortably. Her line-up:

Donovan McNabb
Reggie Wayne
Torry Holt
Dwayne Bowe (in for the suspended Steve Smith)
Adrian Peterson
Frank Gore
Tony Gonzalez

Yes, she has [...]

10Sep2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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My First Fantasy Football League, and the Danger of Cool Things

I’ve held out on joining a Fantasy Football League (FFL) for years, for the same reason that I don’t drink: it’s not that I think I wouldn’t like it, it’s that I think I’d like it too much. I have friends who play in a dozen leagues and basically spend all of their free time [...]

4Sep2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued