I was right enough

I was wrong about a lot of players, but I was right enough to make the championship in my auction league. The fabulous Brooks Bombers are crushed under my heal, finishing sixth. He'd be quick to point out, though, that in the league that really matters to him, he's in the championship again. He has something of a dynasty going over there, even if his name's not on the trophy as much you'd think it is to listen to him.

Most of my errant predictions have been at RB. It has been an absolutely crazy year for running backs. The exception is Kitna. He was going great gonzo through the first few weeks and I felt like a genius. He plum melted down about the half way mark, though. He's had a few good weeks since, but honestly, I started Jason Campbell a few times to play the matchups. Yeah, he wasn't as good as I hoped, but I took him in the last round, so no big loss.

Back to the backs....

LT, Jackson and Gore all suffered along with their respective teams, at least initially. LT has at least recovered enough form to be the top fantasy RB right now in Yahoo standard scoring format. Still - you couldn't count on him in the early part of the year. In fact, in the league at work, I'm about to lose to the guy who traded for LT, giving up LAMONT JORDAN. I cringed when I saw the trade go through. LT was down, but trade him away for a waiver wire pickup???!!!!!

A couple weeks later, the same owner who acquired LT in a highway robbery, got Westbrook in pretty much the same fashion, giving up Jackson and two scrubs - like Jesse Chatman and someone else. Actually, one of those scrubs may have been Earnest Graham, who is astonishingly the ninth ranked running back. Meanwhile Westbrook exceeded everyone's expectations and is the #2 fantasy running back. - I was way wrong on him, having predicted a good season, but not one worthy of a top 10 draft pick. Oops.

What really struck me this year was that around week 10, Ronnie Brown was still in the top 5 of fantasy running backs, despite having been on IR for several weeks AND not really getting any carries until week 3 or 4. Which reminds me, I was wrong on Ronnie in that I wasn't high enough on him.

I was really, really wrong on Lawrence Maroney. I had him as a possible top 5 and probably a top 10 back. How the heck was I supposed to know the Patriots would decide a running game was for sissies?

On the bright side, I snagged players like Justin Fargas and Ryan Grant off the wires. Sure, there were some not so bright picks along the way. (I held onto the backup in Indy most of the season. Whatever his name is.) At least I avoided wasting moves on Selvin Young.