My fourth fantasy football draft happened shortly after my last post but events in my life kept me from posting it - one of which was that I wasn't really that excited about the draft. Then I went like 0-3 to start the year in that league. Combine that with my Auburn Tigers loading the FAIL train with turdulence and I really just lost interest in football for the first half of this season.
At my auction draft, the Bombers and I fought over several of the same players and he won most of the battles. I got Peyton Manning and Steven Jackson as consolation prizes. At the time, they were excellent values. In retrospect at least Manning still is.
Unlike last year, when I was the consensus 'worst team' in the league (I won, suckas!) this year some were saying things like 'How'd he get that roster. Wow. That's strong.' I was ill at ease, though, because I lost most of my targeted players and I didn't particularly want to spend 40% of my bidding cap on Manning and Jackson. It left me lacking depth and that turned out to hurt.
(BTW, I wanted and lost Thomas Jones, Jay Cutler, Matt Schaub, Brandon Marshall, Tony Sheffler, Michael Turner, Jericho Cotchery and Ryan Longwell - most of which turned out to be great this year, though I missed on my hopes for the Texans. But after blowing my budget on Manning and Jackson, who were 'too good of a value to pass up', I just didn't have the $$ to get everyone I wanted.)
From 0-3 to 1-5 in the auction league, things looked bleak. Fortunately it turns out I was only mostly dead.
I've crawled up to 6-6 and until this week I was low scorer, so I got my fair share of luck to scrape up a couple of those wins, no doubt. We have one regular season game left and if I win and/or the team below me loses, I'm in the playoffs. What's better is I'm getting hot the last few weeks thanks to the budding health and production of Andre Johnson and Marques Colston.
In my office league, I'm 8-4 and sitting in third, putting me in charge of my own destiny there as well. I'm 1/2 or 1 game ahead of four others but I've outscored them all over the course of the season, meaning I hold the tie breaker. If I win one of the last two, I'm in.
I have two other leagues on Yahoo. I intended to be competitive in one but I'm 4-8 with no shot at the playoffs. The other was simply to trot out my draft strategy and I'm high scorer in it. I'm in fourth place, though, so my luck has apparenlty all been spent in the auction league. I am tied with four other teams at 6-6 so I need to win my last two games to be sure, but I can probably sneakin with one win.
So, with one week left in the auction league and two in the other leagues, I have a decent shot to make the playoffs in 3 out of 4. Things could certainly be worse.
Auburn, however, is dead. Only an unlikely win against Alabama will make the season anything other than a total waste of a year. Sigh.
If there's one bright side to losing interest in fantasy football so early in the season, it's that I was able to watch the Falcons play football without worrying about who was making what stats. Remember just watching football for the love of the game? I'll enjoy it this year. Next year maybe I'll be back to thinking in terms of fantasy football again.
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