View Full Version : MoFo Fantasy Football 2012 - The Playoffs
Figure one big thread should do for all the playoffs. LT and Pete get Byes, so the matchups in round one are:
RG3scompany (8-5) vs. Dillon Panthers (8-5)
In general, Adam's team has a fair bit more firepower, but TONGO is Denver-heavy, which means when they have a good matchup he has the chance to put up some crooked numbers. And that's the case this week, with the Broncos playing Oakland. The Raiders give up the 2nd-most points to opposing QBs, and that Peyton Manning fellow is, as both Tongs and I believed, having a helluva year. Obviously, it makes a lot of difference whether or not Eric Decker and Knowshon Moreno share in those spoils, but there's a good chance one of them will.
Adam's matchups are rough; middling for Marshall, and fairly bad (top 10 lowest points against at their respective positions) for RGIII, Mathews, Gore, and White. Most weeks he'd be a pretty clear favorite, I think, but a few things are working against him this time. And I think it'll be just enough:
PREDICTION: TONGO advances to the Semifinals.
Big Damn Heroes (8-5) vs. Wyld Stallyns (6-7)
Jay's the defending champ and the new league record holder for Points Scored in a season, and as I noted in another thread, he hasn't scored fewer than 123 points since Week 1. It's easy to see why: Heath Miller, Doug Martin, and A.J Green all had huge bust-out years where they've more than returned on their average draft position, Arian Foster's been Arian Foster, and while Cam Newton struggled somewhat, he's improved a lot lately, and Jay had an able backup in Big Ben anyway.
He's a little weak on the bench, though, and even without any injuries he's running Lance Moore out there, so he's not invulnerable. But I think, #3 seed aside, he has to be considered the favorite. Maybe not against The Field, but against any other single team.
On the other side of the ring is Sleezy, MoFo's first sub-.500 playoff team, the result of keeping the 6-team playoff structure while falling one owner short and having to roll with 12 teams. He's got some big names, though: Rodgers and Welker, most notably, and while the latter's got a tough matchup with Houston, the former should enjoy a shootout with Detroit.
Sleezy has the toughest choices of any of the four playoff teams going this week; he's got to pick between Michael Turner/Reggie Bush and Dwayne Bowe/Golden Tate. Earlier in the year both of these would be no-brainers, but KC's been a mess and Bush is suddenly both struggling and sharing time. And Amendola, though "back" in general, is out again this week.
Sleezy has the talent, but too many of those mid-round guys like Bush and Bowe are struggling. Hard to go up against the highest scoring team in the league with Hilton and Tate.
PREDICTION: Jay advances.
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By the bye (get it?), we're using reseeding again this year, so don't let the bracket structure on the league site fool you. The only Semifinal matchup than can't occur is Jay; any other matchup is possible. If the predictions above hold, for example, it'd be LT/TONGO and Jay/Pete.
Nobody from the Jay/Sleezy matchup's going tonight, nor is anyone on Adam's team. But TONGO's got all three of his Denver guys. So we'll probably know a lot more about his chances after tonight.
Im wrestling starting Jacob Tamme over Greg Olsen, and benching Decker for Steve Smith. Ugh. Smiths up against Atlanta and theyre humming on all cylinders this year. Olsens chances are better vs Atlanta if those statistic thingys have any merit.
In the end I decided to stick with the guys that got me here, but this is Deckers last chance. :eek: Im scared.
Powdered Water
12-06-12, 08:56 PM
Screw those guys. They all stink. :mad:
I think you made the right choices. The lineup you ended up with is probably the same one I would've ultimately chosen.
Manning off to a good start; 4 for 6 on the opening drive, including a TD.
Oh if he only had maintained that opening drives pace! After the game Im near 60 points. Acceptable for 3 slots, but not great either. Surprisingly Moreno was the big point earner and not Peyton. Decker had a 8 catch game so he keeps his spot.
Its only thursday. Theres still too much time left to tinker.....
Yeah, the total's all that matters; Moreno picked up the slack. 59 points out of three slots is plenty solid, and higher than the total projected for those guys. That's one way to get a sense of it; if you guys are projected for about the same total (and you are), then you can look at your score relative to the projections to get a sense of how things are shaping up. Only works insofar as they end up being at least close to right, but it can be helpful when a disjointed group of players have/haven't played.
Anyway, still lots of football left but last night was definitely a positive for your chances of winning.
Sleezy has the toughest choices of any of the four playoff teams going this week; he's got to pick between Michael Turner/Reggie Bush and Dwayne Bowe/Golden Tate. Earlier in the year both of these would be no-brainers, but KC's been a mess and Bush is suddenly both struggling and sharing time. And Amendola, though "back" in general, is out again this week.
Sleezy has the talent, but too many of those mid-round guys like Bush and Bowe are struggling. Hard to go up against the highest scoring team in the league with Hilton and Tate.
Right now, it's more of a no-brainer to sit Bowe and Bush based on their matchups alone. Bowe is on the road against Cleveland (and Joe Haden) with Brady Quinn at QB. Bush is also on the road against the league's best run defense and his touches have dropped considerably.
Golden Tate is at home, where Russell Wilson and company are typically very good, and Tate himself seems to have a penchant for catching TDs. T.Y. Hilton is also at home and will face a struggling secondary as Indy's clear #2 with Andrew Luck throwing him the rock. I've lost some games lately because I didn't start these guys. I'm hoping they'll deliver now that I've seen the light. ;)
The only choice I'm struggling with is whether or not to start Martellus Bennett in place of Tate or Hilton. He's been relatively mediocre on the season, but he had a monster game last week and the Giants are hitting their typical late season stride. He'll be at home facing New Orleans, who's near dead last against the TE.
I'm considering benching Tate for Bennett (in the flex), but I can't help but think Tate is more likely to put up 20 points than Bennett.
All my players have went, and my team total this week is 137.10. I was 13 points over my projection. Adam is at 116.24, has a half of football still to play with Gore & the 49rs, then Jason Hansen tonight, and Owen Daniels tomorrow night.
:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:( cry.
It was looking pretty close before Gore's touchdown. Now you're gonna have to hope that Daniels or Hansen whiffs. Which isn't out of the question.
Either way, you've put up a very strong total. If Adam pulls it out, it'll be because he just got huge days from both WRs, and the iffier guys like Garcon and Gore both came through at the same time.
*Shakes fist at Seattle D*
There goes my slot in my other league! Har!!!
Looks like if I'd snuck into the playoffs I would've knocked off Jay and moved onto the Semis. D'oh.
And yes, I'm totally gonna follow this alternate reality timeline to figure out what would've happened if not for that freaky night in mid-November...
Ha! Yes the old alternate timeline. For me its like how much help did Reggie Wayne and Chris Johnson reaaaaally bring me? Oh yeah I noticed Marshawn Lynchs' big day yesterday, and saw Steve Smith (on my bench) outproduce Wayne the past few weeks. Even now I wouldnt hesitate to say I got a great deal for Marshawn Lynch, but sometimes great deals can still end up screwing you.
upStomp
12-11-12, 08:47 AM
Looks like if I'd snuck into the playoffs I would've knocked off Jay and moved onto the Semis. D'oh.
And yes, I'm totally gonna follow this alternate reality timeline to figure out what would've happened if not for that freaky night in mid-November...
Skin of my teeth this week, for sure. I would have been beaten by any of 4 other players this week, not including those on byes. Just proves how important seeding is.
And then there were four.
Here we go...Semifinals:
RG3scompany (9-5) vs. Sookie's Suckers (10-3)
It was a close one for Adam last week; as TONGO put up a strong 137 points. But he got huh-ooge days out of Marshall and White, and Gore/Garcon combined for 35, which gave him a 4-point victory.
Adam has very average matchups this week; almost all of them middling, statistically. The most important, though, is SF-NE, given that a) Adam has the SF defense, b) LT's starting four Patriots, c) Adam has Frank Gore.
Not a lot else to say. How that game goes almost certainly determines the winner. LT's got Brady, Peterson (who's been a beast lately and is defying all sorts of conventional wisdom about ACL injury recovery time), and a lot of coin flip guys, especially with Nelson either out or hobbled.
PREDICTION: Adam makes his first MoFo Bowl.
Big Damn Heroes (9-5) vs. Beantown Champs (9-4)
I said something during the regular season about the highest projected points in league history. I dunno if this is the mark, but...Yahoo thinks Jay's going to score 157 points. If that's not the high water mark, it's close.
It's not hard to see why; lots of explosive guys, only a couple of iffy ones, and Cam Newton's making a late season run, which is pretty fantastic timing for anyone who was able to survive his early season struggles (which Jay was able to do, partially thanks to Roethlisberger). And the dude has zero bad matchups this week; half are good, half are average.
Pete's team is pretty much the opposite; lots of questionable guys, but each one having a fair amount of potential. Just tough to be relying on so many of them. McFadden seems to be healthy again and has a good matchup, but he's been hard to trust even when healthy.
PREDICTION: Jay returns to the MoFo Bowl to try to defend his title.
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So there it is. First game's tonight: only significant player involved is Jays A.J. Green, who I have in my other league, so I'll be watching closely.
I went to bed thinking LT had no chance, because the SF defense was just handling her skill players, and the Pats were down 31-3.
Then they came back and tied it with 4 TD in the 4th quarter (!!!). Alas, they ended up losing, but it was enough to put LT into the finals!
I have been afraid to say anything all season long...so I will speak to ya'll after the season is over.
Let's strap our helmets on for one last game GoObAh's!
Powdered Water
12-17-12, 10:50 PM
It seems almost impossible to think that after all the horrible seasons Pete has endured here, he may now be able to take home a trophy. I don't like him.
Aye, but hey, he's waited a long time for it. Wish he'd passed his curse off to someone else (it's now official: if not for that crazy Wallace game, I'd be in the MoFo Bowl again), but it's hard to argue that any owner has paid his dues, karmically, more than Pete.
You have to say that to stay off the couch. :D
But yeah, could be. On paper it's a pretty close matchup. But as an unyoked observer, I'd lean towards Pete slightly, simply because LT's team is very top heavy with Brady and AP, and a whole lot of question marks elsewhere, and I tend to bet against teams that have to win too many coin flips (or make up for them with huge stud performances). But that's usually just the difference between a 40% or 60% chance of winning, anyway, so even being the favorite only means so much in a single week.
Gotta pull for Pete, though, given all the bad luck he's experienced. It was getting downright comical. Karmically, this one's no contest.
I'll do some analysis before Thursday's game, complete with overly detailed spreadsheets and everything.
The thing is - half her team tanked this week - half!! And she still put up over 100 and won. Her WR one and two did nothing, Her RB 2 did nothing, and her swing got a measly 5 points. That is what i have been saying all along - her team is just THAT resilient.
I was pretty damn sure when I went to bed Sunday night that she had NO chance of winning, and yet...I get up, and even though Adam got THIRTY out of Floyd, her studs still managed to put her over the top. I was stunned.
Week after week, things just go her way.
Brady et al have a WAY easier defense to deal with this week, too.
Also, when Brady loses, he gets REALLY mad and REALLY focused. I bet the Pats but up 40+ this week.
You're not anthropomorphizing a fantasy team, are you? ;) I must call shenanigans on such superstition. To the data!
Her total of 112 this week was actually significantly below the league average of 120 this year, and that's the real consideration. In this case, she'd have lost to both Jay and Pete, for example, as well as 6 (!) of the 8 teams in the consolation bracket. That's the nature of the game, of course, but who we happen to play in a given week obviously doesn't tell us anything about the quality of the team.
That said, the idea that Brady might kill this week is a perfectly sensible reason to pick her. As her team shows, having guys like Brady and AP put up huh-ooge numbers can cover all sorts of sketchy dudes in the other slots (though it helps when your opponent's star QB goes down, Adam would add snarkily :laugh:). It's just dicey to be relying on that, because for it to work you usually need some choice scheduling and lots of close shaves. And that's exactly what's happened.
I promised stupidly thorough statistical analysis, and stupidly thorough statistical analysis I shall provide.
For MoFo Bowl V, I put together a spreadsheet of the two lineups--LT's Sookie's Suckers and Pete's Beantown Champs--to compare their projections. Not just from Yahoo, but from six different fantasy football projections from various sites. This puts some industry behemoths alongside some fairly amateur-ish operations, but there are only so many sites that provide projections for almost all potentially startable players, anyway, and averaging these things helps smooth out the outliers. It should also be noted that one of the projections is itself an average of several other analysts. So there's a fair bit of data contained in these summaries.
This is especially true because of ESPN, whose projections have to come down one way or the other as to whether or not a given player scores a TD (most others seem to base them on probabilities, IE: saying they project 0.5 TDs would result in 3 points, even though in reality it's either going to be 0 or 6).
Obviously, there's stuff every week that nobody seems coming, and this doesn't usually do a great job of capturing that. But it does do a good job, I think, of capturing what we can most reasonable expect given what information we have. In short, it's good for knowing what kind of general position you're in, which can be helpful when deciding whether or not to go with riskier, high-upside players, or safer ones with lower ceilings.
I'm basing the lineups based on who each time has set to start right now. LT, I know for certain, has updated her lineup since last week's games, but I'm not sure about Pete. So some of this could change. And I didn't use projections for Ks, and in one case the projection did not include defenses. For kickers I'm just using a standard 7 points, and for the missing defenses projection I'm using a rough average of the other five projections.
So, all that said, here are the results:
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Sookie's Suckers
LT's average score across all six services is 136.31 points, with a fairly wide range. Her lowest is 115, and her highest is 153. Brady doesn't score less than 25 in any of the projections, and AP doesn't score less than 20. Guys like Boldin and Ridley vary more. The projections are a bit wary of starting Chandler, but none of them expect him to be terrible; they've all got him between about 7 and 10 points.
Beantown Champs
Pete's average score is 128.10. His lowest is 113, and his highest is 143. The projections prefer Luck to Wilson at QB, but not by a wide margin. He is, however, projected very consistently, ranging from just 18 to 24. In fact, four of his six projections are either 18 or 19, and five of the six fall within just over 3 points of one another.
Hardly any of Pete's projections, for any player from any of the sites, are expected to put up huge totals. Of the seven starting players over six sites (42 total projections), only six have the player putting up more than 20, and all six are either Luck or Cobb (three each). None are projected above 24.
The projections do seem to suggest that Bradshaw might be a smarter player than Gresham at the Flex, by the way, if he plays.
Comparisons
So, you may note the lowest score for each is basically a tie. This means that the projections think the teams have about the same floor, but LT's has a little more upside. LT's totals are 14.9 standard deviations from one another, and Pete's are just 10.8.
In English, this probably means that this is more LT's to win or lose. That is to say, there's a pretty high likelihood that Pete's going to put up an okay score, something in the 115-130 range. Probably not too great or too terrible. If I had to tell you the winner and could only know one score, I'd rather know LT's. If she puts up 140 or more, I'd feel pretty comfortable assuming that'll be enough. Ditto if she puts up 110 or less.
In zero-sum terms, LT leads in five of the six projections, though most are to a statistically meaningless degree. They break down like this:
LT +9.6
Pete +4.6
LT +10.8
LT +3.3
LT +26.5
LT +3.7
Obviously, a lot of the disparity in the average is based on that second to last one, which knocks the average lead to 8.22 from 4.56. Half the projections are statistically meaningless, though the 9.6 and 10.8 leads are enough to matter, and the big number still counts towards the average.
So, there it is. A purely dispassionate analysis leads to two clear conclusions, one favoring each team. First, that LT is the favorite. But Pete can take solace in the second, which is that she's not a big favorite. Of course, a similar averaging of projections had me a huge favorite (30-40 points!) when I played LT in MoFo Bowl II, so nobody really knows. Either way, if you're betting in the outcomes of MoFo Bowls, you might have a serious gambling problem. But there ya' go, you degenerate gambler, you. Best of luck to both teams.
Also, I hope Pete can clear something up for me: the Gypsy Curse you gave me...does it end once you win it all? Because I'd like to know what to root for here, and whether or not there's any chance of me eradicating it without, I dunno, exhuming a grave and putting some soul at rest with some sort of stolen pendant or something. If you could just exercise that whole thing by winning, that'd be a big help.
Awesome analysis!
Say, how did LT end up with Amendola too?? Good WR depth on her team, which is fortunate, because people got hurt.
I let him go a few weeks back. He was banged up and missing more games, and I needed depth elsewhere. It was tough to let him go, but I ran out of time waiting on him. :shrug:
I promised stupidly thorough statistical analysis, and stupidly thorough statistical analysis I shall provide.
For MoFo Bowl V, I put together a spreadsheet of the two lineups--LT's Sookie's Suckers and Pete's Beantown Champs--to compare their projections. Not just from Yahoo, but from six different fantasy football projections from various sites. This puts some industry behemoths alongside some fairly amateur-ish operations, but there are only so many sites that provide projections for almost all potentially startable players, anyway, and averaging these things helps smooth out the outliers. It should also be noted that one of the projections is itself an average of several other analysts. So there's a fair bit of data contained in these summaries.
This is especially true because of ESPN, whose projections have to come down one way or the other as to whether or not a given player scores a TD (most others seem to base them on probabilities, IE: saying they project 0.5 TDs would result in 3 points, even though in reality it's either going to be 0 or 6).
Obviously, there's stuff every week that nobody seems coming, and this doesn't usually do a great job of capturing that. But it does do a good job, I think, of capturing what we can most reasonable expect given what information we have. In short, it's good for knowing what kind of general position you're in, which can be helpful when deciding whether or not to go with riskier, high-upside players, or safer ones with lower ceilings.
I'm basing the lineups based on who each time has set to start right now. LT, I know for certain, has updated her lineup since last week's games, but I'm not sure about Pete. So some of this could change. And I didn't use projections for Ks, and in one case the projection did not include defenses. For kickers I'm just using a standard 7 points, and for the missing defenses projection I'm using a rough average of the other five projections.
So, all that said, here are the results:
-
Sookie's Suckers
LT's average score across all six services is 136.31 points, with a fairly wide range. Her lowest is 115, and her highest is 153. Brady doesn't score less than 25 in any of the projections, and AP doesn't score less than 20. Guys like Boldin and Ridley vary more. The projections are a bit wary of starting Chandler, but none of them expect him to be terrible; they've all got him between about 7 and 10 points.
Beantown Champs
Pete's average score is 128.10. His lowest is 113, and his highest is 143. The projections prefer Luck to Wilson at QB, but not by a wide margin. He is, however, projected very consistently, ranging from just 18 to 24. In fact, four of his six projections are either 18 or 19, and five of the six fall within just over 3 points of one another.
Hardly any of Pete's projections, for any player from any of the sites, are expected to put up huge totals. Of the seven starting players over six sites (42 total projections), only six have the player putting up more than 20, and all six are either Luck or Cobb (three each). None are projected above 24.
The projections do seem to suggest that Bradshaw might be a smarter player than Gresham at the Flex, by the way, if he plays.
Comparisons
So, you may note the lowest score for each is basically a tie. This means that the projections think the teams have about the same floor, but LT's has a little more upside. LT's totals are 14.9 standard deviations from one another, and Pete's are just 10.8.
In English, this probably means that this is more LT's to win or lose. That is to say, there's a pretty high likelihood that Pete's going to put up an okay score, something in the 115-130 range. Probably not too great or too terrible. If I had to tell you the winner and could only know one score, I'd rather know LT's. If she puts up 140 or more, I'd feel pretty comfortable assuming that'll be enough. Ditto if she puts up 110 or less.
In zero-sum terms, LT leads in five of the six projections, though most are to a statistically meaningless degree. They break down like this:
LT +9.6
Pete +4.6
LT +10.8
LT +3.3
LT +26.5
LT +3.7
Obviously, a lot of the disparity in the average is based on that second to last one, which knocks the average lead to 8.22 from 4.56. Half the projections are statistically meaningless, though the 9.6 and 10.8 leads are enough to matter, and the big number still counts towards the average.
So, there it is. A purely dispassionate analysis leads to two clear conclusions, one favoring each team. First, that LT is the favorite. But Pete can take solace in the second, which is that she's not a big favorite. Of course, a similar averaging of projections had me a huge favorite (30-40 points!) when I played LT in MoFo Bowl II, so nobody really knows. Either way, if you're betting in the outcomes of MoFo Bowls, you might have a serious gambling problem. But there ya' go, you degenerate gambler, you. Best of luck to both teams.
Also, I hope Pete can clear something up for me: the Gypsy Curse you gave me...does it end once you win it all? Because I'd like to know what to root for here, and whether or not there's any chance of me eradicating it without, I dunno, exhuming a grave and putting some soul at rest with some sort of stolen pendant or something. If you could just exercise that whole thing by winning, that'd be a big help.
If I was to ever write an analysis so complete then everyone would realize Yoda hijacked my account. I thought Pete was gonna win too, but LT has a great matchup for that Patriot formula. Being the Pats play the Jags this week I feel assures the formula wins 2 seasons in a row. :sick:
Thanks. I enjoy it. :) Doing something similar for my finals matchup in my other league. It can help with tough lineup choices.
For awhile there I did something like this for pretty much every one of my matchups (in leagues I cared about, of which there were generally never more than two at a time), but this season I scaled back. Next year I might get back to it, and I'll probably be adding a few more projection sources. Maybe streamline the process a little more.
Also got some cool ideas for the league next year, assuming I actually find the time to go ahead with them. But it's generally easier to find time for fun, low-key projects like this than the more "important" ones, too. Much more relaxing. The kind of code I can write while listening to music.
You're not anthropomorphizing a fantasy team, are you? ;) I must call shenanigans on such superstition. To the data!
But...her team is human! :D
Although an argument can me made for Adrian being a cyborg at this point...
Yeah, Peterson's season is insane. As far as I can tell nobody's come back from that kind of injury that fast at all, let alone as good or better than before. Can I get a "Nobody Knows Anything"? We haven't done one of those in awhile.
I think Welker's the only one to do anything even close, and even then Peterson's recovery has to get the nod, given that he both had less time and plays a more physically demanding position.
DexterRiley
12-21-12, 09:26 PM
Welker is a bum. screw that guy.
lets talk baseball.
check this nasty stuff out :
http://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/R.A.-Dickey-knuckle.gif
its gonna be very very hard not to tongo-ise my roster this season with blue-birds.
:D
Dexters right! Im in for the next FBB season :)
DexterRiley
12-22-12, 12:24 AM
thats like wiffle ballin in the back yard.
Neither team doing great right now, but the early numbers definitely favor Pete. Almost all of the players on both sides are playing right now, but Pete has Richardson, Bradshaw and his defense going at 4, against Boldin for LT, so she needs a lead after these games, and its about even right now.
Wow, Pete has the lead after the first round of games. He only loses if Boldin somehow outscores Richardson, Bradshaw and the Chicago D.
Don't do a jig on that gypsy's grave yet, Pete. But put your dancing shoes on.
ManOf1000Faces
12-23-12, 06:35 PM
Lets go seahawks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, this thread is for pretend football. ;) When you bring reality into it, I hiss like a vampire caught in the sun.
ManOf1000Faces
12-23-12, 07:06 PM
How do you pretend football on the Internet. Is it a 3-D Game?
Can I Join? please :p
Congrats Petey!!
Looks like line-up choices finally caught up with the lovely Lisa. You should hear her going off right now...
*Puts headphones on - prays for mercy*
ManOf1000Faces
12-23-12, 07:46 PM
*Puts Petey in a black hole*
Who's next?
Aye. I'll do a little more thorough postgame analysis sometime soon, possibly after the holidays. But for now, a hearty congratulations to Pete. I think we'll all agree that nobody in the league had it coming more. If any of you Boston folk see Pete, have him PM me his address and I'll get that trophy out to him ASAP.
ManOf1000Faces
12-23-12, 08:36 PM
Aye. I'll do a little more thorough postgame analysis sometime soon, possibly after the holidays. But for now, a hearty congratulations to Pete. I think we'll all agree that nobody in the league had it coming more. If any of you Boston folk see Pete, have him PM me his address and I'll get that trophy out to him ASAP.
555 Maple Drive,Boston.
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For now, I'm celebrating the fact that I just won my other league (a pay league). And I'm celebrating just as I've celebrated every fantasy championship: by drinking some booze* and singing along loudly to "We Are The Champions." Except I sing "Me" instead of "We," grammar be damned.
"And me'll keep on fighting...'til the end..."
*I once had to substitute grape juice.
ManOf1000Faces
12-23-12, 08:43 PM
For now, I'm celebrating the fact that I just won my other league (a pay league). And I'm celebrating just as I've celebrated every fantasy championship: by drinking some booze* and singing along loudly to "We Are The Champions." Except I sing "Me" instead of "We," grammar be damned.
"And me'll keep on fighting...'til the end..."
*I once had to substitute grape juice.
I found my favorite quote
"Except I sing "Me" instead of "We," grammar be damned."
Congrats to Petey on his winning the league.
http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/4/2/5/7/ar124796242875242.jpg
Im sure hes glad hes got the monkey off his back.
Piledriver
12-24-12, 11:50 AM
9814
"Hao! Dai ye! We won! This is good, but Sookie, what is best in life?
Sookie: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Wrong! Beantown! What is best in life?
Beantown: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
That is good! That is good!"
:D
Powdered Water
12-24-12, 11:51 AM
Congrats Pete!
There was much lamenting - I heard it!
I ****ing hate fantasy football and I AM NEVER PLAYING AGAIN!!!!!!!!! (okay next year I will play) Fantasy football is for stupid people argh :mad:
DexterRiley
12-24-12, 06:39 PM
For now, I'm celebrating the fact that I just won my other league (a pay league). And I'm celebrating just as I've celebrated every fantasy championship: by drinking some booze* and singing along loudly to "We Are The Champions." Except I sing "Me" instead of "We," grammar be damned.
"And me'll keep on fighting...'til the end..."
*I once had to substitute grape juice.
I ****ing hate fantasy football and I AM NEVER PLAYING AGAIN!!!!!!!!! (okay next year I will play) Fantasy football is for stupid people argh :mad:
Baseball cant get here quick enough.
DexterRiley
12-25-12, 12:04 AM
http://members.shaw.ca/tcinc1/playoff.html
I don't know where to post this I just needed to say this offseason has seemed way too long. IM READY TO DRAFT AND WIN IT ALL I CANT STOP SHOUTING
I don't know where to post this I just needed to say this offseason has seemed way too long. IM READY TO DRAFT AND WIN IT ALL I CANT STOP SHOUTING
LOL! Im resolved to let Yahoo draft my team this time. Every year I draft like crap.
Hope to get in this year. Although my MLB team is in the basement I have been active and trying every day so I promise to be there every weekend doing what I can to win. Also if it matters I did take the top spot in the other league. Devorah definitely wants to play as well - life has finally given us more time for fun. Of course those more desrving will come first, but if there is a spot on either or both leagues were would love to be a part.
Y' know Dionne, since you did win in the Jungle league last year you do have the right to be this years commissioner if you want.
Hmmmm, I just may take you up on that. Will let you know soon. Thanks Tongo.
Hope to get in this year. Although my MLB team is in the basement I have been active and trying every day so I promise to be there every weekend doing what I can to win. Also if it matters I did take the top spot in the other league. Devorah definitely wants to play as well - life has finally given us more time for fun. Of course those more desrving will come first, but if there is a spot on either or both leagues were would love to be a part.
I dig. As always, it'll depend heavily on how many returning owners we have and whether or not any particularly active new owners emerge to fill the remaining spots, but if neither of those things gets in the way we'd obviously love to have her.
And, as always, a hearty thanks to TONGO for running a second league so that lots of others can get in on the fun, too. :)
Powdered Water
07-16-13, 12:57 AM
Am definitely in and hopefully possibly the wife too. Although I think there's a pretty good chance she ends up in T's league again. That's a good fit for her anyway. She actually doesn't really post here to much.
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