Fantasy Football - Bad Beat Edition

by T.J. Shouse on Dec 6, 2011 3:00 PM CST in Fantasy Football

If Craig Steltz was a real football player, something good wouldn't have happened for the Chiefs here. Oh, and I hate Dexter McCluster. Oh, and Corey Graham, great help.

First of all - the Forte injury rocked me (and not in the good way). I first heard of it thanks to a friend's text since I didn't get the Bears-Chiefs game (which in retrospect was a good thing, stupid Keanu Palko), and I've avoided spending too much time reading or writing about it because of how angry I get. Frankly, I'm treating it like an argument with my wife; if I avoid discussing it, it'll just fade away into the ether and be forgotten, regardless of how nonsensical or unhelpful that is .

So, since we've been a bit light in the fantasy football world around here, I'll be dedicating the comment section to any and all complaints about how your fantasy season has gone thus far.

If your league is normal (i.e. not stupid and running its playoffs into week 17), the fantasy regular season has ended and your team is prepped for playoffs. If your team stunk, you probably don't care anymore, but if you have a chance to wear the crown at the end of the season, you are likely scouring the internet for that final flex player to get you to the next round, or praying that injured/underperforming players are going to step up for you.

In the WCG league, I finished in first place, thanks to a fumble at the goal line by King Leonidas' Purple Cobras last week. I have no complaints about that league (I did go 11-2), but I did lose a first-round bye in another league by .5 fracking points (this after losing my first two games by a combined 2.4 points). In that league, I'm now likely to get throttled by a Cam and Arian-led team. That, my friends, is an example of a bad beat.

Feel free to vent your frustrations you've endured during the fantasy regular season, your own bad beats and anecdotes that we (may) share your pain in. Oh, and in case you're wondering, this rook is gonna take the WCG crown. Boom!

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11-2 and hard pressed to make any further

So somehow my league is full of idiots. I had the second pick in the draft and took Adrian Peterson. The next round comes by and Matt Forte still sat there, so I scooped him up. With those two, most of the season, I have dominated. But with the injuries to those two, hopefully I can keep going. I am the number 1 seed in the tourney. I picked up Helu (who was sitting there surprisingly) in hopes he can produce like he has in previous weeks. I am hoping with the likes of Matthew Stafford, Wes Welker, Steven Jackson, Michael Crabtree, Jordy Nelson (I know, but he is putting up points!!!), David Akers, Greg Olsen, and a rejuvenated Steelers Defense, I can continue and win the $1,000 pot!!!

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by JesseJames22 on Dec 6, 2011 3:20 PM CST reply actions

Despite accumulating more points than 85% of the population in standard scoring, I sit at a lowly 6-7. Run DMC and AP injuries hurt, but the competition’s weekly upset was frustrating. Not that I put too much faith in the predicted outcomes of the players, when you are a 30-40 point favorite week in and week out and still manage to lose, it sucks. . It’s been a very off-putting fantasy season. I could not outmatch the NFL player conspiracy that was set out just screw my fantasy team over….sniffle

by Beer Down! on Dec 6, 2011 3:23 PM CST reply actions

Stretching for the playoffs during week 12 (b/c we have 4 weeks of playoffs for some reason)

Going into the week I’m in 4th and in the playoffs, but I trail the 5th team in the tie breaker. If I win or he loses I’m in. Well going into the 4th quarter of the Monday night game between the Saints and Giants I’m up by 20 and he’s down by 6 in his game. Then on three consecutive possessions in garbage time, Victor Cruz catches a bomb TD (cuts into my lead), Pierre Thomas scores (he goes in front), and Cruz catches the garbage of all garbage time TDs for my defeat and boot from the playoffs.

by ThisIsJustBanter on Dec 6, 2011 3:25 PM CST reply actions

My season ended months ago

when RBs Best and Choice went down at the same time WRs Britt and Andre Johnson fell. Combine that with BMarsh trying to catch passes from a 3rd stringer and it’s easy to see why I haven’t given a thought about it in two months.

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by Gibbon Jockey on Dec 6, 2011 3:28 PM CST reply actions

I was 9-2 and in 1st place but lost this weekend, by 8 points, to the 2nd place guy. Stupid Murray and his measly 3 points!!!!!

I have done surprisingly well since I’m in a 10 team league, had a crappy spot in the draft and had injuries to my guy. I’ve had to work around injuries to Foster, Austin, Gates and Julio Jones, and a couple weeks ago I lost Fred Jackson for the rest of the year. I’ve just scoured the waiver-wire and was able to get guys like Robinson, Murray and Cruz. So now I have confidence in my guys and hopefully they’ll continue to improve because I was 30 yards and a TD away from another victory…. Ah c’est la vie merdeuse!

by frenchbears113 on Dec 6, 2011 4:52 PM CST reply actions

Most of my teams were either predictably good or predictably bad.

But I have this one team that is absolutely driving me insane.

This is an ESPN standard league team. I missed the draft, but still ended up with Forte, CJ, and Law Firm, but I knew the season wouldn’t start out well, and I knew that I’d have to scour the waiver wire like a hawk to even have half a shot at the playoffs. Actually, those are 3 out of the 5 players remaining on my 16 team roster that I actually drafted. And two of those 5 aren’t even starters anymore! (Freeman and Julio)

Fast forward to this week. I’m 4th in my league with 1106 points, trading spots weekly with the #3 scorer, and with nobody within 80 points of the top 4. But I’m only 7-6 with 2 games to go (yes, this is a weird one). The reason? I’m #2 on the Points Against list, with 1135. Basically, my team has either won or lost in close matches against high scoring or incredibly lucky teams. I’ve scored below 80 points 5 times, 3 of those in the first 3 weeks, losing 4 of those 5 times. I lost to the 2nd worst team in the league in week 3 before I made a 7-2 run. I lost the week I scored my highest weekly total, for crying out loud! It also doesn’t help that this is a “divisional” league, and while I’m the 4th highest scorer in the league, I’m also the 4th highest scorer IN MY OWN DIVISION!!!

And STILL, I’m one game out of the playoffs for this league. If I win my last 2 games, I’ve still got a shot at this thing. My roster is currently (* indicates drafted)…

Tebow
CJ *
Law Firm *
Antonio Brown
Nate Washington
Laurent Robinson
Aaron Hernandez
49ers DST
Kasay
Forte *
Freeman *
Julio *
Doug Baldwin
3 empty

I’ve got Waiver claims in for Barber, Donald Brown, and Aroma, but I doubt I’ll get any of those (save Aroma).

Oh yeah. And I face the #1 team by record in the league (though he’s #7 in scoring, he feasted on his own weak division).

ENVY ME!!!

by Doshi on Dec 6, 2011 4:59 PM CST reply actions

My top two backs are Matt Forte and Adrian Peterson.

Live sucks.

"You have a young group and if they start feeling too good about themselves, that’s not a good thing. So it’s my job not to let them. So probably they will hate me. But that’s OK too. My wife hates me and she’s still married to me." - Mike Tice

by badsamaritan on Dec 6, 2011 10:00 PM CST reply actions