The playoffs are upon us, and we'd like to know if you're in or out, and how you wound up in that position?
Did you draft well, make good trades/waiver moves, or were or weren't you able to recover after having a star player such as Tom Brady get hurt?
Your answers could help all of us become better fantasy owners next season, so please enlighten us with your stories.
Leave your input on this blog or e-mail sports@fresnobee.com and you might see them in Sunday's edition of The Bee.
As for me, I'm either:
A. A win from making it in the playoffs as either my division champion (we have two six-team divisions, with the champs in each getting a first-round bye) or one of the four wild cards.
or
B. A loss from being one of several 7-6 teams, and I don't think I'll have enough points to get one of the wild cards.
Funny thing is, I'm playing the guy with the most points this season, but he's only 6-6 right now and needs a victory or he's out. Poor Matt Kreamer, a former Bee assistant editor, the guy scores the most points (1,180.9) but also has the second-most points scored against him (1,212.4) to put him at .500.
Well it's win or go home for both of us.
The CBS Sportsline fantasy guru has him beating me by 15 points, 106-91. But that guru has been way off before.
Having guys like Peyton Manning, Randy Moss and Chris Johnson pretty much always helps you out. Kreamer also has Thomas Jones, Matt Forte and Marvin Harrison.
I've got Ole Faithful, Kurt Warner, and I really hope he finds a way to shred Philly's defense since I also have Steve Breaston and Tim Hightower.
My other star is Clinton Portis and then there's Lee Evans, who was starring but then declined and then picked up 110 yards last week ... on my bench. And speaking of stars, there's Roy Williams in Big D, and he hasn't done nothin', yet. (Love the double negative? Hey, it's a blog.)
It's just kind of an up-and-down season of roster moves/transactions. One week I have Justin Gage (acquired via trade) and he gets 47 yards and a touchdown, the next week I have him on my bench and he gets 147 yards and two touchdowns.
Since I am above .500 and in playoff position, my advice couldn't have been too far off. Well, saying JTO will go vroom wasn't to good of a call, since he got benched two weeks later.
A lot of my draft projections by round have come up strong. Some pickups have panned out for a few weeks (Dan Orlovsky, before he got hurt) and some haven't done squat (Shaun Alexander, in case Portis got hurt).
I've made 21 transactions this season, so I wasn't complacent.
What did you do?
Did injury sink you? Did a high draft pick not pan out like a Derek Anderson?
What's your story?
Tell us.
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