My Fantasy Life Sucks

The dedicated readers of this blog may remember last year when i posted every so often about my Fantasy Football ups and downs. Last year I had some pretty good "ups". Winning my biggest league last year, and a championship for the second straight year. This year, things are just a little different.

I never went over my team drafts this year, but to keep things quick, I'm in 5 leagues. Yes that is proven to be to many leagues. 3 of the same ones I've been in for years. 1 new one with a guy from my trash talking league. It's actually with the guy that I consider to be one of the better players in the league, and turns out it's a pretty competitive league. I also started my own league this year. Its a super league for only the best players I knew. One of the biggest challenges in Fantasy football is finding 12 owners who are dedicated and competitive. So i screened everyone and got just that. I dont' want to talk about that one, I'm in second last and my team is total dog shit.

The original league that started my obsesion was Tom Cruise Fans. THis one is for very little money, I think the prize is $200, but is with all my friends who i grew up with. I loose in this league every year. It's funny cause 3/4 of the guys in the league are close to deadbeat owners, andI finish in the bottom 3 every year. So far this year I seem to have one of the stronger teams. WIth Stephen Jackson and Clinton Portis at RB, Boldin, B. Edwards, and Andre Johnson (injured) and Romo at the helm, I have a very strong team. I look forward to Johnson coming off injury and making a strong run in this pool.

My trash talking team is one of the better teams I drafted. I have Bree and Romo as Qb, couldn't be a much better rotation. Parker at Rb and a surprise so far in D. Foster. A phenominal WR corp consisting of M. Harrison, A. Johnson, S. Moss, Chris Cooley, Amani Tommer, basically 2 top flight WR is really good in this league. I'm ahead this week, but could still loose and drop to 1-2.

Then there is the Ancaster League with 4 keepers. I won this pool 2 years ago. I came into the season with 4 great keepers on paper. Addai, L. Maroney, L. Evans, and Colston. So far Addai is the only one who has done anything for me so far. i'm not giving up on the other guys just yet. Maroney is being working in slowly to the offense, but looks to loose a lot of carries to Sammy Morris over the course of the season. Especially in the red zone near the goal line. Not sure why, but I'm starting to believe it has something to do with Maroneys shoulder. I guess he can't bang away at the goal line. Evans has played some of the toughest defenses so far and of course, the bills are shit. And the Saints just haven't hit they're stride yet. Brees has been sub par so far, and as brees goes, Colston goes. So i'm looking for them to pick it up a bit in the coming weeks.

The new league I joined, called The Cowboys, is another one where I thought I should be winning. I have Bush at RB (see brees above for why he sucks) Romo again at Qb, A. Johnson, Chad Johsnon, S. Holmes, V. Davis. Just another great WR corp and good supporting cast. Right now I am 0-2 with a chance to win tonight if I can get 4 points out of Bush (thats only 40 yards). I lost last week putting up 150 points with the next closest person in the league scoring 110 points. SHould have been a win, but thats just fantasy, i ran up against the only person who scored more points then me. I feel good about this team, should turn out to be very competititve.

Then there is the big league. I thought I did a great job drafting in this league. Had Willis McGahee and Travis Henry, and Brandon Jacobs as my backs, Evans (see above, bills suck) B. Edwards, Moss, Cooley, and a good D. But this has turned out to be my worst team. I'm in second last place and there is no hope in sight. I traded Edwards for Derrick Ward, Jacobs backup after a injury, and edwards blew up the same week and had another good week this week. But in my defense, ward hasn't been to shabby. Of of right now he is in the top 10 for RB scoring. That doesn't matter, I still suck in that one. I have decided to get in the market for a trade. I'm offerning up Willis and T. Henry in an attempt to pull a move where I get a decent RB and a good WR. Downgrade a little with the RB and upgrade the WR is my strategy here. I'll let you know if it turns out.

I have some pretty terrible records in all of them. The big one I am 1-4-1. Cruise 2 - 0, Ancaster 0-6, Cowboys 0-2, Trash Talking 1-1. This is a make or break week for me. In Trash i have a chance to win, but only if New Orleans sucks tonight. I took a chance on that last night starting Romo over Brees cause the guy i play against has all New Orleans players going. I figured if brees puts up points tonight, his guys put up points and i would lose. Luckly Romo had a good game last night and I have a 33 point lead, but my opponent has 3 guys playing tonight and 30 points is pretty easy to make up. I could also get in the win column for the Cowboys with a small performance out of Bush, but I'm playing him in 2 other leagues, so I only want him to accumulate like 60 yards and thats it, i would get the win in 2 pools if he does that.