Injuries Take The Fun Out Of Fantasy Football

cctekguy

cctekguy

Staff member
I'm pretty much soured on the whole FF game. I'll be in 2 leagues this year but I'm not sure I'll be back.

Between injuries and the antics of the "suddenly rich" or the "suddenly not as rich as the other guy" it just really seems to defeat the purpose.

Every game someone goes down. Maybe for a week, maybe for 6...or 10...or the season. Maybe it's your guy...maybe it's not.

It's a physical game by nature and injuries are bound to be a part of it, but when a young wannabe thinks that crippling his opponent will get him a roster spot then the whole precept of the game as gone awry. The role of the defense is to stop the offense's forward progress. This can be done without critical impact in most cases but the "rewards" always go to the HARDEST HITTER.

These "Cretans" don't give a damn about Jamaal Charles and his wife and kids and the well being of another human family. They just know that if they break his legs that they will get a big raise next year.

Where is the strategy in picking soldiers in a mine field?

Success in fantasy football boils down to who has the most time to spend on their computer and how fast they can react to events.

The draft is a joke when it comes down to who wins the league. It's injury roulette from the gitgo and from there it's how quickly you can pounce on the waiver wire.



Ohh heck, this rant isn't about fantasy football it's about human beings that have been trained to inflict pain, not stop forward progress.
 
gizzil

gizzil

Well-Known Member
to a degree... I've seen this increase as well. From dudes that literally have their phones/computers open ALL day long that have nothing better to do whether employed or not to immediately take an annointed backup after a major injury or a clear case of the breakouts (cruz, etc) to the fact that players are more and more subject to injury, minor and major, and suspension, minor and major. In many suspension cases the athelete himself's fault, or the fault of an increasingly shrinking world (pretty sure ty cobb woulda been in the chair had we the contemporary social media and telecommunications capabilities at that time), or the fault of increasingly stringent and unwavering punishments of the world's most prominent monopoly. As for injury, we can blamee the guy comin up, tek, but that guy was always there. Whether for bounties contracts or whatever. They are stronger, faster, and the safety technology in the NFL has simply not kept up. The rules, which were set up to make the game "safer" and "protect" (CERTAIN) players have probably actually made the game much faster, and thus more prone to these skull rattling, spine chilling explosions like we saw happen to Austin Collie, Johnnie Knox (Good Lord if you aint saw that look it up... ewwwlllgh), and countless others last year alone. Really, the molestation of receivers in the past rarely caused them to be hurt. If anything, everyone was moving slower and was a lot more aware of their surroundings and where they may be heading. Today they're running full speed immediately, often dragging another body with them very close, also at full speed, and looking for the ball in tighter, quicker, less open windows while moving much faster. Anyone around with eyes up front is gonna smash these receivers. They have to. When they do, theres often a fast corner right there as well, either also making the hit, getting hit, or moving the receiver's body into a position nobody anticipates and somebody gets unintentionally crunched. If you ask me, the new rules protect people to be sure. These people are called quarterbacks. And this is yet another reason why they are the most consistent and safest picks in fantasy. The rules make it easier for them to succeed, as well as protect their bodies. Everyone else is flying bones and flesh though and there's a finite amount of green grass for them to fly around in. The impacts are are just that much stronger and more random because of the physical speed and rules which have made everybody that much faster. In summation, the rules are probably more to blame for this than anything. I would say give the D boys some more lax rules again, or make the spaces bigger or hell why not 7 on 7. I prefer the former, obviously as the bigger it gets the more it becomes some stupid weird bastardization and 7 on 7 is totally lame may as well put flags on em. But again if dudes keep gettin maimed out there... some change has to be made.
 
gizzil

gizzil

Well-Known Member
ok so that was all tangential and i forgot my original point - Yes, tek, it is becoming much more the roulette wheel each year with all of the injuries for us as fantasy players. It ****es me off at times, quite frankly, when the assholes who have their iphones and pads make the playoffs and/pr win just from that. Or through misfortune and injury somebody who knows the game AND the numbers gets trounced by a field of morons. As with any game of chance though, especially when the percentage of chance increases, the smart players have to follow the numbers, and give themselves the best chance to win. I think you can do this in the draft in a few different ways. I am trying to adapt myself, and hopefully am getting better at it. Plus I'm looking into getting a smartphone surgically implanted in my ass like all these bike messenger wannabe hipster ****s.
 
Miller

Miller

Who Dey
Administrator
Injuries are part of the game....real NFL and fantasy. Always has been, always will be.

Good Waiver Wire Rules can also level the playing field against the junkies that are always around the web.
 
cctekguy

cctekguy

Staff member
Truth be told, the injuries have helped me more than hurt me in fantasy. I'm not the most knowledgeable football guy and being an early riser has has given me some decent shots at the wire.

I guess the bottom line is that the players themselves have no respect for each other. When a hit leaves a player writhing in pain the hitter jumps up and pumps his fist and everyone high 5's. It's the mindset of the players and, frankly, I believe this mindset begins in high school.

I played ball in high school and I wasn't very good but on a kick-off I crashed helmet to helmet with the returner. I was knocked senseless but had enough wherewithal to stagger to the correct sideline. The guy I hit was unconscious. One of the coaches plowed through the sea of players on the sideline, shoving them aside as needed, screaming "WHO MADE THAT HIT, WHO MADE THAT HIT?" When he got near enough to me, I told him "I did". He was gracious enough to cover his mouth when he snickered and looked at his shoes and shook his head. When he finally looked back up at me, he had the most approving look in his eyes I had ever gotten from a coach.

Meantime, the other kid was still flat on his back on the field. I didn't worry about the kid, or his parents or even if he was hurt seriously. I just felt warm inside that I had pleased the coach.


Sorry...didn't mean to ramble.
 
mudloggerone

mudloggerone

Outlaw
Administrator
People with hearts feel bad for any player they hurt and it hit's you quick when the opponent doesn't bounce up in a timely manner. You had an EKG lately?
 
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