Let it all out. Lets get to the bottom of these issues.
Week 10 venting thread
- Thread starter MongerKhan
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I know the feeling. I'm the "lets have our best week of the season " guy in one of my leagues.
gizzil
Well-Known Member
Seriously!! I mean... I know I got autopicked the first four picks but still!! The team is wayyy better than a lot of these other buster teams... And yeah... here comes 1-8 guy... whoops I'm gonna score double what I normally do... oh yeah, last week i didnt field any RB or QB but against you ill have the whole freakin team!!
ExperiencedRookie
Well-Known Member
Ive always felt that fantasy football is played completely backwards. The head to head matchups turns a game of strategy into a luck fest in a lot of cases.
I feel that fantasy football should be awarding a win to the top half of the league in scoring each week, while the bottom half gets a loss. It's not really round robin scoring, but its similar.
Far too often I've seen one of the best teams in the league draw the worst schedule possible and miss out on the playoffs. It's a flipping joke! On the other side, somehow a junk team gets a cake schedule and finds themselves stealing an unwarranted playoff appearance that should have gone elsewhere.
I never get anywhere with this argument though. People love their head to head matchups. They claim that this game we play should be played just like a football game...2 teams enter the gridiron, 1 team leaves. Unfortunately, it's impossible to make these 2 things alike. Fact is, there is nothing you can do to play defense against your opponent. No amount of strategy can hold your opponent to a 72 point output.
Another argument is that each week would be boring if you were only playing to get into the top half of your league, and that it's only fun when you get to go heads up with someone else. Is it really though? Look at your league scoreboard every week. How many games really come down to the last few minutes of MNF? Not nearly as many as you would think. In fact, most matchups have very little intrigued left over, with the winner being all but declared at the end of Sunday night.
For example, these are the scores from my 2 favorite leagues this week.
124-66, 109-87, 95-79, 77-62, 110-50, 125-84, 108-67, 80.5-46.5, 83-59.5, 132-66.5, 113.5-59.5, 122.5-93.5, 124-70
There's not a single game in those 13 matchups that had any intrigued left for MNF. It doesn't get anymore boring than that. How much more interesting would it be though if you owned the score of 79, sitting at 7th in scoring for the week, on the fringe of getting a win, but the team with 77 points was breathing down your neck? This will happen EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
Anyways.....that's my rant.
I feel that fantasy football should be awarding a win to the top half of the league in scoring each week, while the bottom half gets a loss. It's not really round robin scoring, but its similar.
Far too often I've seen one of the best teams in the league draw the worst schedule possible and miss out on the playoffs. It's a flipping joke! On the other side, somehow a junk team gets a cake schedule and finds themselves stealing an unwarranted playoff appearance that should have gone elsewhere.
I never get anywhere with this argument though. People love their head to head matchups. They claim that this game we play should be played just like a football game...2 teams enter the gridiron, 1 team leaves. Unfortunately, it's impossible to make these 2 things alike. Fact is, there is nothing you can do to play defense against your opponent. No amount of strategy can hold your opponent to a 72 point output.
Another argument is that each week would be boring if you were only playing to get into the top half of your league, and that it's only fun when you get to go heads up with someone else. Is it really though? Look at your league scoreboard every week. How many games really come down to the last few minutes of MNF? Not nearly as many as you would think. In fact, most matchups have very little intrigued left over, with the winner being all but declared at the end of Sunday night.
For example, these are the scores from my 2 favorite leagues this week.
124-66, 109-87, 95-79, 77-62, 110-50, 125-84, 108-67, 80.5-46.5, 83-59.5, 132-66.5, 113.5-59.5, 122.5-93.5, 124-70
There's not a single game in those 13 matchups that had any intrigued left for MNF. It doesn't get anymore boring than that. How much more interesting would it be though if you owned the score of 79, sitting at 7th in scoring for the week, on the fringe of getting a win, but the team with 77 points was breathing down your neck? This will happen EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
Anyways.....that's my rant.
cctekguy
Staff member
At 1-8, there is no hope for post season for me. My one win came against the other 1-8 team so I've been a lay down for the good teams all season long.
Then week 10 rolls around and at the end of Sunday Night's game, I am 4 points behind the best team in the league. We each have 1 player on Monday night and for the first time all season....I'm excited.
It's the worst possible Monday Night NFL match-up and I'm glued to the screen, sitting through all the pre-game hype and planning on feeling like crap after staying up until the final gun.
A season maker for a 1-8 team. Take down the big dog and the sting of all those losses fade away. Teams one game behind this Goliath will hoist me on their shoulders and sing my praises. A fleeting moment of relevance.
On the opening drive, my guy romps for 8 yds, then 5 then 21 (called back) and then 30. Wow, I thought to myself, I could really win this thing! FIRST AND GOAL @ the 1. I'm behind by 1 and already adding up the 6 TD points.
YES.......what? huh? Announcers are still raving about my guy when I see the meat wagon scoot across the field. There is a man down and he's wearing my guys Jersey. This can't be!
A commercial break later I'm ready to swear off fantasy for ever, never exposing myself to this kind of disappointment again.
His guy ended up with a paltry 5 points so there is no doubt I "would have" pulled off the biggest upset of the season had not the vultures targeted my guy.
It's Tuesday morning now and I'm feeling much better. Needless to say, I didn't stay up for the final gun. Had I posted this last night, it would have been much more opinionated.
THIS is why we play Head to Head.
Then week 10 rolls around and at the end of Sunday Night's game, I am 4 points behind the best team in the league. We each have 1 player on Monday night and for the first time all season....I'm excited.
It's the worst possible Monday Night NFL match-up and I'm glued to the screen, sitting through all the pre-game hype and planning on feeling like crap after staying up until the final gun.
A season maker for a 1-8 team. Take down the big dog and the sting of all those losses fade away. Teams one game behind this Goliath will hoist me on their shoulders and sing my praises. A fleeting moment of relevance.
On the opening drive, my guy romps for 8 yds, then 5 then 21 (called back) and then 30. Wow, I thought to myself, I could really win this thing! FIRST AND GOAL @ the 1. I'm behind by 1 and already adding up the 6 TD points.
YES.......what? huh? Announcers are still raving about my guy when I see the meat wagon scoot across the field. There is a man down and he's wearing my guys Jersey. This can't be!
A commercial break later I'm ready to swear off fantasy for ever, never exposing myself to this kind of disappointment again.
His guy ended up with a paltry 5 points so there is no doubt I "would have" pulled off the biggest upset of the season had not the vultures targeted my guy.
It's Tuesday morning now and I'm feeling much better. Needless to say, I didn't stay up for the final gun. Had I posted this last night, it would have been much more opinionated.
THIS is why we play Head to Head.