Fantasy Football Discussion Thread

[EPW]

It looks like my luck is running out.

[Tuberski]

Oh, and Schaub was my backup QB.

ACK!

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I am 9 Ray Lewis points away from winning my IDP matchup with Koyaanisqatsi. I started Matt Cassel this week.

ACK!

About how my year has gone.

[Al B. Sure!]

ANDRE JOHNSON!!!!!!!! HOLY ****!!!! YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!

[OzzyKP]

Sadly he was not as much of the man as Darren McFadden.

[Al B. Sure!]

Hey did you see Jay Feely? Wow.

5 field goals, 4 extra points, and a rushing TD!

[-Jrabbit]

Congrats, Alby. Presumably this means you're still in the running for the big bucks. I'm happy for you.

[Al B. Sure!]

Congrats, Alby. Presumably this means you're still in the running for the big bucks. I'm happy for you.

Yes. Thanks. I won 96-94! Andre Johnson saved my skin.

I was down 92-53 but Bradshaw and Johnson pulled it out on Monday night. That is a great comeback.

[MRT144]

nice work on the stats u guys

thats too bad Drank... Your bad luck was worse than mine this week.

But I gotta say over all I've been really lucky this year. Got 5 teams all in the play offs and the 2 wins I needed this week to make it so I won because Rodgers went out early. And I had him on 1 team so I feel some of your pain.

It was really one of the ugliest fantasy games I've seen. But hey, thems the breaks and I haven't gotten any this year.

Snoopy finally gets some good luck winning by less than 2 points! Congrats!

[Al B. Sure!]

Here's something interesting from ESPN's Matthew Berry:

And also, good on you for drafting Arian Foster. You're welcome, Stockholm.

How do I know you drafted Arian Foster?

Because like I said, chances are, if you are reading this, you are in the playoffs. And no player is on more ESPN playoff teams than Foster. The great Mike Polikoff, who oversees our league manager product, looked at all of our prize-eligible leagues on ESPN (they tend to be the most active), and Foster (at 19.72 percent) is the most commonly owned player on all playoff teams. And even more impressive? He's owned on 35.57 percent of first-place teams, also tops

Here's ESPN's breakdown:

Players on most playoff teams
Arian Foster Hou 19.7%
Peyton Hillis Cle 15.5%
Antonio Gates SD 14.7%
Adrian Peterson Min 14.6%
Michael Vick Phi 14.4%
Dwayne Bowe KC 13.9%
Ahmad Bradshaw NYG 13.9%
Greg Jennings GB 13.6%
Jacob Tamme Ind 13.4%
LeSean McCoy Phi 13.3%
Calvin Johnson Det 13.2%
Brandon Lloyd Den 12.9%
Aaron Rodgers GB 12.7%
Roddy White Atl 12.7%
Steelers D/ST Pit 12.6%

As Berry notes:

Of the top 15, four were in-season pickups (Hillis, Vick, Tamme and Lloyd) in most leagues. Only two (Peterson and Rodgers) were first-rounders, and there are some third-rounders (Calvin Johnson, White and Jennings) in the mix. But the majority of the players (10 of the 15) were drafted in the fifth round or later, and McCoy went in the middle of the fourth).

Also fun, check this e-mail:

Alex Lozano (Orange County, Calif.): Hey TMR, I am a big fan and appreciate your advice. I wanted to send you an e-mail to share my pain this week. I am in a 12-team standard-scoring league. One of the teams did not draft a single player due to the fact that he went to Vegas for his bachelor party over drafting with us. He agreed that he would pick up his players on the waiver wire and play out the season. Lo and behold, he got the 8th seed in the playoffs and went against me in Week 1 of the playoffs!!! I was boasting all week to the league how I got a first-round bye. I lost to him 82-75. My starting lineup: Philip Rivers; Chris Johnson; Rashard Mendenhall; Ahmad Bradshaw (flex); Roddy White; Johnny Knox; Jacob Tamme; Matt Bryant; Seattle Seahawks DST.

His lineup: Sam Bradford; Darren McFadden; Brandon Jackson; Mike Goodson; Steve Breaston; Earl Bennett; Todd Heap; Garrett Hartley; New York Giants DST. Please read this so that others can know exactly how embarrassing to be the No.1 seed and lose to the 8th seed in the playoffs, a team that was not even drafted but waiver-wired. Also, I missed his bachelor party specifically to draft this team, karma is a cruel mistress!! Thank you for all your advice.

That team composed entirely of waiver wire pickups is so bad but it beat a much better (on paper) team.

[Al B. Sure!]

As for 1st place teams...

Players on most first-place teams
Arian Foster Hou 35.4%
Antonio Gates SD 19.7%
Peyton Hillis Cle 18.6%
Adrian Peterson Min 18.0%
Michael Vick Phi 17.3%
Greg Jennings GB 16.6%
Dwayne Bowe KC 16.2%
Calvin Johnson Det 16.2%
Ahmad Bradshaw NYG 16.0%
Aaron Rodgers GB 15.2%
Steelers D/ST Pit 15.1%
Jacob Tamme Ind 15.1%
Mike Wallace Pit 14.7%
LeSean McCoy Phi 14.6%
Roddy White Atl 14.6%

[Berzerker]

damnit Zopper, you went and got Collins for our playoffs at FFZ? You bastard

[Zopperoni]

Ayuh, it was Collins or stick w/ Hasselbeck. O happy days

[Berzerker]

Hasselback aint bad at home and he'll be throwing all day - you got 2 ~decent QBs this week. I hope, I'm playing Collins over Orton in the D league

[Al B. Sure!]

Kerry Collins is playing Houston.

If you somehow managed to play whichever QB started against the Texans every week, you would have racked up 3814 yards and 29 TDs so far this season.

For comparison, so far, Philip Rivers has thrown for 3868 yards and 26 TDs; Peyton Manning has thrown for 4028 yards and 26 TDs.