(macdaddyx4) -- Before I get to the meat of my post, I would just like to point out that I will be using Courier as the font for my posts. LG3K wanted a way to differentiate between us, and choosing the wildest font available from Blogspot was the easiest way to do it.
Anyways, with the fantasy football season over, I feel there is little reason to look back at it. Moving ahead to baseball is my preference, but I will dedicate this one post to reflecting on the past season.
I participated in three public ESPN leagues this year, two snake drafts and one auction. My number one goal was getting Aaron Rodgers, and not just because I’m a Packers fan; I knew he’d have a monster season. And guess who lead ESPN in standard scoring even though the second-place Drew Brees had 155 more passing attempts and 800 more passing yards? That’s right, Mr. Discount Double Check.
I needed an excuse to add Clay Matthews to this blog
As LG3K already mentioned, I missed out on Rodgers in a bidding war in our auction league, but I was able to snag him in my other two leagues. I took him with the reasonable fifth pick in one league, and was laughed at when I took him with the first overall pick in another league. Who’s laughing now, people who took Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Michael Vick, Jamaal Charles, and Andre Johnson in the first round of that league?
After Rodgers is where my teams fell apart. I aggressively targeted players like Mike Wallace and the Ravens D/ST, who helped me out a lot. But I also ended up drafting players like Knowshon Moreno and Beanie Wells in multiple leagues, the latter sitting on my bench due to injury concerns for his two biggest performances. Darren McFadden sat on my bench all season, waiting for a healthy week that never came. I also had at least one Panthers running back in each league, and none were named Cam Newton.
I did end up clinching the number one seed in the league I took Rodgers first overall, but made an early exit due to his poor performances against Oakland and Kansas City and the fact that the rest of my team couldn’t put up enough points. I finished in fourth place in the other Rodgers league and almost upset the number one seed, but stupidly left Steven Jackson and Nate Washington on the bench each of the two weeks. I don’t even want to mention my fifth place finish in the auction league where I scored a ton of points during losing efforts early on and was too far behind to make up the wins late in the season, but I guess I just did.
So, in conclusion, what I learned during the season:
- Aaron Rodgers is a beast.
- Roy Williams is still a horrible choice, even as a last pick.
- Do not drop Marquees Colston due to injury concerns, because I will pick him up and he will do great things for me.
- Never draft running backs from a Mike Shanahan-coached team unless their name is Terrell Davis.
- Eli Manning is the second coming of Peyton Manning.
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| Williams went on to drop this ball |
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