This football season, I took part in three different
leagues. I had the fifth year of my
local ten-person league with a bunch of friends from around the area. I took part in the second year of my extended
family’s twelve-person football league.
And at the request of my coworkers, I created a ten-person league in my
office.
I have to say, overall I’m pleased with my season. I drafted for my work league first with a
number of people who had never played before, and a few veterans. I was hurt a little by Jamaal Charles’
inconsistent play, and by Hakeem Nicks and Aaron Hernandez taking long breaks
for injuries. LeSean McCoy had trouble
meeting his expectations, but Adrian Peterson made up for that. I finished out the regular season in third
place and last week I topped the second place team to head into the
finals. Next week I play against an
undefeated team to try to hold the trophy high.
My second draft was for my local league with my
buddies. The previous season I had made
it to second place, so I was drafting late in the order. I took Chris Johnson with my first pick (ugg…)
and then wrapped around to get Adrian Peterson with my second (yay!). I started out slow, taking a 1-2 spot, and
then went on a long winning streak to vault into first place behind a number of
120+ point games. Right around the
middle of the season, though, my team fell apart as Vick was injured, I had to
trade a starting Receiver to get another QB, Rob Gronkowski broke his arm, and
then McGahee became injured too.
Somewhere in there, the Bears lost a few good starters on Defense too. From there it seemed for a week or two anyone
I picked up to count on would be on IR the next week. I limped through the last four weeks of the
regular season putting up a miraculous 2-2 finish (my two wins were for a
combined less than two points) and managed to hold on to my first place
spot. I faced my wife in the first round
of the playoffs and she defeated me easily, leaving me battling for 3rd place
next week. It’s okay, though. I have made fourth place in this league every
year that I’ve been in it save last year when I managed to crawl to second
place. Now it looks like I’m back to my
comfortable position.
The last draft of the year was with my extended
family. We are spread out between
Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, and Vermont, so we drafted online. I had a chance for Adrian Peterson but felt
taking him in all three leagues would be a risk given his questionable
health. Instead I ended up with a decent
team led by Tom Brady. I started out
slowly but managed to start putting together a string of wins and by the end of
the regular season, I was in fourth place and coming in with a good streak
going. This league let eight players
into the playoffs, so it is a three-week affair. I topped the previous year’s second-place
team in the first round while the first and second place teams from this year
both lost their opening round game. The
second round I faced off against my mother and while my team did pretty bad,
hers did even worse and managed a league-season-low 30-something points. Now I’m moving in to the finals against my
cousin Christian.
Regardless of how it all goes, after this coming weekend,
fantasy football will be all done for the year.
Running three teams was a lot of work.
I think ideally I’d play in only one or two leagues in the future, but I
don’t think it’ll be easy to drop any of them.
I enjoy the one with my friends too much, and the one with my family
helps keep me in touch with them. The
work one would be the odd one out, but I’m pretty sure if I don’t run it, it
won’t happen, and then I’ll have some people unhappy with me.
No sense in worrying about that now, though. I’ve got two Championship games to plan for!
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