Well I am back after taking a long sabbatical from this blog, I thought I would get back into it. The football season is winding down and I thought I would offer my impressions of my first experience with Fantasy Football. While I was in San Antonio this last summer I was asked by Jeff if I wanted to be a part of his Fantasy Football league that he does with Cara's family and friends. Since I have never participated in any type of fantasy league, I thought would give it a chance. I did a crash course on how it works and took the limited knowledge I had of the football from the last season and started drafting players. While I am a big sports fan, I admit that football has not been my favorite over the last few years. Sure I have watched the Super Bowl games, but how can you not watch the grand daddy of all football games.
The draft experience was actually quite fun, even though I found myself scrambling on many occasions trying to find the next best alternative when my would-be selection was taken right before my turn. I know for the future to start planning my team more than the day before the draft in order to maximize my options. I found myself following the games much more intensely, just ask my wife how many times she heard me saying, "Throw the ball to Witten!" All in all, I think this year was a good rookie year and I hope to enjoy more years of fantasy football, assuming my wife doesn't banish me from it.
A few tips I have learned, if you are considering doing it next year do NOT stack your team with players from one specific team, if they have a bad week then you are toast. Be careful not to take a star receiver and running back from the same week, for the most part only one or the other will really bring in the numbers on any given week. Finally, make sure you study the teams of the players, not just the players. For example, a high profile receiver for the Vikings is Bernard Berrian, and he is great but due to the fact that the Vikings run the ball a whole lot, Berrian has not scored as many points as you would like. That is all for now, I will update this post after the season is complete.
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For all intents and purposes you are still banned from it next year... I swear if I have to hear "throw the ball to Witten", "you should have thrown it to Witten" or "why didn't you get the ball to Witten" one more time I'm going to throw a football through the TV...
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