Nothing bores non fantasy football participants more than hearing about some mope's fantasy football team and its adventures. I know this. For that reason I don't do a lot of talking about this hobby and this is probably the one and only time I'll write about it. It's not that I am not proud of my successes at the pastime. If one is going to devote time and effort to something, it's always better if you don't suck at it because then it's a waste of your free time.
I own three fantasy football teams at a site called Fleaflicker. One is Chicago Rocks, which I thought was a cool name, one is Harlem Knights in honor of my comedy group and the other,the unlikely moniker Mary's Prayer after my mom. I have tallied 4 championships and made the playoffs with at least one of my teams (and last year all 3) each season. This is,I think,my 5th year. And I don't know THAT much about the game of football. I enjoy it, I watch it but I am not an x and 0's guy. I don't know what the "cover 2" is or any of that terminology. I DO know a good player from a bad one and who to cut from the team and who to add each week.
You start with a team you drafted or that the website drafted for you. That's your corps. Of the 20 players you have,you have to start the ones you think will have the best game that week. This turns it into a guessing game. The best player on the team isn't always the one guaranteed to have a good week. You have to look at a few stats ,read a few websites for some tips but I don't devote more than a couple of hours a week and I do pretty well. There are a large number of players available (kind of a discard pack) each week and you can pick up these "free agents" to replace any of your team members who might be underperforming. Again, you have to guess...hopefully an educated guess...and if you guess correctly,you log onto the site Tuesday and your reward is victory. And the person you played against whom we can assume also was devoted to winning, is vanquished.
I'm off to a 1-0 start with all 3 of my teams and that has emboldened me to add strong players who can't even play yet as they are injured. On their return they will make my teams stronger and in the meantime, we might be able to win without them. Two of my teams are quarterbacked by Peyton Manning and the other by Super Bowl winning QB Drew Brees. Tony Romo of the Cowboys is a back up on one of my teams.
Okay I'm boring you now. As I said,no one wants to hear about another person's team. But for 4 months at the end of each year I am ready for some football...and the fantasy that we can all be champions.
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