Long Fantasy Season Nearing End
There's a reason I do better in fantasy football than basketball. I just don't have the patience to monitor things on a daily basis for an 82-game season. I burn out. In football, I check in a couple of times a week, set my line-up once, and I'm all set. 16-game season. Easy. In basketball, get sick of tracking things, and I end up playing gimps for long stretches at a time. I played Baron Davis for a full month while he was out, and I've been playing Antawn Jamison the last two weeks. Yet somehow I snuck into the playoffs for my head-to-head league, and I didn't even realize the playoffs had already started until I checked to see what I had to do in order to qualify...I guess other folks are even more burned out than me. I can't even take credit for drafting my team, since Yahoo's prerankings did it for me.
I finally got knocked out of my survivor hoops league, by Andrew. He and I are actually the inventors of the proprietary league, in which seven GM's begin the season, and each month the bottom team is eliminated, and the rest of the teams draft his players, with the worst remaining team picking first. A redistribution of wealth, if you will. It's now down to him and Hubert, the king of survivor fantasy leagues, and the king has pretty much locked it up (he also won our football survivor league). I'm hoping I can mirror Hubert's double championship performance on the head-to-head side (I won our football league), though if I want a real chance I probably need to stop playing guys who don't even suit up anymore.
Ruth (the defending champ) and Andrew are the top seeds in the head-to-head league and get a bye this week, while Hubert didn't even make the playoffs (10th place, LOSER!). I guess that makes Andrew the king of fantasy basketball this year, though I'm prone to thinking that he cheats, since he works for Yahoo, and we are using Yahoo as our fantasy platform, so he's probably able to manipulate things from the inside. He cheats really badly at Mario Party, too.
So who among you are the insane fanatics who play fantasy baseball? I've barely managed to get through basketball season; I can't even imagine trying to manage a league that has twice the games. 162 games! And too many players, too. Bonds, Ichiro, and...I'm spent. I give up. You guys are crazy.
I finally got knocked out of my survivor hoops league, by Andrew. He and I are actually the inventors of the proprietary league, in which seven GM's begin the season, and each month the bottom team is eliminated, and the rest of the teams draft his players, with the worst remaining team picking first. A redistribution of wealth, if you will. It's now down to him and Hubert, the king of survivor fantasy leagues, and the king has pretty much locked it up (he also won our football survivor league). I'm hoping I can mirror Hubert's double championship performance on the head-to-head side (I won our football league), though if I want a real chance I probably need to stop playing guys who don't even suit up anymore.
Ruth (the defending champ) and Andrew are the top seeds in the head-to-head league and get a bye this week, while Hubert didn't even make the playoffs (10th place, LOSER!). I guess that makes Andrew the king of fantasy basketball this year, though I'm prone to thinking that he cheats, since he works for Yahoo, and we are using Yahoo as our fantasy platform, so he's probably able to manipulate things from the inside. He cheats really badly at Mario Party, too.
So who among you are the insane fanatics who play fantasy baseball? I've barely managed to get through basketball season; I can't even imagine trying to manage a league that has twice the games. 162 games! And too many players, too. Bonds, Ichiro, and...I'm spent. I give up. You guys are crazy.
posted by Chang Kim at Saturday, April 02, 2005
4 Comments:
not sure I agree with your comment that Andrew is the king of fantasy basketball...if i was invited to survivor, im pretty sure i would have dominated all of yall little boys! =)
It's definitely premature to crown Andrew, and I still have a chance to pass him up if I pull off the miracle in head-to-head. Sorry, you can't qualify for the crown. Maybe next year, though if Jeremy and Gina's performances in Survivor leagues this year is any indication, Survivor and med school don't mix. :)
I play fantasy baseball, of course.. hehe. Check out my Asian/Asian-sounding baseball team:
http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/296446/7
Not quite as good as my winning white-boy basketball team, but I'm leading the league in home runs thanks to Hideki Matsui!!
I love it. Asian or Asian-sounding, meaning you get to sneak in some guys named Lee. Hilarious.
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