fantasy fallout

Ugh- It's tuesday, and I'm really disgusted by my performance in the fantasy playoffs over the weekend. My teams were only able to muster 73 and 66 points in fantasy playoff week, respectively. A lot of fantasy stars didn't show up this week, but that's no excuse for what my teams did.

Ultimately, the 2 guys that i took in every league- Gates and Joey Galloway, really did me in. They both had something atrocious like 1 rec for 7 yards, and neither put up any fantasy points. And both were on the 2 squads i had this weekend. Not good, obviously. I mean, they both had pretty good regular seasons, did exactly what i hoped they'd do at where i drafted them ( galloway was actually a steal cuz i got him in like the 8th round), but they really failed me this weekend. They went down, and the ship ( being me) went down with them as well.

Now i guess i have a lotta reason to concentrate on fantasy basketball, but a part of me is just depressed, wants to take a break from fantasy sports for a lil bit. I'll have plenty of time for breakin' in hawaii ( Dec. 25-Dec. 31st) and on my ASB trip, but I really wanted another championship for fantasy football before i left. This is really the first season ever since i started fantasy football in 2003 that i haven't won a league at all. Very different feeling, not being energized about games going on the week of christmas. 2007= somewhat of a wasted season.

But i vow to come back next year. Don't y'all worry.

The 2 fantasy football leagues for UIUC have some good games on tap.........SeaTown Stunnas vs. ChiTown Bears, that's almost reminiscent of the NFC championship last year, ironically ( Seattle vs. Chicago). Congrats to those 2, they've had really good seasons but both won by about 2 or 3 points, which could have been avoided if i had started anybody other than joey galloway.


Today i'm just gonna post some of the preseason NBA predictions i had about the NBA. It's not really the conventional NBA predictions, as you'll see......this has more of a media-based, individual-player-type, off-the-court news predictions that'll happen this year, in top-10 form:


10.) Tim Duncan vs. Joey Crawford Part II: Just to spice up the NBA in the dog months of Jan. and Feb, David Stern inexplicably allows Joey to ref another Spurs game. AS the spurs go to the locker room for halftime, Joey asks Tim, "Wanna have a hot-dog eating contest?" Duncan interprets this as, "you're hotter than ron artest." All mayhem ensues. Stern wins prop bets for placing money on Duncan.

9.) Ron Artest disappears from the Sacramento Kings and is unheard of for many months. In early March, reports indicate that he has moved to Jamaica under the assumed name of "TruWarrior."
Just a preview of what's to come. I'll post the rest later. Hope those were at least border-line funny. I try, i try.

I think I'll ACTUALLY end by going over all the top fantasy players this year and how good they were, at least in yahoo! points. (results through Week 15)

1.) Tom Brady- 347 points. Are you kidding me? Probably the single most dominating season in the NFL ever, especially in fantasy sports. This was better than Peyton Manning's one season in 2004, better than L.T.'s season last year. Brady did this even though the yahoo! scoring system changed the passing scores to lessen the impact of QB's, but he STILL outscored the second best player by more than 80 points. Wow

2.) LT- not as good as last year, but he still did real well this year, gained tons of yardage on the ground as well as thru air, also threw in that pass TD

3.) Tony Romo- Not a bad 2nd QB with 286 points, he did a fantasy no-no by having a great fantasy regular season but then choking horrendously in the playoffs, probably ended a lot of teams' hopes this weekend, and fantasy owners will remember that for a long time.

4.) Brian Westbrook- did the inexplicable sunday by kneeling at the one instead of going in for another score, which would have given owners 6 more points to try to win. But great regular season, stayed healthy throughout it all, couldn't have asked for more from him this season, too bad i could have but didn't get him.

5.) Randy Moss- To think, he was getting taken in 3rd round last year. The whole Tom Brady- Randy Moss- Patriots offense just went ridiculous this year. Brady and Moss obvious benefactors, but not as much as their fantasy managers.

6.) Peyton Manning- quietly had a really good season, he's probably not used to being 2nd to brady in regular seasons, much less fantasy regular seasons. Only had 28 TD's, which is reflective of him not having his fav target harrison for a while and lots of injuries. This might be a trend starting next year.

7.) Adrian Peterson - The NEXT BIG THING. Proably the #1 draft pick for many next year, I'd still draft LT first, but we'll see......he needs to keep from getting hurt but he is VERY sick.

8.) Joseph Addai- Awesome breakout year this season as he was the man in INDY, carried the indy offense at times which is saying something w/ manning on that team but also makes sense cuz of aforementioned injuries to WR corps

9.) Derek Anderson- Derek WHO??? I didn't think derek anderson would have 39 fantasy points this season, much less 239. Barely fantasy relevant at the beginning of the season, he led a suddenly 3-pronged cleveland offense to legitimacy and probably the playoffs. He also did not show up in week 15, but that was more weather than skill.

Mason Crosby led the NFL in fantasy kicking w/ 145 points, out of nowhere. The kickers who actually got drafted this year ( vinateri, gould, elam, stover, those guys) didn't do very well, the top of the list were good teams who weren't that prolific w/ TD's like the patriots or colts. Crosby, Bironas, Folk all good kickers, but the list could do a complete turnaround by next season so don't draft kickers. Please.

Minnesota Defense coulda been had on waiver wire to begin year, finished #1........Bears D, Baltimore D both drafted high, neither did well. O wow minnesota D has 8 TD's this year, very Chicago Bears- D like. Watch teams that focus on turnovers and get those teams next year. ( not to state the obvious.)

Alrigth i'm out.
Fnatasize on, Robert Yan
Other Notables: Big time WR's this year, a great year to have the studs including T.O. (208 points), Edwards ( 183 points), Reggie Wayne (174 points) .