Fantasy Football Regular Season Recap

I'm a pretty serious pro-football fan and have been participating in fantasy football for about 6 years now...After trying both Fox Sports and ESPN's fantasy leagues last season, I decided to stick with the tried and true NFL.com, while also getting into a pay league with my friends for the first time on Fanball.com...So, I thought I might take a moment to look back on this season and recap my successes and failures to this point...

Firstly, most of the guys that I thought would take off this season, have tanked (Thanks Santonio Holmes) but that's the way it goes sometimes...Secondly, injuries, and even suspensions, have hampered my Running Backs and QB's almost the entire season (Tom Brady, Tony Romo, Carson Palmer)...Thirdly, outlandish luck on the behalf of my opponents have killed me too...now, I know full well that fantasy is highly luck-based, but the luck I'm disgusted with is the guy that goes out on the waiver wire and picks up a guy that had the 'out of nowhere' game the week before and is lucky enough to have it continue in the following weeks...(Hello Antonio Bryant, Isaac Bruce, Tim Hightower, Steve Breaston and Lance Moore)...in previous seasons, that logic never worked, but again...that's the way it goes...and lastly...the biggest trend I've noticed this year is that teams have really incorporated two-back running games that reward highly, the goal-line RB (Hello LeRon McClain and Lendale White)...Oh, and one last thing I learned the hard way...LT is no longer a viable #1 Running Back and SHOULD NOT BE DRAFTED AS THE NUMBER ONE PICK IN THE DRAFT! Plus, we've also seen the emergence of rookie RB's like Chris Johnson, Steve Slaton, and Matt Forte, so the next crop of great guys appears to be developing before our eyes...Plus, what's finally gotten into DeAngelo Williams...man, he was on many waiver wires in the early parts of the year...So, here's the recap of my teams this season:

Alternate Douglas (Fanball.com): Finished 6-7, made the playoffs (Won last week in Rd. 1)
Ari's Puppets: Finished 10-4, first in my division, made the playoffs
Donald's Destroyers: Finished 7-7, second in my division, made the playoffs
Jeff Query's Mullet: Finished 9-5, first in my division, made the playoffs
NPH All-Stars: Finished 9-5, second in my division, made the playoffs
Team McPoyle: Finished 8-6, first in my division, made the playoffs
Turd Ferguson: Finished 7-7, third in my division, missed the playoffs

Not bad...7 teams, 6 made the playoffs...and to this point in the year...No teams below .500...pretty nice. Seven teams is a bit excessive, but I forgot that I'd created a second username on CBS Sportsline during the college basketball tournament, so I figured I'd go ahead and do three extra teams on NFL.com since they're free...Another interesting thing to note, is that my only Auto-Picked team, Ari's Puppets, turned out to be the team with the best record...figures...Fantasy is a total crap shoot and sometimes success is parlayed from in-season free agent acquisitions. The only trade I made in any of the leagues was for Turd Ferguson...I lost Tom Brady and Nate Burleson in Week 1 and got off to a 1-5 start...I traded Matt Forte to acquire Aaron Rodgers, so it worked out as I was able to scratch and claw my way back to the .500 mark. Another win in that league may have gotten me a playoff clean sweep...

We'll see how the rest of the playoffs pan out, but it's been a tough year. I made a nice comeback in several leagues to make the playoffs. So, overall I'm pretty satisfied, regardless of what happens this weekend...It's been a fun year and I'm already looking forward to next season as well.