OT - Fantasy Football Miracle, the one positive from the weekend
So going into Monday night's game with the Falcons vs. Saints I'm behind by 11.39 points with one remaining player: Roddy White, WR for the Falcons. The guy I'm playing has no players left. Roddy has had pretty much one good game all season, despite being a pretty solid player, so my hopes of victory are pretty small.
The game begins and White catches a few passes. Yeah, good, he has like 1 point so far. Awesome. But then, on a desperation heave by Matt Ryan down the far sideline, BOOM! White catches a 68yd TD pass and puts me to within less than a point of victory. I was thinking to myself "20 yards, thats all I need, 20 yards". The next possession, BOOM! catch of... 19yards. I wait a second for the live stat tracker to update and the result, and the final score of the game was thus:
Yes, you are seeing correctly. The margin of my victory for my team - the Ninjas - was in fact the narrowest and least likely number it could possibly be, one one-hundredth of a point. A win is a win, and with a weekend of nothing but sadness, I got a little bit happier because of this.
Unbelievable and almost completely useless at the same time. But it did make me laugh, I hope in some small way it will do the same for you.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:59 PM ^
167-105. Aaron Rodgers, Chris Johnson, Mike Turner highlight my explosion. Even better, I took a zero at D.
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:03 PM ^
Thanks to Matt Ryan, Michael Turner and the Saints' D, I had a massive comeback last night as well. I even started a receiver and tight end who had a bye week (accidentally).
I'll take a fantasy win over a Michigan win any weekend!
jk. FML.
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:56 PM ^
I could have played only Rodgers, C. Johnson, and M. Forte and won last week.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:20 PM ^
where do you play? Yahoo?
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 PM ^
Yeah Yahoo.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:26 PM ^
I've lost the last 3 weeks by a combined 4 points.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 PM ^
but what's with the .16 vs. .15 totals? I'm not familiar with that type of league scoring system.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:50 PM ^
How does your league score?
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 PM ^
Sounds like its a point per 10 yards for a WR, so one yard gains one tenth of a point.
Can't figure out where the hundredths come from...maybe somethling like 25 passing yards per point, so fractional increments of 25 yards will cause those scores