OT - Fantasy Football Gloating / Dejection Thread

Submitted by tsabesi on

I'm sure a lot of people just had the championship for their fantasy teams this week. Since the board is going to be quiet, how did you do? What was your greatest triumph? Biggest mistake? etc.

 

This is the first year I won my league, hence making this thread to gloat, but I also want wisdom for next year.

The Core of my team (12 team league):

-Megatron - 1st Round

-AJ Green - 2nd Round

-AP / Matt Ryan - 3rd/4th Round (I forget which right now)

-Shonne Gree and James Jones were my main 2nd RB and 3rd WR

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ItlnWolverine

December 24th, 2012 at 1:55 PM ^

and lost the tie breaker by being the lowest playoff seed. I was winning until the Kaepernick TD pass from last nights game tied our score. I would have won by 1 but the unsportsmanlike call backed SF and Kaepernick far enough to give my opponent the yardage he would need for the additional point to tie. Yeah that sucked...

Joined: 01/31/2012

MGoPoints: 149

Maize_Nation

December 25th, 2012 at 1:48 AM ^

I was in the same boat as you, except my opponet had Brandon Marshall who scored a TD, and I lost by 6.

My league is dumb so that game was just to get into the championship which is next week, but losing that game cost me 150-200 dollars at the year end payout.

Scored the 4th highest point total for a week in the season and lost by 6 to the third highest.

Of course, him getting 19 points from his fucking kicker while I got 2 from mine and 0 points from Arian Foster didn't help.

Joined: 07/29/2012

MGoPoints: 1133

mgobleu

December 24th, 2012 at 1:56 PM ^

I've got CJ, brandon marshall, romo, greene, fell ass backwards into RGIII and chris johnson amongst a few others, who got me my 6th win in a row after starting 2-8.

Joined: 07/02/2008

MGoPoints: 38416

timtebro

December 24th, 2012 at 2:05 PM ^

I rode Scam hard into the playoffs but got knocked off my pedistal, league champs past two years, when I played AP, Rodgers and Seahawks D... Effing A, Cotton.. Effing A.

Joined: 06/08/2010

MGoPoints: 12101

michgoblue

December 24th, 2012 at 2:10 PM ^

In my main league, I was dominant all season with megatron and Julio jones at WR, gonzales at TE, and jamaal Charles as my best players. F-ing Eli manning killed me in the playoffs and I lost to a crap team.
/bitter

Joined: 11/16/2009

MGoPoints: 32134

ypsituckyboy

December 24th, 2012 at 2:14 PM ^

Shortly into the season I traded Rodgers, Stevan Ridley and Mike Wallace to my friend and got back Adrian Peterson, RGIII and DeSean Jackson. Went 8-0 after that and won it all.

Joined: 06/22/2009

MGoPoints: 30512

931 S State

December 24th, 2012 at 2:16 PM ^

Team core: AP, Trent Ricahrdson, Megatron.  Alternated QB btwn Eli & Romo week by week.  Led the league in points that last 2 weeks of the season.  Lost by 8 points in the first round of the playoffs, because the guy I played against (who went on to win the SB yesterday) had Seattles Defense who scored 48 points vs Arizona who turned the ball over 8 times, twice returned for TD's.  I would have won my league if it weren't for the stupid scoring that Seattle put up in the first round game.  Yes, I'm still dejected.

Joined: 09/01/2009

MGoPoints: 1964

robmorren2

December 24th, 2012 at 2:20 PM ^

I had the 3rd highest scoring team in my league and ended up 4-10, good for 2nd to last. I faced the highest scoring team in the league 9 out of 14 weeks. Had I made the playoffs, I would have won (had the highest score of any team in all 3 playoff rounds). The fantasy Gods were out to get me after winning 2 out of 3 years. Oh yeah, I had MJD, McGahee, & Benson to start the year (all injured). I still woulda/coulda won. Made some key adds (Bryce Brown, Danario Alexander) and still lost though. To top it off, I nearly made the playoffs despite being down 31 with only Bryce Brown to play. He posts 32.5 pts to put me ahead with no one left to play for me or my opponent. However, Brown fumbles at the end of the game to lose 3 points, which puts me behind, and one win short of the playoffs. That combined with Drew Brees throwing 5 picks and breaking his consecutive games with a TD streak. I knew the Gods were against me. I gloated too damn much in the offseason. Sad Sad Sad.

Joined: 06/04/2011

MGoPoints: 2486

robmorren2

December 24th, 2012 at 5:53 PM ^

It was a 12 team league with 4 teams that had 2 or fewer losses, and one team that went winless. So there was a big pile of mediocre teams in the middle. There was a whole mess of teams that had 4 or 5 wins in the last week, and one team was going to get the last spot (6 seed). I was playing one of the 5 win teams, and I would have won the tiebreaker with anyone because I had the 3rd highest scoring team. Thanks to Brown's fumble, I got loss #10 instead of win #5 ... and that allowed my opponent to get win #6 & get in. It was also the difference of me getting tied for 2nd to last, instead of being #6. Which makes it look even worse.

Joined: 06/04/2011

MGoPoints: 2486

FreddieMercuryHayes

December 24th, 2012 at 2:26 PM ^

I totally kicked my fantasy Fantasy League in the ass.  I say 'fantasy' Fantasy League because I made up my Fantasy League in my mind.  My team consisted of 2007 Tom Brady and Randy Moss, 2012 Calvin Johnson, 1997 Barry Sanders, and the '85 Bears defense.

Joined: 12/29/2010

MGoPoints: 40856

Jskohl88

December 24th, 2012 at 2:28 PM ^

We do an auction keeper league. First time I've won this particular league in its 5 year existence.

We kept jordy Nelson, Hernandez and Fred Jackson (ya that didn't go so well)

Gambled on AP, paid off all year until yesterday. Stole Doug Martin in the auction

We rode Roddy white, Torrey smith, and once jordy went down danario Alexander as the wide receivers.

And Peyton manning's still got it.

Very proud, mostly for getting the trophy, but our additional rewards are a hefty some of cash and a one year subscription to beer of the month club. Yesterday was a good day

Joined: 03/25/2011

MGoPoints: 521

umhero

December 24th, 2012 at 2:31 PM ^

Big win yesterday for The MiracleMonkeys. We roared through the regular season with and seemed destined from the beginning of the season. Rob Gronkowski's injury made a championship seem unlikely, but we lucked out with match ups to end the season. First pick - Tom Brady Second -Rob Gronkowski Third - Jamaal Charles Fourth - Brandon Marshall Fifth - Frank Gore Sixth - Marques Colston 20 Team league, first championship in 15 seasons.

Joined: 07/26/2009

MGoPoints: 2894

umhero

December 24th, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^

We actually run it as two separate conferences that draft separately. There's not any cross conference play until the championship. The team I faced in the championship also had Tom Brady, but he was the only player we had in common. As you can see, it's more like two leagues that meet for a championship.

Joined: 07/26/2009

MGoPoints: 2894

Michwolveries21

December 24th, 2012 at 2:35 PM ^

I was away for the draft because it was during the Michigan vs Alabama game. Auto-pick got me Larry Fitzgerald in the first round. I was still able to ride the waiver wire to the finals thanks to kapernick and Alfred Morris only to lose by 1 point thanks to the Seattle defense getting a field goal block touchdown.

Joined: 03/31/2012

MGoPoints: 337

GoLabattBLUE

December 24th, 2012 at 2:35 PM ^

Lost last week in the semi's only putting up 68 points.  This week in the 3rd place game, put up 194.  Rode Romo, Marshall, Forte, Ridley and Charles all year.  Traded Nicks and Leshoure for Dez.  

Joined: 11/18/2011

MGoPoints: 556

MQTBlue

December 24th, 2012 at 2:39 PM ^

I had the most points against me for the season by 100 and didn't make the play offs for the first time. However, for the 2 play off weeks I scored the most points in the league so I have some satisfaction out of that.

Other notes, Peyton Manning is still a great QB and was a nice 6th round steal. There are some elite wide recievers but you can always find really good free agents mid way through the season. Elite tight ends are good to have but should not be taken in the early rounds (I  made that mistake).

 

Joined: 11/27/2011

MGoPoints: 219

MWW6T7

December 24th, 2012 at 2:40 PM ^

Only needed 3.8 pts from Frank Gore Last night to secure my 3rd Championship this year and he got me a whopping 2.8 pts. On the bright side, I did secure a $1500 entry into the Fantasy Players World Championship to be drafted in Vegas! Road trip time!

Joined: 09/15/2009

MGoPoints: 1671

sedieso

December 24th, 2012 at 2:56 PM ^

I have Brady, Doug Martin, Chris Johnson, McGahee, Alfred Morris, Demaryius Thomas, Victor Cruz, Pierre Garcon and Denarius Moore but still didn't make the playoffs. Why you may ask, because I am the idiot that benched Doug Martin the day he had 4 tds rushing because ESPN fantasy experts predicted his demise with Carl Landry going out for the season. 

Joined: 09/12/2008

MGoPoints: 563

rainingmaize

December 24th, 2012 at 2:56 PM ^

I think I had a pretty good team, however I was by far the most scored upon in my league; I had 110 more points scored on me than the next closest guy. I ended up missing the playoffs (top 4) by one game in which a team that averaged around 70 points a game put up 150 on me.

Joined: 04/13/2010

MGoPoints: 10458

goblue1213

December 24th, 2012 at 2:56 PM ^

12 man leagua. My drafted team consisted of Calvin, Richardson, Maclin, Spiller, Martin, Finley, Vick, RGIII, Broncos D. I picked up Ballard and leshoure on waivers a few weeks in. My big move was trading RGIII/Richardson/Ballard for Rodgers/Julio jones. I ended up being the highest scoring team by almost 150 points. And I won the trophy, and cash, yesterday 130-97. I won 2 of the 3 leagues I played in this year.

Joined: 01/09/2011

MGoPoints: 649

4th and short

December 24th, 2012 at 3:25 PM ^

I won my league as well.It was my second title in seven years. my stating line- up was T.Brady,R.Rice,D.Murray,K.Moreno,A.J Green,T.Gonzales,B.Walsh and Houston' s  defence

Joined: 02/26/2012

MGoPoints: 582

An Angelo's Addict

December 24th, 2012 at 3:54 PM ^

I got stomped by AP and CECIL SHORTS in the semi finals. Also, roddy white and stevan ridley decided to take the day off for my team, and I was in first place in my league the ENTIRE season! UGHHHH

Joined: 07/12/2011

MGoPoints: 7982

BleedsBlue

December 24th, 2012 at 4:06 PM ^

I am defending champ, started 0-7. Won 7 straight to make the playoffs. Then first round I tie the top seed 103-103. Higher seed moves on in the playoffs. Losing sucks, losing on a technicality is death. My team-brady, peterson,rice, richardson, wayne, welker, a.hernandez. To top it off, I played against jamal charles yesterday and didnt even win the consolation game. El terribl'e

Joined: 07/27/2012

MGoPoints: 371

Rather be on BA

December 24th, 2012 at 4:16 PM ^

I didnt do so hot in the league I made for this board, but I did do okay in my famly league.  I lost in the finals yesterday but put up 125 points so oh well. 

In that league I got a lot of value in later picks: I drafted 9th and took Chris Johnson (meh), Matt Stafford in the 2nd (meh), Andre Johnson in the 3rd , AP in the 4th was by far the steal of the draft, and I got CJ Spiller, Stevan Ridley, Frank Gore and Randall Cobb all with later round picks.  I traded Stafford and Gore for Aaron Rodgers after week 2, which was huge for me.  Overall I am fine with the season, even though I seem to make it to the championship game and lose every year.

Joined: 08/29/2010

MGoPoints: 1809