Fantasy Football League 1 - The Paper Tigers
For those that love to obsess over fantasy football, it's that time of year again. The time to make inappropriate offensive comments about your friends and for grown men to play a complicated game of "Gotta Catch 'Em All!" The first week of September is the final week of millions of people claming that "OMFSM, I really did draft the best group of real players for my imaginary team in the whole wide world". I feel like I should be including lots of !'s, 1's, and ONE's in this.
The first of two for-money drafts I did this year was on Tuesday. It is a 12 person league, and we carry a very small 14 player team. Scoring is performance-oriented, which means that how players play in terms of yards gained has a slightly greater or at least equal effect to scoring touchdowns. We are required to play 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 WR/TE, 1 K, 1 DEF, and there are 6 bench slots. I drafted from the 9th spot out of the 12 teams - not the easiest of places to be. Here was how I drafted, by round:
1. Steve Slaton
2. Randy Moss
3. Darren McFadden
4. Donovan McNabb
5. Marshawn Lynch
6. Roy Williams
7. Donald Brown
8. Dallas Clark
9. James Davis
10. Matt Hasselbeck
11. Chris Henry
12. Earl Bennett
13. Nate Kaeding
14. New England Patriots DEF