Fantasy Football League

So on August 8, I started a fantasy football league. I persuaded four of my friends to join, and then I had to make it open to anyone on ESPN.com because we needed ten league members to join. Five other unknown people joined, and we drafted players that night. Two of my friends (Brody Thomas and Joseph Payne) and two of the unknown people couldn't make the draft so the computer automatically picked their players based on who was the highest ranked player available once their time to pick came around.

Once the draft was over, I was evaluating everyone's rosters and I came to a conclusion. It seemed as if the people that didn't draft drafted better teams than the ones who actually did the analyzing of available players and the scrambling to decide who to choose in the last ten seconds of their ninety-second pick slot. This kind of miffed me. What angered me even more was the fact that I set up the entire league, toiled for a strenuous, never-ending ten minutes and I got the very last pick per round in the draft. That prompted a very weak class of runningbacks by the time my pick came around, and runningbacks are the meat and potatoes of fantasy league scoring.

Post-draft, I'm watching trades between other players, the players they drop and the ones they pick up from waivers, and dealing and trading my own players to perfect my roster as well. In fact, just yesterday, I picked up Brett Favre who just twenty minutes before signed a two year, twenty-five million dollar contract with the Minnesota Vikings. The season's looking like anyone's game right now, although I'd have to say that Jeff Sumner and Joseph Payne probably have an edge over the rest of the competition. I guess we'll find out in a short fourteen weeks!

Dakota