RolStoppable said:
At this point you are flailing your arms in hopes that something good might happen. Drafting Lynch and Kelce early has nothing to do with my low record. That you use the qualifier "non-IR picks" is very telling. Not to mention that Kelce ranks second among tight ends this season, trailing Gronk by less than 6 points; nevermind that this is a season with very few reliable TEs, so having one of the few good ones is certainly not a disadvantage. My fantasy team scored in the upper half of the league in 7 out of 12 weeks, but won only four times. If my team had had it as easy as yours - your opponents scored less than 80 points on average and haven't crossed the 80-point-hurdle in nine consecutive weeks - then my record would look very different. But my opponents scored 100 points on average and only thrice did they not exceed 80 points; the league average of points scored against sits at 86.2, way below what I had to deal with. The average score of my team is 85.4 and that's with the injury-riddled middle of the season that dragged down the average. With your cakewalk schedule I would have been 7-5 despite all problems. Oh, and you should contact TalonMan to cross-check the e-mail address of SCAB with VGC members. Given how SCAB has handled the fantasy league, I am quite sure that the sole point of signing up was to ruin it for me. Seriously, do some investigation because I want to know. |
Given that I'm 6 games over .500 and have a playoff spot locked up, I believe the "something good" has already happened. I don't think I need to flail my arms.
I guess I could have phrased it as your 2nd and 3rd picks, if that would make it "less telling," because I'm of the opinion that drafting a QB first isn't a bad idea. But Kelce and Lynch in rounds 2 and 3 almost certainly were. Regardless of his position, Kelce has never scored more than 5 TDs in a season. That simply isn't worth a second round pick, especially when Todd Gurley, DeAndre Hopkins, Lamar Miller, etc. are still on the board. And Lynch was just coming out of retirement on a team that was known for its reliance on the passing game last season. I'm not entirely sure if the plan was to emulate Ted Thompson's model of team building and create a squad that has to rely on Aaron Rodgers to bail them out every game, but if that was the idea then you absolutely nailed it. For all the complaining about tough opponents doing you in; your team only exceeded 86 points twice in the five weeks you had Rodgers. Teams scored a bunch of points on you, but in going over the scoreboard for past weeks it looks like your team usually never showed up anyway. Even if you had won every single game that you had lost while scoring in triple digits, you would only be 6-6 and still eliminated from playoff contention on tiebreakers.
