Jill

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Holy crap balls, Batman.

This is the first year I've palyed it and princess_nicci was kind enough to set up a Rookies Only football league, with Mr. thetim as our guidance. This week was the third week in a row I lost in Fantasy Football. This gets rather frustrating when I think I was in second place one week. But this was the last week before the playoffs. First through third place had already clinched the playoff spot and I was up against "tight pants" - the person who, if they beat me by more than so many points, could steal my playoff spot and I'd drop down to fifth place.

Now, I don't know how it works on other sites, but we use Yahoo Sports and it shows projected scores for the week. I had my line-up set with a projected total of 109 points. Ms. tight pants had a projected total of 98 points. I was feeling pretty confident in the win.

Sunday was almost over and all but two of my players were either done playing or late in their games. Score: tight pants: 98 -- Bean's Beaners: 26

I was pissed. This wasn't the first time those damn projected points bit me in the ass. But I was confident this week and playing players that had decent track records, and I had 26 points.

Here is the Commissioner's note: (thetim)

With 9:13 left in the third quarter, New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Marques Colston. The score effectively ended the game, giving the Saints a 24-7 lead. But in the fantasy football world, it did so much more. That touchdown pass, coming in the third quarter of the final game of the week, gave Bean's Beaners enough points to sneak into the playoffs as the fourth seed.

It's situations like that make fantasy football so addicting. You could be watching the Monday Night game between two teams you don't care about to see if you'll qualify for the playoffs, or you could be watching the Vikings on Sunday, only to get a little excited when they do a game break, hoping to see one of your players break a long one.

Anyway, the playoffs are set, beginning Thursday. They're only two weeks long - there's usually no fantasy football in Week 17, because most teams are resting their stars.

So to the four who made the playoffs, congratulations, and good luck.

(I had Drew Brees as my quarterback and Marques Colston as one of my wide receivers.)

Oh yeah, and the above note is just one of the reasons I think that thetim should get back into sports writing. :)

So, I lost this week. The score was 94 - 80. Tight pants and I have a shared record of 6-7-1, with me only beating her with an overall score of 1272 - 1263. That's right. 9 points.

Holy crap balls, Batman.

Of course, being fourth place means the first round of playoffs is against princess_nicci who is in first place and has the juggernaut team of Tom Brady, Randy Moss and LaDainian Tomlinson (her overall record is 11-3-0 and overall score is 1503 - I lost to her both times this season). So any hopes of winning better than fourth place are slim to none. But I made it to the fricken playoffs.

Boo ya!

(This helps distract me from the fact that I got a 57.5% on my midterm last week - and was still in the top 10% of the curve!)