Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Fantasy Football Geek-alysis

So I'm bedridden, feeling miserable--I hate the fall/winter months--and so I decided to do something that puts me in the upper 1% of all fantasy sports geeks: I have started on a thorough analysis of one of my Fantasy Football leagues to date.

Records of the eight teams participating can be seen here. I am the Commish of the league.

- Colts4Life is riding the arm of Peyton Manning, and is going to make the playoffs, barring a complete disaster.
- Dasnufus had Shaun Alexander, but still has a very strong team (Holt, Kevin Jones, Steven Jackson, Darrell Jackson, Javon Walker, and Baltimore's D). His team was my preseason pick to win the championship, and I'm sticking with that pick.
- Commish is riding the play of Larry Johnson, and is praying that Chad Johnson is back. I have the toughest remaining schedule (based on remaining opponents' W-L record), and I could easily end up out of the playoffs.
- Crimson's Tidal Wave wins my award for "Most Successful Fantasy Team while Maintaining Team Loyalty." Her draft consisted of a number of NE Patriots, and yet her team is up a game on the 5th place team. Crimson's remaining schedule is brutal, though (second toughest)
- L4ZyPatriots rode Donovan McNabb to a 3-0-1 start. He has since rode McNabb to a 1-5 record.
- ying! started the season 0-6, but thanks to the fantasy football MVP (LDT), he has four straight wins, and a favorable remaining schedule. It is not out of the question for ying! to win it all.
- garsh wins the "Streakiest Team" award; his team started out with 2 losses (one to me, by a stinking point), followed up with 3 wins, then four losses, and then a win).
- I thought The Intimidator had a very strong team, but four straight losses has pretty much ended his playoff hopes.

My fearless predictions (cross-posted in the thread linked above):
- Eight wins, or seven wins and a tie, will be good enough to make the playoffs (7-7 if the tiebreakers fall your way and you get help)
- Ten wins will win the regular season championship.
- Dasnufus over Colts in the championship; I expect Peyton Manning to only play a half in Week 16 against the Texans. Hopefully I did not just jinx Dasnufus.

Random Thoughts, special edition (free of fantasy sports talk!):
- The "Print Preview" option in most programs will be neglected by me no more. I printed out a bunch of Excel docs for my sister, expecting 26 pages to print out. Instead, 104 pages printed out. Of the 104, 3/4 were either blank or had the information of a couple cells printed on it. Print Preview, you shall never be neglected again.
- I do not own a land line, because I don't use the phone enough to warrant paying for one. In fact, I haven't owned a land line in 2 years. Unfortunately, I racked up about 200 minutes of cell phone use yesterday, none of which were personal calls. I will now turn my phone off until the next billing cycle.
- Why can't cough medicine taste better than it does? Actually, if it did taste pretty good, I might become addicted to the stuff. I guess that's why cough medicine tastes like crap.




1 Comments:

At 4:08 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

You should try Jajah or Skypeout if you're making calls.

If it's a business phone number, do a search on Google Maps or Live Maps for the company and have Google or Live connect the 2 of you for free.

Hopefully you didn't get a bunch of pages with only 1 column or 1 character which makes it scrap paper.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

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