How quickly the fantasy fortunes turn
Three weeks ago, I was on top of the fantasy football world. Coming off my best week of the season, my Morning News Football League team, the Reese's Pieces, was 5-1 and leading the division.Now, I'm coming off three losses, and I'm in danger of falling out of a playoff spot.
It all started with a bad decision at QB, Jason Campbell over Ben Roethlisberger, that cost me a game to the guy who took the division lead.
Since then, it's just been bad matchups.
First, I put up the second-most points I've scored all season and the fifth-most of the week only to fall by 10.
Then, even more agonizingly, I went against a guy who's missing key players off his team to byes and has been winning on waiver moves all season. The only starter I'm missing is my tight end. I proceed to put up more points than I have in a game all season and the second-most points of the week. The problem is the guy I'm playing put up the biggest total of the week, so I lose and fall into a three-way tie for second place (The top four teams in each of our two seven-team divisions make the playoffs in the MNFL).
The good news is I've got the tiebreaker with the other three teams that have a legitimate shot to catch me, the last of which is a game back.
The bad news is I've got no shot at the division, needing to win out and have the leader lose out to take it.
And the way things have been going, I'm not counting on luck to go my way.
Posted by on 11/06 at 05:22 PM
