Week 3 Fantasy Football

Not a very good week at all. Matter of fact, I think this is my worse week in Fantasy Football ever. Looking over our league's archive the last time I failed to reach 80 points in one week was back in 2006 during Week 5 when I scored 79.

Then, when you realize that A) - The guy I played only scored 92.65, which is less than the 3 week average, including this stinker of 76.7, of my team's scoring B) Another guy only scored 67.1 C) I left Fred Taylor on the bench (he got me 21 points) and D) this makes me the only 1-2 team in my divison.

Additionally, things aren't looking very good for my team right now. I just lost Jeremy Shockey for 4-6 weeks. I've already lost Colston and with the Brady injury, technically appear to have lost Randy Moss. David Patten appears to be hurt too now. My team is becoming a M.A.S.H unit.

I came very close to landing Addai and Gregg Jennings in a trade, but it fell through Saturday morning when I wouldn't part with Randy and Hines Ward....I probably should have. My own stupid fault there.

Anyway, here is the breakdown for this week.

I lost 92.65 to 76.7

My top 3 - Titans DST 25, Romo - 17, and Mason Crosby (yes my kicker) with 10 for a total of 52

His top 3 - Ravens DST 41, Anthony Fasano (who? exactly) 12.6, and Mat Prater (yes his kicker) with 10 for a total of 63.6

I'm definitely looking to make some trades this week and am wondering if I can tolerate Moss on my bench this week for the bye and then give him one more week (week 5) to see if Belicheck begins to allow his QB to throw deep to Moss. or if I should just take what I can get.

Week 2 Fantasy Football

Did you guys see that MNF shoot-out last night? WHEW!!!!

Romo goes for 312 and 3 td's.

I score 125.5 points

and lose!!!

Yes sir, I had 169.7 dropped on me, unreal....I know.

But he had Warner, Boldin, MB3, and Julius Jones. Warner and Boldin alone got him over 85 points.

I am sitting in 2nd in my division though and definitely know that weeks like this happen in Fantasy Football. You have a great week and someone has an amazing week.

Oh well.

But my Do the Opposite is still shining through this young football season. Top rushers from this week did include Westbrook and AP. But, remember, Do the Opposite entails you drafting in the middle to late 1st round, meaning LT, Westbrook, AP should be taken first anyway. The other top rushers were Run DMC (5th round), Julius Jones (7th round), and Earnest Graham (5th round).

His top 3 - Warner (44.3), Boldin (41), and Julius Jones (27.8) for 113.1

My top 3 - Romo (35.2), Titans DST (33), and Chris Johnson (18) for 86.2

So onto next week and I wouldn't be surprised if I am able to swing a trade this week of some sort. A couple guys have gone 0-2 and there star players aren't performing for them (Addai, Carson Palmer, Jamal Lewis, Derek Anderson, etc.). I am aiming for Addai or Lewis (definitely buy-low) and chances are slim, but I have some depth I can offer and sometimes an 0-2 start can trigger people's fears and I'm like a shark in water. I am the guy who got Addai, Pitt Defense, Favre, Ryan Grant, Portis, and MB3 in trades last year. Some of those guys I traded away for each other (for example I got Portis in a trade and traded him for Favre).

But I am getting a reputation for my trading prowess so who knows.

Week 1 Fantasy Football

It's funny, I was looking at my archives from last year when I was tracking my Fantasy Football team as I was on a mission to prove that "Doing the Opposite" is the way to go in Fantasy Football. Last year for week 1 I scored 115.4 points and lost.

This year - 115.8 and....I won!

At least I am consistent in the scoring.

Now, obviously, those of you that may have taken my advice this year and took Brady in the first round, I feel for you. Big time! I almost took Brady in the 1st round, but decided I could get Romo or Brees in the 2nd/3rd round and decided grabbing 2 WRs in the first 2 rounds was the way to go (Moss and Colston). But some of the top RB's also suffered injuries, maybe not season-ending but they still left games early...LT, Addai, and Marion Barber to name the Big 3. And up to this year, Brady had never missed a game due to injury in his career. Maybe it's a little karmic retribution for "The Hoody" playing games with the NFL injury report and listing Brady as questionable for some 3 or 4 years in a row every week.

My top 3 Romo - 26, Randy Moss - 22.2, and Thomas Jones - 21.4 for 69.6

His top 3 - Frank Gore - 21.1, Peyton - 18.85, Megatron - 16.4 for 56.35

So, of the 6 top scorers in our game - 4 of them were not RB's.

Hmm.....

Fantasy Football Update - Draft Results

Muhahahahaha, Muhahahahahahaha, Muhahahahahahaha........

That's all I can say.


1st round - Randy Moss
2nd round - Marques Colston
3rd round - Tony Romo
4th round - Thomas Jones
5th round - Edge James
6th round - Fred Taylor
7th round - Chester Taylor
8th round - Jeremy Shockey
9th round - Hines Ward
10th round - Patrick Crayton
11th round - Matt Schaub
12th round - Packers D/ST
13th round - Chris Johnson
14th round - Colts D/ST
15th round - Mason Crosby

I debated Drew Brees over Tony Romo, but having Colston, I'm not a fan of pairing up Qb's and WR's. It works great when they have a 2 TD game together, but when one is slow, usually the other is to. So Romo was the call in the 3rd.

I would have rather had McFadden in the 5th over Edge but he was sniped right before me.

I may have been able to get Chet Taylor in the 8th but my second goal of this draft (Doing the Opposite being 1st) was to make sure I came out with the biggest, most important handcuff in the draft.

This is "Doing the Opposite" to perfection.

Fantasy Football Update - 1

Well, I do practice what I preach.

I will be doing the opposite this year afterall. I traded my 1st, 2nd, and 4th round draft picks to the guy who had the 5th pick in the first round for his 1st, 2nd, and 4th round picks as well. I benefited big time by the fact that the guy is a big RB-RB guy and he knew in the 5th spot he wasn't going to get an elite back. So I am able to keep my 3rd and 5th round picks where they are (2nd in each round) as well as all rounds till the end. While my 1st round pick fell down only 3 spots, I moved up in the 2nd and 4th rounds, guaranteeing that I will get a top 5 pick in round 1, top 6 picks in rounds 2 and 4 and the second pick in rounds 3 and 5.

WOW!!!!

So I am most definitely going QB-WR-WR in some kind of order like that in the first 3 rounds. I haven't decided if I am going to draft Brady or Moss at 5. If I take Moss in the first then it's Romo or Brees in the 3rd with another top WR in the 2nd (Wayne? Colston?). Then it is all RBs in rounds 4-8. If I take Brady in round 1, then it is WR-WR in rounds 2 and 3 with, yep, RBs in rounds 4-8.

But maybe. I'm actually thinking of going TE in round 4 or 5 if Witten, Shockey, or Clark are on the board and I am comfortable with the RBs left on the board will make it to me

As last year, I'll track my progress for all to see just how right this strategery is.

My draft is 7pm tomorrow night, so results will be posted that night or the next morning.

Stayed tuned and see what I pull off.

Fantasy Football Time!!!

For you faithful readers out there, you know I wax poetic on "Doing the Opposite" in Fantasy Football at your draft. Meaning, instead of RB-RB in rounds one and two, you go WR-QB or even both WR in one and two, and then go a step further and coming out of round three you have both your WRs and your top QB.

You can read a whole bunch more about this here and follow the links to track my progress last year. I ended up the Regular Season league champion and finished 3rd overall during the playoffs (damn Brady and New England D, as well as Kolby Smith...who...exactly....going for a buck 20 and 2 touches.....ugh). And when you read the article, look who I had listed as "sleeper" picks last year: AP, Lynch, T. Jones (he had 7 100 yard games last year), and Brandon Jones (if only he could have stayed healthy).

Well, this year, I landed the #2 pick. Doing the Opposite works best and ideally when you are not in the top 3 (most years). My league doesn't allow trading of draft picks, so I have number 2. Which is the highest I have ever drafted (last year was number 5 and that was the highest ever to that point). Having had the bottom of the 1st and top of the 2nd round for so many years, I started doing the opposite and cornering the market on WRs and QBs in the first 3 rounds, and then swooping up all RB's in rounds 4-8 trusting one will hit. And last year that was AP, 3 years ago that was LJ, 4 years ago it was Westbrook. You gotta do your research a little bit more on the middle of the pack RB's but the elite QBs and WRs are always the same, so you need time researching them, spend it on the middle of the pack RBs.

I could go on and on and on about follow the link above you can read all about it.

But this year, with number 2, I going RB in the first round. But do not fail....it's going to be all WRs and QBs in rounds 2,3,and 4. Then back to "middle of the pack" rb's in rounds 5-8.

I hate to disappoint all of you, but at number 2 I may get LT or Westbrook. My personal top 2 in all of fantasy football land. AP has been hurt every year of his collegiate and now NFL career, S-Jax has never lived up to the hype, and Addai doesn't touch the ball as much as Westbrook does and he too gets hurt...a-lot. Also, the guy holding 1 says he's taking AP #1, which leaves me LT!!!!! I'll find out next Friday (22nd) at the draft.

I am aiming for something along the lines of this coming out of the draft:

QB - Derick Anderson (Cleveland has the best O-Line in the game...take in round 4)
RB - Brian Westbrook (rd 1)
RB - Jonathon Stewart (rd 5)
WR - Marques Colston (rd 2)
WR - Larry Fitzgerald (rd 3)


How could you not like this team?

Do the Opposite!!!

Sick

The whole household. Seth has an ear and eye infection. Michele got a bit of the flu and I seemed to have gotten the middle ground. A high fever (101.3) and the aches and pains but at least I could keep food down. But talk about feeling helpless. I'm trying to be this big tough guy dad male macho and I'm watching my family travail in sickness and unable to do anything. I could barely pick Seth up and carry him to Michele when he needed to eat. But I'd feel 100% guilty if Michele went to get him herself, never knowing when she'd need to run down the hall to....well you know.

So that is why I was MIA Tuesday and Wednesday.

So here is a quick run down.

I lost this week in Fantasy Football, so I am playing for 3rd place. Which still results in winning money.

And no Last 5 this week and there will be none until after the new year.

Matter of fact, things will be very light around here until after the New Year. I have some posts already done and just waiting for me to hit "publish" so you'll get those and I'll let you know very quickly what happen this weekend to my fantasy team, but that's about all you'll get from me after Friday.

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Nothing serious, I had a bye week, of course my team blew up for over 160 points(Favre, Grant, Lendale, Addai, Jags Defense....no way was I going to play the Pitt D against New England) and I have to play against freaking Tom Brady and the Patriots D for a 3rd time this year.

UGH!!!

Now, I have beaten that team twice already by a combined 13.5 points too. So, I know he can be beat, but it is really hard to beat a team 3 times, especially when they have Tom Brady.

Is there any doubt that Brady will have 5 td passes in the 1st half alone?

None the less, I anticpate a good game from my squad and plan on playing for all the marbles next week.

Anyone going to try and Do the Opposite next year?


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Week 13 Fantasy Football

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Well, I lost 108.3 to 145.6 to finish at 8-5. But, I did win the divison on tie-breakers and the number 1 seed in the playoffs (I am the New England Patriots....ha) and have earned a much needed bye week for next week. Favre hurt, Roy Williams hurt and probably out for the year, LenDale White also hurt with a dislocated finger, and Braylon is nursing a hamstring injury. The Pitt defense will be facing New England in Week 14 as well. So, what a perfect time to not have to worry about anything except my WR depth is hurt now. I do have Patrick Crayton and Anthony Gonzalez, so things aren't too bad.

I do wonder if I could have won this week's game if Favre and Roy hadn't gotten hurt and played less than half the game. Maybe not, but I did lose out on $45 by not winning the most points scored in the whole league. I finished second just 16.1 points behind the leader. That's a bummer, but Fantasy Football thrives on the coulda, woulda, shoulda dilema

I did kind of back into the divison championship, sort of. I started the season 0-2, then got to 1-3. before going 7-2 down the stretch and so taking the divison isn't "backing into it" necessarily. I know the Championship isn't won, but I've done a pretty good job proving that if you can't get your hands on the top 2 or 3 rb in all the land (even though S-Jax and LJ have burned many teams this year) you DO NOT need to draft a RB in the first 3 rounds to have legitmate fantasy football success.

So, there really won't be much of an update for week 14.

My top 3 - Braylon for 30.8, Ryan Grant with 21.8, and the Pitt D with 17 to total 69.6

His top 3 - Romo with 42.9, Mcgahee went for 30.7, and Andre Johnson with 24.2 for a total of 97.8.

Recap. I lost this week, but still won the divison, took the number one seed in the playoffs and all this from a team that drafted no RB until the 4th round (Thomas Jones), started 0-2, and had an average of 133.49 points scored against every week. Matter of fact, only one other team had over 1700 points scored him he finished with 1,770 and I had 1,735 scored against.

I still feel there are some doubters so hopefully I win this whole thing and can prove it.

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Week 12 Fantasy Football

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Squeaking it out again? Kind of. I played against the guy who has Tom Brady and the Patriots D. Problem is he doesn't have much after that. Except he had Kolby Smith this week and started him, but the better team won (in my opinion...ha!).

144.8 to 139.8 and it really all came down to Thanksgiving, Sunday Night, and last night's Monday Night game. Brett Favre, Ryan Grant, and Joe Addai on T-day. The Patriots on Sunday night, and Pittsburgh on Monday night.

I was down 35 points heading into last night's game. I had Heath Miller and Pitt's D going, he had Najeh Davenport (told you he had nothing, his 2 starting RB's were Kolby Smith and Najeh Davenport). Heath Miller got me nothing, but the Steelers D pitched a shutout in a monsoon and got me 40 points!!!!

My top 3 - Favre with 45.1, Steelers D with 40, and Ryan Grant with 24.3 for 109.4
His top 3 - Kolby Freakin Smith with 37.2, Tom Brady at 35.6, and Patriots D getting 19 to combine for 91.8

So, I am 8-4, still sitting in first place with the number 1 overall seed. I did lose the overall points lead to the first place team in the other divison who is 7-5. If I win next week, I'll carry the number 1 seed and a bye week into the playoffs. If I lose next week, I can still win the divison based on some tie-breaker situations and what others do, etc., etc., etc. But bottom line, I am in the playoffs.

What a roller coaster of a ride Fantasy Football can be.

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Week 11 Fantasy Football

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Squeaking it out again.

Not the way I want to do this thing. But a win is a win. I also beat the divison leader in the other divison. So I keep the number 1 seed, sitting at 7-4 with the most points scored, 2nd most scored against and seem to have locked up a playoff spot no matter what.

110.2 to 106.25.

WHEW!!!!!

As I said last week, my team has been completely overhauled. I pulled down 3 trades in 24 hours last week and for one week, things look good. Peyton, MB3, and the Titans D looked horrible. Meanwhile Addai stayed strong, Favre threw 3 td's and Roy Williams showed up for the second week in a row.

My top 3 - Favre - 28.9, Addai - 16.6, and Roy Will 16.2 for a total of 61.7
His top 3 - DJ Hackett - 28.2, Colts DST - 22, Santonio Holmes - 13.5 for a total of 63.7

I have 2 weeks to go and they are against (this week) the guy who has Tom Brady and the Pats D. Then the last week of the season is against the other guy in my division who is 7-4 and is only 39 points behind me for most scored in the league. If we both win this week, then me and him would play for division, number 1 seed in the playoffs, and most points scored in the league. Winning the division and the most points scored would win me about $100 and with the $40 I already won (highest score for 2 weeks) I'd end up paying for my entry fee this year.

I've already beat both these teams earlier in the year so I know I can do it. But it will be tough.


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Fantasy Football Update

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It'd be too confusing to lay it all out for everyone, but in the last 24 hours, I have cut 3 trades.

3 trades!!!

Gotta love the trade deadline.

Anyway, here is the new squad.

QB - Favre
WR - Braylon Edwards
WR - Roy Williams
RB - Joseph Addai
RB - Ryan Grant
RB - LenDale White
TE - Heath Miller
K - Gostowski
DST - Pittsburgh

Bench

Eli Manning
Kenton Keith
Patrick Crayton
DeShaun Foster
Mason Crosby
Greg Olsen
Viking DST

Waivers in our league run tonight and I am hoping to drop Crosby and Olsen for Chris Henry (LenDale's back up at Tenn.) and Kevin Faulk.

We'll see how that goes.

Honestly, it's going to be hard to prove my Do the Opposite strategy going forward. But I'll still keep you updated and show you how I am going to ride a QB and 2 RB's that no one wanted before the 7th or 8th rounds or didn't even draft can still lead you to Fantasy Football Success.

Also, Roy Williams, Braylon Edwards, Gostowski, and Foster are the only 4 people remaining that I actually drafted. The rest are all gone.

Crazy, never traded like this before, but I couldn't pass up some of the moves.


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Week 10 Fantasy Football

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Oh boy, OH BOY. I may be in a little bit of trouble.

I'm sure everyone knows about the Adrian Peterson injury that could cost him anywhere from 3 weeks to the end of the season. It's a huge hit!! I just lost the number 1 or number 2 running back in the whole NFL.

Besides that, Peyton decided to go Tony Romo and throw 6 interceptions (4 in the first quarter). So I was kind of doomed from about 3:30 on on Sunday.

83.6 to 133.55

Gone is the 5 game winning streak and 1st place! Bummer. But every team lays at least one egg during the season, better to lay mine now than in the playoffs. But the AP injury is the real problem here.

I still have the most points scored in the league at 1,412.8 (which makes me the only team over 1,400 points scored). I also have the highest points scored against me at 1,344.2.

So, I have a little bit of work to do this week to see what I can possibly do to shore some running backs.

My roster currently is this:

QB - Peyton and Derek Anderson
WR - Roy Will, Braylon, Isaac Bruce, and Patrick Crayton
RB - Thomas Jones, Marion Barber 3, LenDale White, DeShaun Foster, and AP
TE - Greg Olson
K - Gostowski, Mason Crosby
DST - Titans and Vikings

With the bye weeks gone, now is the time to dump off of the extra DST, K, and TE. So they're all going to be gone for sure.

I'm hoping to take one of my QB's and one of my DST's and trade to get a more consistent rb.

We'll see. Man is Fantasy Football fickle.

My top 3 - Peyton Manning (24.8), Roy Williams (16.5), and Mason Crosby (10) for 51.3

His top 3 - Donovan McNabb (39.25), Selvin Young (24.8), and Cowboys DST (21) for 85.05.

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Week 9 Fantasy Football

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Great googly-moogly.

215.95 to 166.95

Adrian Peterson got me 92.7 points on his own. 92 points!!!

Unreal.

AP is the number one running back in fantasy football right now and may be for years to come. LT better watch out.

Anyway, I am the first place team at 6-3. Tied with another team but I have the first tie breaker (points). I'm the only team with over 1300 points (1329.2) and only one of two teams with over 1200 points scored against me.

My top 3 - AP with 92.7, Titans DST went for 45, and Peyton with 20.35 to equal 158.05

His top 3 - Brees for 64.45, T.O. for 35.8, and Kellen Winslow with 20 to equal 120.25

Our game was a barn burner to start off. With Brees already at 300+ passing yards in the 1st half. But, except for a dynamite blow up by T.O. (which kind of happened) and Kevin Curtis (which didn't happen at all....whew) in Sunday night's 8 o'clock game, I was just hoping MB3 would get me some points to put me over 200.

In trade updates - I didn't land Joe Addai, not that I expect the guy to just dump him off for no reason. But that team is in last place at 3-6. I know other teams are making a run for Addai and I need to try and beat all of them to the punch (if they are able to pull it off.)

Man 215+ points, the highest scoring team in the league and doing it all by Doing the Opposite.

Should I continue to track why "You must grab a rb in the first two rounds or you have no chance" is overrated and just not true?

Yes sir, all the way to the championship.

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Week 8 Fantasy Football

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Well, well, well. Look who is the number one team in Fantasy Football right now.

TEAM KOOL-AID!!!!

147.15 - 115.35

1st most points scored in the league gives me the tie breaker over the other 3 teams that are 5-3 in the league, 2nd most points scored against too. Good thing my team is high scoring or I'd be in some trouble this year. So we have 4 teams at 5-3, 3 teams at 4-4, 2 teams at 3-5, and one team at 2-6.

As I told you all on Friday, I made a huge trade Friday and then a smaller one after that. I traded away Holt, Welker, and Jags DST for MB3, LenDale, and Jennings. Traded away Jennings and Fred Taylor for Isaac Bruce and Patrick Crayton.

I have a lot more consistency at RB now and real good depth at WR and RB too.

Funny thing to is that I played against the team I traded Holt, Welker, and the Jags too, but still pulled it out.

My top 3: Titans DST - 31, Braylon - 30.4, and Peyton - 24.75 for 86.15

His top 3: Holt - 23, Jags DST - 21, and Carson Palmer - 16.45 for 60.45.

Since it has been awhile let's recap the first round draft picks in my league and their total points scored for the year.

LT - 154.7
S-Jax - 44.5 (missed extensive time to injury)
LJ - 96.9
Addai - 136.7
Peyton - 181.2
Gore - 73.0 (hurt now, what'll happen)
Alexander - 74.0 (washed up?)
Rudi - 40.5 (missed extensive time to injury)
Parker - 126.9
Maroney - 44.8 (missed extensive time to injury)

Peyton is the highest scoring pick out of the first round.

Now, the obvious pink elephant in the room is Tom Brady.

Those that say you can get a qb in the late rounds and it doesn't matter have a point. But what Tom Brady is doing is ridiculous. Think back to the first couple of weeks when he was only getting 30 points.

The problem, is that in our league, the guy who took him also took Shaun Alexnader and Travis Henry in the first and second rounds. So, the weeks that Brady has put up 300+ yards and 5 or 6 TDs he wins because of Brady alone. When Brady is like Brady for real, he loses. Brady has scored just over 30% of this teams total points. Compared to the rest of the league where only 18% of a team's total points is coming from it's highest scorer.

Basically, Brady is the exception (this year) to every possible Fantasy Football rule there may ever be.

This week I'm going to look to make a move for Addai. The team at 2-6 has Addai and has some depth issues, obviously. I'm thinking I can offer any 2 of my rb's and a wr if I have to to land Addai. Thinking a MB3, Thomas Jones, Patrick Crayton for Joe Addai (and Kenton Keith, gotta get that backup) to start with and see what he wants from there. Maybe even throw in Derek Anderson (Kitna is his starter....yikes).

Stay tuned, you never know.

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Monster Fantasy Football Update

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Another benefit of Doing the Opposite?

Preying on weaker teams in the league who are in a dire sitauation with their bye weeks.

Case in point.

I just traded Torry Holt, Wes Welker, and Jags Defense

for

Marion Barber III, LenDale White, and Gregg Jennings.

I then turned around and traded

Gregg Jennings and Fred Taylor

for

Patrick Crayton and Isaac Bruce.

I will tell you, the team I play against this week is the team I traded Holt, Welker, and Jags too. So, we'll see right away on the outcome of that trade. He's playing all 3 of them this week.

Now here is the roster

QB - Manning and Derek Anderson
RB - MB3, Adrian Peterson, Thomas Jones, LenDale White, DeShaun Foster, Ladell Betts
WR - Braylon, Roy Will, Patrick Crayton, and Issac Bruce
TE - Owen Daniels
K - Gostokski
DST - Vikings (picked them up off of waivers this week....which is why I could part with the Jags D), and Titans

This week MB3 is on the bye but after that I have a solid starting lineup and great depth to go with now.

QB - Peyton
RB - AP
RB - MB3
WR - Braylon
WR - Roy Will
Flex - Play the matchups between T. Jones, LenDale, and Crayton
K - Gostowski
DST - Vikes most weeks


WHAT A SQUAD!!!!

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Week 7 Fantasy Football

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Wow did I pull one out!!!! 118.25 - 105.4

Peyton wasn't Peyton that much, but Garrard going out of the game may have helped me. Not the way I would have wanted it to go down, but I'll always take the win. I've lost games due to injury so it's nice to win one as a result. My 2nd lowest output of the year as well as the least amount of points I have faced this year. And now I am in first place in my division, still 2nd most points (966.1) scored in the league and I have the 2nd most points (928.3) scored against me.

But I am in first place at 4-3. But check this out, 3 teams in my division are 4-3 (I win the first tie breaker of most points scored), the other 2 teams are 3-4. So, with a one game lead between me and first, can't get too comfortable.

My top 3 - Wes Welker (34.6), Peyton (22.95), and Titans DST (22) for 79.55

His top 3 - Terrible Owens (21.6), Chiefs DST (20), Boldin (14.9) for 56.5

Considering he had LT and Steve Smith on the bye, you would have thought I'd of taken him to the bank but my team was average throughout and the Titans Defense decided to turn into a member of the Emergent Movement by going soft, letting anything and everything go and not make a stand during the 4th quarter.

After my 0-2 start (and then 1-3), I'm on a mini role with a 4-1 record over the last 5 weeks.

As for my usualy plug and brag about Do the Opposite, I leave it to the professionals.

All I can say, I was like 3-4 years ahead of the curve.


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IT HAS ARRIVED!!!!!

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After much work and anticipation, the drama will only intensify....











I will actually have to pay attention to a Monday Night football game for the first time this year because of Fantasy Football implications.

I am down by 6.5 points and I have Peyton Manning going, he has David Garrard.

The favorite on the surface would have to be me. But Peyton doesn't perform well, historically, at Jacksonville. But, historically, he does perform very well during prime time.

In addition to that, whoever wins tonight's game gets 1st place in our division, the loser gets 4th place (but still currently a playoff team).

Big time fantasy implications on the line tonight.

Paid for by the committee to make you think FEARMONGERING was on the way but it was actually a shameless post to let you know I need Peyton Manning to outscore David Garrard by at least 6.6 points so I can win this week, be in first place and give even more credence to the Do the Opposite strategy for your Fantasy Football Draft.

Week 6 Fantasy Football

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Yeah baby, back to .500. AP went LT and is showing why the Lions should have taken him #2 overall (and not Megatron).

185.85 to 145.5. A barn burner. But actually, I didn't even have the top score for the week. One of the guys scored 204.95, but he had LT and Norv Turner finally got half smart and fed LT the ball. So LT went LT as well as AP and AP out LT'd LT.

So now I am 3-3 with the 2nd most points scored in the league (847.8) and I also have the most points scored against at 822.9, and it's not even close as no other team has 800 points scored against them.

My waiver wire pickup of Derek Anderson (over Kurt Warner), was pure genius!!! And drafting Thomas Jones in the 4th round (the 10th leading rusher in the NFL) and Adrian Peterson in the 5th round (the TOP rusher in the NFL) is proving to be genius as well. Well, actually, Doing the Opposite it proving to be genius.

As I said, when you Do the Opposite, a second tier back always falls to you in the 4th round, always. Thomas Jones isn't a sexy fantasy football name. But he is the 10th leading rusher in the NFL (420 yards - more than Alexander, Westbrook, and LJ), on a run first team, and while he hasn't gotten the TDs neither has Willie Parker, Travis Henry, Willis McGahee (until this week) or LJ (until this week too.). But 3 years ago Rudi Johnson wasn't a sexy name, 2 years ago he still wasn't, and last year Brian Westbrook wasn't. Those are the guys I got in the 4th round in the last couple of years (ever since I started Doing the Opposite). So now that I have Peyton, Roy Will, Holt, and Braylon to go with AP, and T. Jones how good does this team look for fantasy purposes? Let's throw in the Jags Defense as well. Those of you that "had to reach early" for the Ravens and Bears, where are you at now?

With Do the Opposite, the only real research you do is on the RB position. You grab the top QB in the first round (Peyton), if you can't get him next year you can for sure go Brady or Palmer now that they have proven themselves. Then go WR in round 2 and round 3 (or grab Antonio Gates...if not Gates, you wait on your TE until the teen rounds). Then rounds 4-7 it's all RB's. That's where your research comes in. Rank your rb's from about 1-30 and take the top guy off the list or the guy who doesn't have the same bye week. To cut your research even more, go to Border's with a note pad, grab 5 or 6 fantasy football mags off the shelf. Go to their cheat sheets and write the top 30 guys they have at running back and their rank. Do this for each magazine. Then average out the rankings the "pros" give and re-sort for your own. You can get that done in a half hour. You keep one of the magazines (I prefer Fanball), and in rounds 13-15 you grab your TE, kicker and defense based on the ranking in the mag. From rounds 8 - 12 it's all the backups to your WR and QB.

I seriosuly get my research done in about an hour for the fantasy football season.

Anyway, I've preached alot on the no duh element of Do the Opposite. Just Do it next year.

My top 3 - Adrian Peterson (71.1), Derek Anderson (37.55), and Braylon (24.7) for 133.35

His top 3 - Matt Hasselbeck (37.5), Tony Gonzalez (27.4), and Brian Westbrook (22.6) for 87.5

More oddities from the league

• I have more points scored against me than 7 of the other teams in the league have scored for themselves.
• We have 3 teams with a record of 4-2, 4 teams with a record of 3-3 and 3 teams with a record of 2-4. Parity doesn't just abound in the NFL. I went from out of the playoffs last week to the 4th seed this week.
• The lowest point total I have had scored against me this year is 116.45...the lowest. Take away that point total and the average for the other 5 games is 141!! So I guess I will have 140+ put up against me every week.
• If I had not played Sammy Morris (who got hurt) and played Welker at my flex spot (Roy Will was on the bye) I'd of had the high score this week of 216.25. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, I know
• This week I play the guy who did score 200+ points this week, is the top scorer in our league (he's had the weekly high score 3 times...$60 for him, he's 3/5 to paying his entry fee), is also 3-3, but has Steve Smith, Kellen Winslow, Chargers DST, and LT on the bye.
• Can I say it anymore....D-O T-H-E O-P-P-O-S-I-T-E

Paid for by the committee to get you to Do the Opposite at your next Fantasy Football Draft.

Week 5 Fantasy Football

What a difference a week makes.

124.95 to 116.45. Just a great all around performance as I had 6 of my 9 starters go into double digit scoring. Also ended up being the highest score for the week (a nice $20 payout).

And boy oh boy are all those "stud" running backs just dominating the fantasy football landscape these days.

Joseph Addai (chest), Laurence Maroney (groin) and Steven Jackson (groin) were out. In Denver, San Diego backup Michael Turner (eight carries for 143 yards and a touchdown) did better than starter LaDainian Tomlinson (21 carries for 67 yards).

Shaun Alexander (11 carries for 25 yards), Frank Gore (16 carries for 52 yards) and Larry Johnson (nine carries for 12 yards) combined for 89 yards. In fact, three quarterbacks Vince Young, Trent Green and Eli Manning had more rushing yards than Johnson, and Green left the game in the first quarter with a concussion.

Can you trust your top running back anymore? Even when the star does well, like in Pittsburgh with Willie Parker running for 102 yards, Najeh Davenport comes in and scores two touchdowns. And Mike Sellers scores two touchdowns in Washington while Clinton Portis and Ladell Betts get none.

Let's not forget the Travis Henry debacle as well and the fact that Brian Westbrook is always week-to-week with will he play won't he play.

I cannot fault anyone for taking LT and S-jax with the top 2 picks, but after that, Peyton was the only sure thing. Addai has performed at expectation, but even in college he was never the #1 back, so his durability has been a concern. He's left 2 games with a injury this year and now has missed a game. But when he is in there he has been nothing short of a stud.

Do the Opposite, Do the Opposite, Do the Opposite. As the ever constant reminder, in my league the first round went like this: LT, S-Jax, LJ, Addai, Peyton (Me), Gore, Alexander, Parker, Rudi, Maroney.

My top 3 - Jags defense (23), Peyton (22.65), and Braylon Edwards (17) for 62.65

His top 3 - Brady (31.25), Patriots D (30), and Reggie Wayne (12.6) for 73.85

Notice no running back for either of us was one of our top 3 scorers! He had T. Henry and Alexander. I ran with Sammy Morris and DeShaun Foster. My two outscored his 2 (and his 2 were his first picks and my 2 were a waiver wire pickup and a 10th round draft pick) by double digit points. And this isn't just a one time thing. It's becoming a theme.

Now, if you did listen to me (which I know no one did) and took Peyton in the first round, you may have taken Marvin Harrison in the 2nd. This way you could double up on the TDs and Yardage points. Unfortunately, he didn't play this week, so one of the elite WRs did go down. But I hold to the philosophy that you DO NOT grab a QB and their top receiver in the draft. If a trade comes along or some kind of weird waiver wire instance (like I have Braylon but pick up Derek Anderson this week to replace Peyton who's on the bye) then go ahead. It's why I grabbed Holt over Marvin in the 2nd round. Everytime that QB throws a TD pass not to your guy you get bummed out, they share the same bye week, and if the offense has a bad day, then you get tag teamed with bad points. Just my philosophy that doesn't really hold any merit (unlike Do the Opposite which does).

Odd facts from our league:

• I am 2-3, and 1 point out of the 6th and final playoff spot. Our first tie-breaker is points scored.
• I am the 4th highest scoring team (662) and have the 2nd most points scored against (677.4).
• Matter of fact 4 of the 5 teams in my division are outscoring the 1st place team in the other division, me being one of them and I am in last place in my division.
• 2 teams are 4-1 (both division leaders)
• 2 teams are 3-2
• 5 teams are 2-3!!! (parity abounds)
• 1 team is 1-4 (hsi only win is against me in week 1)
• So, yes 6 teams have losing records......
• Ronnie Brown is the highest scoring RB
• Randy Moss highest scoring WR
• Randy Moss is outscoring Ronnie Brown
• Have I given any amount of credence to Doing the Opposite....yet?