(Despite the nice ring the title has to it, I just mean "things that are sort of like fantasy football but not really," contexts where you're basically predicting what will happen.)
In Barker's Cut-Throat league I will have gotten the entire NFC South out of the way in just weeks 9 and 10. Not on purpose: It just worked out that way. Not that you care, but for the first nine weeks I'd mostly followed a plan set back in August, with only minor changes (things like not picking against Tampa Bay so much after all). This felt like about the right point to throw the rest of the plan out the window and optimize from scratch for the 14 teams I had left and their weakest remaining home opponents.
And in Yahoo! Salary Cap Football (is it ironic that the fantasy football scheme that best rewards thinking like a capitalist is the one in which you don't have exclusive "ownership" of a player within a league? - maybe not if you contrast market competition with monopolies), ladies and gentlemen it's Adrian Peterson and Lee Evans, bringing me to within 5 points of 7th place (of 10). Welcome to the big-time and back from the dead, respectively.
Posted by Matt Bruce at November 6, 2007 05:52 PM