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12-24-2013, 08:39 AM | #2 |
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I've said it before....but the playoffs are all luck. My team won it all.....it was the highest scoring team in the league by a mile. But if i would have played in round 1 off the playoffs....i would have gotten demolished. Instead I had a bye and my team put it together two weeks in a row.
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12-24-2013, 01:54 PM | #3 |
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The entire thing is luck. Not just the playoffs.
I missed the playoffs (leading the 12 team league in scoring, of course) with this roster: Newton Kaepernick Bush Lacy J. Bell Starks D. Brown Marshall Gordon Decker Cooper Graham Bailey/Crosby Streaming Defense |
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12-24-2013, 04:01 PM | #6 | |
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Meanwhile....I averaged 160 points a game.....and got to play teams when they had down weeks and were scoring 90-100. |
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12-24-2013, 04:32 PM | #7 |
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IMHO there is some measure of skill in consistently putting together a team that scores in the upper portions of a league, but as it relates to a won/lost record that doesn't always shake out.
In a regular league using playoffs, the "skill" it takes to win a league goes down even further. In my big money league, this is our 12th year and the highest scoring team in the regular season has won the playoffs twice. |
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12-24-2013, 04:35 PM | #8 |
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I think this is the first year that I've seen the highest scoring team in the league also go up against the least amount of points total......AND win the championship.
And if you look at my team from the beginning of the season to the end.....it really doesn't look like a juggernaut of a team. |
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12-24-2013, 04:51 PM | #9 |
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It's skill. I had good teams but failed to a) plan ahead for Brees' shitty playoff schedule and b) keep key pickups (e.g., Todman Week 15) from my opponents.
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I think the biggest luck aspect is the weekly matchups. One year I killed in overall scoring. Most people in the playoffs had about 1000-1100 overall points. I had 1400+. 4 times I scored the 2nd-most points for the week--and I was matched against the guy who had the highest. Finished 6-8 and out of the playoffs. I almost had to quit football I was so aggravated.
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More bad luck is having Jay ****ler as your QB in the Championship (because your other QBs kept getting hurt and he was the best option left) and he throws a ****ing pick-six in garbage time, then gets taken out of the game.
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12-25-2013, 09:04 AM | #13 |
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We had a guy one year pick 2 TE's (I think they were Dallas Clark and Tony G.) with his first two picks! And yes, won the league.
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12-25-2013, 09:37 AM | #15 |
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Lost 5 weeks by a combined 13 points.
And the kicker - I was eliminated from playoff contention on a Thursday stat correction. Thought I was good all week, then got booted. They took a sack from SF's defense, I lost by one. Won the consolation bracket and half my money back, though. WHOO! |
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