My 3-peat.

(Edit: this is now the draft/season post)

Usually I invite people to this league for the opportunity to lose to ConcreteCharlie, however I now dominate this league, so come lose to me. Although kinetic and CC had the best teams last year and I had no business winning but OH WELL.

Normal rules. 4 teams make the playoffs. Draft is Tuesday 10/3, 9pm EST. (the day before the seasons starts)

HMU if you're interested.

Zeno - if you're out there: Auston Matthews can suck it.

He stole a lot of my tricks and generally stays on top of shit. If it were not for the random nature of hockey and fantasy hockey especially maybe he'd have won at least one title already.

I feel pretty good about this season though.

than in fantasy football.

Our playoff match ups are two weeks so most players play at least 7 games.

In football, one bad game by your star player can make it nearly impossible to win a given week.

BBall and baseball are probably the least luck-driven although weird shit does happen in baseball.

Hockey has a lot of weird stuff with injuries, penalties and having the right feel for when a shitty player has a great game in them. Our league is pretty insulated from the first two because there is so much depth that injuries mean a lot less (my other league injuries are ruinous because everybody is already owned) and PIM don't count for much.

Football is super weird though, the way they use backs now makes it tougher than say 10 years ago and of course the fact that kickers count for anything is un-American and weird.

where you at ceej?

I had the Crosby slot. There was no one else I could justify drafting at 2 overall. :/


C
Crosby
Stamkos
Domi
Couture
Backlund
T Johnson

RW
Voracek
Radulov
Spezza
Marchessault

LW
Gaudreau
Ehlers
(Domi)

D
Big Buff
Letang (fell to the 6th round)
Carlson (should be on Caps PP1 this year)
Yandle

G (the 30 year old crew)
Quick
Lundqvuist (fell to the 8th round)
Smith (old man Calgary strength)

i cursed out loud both times.

I thought I could get Karlsson on the wrap but he got taken. At this point I'd prefer Karlsson

*looks at our respective teams*

funny how some little things just have a way of working themselves out.

I cut someone who becomes a stud for you. I forget who it was last year.

It was a tight one.

Pickings were slim to try to get points on the last day of the match up. Tyler Toffoli always lets me down.

I blame Mike Green and his negative 1.4 points on Saturday night. Red Wings got beat 10-1. Woof.

Top 5 standings:

Me 8-1
Kinetic 7-2
CC 6-3
Hartford 6-3
Stuytown 5-4

two losses by a total of 1.8 points.

yikes.

so I'm using this as bulletin board material to motivate the guys

I missed out on 8 points from Jonathan Quick midweek. I won't make that mistake again.

That win may have saved my season. Some day I will find some goaltenders.

lose with the 2nd highest point total of the week = GARBAGE

I feel like this is the most accurate hierarchy we have ever had or at least in the ESPN era. Big matchup this week. I wish Jarry were still going for Pittsburgh but whatever. I feel pretty good about how my team is playing now but you always manage a good week.

Two best teams. Let's do it. I'm on that three-peat.

I picked up Cam Atkinson at the end of the season and he ended up being my 2nd scorer in our series.

Also next year I might bump our playoffs up two weeks. The last week of the season everyone was losing star players left and right as they got rested for the playoffs.

I assumed it would be another post with me talking to myself.

You have ended my run of championships.