The Grind Is Finally Over

[stonewall 647]

I know that a few of you are still playing, but for most of us, even considering how much as we love FF, we are glad that it has ended. It's a great but grueling journey each year.

 

Some of you have probably seen this....but if you haven't, it is pretty funny. Sit back and enjoy the lighter side of NFL football. (The first 5:35 is the best)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp7xtgatMUk

 

[Law 220]

At the end of each year, I question if I'll do it again next year. I wonder how or why I did it this year. So much time involved. Never again!

 

But come late June, early July, there I am doing some mocks, working out projections. Come mid-August, there I am, again with 4 leagues.

And come September through December, there I am spending a grossly inordinate amount of time reading, researching, and managing my teams.

Not to mention "losing" a day out my life every single Sunday from 11 am to 11 pm.

 

So, for now, NEVER AGAIN!

 

 

 

(see you in July!)

[weepaws 2,459]

After my 27 straight season being apart of fantasy football and being involved with four leagues . I miss it already. I have known other you are glad it's over and they soon after retire from it . Me I am ready to start looking at next season .

[Bishop82 61]

I look forward to the off season more than the regular season, now a days.

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

I hadn't seen that one stonewall. Great find and thanks for posting that. Too funny.........

 

Each year I tell myself "maybe I'll take a break" yet someone gets me amped up about it and by August, I've run through every shred of info, projections, and analyzed each position down to minutia level looking for any edge I can find.

 

I have no doubt I'll do it all again next year however, I'm going to focus more on the Daily ones (fanduel and maybe Draftkings) where it resets every week.

[murf74 461]

The grind of fantasy football is 100% who to start.

 

I have heard of best ball leagues, where you go through the draft, waivers, trades, etc. yet do not set a starting lineup. Your optimal lineup is started every week.

 

Imagine how much free time and less stress there would be without who to start?

 

If you are like me you get a roster full of completely startable players and all week struggle with reading and analyzing who to start. Then all Sunday and Monday stress that you made the right one. Because you are so deep, you can't be right on all of them so you beat yourself up for making stupid starts or having a guy get hurt and a perfectly capable backup sitting on the bench collecting dust.

 

Imagine just getting to start your entire roster every week. Imagine now worrying about your guys getting hurt in the first quarter?

 

Now that's a league I need to find. I would love to have have all my leagues be like this. We would all be less bitchy and have so much time.

 

Anyone know where I can get in a league like this? Not one of those draft only leagues, but one you manage like a normal league yet get best ball lineup?

[Serpent 51]

At the end of each year, I question if I'll do it again next year. I wonder how or why I did it this year. So much time involved. Never again!

 

But come late June, early July, there I am doing some mocks, working out projections. Come mid-August, there I am, again with 4 leagues.

And come September through December, there I am spending a grossly inordinate amount of time reading, researching, and managing my teams.

Not to mention "losing" a day out my life every single Sunday from 11 am to 11 pm.

 

So, for now, NEVER AGAIN!

 

 

 

(see you in July!)

 

I pretty much stopped watching football this year. Got so sick of the constant, stupid commercials I could no longer take it. So I wound up actually being productive on Sundays this year. I've been working on learning a new language and also read a lot of scripture. A few years ago if you told me I'd do that I'd have told you that you're crazy.

 

I had 3 leagues that I did this year, all really casual, no money. One of the leagues pretty much everybody stopped caring right after the draft. The other two had fairly active owners, or at least half were active.

 

But I just really didn't care at all, especially towards the end. 2 made the playoffs, the last one just barely missed it because of losing the final 2 games of the season. I didn't even care enough to make roster moves down the stretch though.

 

I barely posted on here during the season as well, most of my posts this year were either on AP or Rice, not really football.

 

Probably I'll watch the playoffs. But I really question now if I'll do FF again next year or watch any regular season football either. I haven't watched an entire game all year. Even on Thanksgiving, nobody wanted to watch, even one of my cousins who was diehard the year before and we watched all the games, this year he didn't seem to care one bit. My friends seemed to have given up on it too.

 

It's really strange. I think I'm just getting really old or something. But not old enough that I need Viagra either. Too old to think supermodels will show up and dance with me if I drink crappy light beer, but not old enough that I'd actually need Viagra to get it up if they did haha.

 

Well, if I do disappear, I want to say I did have a lot of fun on this site the past few years and it was a great resource. There are a few posters here that were always fun to converse with as well.

[posty 2,296]

Fantasy football is a "grueling journey"?

 

[TennisMenace 156]

I do not find FF grueling. It is exhilarating to me because it allows me to flew my massive brain even more than I usually do. There is one drawback though- I have to buy bigger hats. (Big grin)

[murf74 461]

I do not find FF grueling. It is exhilarating to me because it allows me to flew my massive brain even more than I usually do. There is one drawback though- I have to buy bigger hats. (Big grin)

By week 16 I am going thru the motions even in the playoffs. It stops being fun after about week 9 for me. It becomes a chore especially with thur night games

[Boilermaker04 11]

By week 16 I am going thru the motions even in the playoffs. It stops being fun after about week 9 for me. It becomes a chore especially with thur night games

First world problems my friend. It's a good problem to have.

 

 

Those best ball leagues exist, and it might be a nice change for you for a season or two.

[Quickolas1 80]

I don't mind the lineup setting. I know I'm making the best educated guess and started whomever for a reason.

 

Not watching a night game here and there can be liberating.

 

It's tracking fantasy free agents and having to input the add/drops every week that is annoying to me. Each league has its own scheduled window to do this and it's own little wrinkles and then having to be on time for first-come-first-serve... too much work.

[stonewall 647]

Fantasy football is a "grueling journey"?

 

 

I'm glad that entertains you. Like life itself, everyone approaches it differently.

 

Self-inflicted, sure.....but grueling nevertheless.

 

16 weeks of juggling 6 leagues (including big money leagues), commish of 4 of them, and making the playoffs in 5. I am a very active owner and leave no stone unturned, so by the time the final whistle sounded I am psychologically exhausted. I continue to do it because I still very much enjoy it....but, in my case, it is taxing.

 

Unlike many of you, I also am still very much an NFL football fan. I have loved it my entire life. In fact, that is exactly what brought me to ff back in the 90's. I find that I enjoy watching the games more after ff ends, particularly the playoffs, knowing that I have no iron in the fire, and that I have no opponent rolling up points on me.