Football 2011

Wheeeee fantasy football season, a/k/a the most wonderful time of the year, is back!

Fantasy Sports Live continues to run amazing promotions, this year giving away more than $1000 in bonus cash.  Game offerings continue to expand and the rake is low.  

I only played one contest in week 1, a ten player $11 Sundays With contest.  I finished 3rd, losing out on a tie for second when Plaxico Burress caught a meaningless 2 yard out.  Actually, if Jason Witten hadn't been run down at about the 2 yard line I had a shot at winning outright.  Oh well, that's the game and I'm always happy with a CASH.

Playing regular fantasy again and won my week 1 contest.  Solid across the board except I'm thin at RB.

Love

Kevin Love.  Sadly, not active in tomorrow's player pool.  The T-wolves have the night off.

So I'm still around.  Not playing much.  In fact, I think I just entered my first contest of the month, a $1 25 player basketball gig.  I might as well light the dollar on fire.  Haven't been paying any attention to the NBA.

I see that there have been some more great changes at Fantasy Sports Live.  Most notably, lower rake.  The formerly $11, $22 and $33 contests all appear to be cheaper.  Over the long haul this means a lot more money in your pocket.

I'm giving serious thought to making a run at baseball this year.  I used to be a big baseball guy but got away from it in recent years.  Still love the game, don't know if I'll have the time to do prep the right way. 

See you in the contests!

The Rest of The Season

I've been remiss in posting for a number of weeks, and for a simple reason:  I've taken the rest of the football season off.  It was a very disappointing year and after I determined that I was pretty well out of the running for any SWDP cash it was an easy call to shut it down.

There are still a couple of weeks of playoff action, and of course there is NBA, NHL and baseball season is coming.  I'm totally undecided as to what I'm going to do in 2011.  Once I get it figured out, it'll be posted here.

Good luck and win at Fantasy Sports Live!

Week 11 Results Are In Line With Expectations Of Suck

I don't know about you but I didn't find too many matchups that I liked this week.  And some of those that I did like - say Frank Gore against the 31st rated Tampa Bay run defense - didn't work out so well.

And still.

I did my homework.  I found some guys that I liked, such as Greg Jennings and Santonio Holmes.  But when it came time to actually fill out the rosters I mostly just winged it.  Which is dumb. 

Really, I had a hard time fielding a lineup that I liked that fit under the point cap.  If there was ever a week where I should have adopted the no kicker strategy this was it.

Anyhow, it wasn't a total wash.  I did have two 2nds and a 4th place in a 50 player contest.  We just won't talk about that dead last finish in my SWDP contest which pretty much takes me out of the running for anything.  It's been that kind of year.

Won $10, Entries $16, net ($6).

On the regular fantasy front I had a good week, putting up over 100 points, but I only have a six point lead and my opponent has both Rivers and Orton going tonight.  Uh, yeah, that's going to be a loss.  I would probably need to win the last three weeks in a row to have a chance at the playoffs and with my receivers of suck that isn't going to happen.  Sigh.

Week 10 Results Taste Like Rubber Chicken

Yeah, the game's not over yet but the results are in.  Whiff.

5 contests entered, no cashes.  Best finish was a lone 4th.  Nearly all of the fail can be attributed to picking Peyton Manning.  Yeesh.

Loss:   ($19.50)

Edit:  Small consolation but thanks entirely to Michael Vick I sucked out a highly improbable win in my regular fantasy league.  I think that was the highest individual player score in the last ten years and it was enough to beat out a good week from my opponent.  Barely.  I'm now in a four way tie for last at 4-6 but only 1 game out of the playoffs. 

Week 9 Results Are A Headscratcher

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I made the mistake of checking in to see how my teams were doing after halftime of the Dallas-Green Bay game.  I found that I was in first place by slimmest of margins with three guys closing fast with Aaron Rodgers having a monster game.

Rodgers got one more series but no touchdown, went to the bench and right up to the end of the game it looked like I might hold on by the very skin of my teeth.

But no.  Jason Witten picked up just enough meaningless yards deep in garbage time to move kaiseroll13 ahead of me.  Nuts.  Still managed to eke out a 2nd place which was enough to turn a whitewash into a winning week.  I will most definitely take it.

In my regular fantasy league I'm down by 10 points with 3 Stillers (Ben, Mendenhall and Ward) against the Bungles' kicker.  I have a pretty decent chance at a win which would get me to 3-6 and into a 3 way tie for last.  One thing I have noticed - I have by far the highest points against total in the league.  My opponents run good.  I'm only slightly below average on offense despite having train wreckage for a roster.

Also:  Favre finally has a decent game and he's on my bench.  Sigh.

Results:  5 contests (1 - 50 player, 4 - 10 player), 1 cash, winnings $30, risked $17.40, net +$12.60

Week 8 Results Back the **** Up

Another week, another assortment of subpar selections.  I finished third in my 6 player SWDP contest and picked up a 4th in one of my 10 player contests.  Bubble finishes suck.

The only cash of the week was a 2nd in a dollar late games contest.  FAIl.

My regular fantasy team rolled over again and fell to 2-6.  It's been a long season and it's not even half over.  MEGA FAIL.

4 contests (3 - 10 player, 1 - 6 player), wins:  $3,  net ($13.40).

Week 7 Results Are Filled With Unexpected Success

Yay.

I really shouldn't check and see how I'm doing before watching the Sunday night game.  It only results in frustration.  

I did it anyway this week and figured that I was in OK position but not great.  I had Peterson and Jennings left and middle of the pack standing after the afternoon.  Watching the game, I figured they hadn't done enough.  Um, yeah, wrong.  2nd in my SWDP contest and a first and a second out of three $1 multis.  So .... not GREAT SUCCESS! but still pretty good.

Most of the frustration was losing in my regular fantasy league.  I had a slim lead with Crosby and Vikings D up against Harvin.  Harvin was good, my guys not so much.  FAIL.  I drop to 2-5 despite a pretty good week pointwise.

Week 7 results:  4 contests entered (10 player), 3 cashes, entries $14.00, winnings $38.00, net +$22.00

Week 6 Results Go Down By TKO

Bleah. Another poor showing.

I had to wait around quite a while on Sunday for a SwDP contest to show up. I started checking some time between 7 and 8 and one finally showed up some time after 10. I really should enter earlier in the week but I rarely do anything fantasy related before Sunday morning ... which is probably why I haven't been having a good season.

Finished 5th in my SwDP contest due to complete receiver fail. Other positions were OK to good but I continue to struggle to find productions from the wideouts.

In my regular fantasy league I actually have a 17 point lead with my opponent having David Garrard tonight. Please either hand the ball off to MoJo 100 times or throw some stupid picks kthx. Not that being 2-4 is all that much better than 1-5 given how terrible my roster is, but it (ahem) is what it is.

Week 6 results: 3 contests entered, no cash, ($15.40). Fail: 100%

Week 5 Results Are On The Side That Doesn't Involve Turkey And Stuffing

When you don't play many contests and the ones you do play are all multi-players, the results tend to be feast or famine. Week 5 was all famine.

Things looked fantastic early. I had Lee Evans as a value pick against a dreadful Jacksonville secondary and he delivered with a quick TD catch. I had Hakeem Nicks in one of my contests and he went off. And then things went not so good. Peyton did bupkus against an improved Chiefs defense - and he looked terrible throughout. I took Wayne instead of Nicks in my SWDP contest. Jacksonville scored a bunch but MoJoDrew didn't get it done. I flipped a coin between the Bears D and the Saints D ... and took the wrong one. LOL Saints.

Sigh.

I did come within 2 points of cashing in one contest but that's it. Tough week.

And I'm toast in my regular fantasy league as well. After the afternoon games I had 19 points with Favre, the Vikings D and Gore yet to play. Nineteen ****ing points. Eleven of which were from Mason Crosby. So pathetic. I picked up Mark Clayton this week and he didn't make it through the first quarter before being lost for the season.

Eesh. So much fail.

Week 5 results: 3 contests entered (2 - 10 player, 1 - 6 player), $0 cash, net ($15.40)

Week 4 Results Captured By Automatic Spam Filter

How about that, another winning week. I could get used to this.

Solid picks this week. One last minute change from Colston to Megatron made all the difference. I whiffed by taking Chris Johnson but so did a lot of people.

2nd in my SWDP contest, 2nd in a late games multi and 10th (boo) out of 50 in a mega multi. I think I'm at 3 weeks in a row beating Pauly's score so I need one more week to get into the tournament of champeens.

Over in regular fantasyland my hopes for the week were torpedoed early by Vick's injury. My roster is terrible and I can only turn it over so much. A convincing loss drops me to 1-3 and well down in the points standings.

Week 4 results: 3 contests entered, $13 risked, $33 won, net +$20.

Week 3 Results Are Better Liked

That's more like it. Took 2nd in my 6 man SWDP contest to rack up my first cash of the season. Mostly solid picks except at receiver where Austin and Andre Johnson did little. I swapped Johnson in for Randy Moss since I had the points to do so under the cap. As it turns out it made no difference since the 1st place team had the high score for the week. I would have needed to play Austin Collie for Austin to have beat him and while I did consider playing Collie it wasn't going to happen unless I'd been really strapped budget-wise.

I'm also on track for my first winning week in regular fantasy, up 19 points with 3 Packers versus Aaron Rodgers. Huge days from Vick and Boldin get all the credit.

Week 3 results: 1 contest entered (6 player), 1 cash, net win: $9.00. Woo.

Week 2 Results Bring The Pain

Ouch.

I only entered one contest this week, a Sundays w/ Dr. Pauly contest. I wasn't terribly fired up about joining, seeing that there was some seriously stiff competition already entered, but you can't be too picky when you wait until Sunday morning to lock down your spot.

I made better picks this week but there were still not good enough. I finished 4th, less than two points out of 2nd. Argh. I actually watched some games this week so I'm starting to get a better feel for what's happening in the league. A brutally short roll is going to keep my play way down though.

Results: 1 contest entered (10 player), no cash, minus $11.

Over in my regular fantasy league the process of retooling the worst team ever is underway. I dumped my injured players (Stafford, Maroney) and picked up Vick (who I'll get rid of in Week 6 if he doesn't keep starting) and Brandon Jackson. Thanks mostly to Vick my ragtag band of underachievers put up 60 points this week with Gore still to play but I'm certain to be 0-2 with the lowest point total in the league. I'll be in better shape QB-wise when Big Ben returns. For now I need to work on fixing the absolute black hole that is my receiver corps. Man are they bad. I should not be allowed to draft.

Week 1 Results 2010

FAIL.

This could become a recurring theme.

The primary problem was QB selection. Decided that Kolb offered the best point to projected production value, freeing up some extra points for other spots.

Oops.

While you can't predict concussions, the fact of the matter is that Kolb sucked before he got hurt. If he'd continued and put up roughly what Vick did I would have been competitive anyway.

Receiver selection wasn't good either and I passed on Arian Foster in favor of Gore. Oh well, it's week 1. Hopefully it will get better. I obviously did not beat Dr. Pauly's score.

In my regular fantasy league I may have the worst team yet. I'm extremely unhappy with my roster. I did take a late flier on Stafford and of course he gets hurt in the first game. Sigh. I'm down by like 60 points going into tonight's games so that's a definite L.

Next week. It must be better.

Week 1 Results: 3 contests entered (2 - 10 player, 1 - 6 player), entry fees $15.40, winnings $0, net loss ($15.40), ROI -100%, FAIL FAIL FAIL

Again With The It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

Football season. Yes. You know what that means: Fantasy Sports Live and their fantastic Sundays with Dr. Pauly promotion. Ripped straight from the FSL blog:

For 2010 we thought we would step things up a bit with our Sundays with Dr. Pauly promotion and increase the free bonus cash up to $1000. For qualified sports or gaming bloggers this year, all you need to do is play in our regular SWDP leagues, and we will double any bonus cash you win for up to an extra free $1000. That increases the potential amount of bonus cash added up to $2000. Not bad for just playing some fantasy football. The details are below and week 1 leagues are already forming.

FantasySportsLive.com announces the new and improved Sundays with Dr. Pauly promotion for 2010 with at least $1000 in free bonus cash added. In Sundays with Dr. Pauly you get to compete against one of the top gaming bloggers in the world, Dr. Pauly himself, as well as against the other participants in the challenge. Sundays with Dr. Pauly will run throughout the 2010 NFL football season and offer multiple ways to earn free bonus cash. Simply enter the weekly fantasy football leagues called “Sundays w/Dr. Pauly” to qualify for your share of the free bonus cash. Bonus cash will be distributed as follows:

$150/$75/$25 will be distributed to the top three individual weekly fantasy football scores obtained during any week that Sunday’s with Dr. Pauly runs.

The series will be broken out into three 5 week mini-series with the winner of each series receiving $75 and entry into the week 16 Tournament of Champions

$250 will be added to the Week 16 Tournament of Champions. To gain entry into the Week 16 tournament, you need to either win a 5 week mini-series or beat Dr. Pauly’s fantasy football score over four consecutive weeks during weeks 1-15. Anyone beating Dr. Pauly’s score in the TOC will receive a pro-rated share of the $250 added based on the amount they beat Dr. Pauly’s score by. If Dr. Pauly scores highest in the TOC, he wins the entire amount.

$150/$75/$50 will be awarded to the top three cumulative scores over the entire 17 week NFL season. Only the top 15 scores will be counted for each entry, so you can miss a week or two if you have to and still earn the bonus cash.

As an additional bonus, if you are a sports or gaming blogger and participate in the challenge we will double any bonus cash you receive. To be eligible for a doubling of the bonus cash prizes you must have an active sports or gaming blog that has existed for at least one year prior to September 1st 2010, and must post the Sundays with Dr. Pauly image, with a link to www.fantasysportslive.com. Approved blogs will have links to them shown in the Sunday’s with Dr. Pauly standings that will be updated on the FSL blog.

Sunday’s with Dr. Pauly leagues will have an $11 entry fee and payout 91% of the fees in regular cash prizes not counting the added bonus cash. We will offer a choice of either a 25 player league paying the top five or 10 player leagues paying the top 3 each week. We will try to keep SWDP leagues available until the league start-time, but we can’t guarantee this, so please enter the leagues early to reserve your seat.

I've taken out most of my FSL bankroll since the end of last season but I definitely will be in for this.

On Semi-Hiatus

With the end of football season, I'm taking a bit of a break from daily fantasy sports. I haven't paid nearly enough attention to the NBA, NHL or NASCAR to make any kind of educated plays.

Ordinarily that wouldn't stop me from entering dollar contests and the like, but there have also been life things going on that have kept me away. I've also been spending a lot more time on poker.

I hope to return to action some time in the next couple months, probably playing NBA contests. Or maybe NASCAR. Baseball season isn't that far away. There is always something coming up.

I'll be back.

Week 17 Results

DNP. Still feeling lousy.

I haven't gone through and added up the numbers, but I think I was a modest loser on football this year. It's pretty simple - I put in about as much time over the course of the season as I should have per week. No time spent equaled no clue.

But: When you factor in the bonus dollars won for having one monster week, I'm solidly in the black. Thanks FSL for the save!

Anyhow, there will probably be some playoff contests but I'm basically done for the year. I may or may not start playing basketball again, I've actually been spending more time playing poker lately. We'll see.

On a related note, I lucksacked the last week in my regular fantasy league and won my entry fee back. I'm pretty pumped about that considering my sad sack roster.

Week 16 Results

Incomplete. I have some fuzzy recollection of logging on and picking rosters for the Sundays w/ Dr. Pauly and Blogger Battle TOCs. It looks like I also entered a $1 multi.

I beat Pauly's score in the SWDP TOC, so I'm guessing I'll end up with four or five bucks for that which would be enough to make it a winning week. We'll see.

Edit: It looks like the payout method was different this year and since I was the lowest score to beat Dr. Pauly I won ... $0.96. LOL.

Otherwise, this was a gentle reminder not to play when all wacked out on NyQuil.

Week 16 results: 3 contests entered (10 player), 1 "cash"; amount risked: $3.00; amount "won" $0.96; net: ($2.04); ROI who cares

Snapdraft FAIL

I got a marketing email from Snapdraft on Tuesday. If you believe the subject line, it was addressed to players who own Chris Johnson of the Titans in leagues that Fanball handles. My regular fantasy league uses Fanball and I own Chris Johnson. I'm special!

But I digress.

The email was touting a special opportunity:

This week all SnapDraft customers have the opportunity to win a Chris Johnson signed Tennessee Titans mini-helmet, a $150 value, by entering the "NFL - Chris Johnson Autographed Mini-Helmet" 15-team league posted in the list of SnapDraft contests for only $10.

That would be a pretty nice little bonus, wouldn't it?

Oh wait: It's not a bonus. Instead of paying out cash, these contests pay out a mini helmet:

There is no cash prize awarded for the "NFL - Chris Johnson Autographed Mini-Helmet" contests.

I wonder if the megacorp that controls Snapdraft has a sponsorship or other tie-in with Chris Johnson - maybe they got a box of these at a discount. More likely the 'sponsors' - Players Ink and Buzzer Sports - kicked them in. Or maybe they just bought some off of eBay ... hey this one is only $107 or less with buy it now and there are auctions going for less yet.

Company gotta get paid yo.

Upon further reflection I was going to change the title of this post to "You might be an idiot to play on Snapdraft if ..." but then I took one more look at the marketing email. As it turns out, in order to win your Chris Johnson NFL superstar mini-helmet you might have to be good at picking hockey?

To play SnapDraft NHL, pick a team of 9 players using a $27 million salary. Compete using only this weekend's NFL games.

So much FAIL. Yes, I'm sure it's just a typo. It's still a joke.

For additional entertainment, go to the Players Ink website. Players Ink has a few dozen autographed mini helmets available. I didn't see any Chris Johnson helmets. Quite a few from other players are available for under $100, while a number of others are listed at $9,999.99. Including a REAL GENUINE signed mini helmet from the legendary Donnie Avery of the St. Louis Rams. Whoa.

Must. CONSUME.

What do you mean my credit card was declined?

Anyhow. I haven't played on Snapdraft lately and really don't have much motivation to do so. There's plenty of traffic on Fantasy Sports Live, a better variety of contests, lower rake and no retarded email spam marketing.

Play FSL for less FAIL.

Week 15 Results

Delayed post for a simple reason: DNP, coach's decision. I determined that I was too far back in the Sundays w/ Dr Pauly series and I didn't really spend any time checking the schedule. I'll be back in action this weekend for the SwDP tournament of champeens.

I also got bounced in the semi-finals of my regular league. Down going into Sunday night, I needed to have Favre come up big. Instead he laid an egg. GG season.

Week 14 Results

These posts are getting shorter every week.

Even though I don't really have much reason to play out the string, I decided to sign up for a Sundays w/ Dr Pauly contest at about 12:45. My computer chose that time to get problematic. It finally started cooperating at 12:57, so I had 3 minutes to pick. Totally winging it.

If I'd stayed with my original lineup, which had Chris Johnson and no kicker, I would have won my contest. Instead I quickly revised those two slots, scored more than 20 points worse and bubbled. Arrgh.

On the bright side my regular fantasy team will win unless Alex Smith puts up the performance of the decade and I'll be in the playoffs at 8-6. Not much separation in that league this year, so anything can happen.

Sunday results: 2 contests entered (1 - 10 player, 1 - 6 player); 0 cashes; amount risked: $12.00; amount won: $0.00; net: ($12.00); ROI -100.0%

Week 13 Results

That's a little more like it. Finally got a win in a Sundays w/ Dr Pauly contest.

Also hung on - barely - to win in my regular fantasy league. I'm at 7-6, currently in good shape for the playoffs but need a win next week to lock it up.

Sunday results: 5 contests entered (1 - 25 player, 3 - 10 player, 1 HU); 2 cashes (0, 2, 0); amount risked: $17.40; amount won: $53.00; net: +$35.60; ROI whatever, right around +200%

Week 12 Results

Too much screwing around. Another week where I logged on, jumped in some contests, picked guys almost at random and lost. Need to stop that.

Also: FFFUUUUUUU Matt Schaub.

Sunday results: 5 contests entered (1 - 10 player, 1 - 6 player, 3 HU); 1 cash (1, 0, 0); amount risked: $22.20; amount won: $3.00; net: ($19.20); ROI who cares

Turkey'd

One contest for kicks on Thursday. As previously expressed in this space, I'm not a huge fan of playing on days with a limited number of contests. Rosters are too similar.

I finished fifth, less than 2 points out of the money and less than 8 out of first. It didn't exactly help to see the Lions lose Brandon Pettigrew - who amazingly was picked by only one other guy in the contest (who finished 8th) - on the first drive.

Yeah, I like to think that at least a couple of the 12 targets the other LOLion TEs received would have come Pettigrew's way, but those are the breaks.

With a blah weather forecast on for tomorrow, I might actually get to see a little football.

Thursday results: 1 contest entered (10 player); 0 cashes; amount risked: $1; amount won: $0; net: ($1); ROI -100%

Thanksgiving For Football

A reminder:

Don't forget that daily fantasy football contests should be available on Thanksgiving Day since there are multiple games on the schedule. I would expect the contests to start showing up in the lobby some time today.

If that's not enough action for you, there is always hockey and basketball too.

Week 11 Results

Another modest loser. I don't like to make excuses, but I'm going to - I missed out on a winning week because I absent-mindedly selected Neil Rackers instead of Nate Kaeding - who I intended to take - for my kicker in my SwDP contest. I don't know why I get those guys confused. But I do and I did.

I got it right in my other contests, so the week wasn't a complete washout, but still, what a dumb move. I guess these things happen when you have no time.

Also lost an autodraft contest for the first time.

Sunday results: 4 contests entered (3 - 10 player, 1 HU); 2 cashes (2, 0); amount risked: $16.40; amount won: $7.00; net: ($9.40); ROI -54.0%

Week 10 Results

Rushed. I only managed to enter three contests this week and it felt like I spent a total of about five minutes on selections. Really, the only guy I was locked on was Chris Johnson against the woeful Bills. Results would have been better if defensive TDs counted.

Thanks to a bubble finish (again) in my Sundays w/ Dr. Pauly contest, it was a losing week. I took first in my early games dollar multi and won a heads up autodraft contest.

Sunday results: 3 contests entered (2 - 10 player, 1 HU); 2 cashes (1, 1); amount risked: $15.40; amount won: $11.00; net: ($4.40); ROI -28.6%

Week 9 Results

As expected, the final tally wasn't good. I needed Donovan McNabb to play better to pull out my late game contests and it just didn't happen. My primary weakness continues to be receiver selection and hopefully I'll have a little time this week to look at injuries and schemes to come up with better picks down the road.

I think this might be the most last place finishes I've ever had in 10 player multis in a single week, including a dreadful number in Sundays w/ Dr. Pauly which pretty much eliminates me from Super TOC contention for the second 5 week series.

The only contests that went well were the autodrafts, where I went 2 for 2.

It could be worse ... I could be a Packers fan. LOL Packers. And my regular fantasy team is going to win again, bring me back to 4-5 and just one game out of playoff contention.

Sunday results: 13 contests entered (1 - 25 player, 7 - 10 player, 5 HU); 3 cashes (0, 1, 2); amount risked: $39.50; amount won: $15.00; net: ($24.50); ROI -62.0%

Week 9 In Process Update

Yuck. This is fairly ugly.

I still have a shot to pull out a couple heads up contests, but the multis are going to be brutal. I might as well just admit that I have been terrible this season at picking receivers. Back to the drawing board.

Let's go selected Eagles!

Also: I'll have more on this later but autodraft is pretty sweet.

Oooh, Autodraft

Fantasy Sports Live has a shiny new toy for daily fantasy football players: AUTODRAFT

Instead of trying to fit your picks into a point cap or a salary cap (or no cap), you simply rank your top picks at each position and the system will fill out your roster for you. I presume that it'll alternate between you and your opponent(s).

This option will produce rosters that look a lot more like a traditional fantasy football contest as there will be zero player overlap between rosters.

I signed up for two autodraft contests this week - I'm in ten total contests I think so far - and am definitely looking forward to seeing how it goes.

More choices for daily fantasy players, you have to love that.

The System

Week 9 has some interesting matchups and I'd like nothing better to sit around and watch the games. That, however, will not be happening with a beautiful day in the forecast.

If I'm lucky, I'll have both time and a decent internet connection - neither of which are guaranteed - on Sunday morning to clean up my selections. Because of the uncertainty, I've kind of adopted a really dumb system of selection:

1. Find open contests
2. Sign up
3. Slap in some guys that look good
4. Hope to clean up later.

Not exactly optimal. Oh well. I think I'm in like 5 contests so far - Sundays w/ Dr. Pauly and every dollar multi I could find. I believe the kids refer to this as 'ballin out of control'.

Week 8 Results

Loser.

I didn't have time this morning to log back on and standardize my rosters, so I had a lot of variation. Unfortunately, most of them contained Steve Slaton who put up a stellar minus 0.9 points and was benched after one carry in favor of Ryan Moats who went over 100 yards with 3 TDs. Dammit. I also struggled with receiver selection.

Two bubbles and a fifth make this worse than it could have been.

I put up a decent but not great score in Sundays w/ Dr. Pauly (didn't have Slaton in that one thankfully), we'll see if I beat the Doc and got into the TOC.

Edit: I did beat Pauly and so I'm in the Tournament of Champions ... along with a lot of other people. I think the count is like 17 or something. My 'regular' fantasy team also won and I'm out of the cellar at 3-5. I guess those count for something.

Sunday results: 8 contests entered (1 - 25 player, 5 - 10 player, 1 - 6 player, 1 HU); 2 cashes (0, 1, 0, 1); amount risked: $24.90; amount won: $9.00; net: ($15.90); ROI -63.9%

Fantasy NBA Action Take One

Mostly as a way to get up to speed on who's-playing-for-who I've entered a couple $1 basketball contests this week. I ended up 9th on Tuesday but came back with a 2nd yesterday. The early part of the season is kind of goofy but entertaining as you try and figure out how guys are going to fit in.

The NBA is offering their broadband League Pass for free through November 3rd. The Pistons - GriZZZlies game was blacked out so I watched some of the Thunder-Kings game instead. The picture quality is really really good and if I had a slightly more robust internet connection - and money to fritter away - I'd definitely sign up for this. I watched some of the LOLakers - Clippahs game on Tuesday via the TNT website and that wasn't bad either.

No action tonight as I think there are only two games on the schedule and I'm not a fan of small player pool days.

Basketball results: 2 contests entered (10 player); 1 cash; amount risked: $2.00; amount won: $3.00; net: +$1.00; ROI +50.0%