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%