Fantasy Football - Week 2

Well, it's been a good start to the season. I'm currently 1-0 after the first week, and am winning my second week's matchup, going into tonight's Monday Night Football game.

Won my first week's game, thanks to a fine performance by Jay Cutler (QB - Denver) on Monday night. Finished with the most points for the week, which will net me some waiver wire money.

As for Week 2, Michael Turner (RB - Atlanta) was a letdown this week after last week's performance, but, again, Jay Cutler didn't disappoint me, throwing for over 350 yards and 4 TD's and one 2 point conversion pass. Of course, he should have had only 3 TD's, but thanks to a blown call by the refs, he had 4. I've got a slim 20 point lead going into tonight's game, with Terrell Owen (WR - Dallas) starting for me, and Jason Witten (TE - Dallas) and the Cowboys D going for my opponent. I'm hoping that TO will do what is necessary to secure my win.

I may not finish 1st in total points this week, but I will definitely finish in the Top 3, which will still net me some more waiver wire money.

As for my team, I did lose Nate Burleson (WR - Seattle) for the year, but replaced him with Courtney Taylor (WR - Seattle.) It's not that Taylor was high on my list of players to get, but that I was last in the waiver wire order and Taylor was the only one on my list of players I wanted to pick up. I tried for Eddie Royal (WR - Denver), Devery Henderson (WR - New Orleans), and a few others, but it was not to be.

I forgot to mention in my first Fantasy Football post, I do subscribe to a fantasy football website (FootballGuys.com.) I've been with them for about 8 or 9 years now, and since finding them, I've been doing a lot better in my league than I did without them. If you are looking for fantasy football information, FootballGuys.com are tough to beat with the information and tools they give all year round.

We'll see how tonight goes...

Fantasy Football - A new year, a new season

I've seen a couple of blog posts about fantasy football on PlanetLotus.com and thought I'd throw my team out there as well.

I've been involved in my local fantasy football league for close to 20 years now. I took a year off during this stretch, but couldn't give it up. I've been the commissioner of the league for close to 10 years now. It's been fun, but as any commissioner will tell you, it's a thankless job. One of the best moves I've made as a commissioner (patting myself on the back), was moving us to an online league management website many years ago. We started out at NFL.com (free at the time), then switched to sportsline.com (again, free), but when they started charging close to $150 for a league, I looked elsewhere. I found MyFantasyLeague.com and it was only $70-80 per year, and it was fully customizable (both in league setup and web design.) We've been there for 6 years now and everyone seems to like it.

Our league a 10 team, redraft league. We have 16 rounds, but 18 roster positions. Here is the my team:

Player
Cutler, Jay DEN QB
Delhomme, Jake CAR QB
Forte, Matt CHI RB (R)
Lewis, Jamal CLE RB
Perry, Chris CIN RB
Peterson, Adrian MIN RB
Turner, Michael ATL RB
Washington, Leon NYJ RB
Burleson, Nate SEA WR
Evans, Lee BUF WR
Johnson, Chad CIN WR
Owens, Terrell DAL WR
White, Roddy ATL WR
Gonzalez, Tony KCC TE
Miller, Zach OAK TE
Scobee, Josh JAC PK
Eagles, Philadelphia PHI Def
Redskins, Washington WAS Def

I'm pretty happy with the team, but with the injuries to Jamal Lewis (on my home team Cleveland Browns) and Chad Ocho Cinco, I am a little worried right now. We'll see how things go this weekend.