[thenightwriterblog] The Night Writer: Going out in a blaze of luck

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Posted by The Night Writer:
Going out in a blaze of luck
http://thenightwriterblog.powerblogs.com/posts/1198774577.shtml


   As I noted last [1]week, I was playing in the championship game for my
   fantasy football league, and that following the game I would be
   retiring from this pastime.
   My toughest lineup decision going into the game was whether to start
   LenDale White or Brandon Jacobs to complement Ryan Grant (and who
   would ever have imagined that sentence back on draft night in
   August?). The fact that I was in the championship game itself could
   almost qualify for "News of the Weird" since my first three draft
   picks (picking 9th in a 10-man league) had been Travis Henry, Steve
   Smith and Jacobs; people who follow the fantasy game will know that
   this was not an auspicious beginning considering the way season played
   out. I felt a certain sentimentality toward Jacobs because I had
   predicted such great things for him at the beginning of the year, but
   I thought I detected a true death stink over the Giants team and
   feared he might go down the tubes with his squad, so I started White.
   And then Jacobs scored 18 points in our scoring format, sitting on my
   bench. This type of thing is one of the interesting agonies of playing
   this game and, perhaps, one of the quandaries I will not miss.
   I thought it would be an ironic farewell to the game if I lost, but it
   turned out that my opponents (a two-owner team) were "enjoying" those
   interesting agonies in spades, as nearly every lineup move they made
   -- based on solid reason and intuition (and pretty much the same moves
   I would have made)-- blew up in their faces. My seven starters, even
   without Jacobs, scored 59 points. Their six "bench" players totaled
   61, while their starters managed just 29.
   I could say, "I love it when a plan comes together," but it's more of
   a sense of relief than sweet victory. I retire now with back-to-back
   championships under my belt, some satisfaction, and a healthy
   curiousity as to what comes next.
   Jacobs was one of the few players left on my roster from the draft
   (along with Randy Moss, Travis Henry and Selvin Young) and

References

   1. http://thenightwriterblog.powerblogs.com/posts/1198209901.shtml