Comments on: Fantasy Football Addiction

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for inviting me to play Mike. I had a blast and can’t wait for next season.

By: Asterisk

Asterisk — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fantasy Football Champion

So, I know it’s geeky, but I’ve got to toot my own horn a bit here. After 17 weeks of crap from Andrei and Scrivs (and yeah I’m just linking you to rub it in, how’s that for smack?), a…

By: Joe Masterleo

Joe Masterleo — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fantasy football is to football what dreaming that you’re dreaming is to sleep, what snorting coke is to an existing high on weed, what doing hard porn is while doing soft porn, what a bourbon chaser is after downing a pint of scotch, what spending good money is after spending bad, what an anvil is to a drowning man, what a jail sentence consisting of consecutive life terms is to a convict, what mounting a dead horse is to beating a dead horse, or what feeding another troop surge is to an insatiable insurgency.

By itself, a fantasy is an illusion. Multiplied or compounded, a fantasy becomes a delusion — a parting with reality. I ask you, if past a certain point football ITSELF is a fantasy, then, in real terms, what do you call a fantasy of a fantasy otherwise known as fantasy football? A double-dipping delusion? Do any of you fantasy footballers out there have a REAL life?

By: JayH101

JayH101 — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My buddy Wes is a horrible addict. He sleeps with his fantasy baseball teddybear every night. He nicknamed his firstborn “Albert “Fantasy” Pujols.” Sportsline renamed their url cbsportsline.homeofwesg.fantasy.com.

Get him help!

By: Angus

Angus — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is this for real?
Like to hear more if it is…just fantasy football though. I’m addicted to it.

By: John Tierney

John Tierney — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ah yes. Now the thing is, what do you with Sundays outside of honey dos? I am here at a tech symposium, but still striving to get my fantasy football fix. I write for http://www.fftoday.com and will have a comparative receiver article out by the end of this week. I wish you all the best of luck next season, but I wish me more luck. Christ I would love to have a year where I don’t lose my running backs. This year I had eight; by the end of the season I was down to two servicable backs who could hardly be considered top tier.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

[catching up on my blog reading…]
we used league manager for the first time this year and it was great! it started off a little rocky because it was very different from the free service we had used for the first few years (not to mention we finally got 10 people instead of the previous 6).
i felt like i was so in tune with ff this year, that when i heard my phone make the new text message sound, i looked at my watch and i knew who scored. it was uncanny (my wife may have considered it more creepy than anything else). having won my league this year, after three years in the basement, i’m rooting for converting to a keeper league, but otherwise we’re league manager for life.
there were some dissenters early that did not like league manager. one of them, my good friend, complained that he thought there were problems because lm used flash instead of javascript which our old ff site used. i love my layman friends. what’s more, 7 of the ten teams ended the season with * in front of their team names. I couldn’t help but to mock them and change my team name to “Asterisk Clobbersaurus” (which was the catalyst for my 1-3 team to go on a 9-0 run).
i could talk about this for hours.
[waiting for the draft…]

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

spk: I actually don’t play fantasy baseball. Football is the only sport I can handle. In fact, I can play like 4 football leagues but can’t handle even one baseball league. Too much work!

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m stopping by to say hi since it’s de-lurker day… so hi and Happy New Year!

By: Josh Williams

Josh Williams — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Mike, one other thought to pitch to ESPN regarding fantasy basketball that would make things nice: Several friends and I have always thought it would be nice to make roster moves days or weeks in advance. Maybe this is too much information to track, but it sure would be nice.

This would also allow you to take the Christmas holiday off and not worry about getting your arse pasted because you didn’t rotate Nash to PG and your opponent caught you napping.

By: spk

spk — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

mike –

who’s baseball league manager do you use? sportsline looks like they are the only kids on the block who offer a full fledged baseball league manager game.

thanks and peace.

By: Wayne Godfrey

Wayne Godfrey — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I ran a Fantasy Football league for six years, long before the advent of the electronic versions that now exist. It was fun, taxing and a ton of work. I had to look up the stats using the newspapers every Monday evening, compile them to my computer at work, then run home to watch MNF. It changed forever the way I watched football and not for the better. I found I could no longer root for teams and instead I was always watching players’ stats and hoping for that extra yardage, a TD or the opposing QB to throw one the other way. To this day, I still watch the stats as they appear on the tube (calculating them in my head) and wonder who crying and who’s celebrating! I did, however, football myself out and that sucks.

Congrats to your one championship and your great other finish.

Wayne

By: Robert Occhialini

Robert Occhialini — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I had more fun with this league, and getting to know the folks, than almost any other league I have been involved with. Thanks again Mike, and congrats to Keith.

By: Mike P.

Mike P. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’ll be nice to have my Sundays back now.

Tell me about it!! My Sunday nights, anyway…

Thanks a lot Mike, tonnes of fun. The League manager, despite a few hiccups is a thing to marvel at; kudos to ESPN for creating a wicked web app (a “WWA” – Hmm, that could be a blog category…).

Congrats to Keith and his Asterisks!!

By: Brian Behrend

Brian Behrend — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It makes everything so much better when you actually know the people your playing with. I’ve played in leagues in years past where I knew at most one other person in the league, and after a few weeks it was a bore. This year I played in a 12 team league with a bunch of my coworkers and it was a blast the entire time. So lots of free agent movement, trades, veto’d trades, witty banter, and of course trash talk.