Comments on: Fantasy Football Addiction

By: Mike P.

Mike P. — Wed, 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: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yep, the FFL league was a blast. I’m also pretty hooked on Fantasy Football, although I admit to taking it all a bit less seriously this year than I have in the past (simply didn’t have quite as much time to put into it). I definitely hope we do it again next year!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, Western Europe ain’t all football starved. Believe me there are hundreds of us wasting our Sunday nights/Monday mornings following fantasy scores. The only difference is the Cowboys/Giants game didn’t finish until 4am!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Last I heard, Andrei was visiting Volek’s trailer with some pom-poms and KY, but that might have just been a rumor…

By: Mike P.

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

I heard Volek kicked him out after he played Brees yesterday...Steve, that time diff is a killer.

By: Seth Thomas Rasmussen

Seth Thomas Rasmussen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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hahaha!! :)

By: Matthom

Matthom — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What do you mean it’ll be nice to get your Sundays back? What about Fantasy NBA? And baseball is starting in a few months too. ;)

I’ve never actually participated in a Fantasy league, but I’ve been intrigued, and maybe I’ll do it someday.

By: Mike D.

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

Matthom: The thing about the other sports like basketball and especially baseball is that they take WAY more time than I’m willing to put in. Football is unique in that you only have one day per week of games (plus MNF) so you can field a competitive team without attending to it every single day. With baseball, you’re constantly worried about when your pitchers pitch in the rotation and swapping them out every day is a job in itself.

One of the things I’ve been pitching to the ESPN fantasy staff for awhile now is the concept of low-involvement baseball and low-involvement basketball. There are several ways you could do it; one being to simply only allow moves for one or two days out of the week, and another being to maybe have a “bot” be your shadow GM. I think a lot more people would play other fantasy sports if the time commitment was lower.

By: Matthom

Matthom — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mike, you’re right – football is only 16 games – once per week, and relatively easy to keep track of.

I always thought baseball should shorten it’s season. But it’s been that way for over a century. Who could possibly change tradition?

Basketball, too, is so sporadic – who knows when games are on, etc. There is too much to keep track of.

Like you said, it’s a job in itself.

Knowing that, I could maybe see myself participating in an NFL Fantasy league next year. It’s probably worth a shot.

By: Mark Wubben

Mark Wubben — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What the hell are you guys talking about?

(Talk about a football starved country in Western Europe… the Netherlands! At least we’ve got the Amsterdam Admirals, if that’s the same thing…)

By: Rob McMichael

Rob McMichael — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We do it here in the UK too and I’m happy to say I am at the top of our private Fantasy Football (soccer) league.

I have spent most of my time watching rubbish games over christmas :p

By: Brian Behrend

Brian Behrend — Wed, 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.

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Wed, 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: Robert Occhialini

Robert Occhialini — Wed, 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: Wayne Godfrey

Wayne Godfrey — Wed, 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