Good Luck

By Robby Wellington – Staff Writer

Early next week, RotoScoop will be releasing our coveted football cheatsheets, an aggregate of the three writers’ individual rankings. In anticipation of this glorious event, and amped-up fantasy football coverage here at RotoScoop, I’d like to briefly comment on why fantasy football is the greatest of all fantasy sports, and it comes down to one word. . . luck. Fantasy football requires far less skill than baseball or basketball (unless your league has rotisserie scoring, which is just plain silly), and this invariably keeps almost all of the league’s teams involved throughout most of the season. You only have to set your roster once a week, and you only have to immerse yourself in watching your players one day (and possibly an extra night). Even the most casual of fans can manage a successful fantasy football team, and while this may irk the more intense and involved owners, I enjoy the competition and uncertainty that it brings on a weekly basis. Lastly, I’d like to quickly list five of the most underrated and overrated aspects of fantasy football. More on this to come. . .

UNDERRATED
1. Weeks 14-16.
2. Denver Running Backs.
3. Exploiting matchups (particularly quarterbacks).
4. Larry Johnson.
5. The NFC West and the immortal Neil Rackers.

OVERRATED
1. Quarterbacks not named Peyton.
2. Bye Weeks.
3. Handcuffs.
4. 1,000-yard Receivers.
5. Kickers and Defenses (in most formats).

Posted

July 6, 2006

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5 responses to “Good Luck”

Aaron

July 6, 2006

Can’t wait for the rankings!
MaddenDude

July 6, 2006

Yea, can’t wait.

What are handcuffs?

But yea, football is alot of luck. Two years ago, 3 of 4 of my teams won their leagues, because they had Culpepper. This year that guy is probably LJ.

And more luck: Draft position will most likely decide who wins, especially this year, as you said once in a previous post.
Robby

July 6, 2006

Handcuffing means drafting a player and his backup, in case the starter goes down with injury. It’s almost exclusively used when discussing running backs. Rotoworld wrote about it recently. . .

http://fantasyfootball.rotoworld.com/content/story.asp?sport=NFL&storyid=23267
Chad

July 6, 2006

Injuries can crush a team pretty bad in football, more so than other sports. Each game missed is a huge portion of the fantasy season. If a batter has a short dl stint, and some regular rest, he can still play 130+ games. Not that injuries are complete luck, because some players are more prone to disaster.

I’ll always be a die hard fantasy baseball fan, for so many reasons. Mainly due to the daily action around the league, but also because trades and the minor league system can really reward GM’s who stay on top of their shit.
maddendude

July 7, 2006

I see, I usually call that insurance, lol. Yea I did that for priest last year, it REALLY paid.

Good Luck

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