By 0.98 Points

As the end of the NFL season approaches, I am reminded that every now and then, I’ll have great success in my fantasy football season.  Usually, I don’t fare well, and I often regret even playing.  This year, I did better than I would have anticipated and that has to count for something.

I participated in three leagues this season, which is one more than I’ll typical do, but this is one of those instances where the more, the merrier.

I did poorly in my main league, the one where I happen to be the Commissioner.  I did so poorly that I didn’t even bother to see where exactly I finished.  That’s proof of how much I stopped caring.  Even as I write this, I’m too lazy to even look.  I’ll just look towards being more competitive next season.

In my second league, the one that I normally have to pay to play, I managed to win it all.  I finished the regular season at 7-7.  The second place team ended the season at 6-8.  In the end, I won the Championship game by a margin of 0.98 points and had to do it on the heels of the performance of Minnesota Vikings running back, Ty Chandler (9.40 points on the week), in the Sunday night game.  I had to battle in all three rounds of the playoffs (with my margins of victory getting smaller with every passing week), but when the dust settled, I came out on top.  So, when the season started, I was picked by Yahoo! to have had the best draft of the 10 teams that were playing and I had the third overall pick.  At 7-7, I was hardly impressive.  Still, in the end, I turned the initial buy-in of $50 into a nice prize of $350.  And to think, I didn’t even want to play this season.  Truthfully, had I not won it all this season, I likely wouldn’t have wanted to play next year and I might have walked away.  Now, as defending champion, I guess I have to come back.

As I write this, I am in the Championship game in my third league and I am in a hole.  I’m losing by 70.34 going into the end of the morning’s games.  There’s money on the line in this league too, but I don’t know what the payout is.  At this point, I don’t even care, being that I don’t think it’s sizeable.  I just want to overcome that deficit and come back to win the whole thing.

I’ll go into the fantasy football off-season with renewed hope that I’ll be halfway decent next season when all of this stuff starts up all over again.  I won’t look to be engaged in three different leagues, but as I’ve already shown this season, apparently I can be talked into damn near anything.