Monday, July 27, 2009

Exclusive interview with the world's best FF player!

Recently I sat down with the person I believe to be the foremost expert in fantasy football, myself.

You seem pretty confident that you’re going to win the FFOC.com $1,000,000 top prize. How did you do last year?

I bought a 10 pack, went to 6 championship games and went 1 – 5.

Ha ha, 1 – 5. That’s brutal, so how far did your one measly one team go in the play-offs?

I didn’t make the 59 team cut week 14. I wasn’t very close either, fucking Favre.



That’s what you get for relying on Favre to bring you to the promised land.

I didn’t have him, I had Cotchery and his 20 yards. My man Brees had one of his worst games, that didn’t help.

So you didn’t finish in the top 15 or even come close. What makes you think you make it to Vegas this year?

I’ll put my drafting & management skills up against anyone. Last year Brees and AP sat at the top of my draft board. I had a top 2 pick 3 times and didn’t take Tomlinson or any of the other scrubs people were salivating all over. Rodgers & Cutler were the two QBs I had as my break-outs. I drafted some fantastic teams, but had one major flaw in my philosophy. Trying to fix the deficiencies that were caused by that flaw hurt my teams all year.

What was the major flaw?

Shit, why don’t I just give you my car keys and my wallet too?

Did the flaw have anything to do with you dropping McFadden during the 1st pre-season FA period?

Hey, that shit was a software glitch! It's a good idea to not enter FA bids at 2:00 AM btw.

There are some serious players in the FFOC. What makes you think you can beat a guy like Chad who amazingly put two teams in the final 15 and won another high stakes contest?

I was doing quite well last year and was curious to see how I was stacked up to other expert owners. I pulled the data for the top 500 teams as of week 8 and analyzed it. These two people stood out in the data set:

Donald T. – 9 teams in the top 500, 4 in the top 100, 1 in the top 50.

Chad S. – 8 teams in the top 500, 3 in the top 100, 1 in the top 50 – ranked 2nd overall.

I had 4 teams in the top 100, all 4 of them were in the top 37 teams. I’m not sure how many teams both of these guys had, but I think they both had twice as many or more than I did. According to the data, I had the best chance to go to Vegas, but a lot happens between weeks 8 and 15. Data doesn’t lie.

Wow, congrats on your play as of week8. That and a buck fifty will get you a ride on a bus. You ever think that maybe your over-confidence is your Achilles heel?

No, I think having to face Thomas Jones and his 150 yards and 3 TDs a few times had something to do with my failure during championship week.

You think you’re the best at player projections and determining draft value. Care to offer insight on what you think as we head into draft season?

Not until the season starts, it wouldn’t be too smart to help my competition.


What’s the point of a FF blog if you aren’t going to offer any of your self-proclaimed world’s best FF knowledge?

I’ll drop some knowledge here and there. I have two goals for the blog, I want to find out who the best fantasy football experts are and entertain those who enjoy the game.

Good luck this season.

Luck is overrated; I want to compete against those counting on luck.

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