Season in Review
We have
seen this story before. A team scraps and fights all year just to make the
playoffs, and then they win it all. The old adage, get hot at the right time,
is retold over and over each passing fantasy season. It happened again. The Real
McCoy dealt with injuries throughout the season, but by the end of the season,
when teams were catching the injury bug, The Real McCoy was catching his
stride.
There are
four major elements of fantasy football: trading, free agency, drafting, and
luck/timing. In order to win a championship one must have a combination of all
4 elements. In this season in review we will break down all four elements for
each team during the regular season. 5 teams will not be broken down because
they did not have winning records, meaning they obviously did not have the combination
of the fantasy elements they needed. Let us get started. (Sorry for any spelling mistakes I did not review my work)
The champion: The Real McCoy (Champ)
Record: (8-5-1)
Top 4 scoring outputs: 163, 151, 147, 140
Worst 4 scoring outputs: 75, 79, 107, 111
Best Stat: Beat top 2 seeds in playoffs to win it all. (5-2)
road record.
Worst Stat: 3rd easiest schedule, Won back to
back games only twice.
Draft: Top 3 picks:
Disastrous (McFadden, Fitzgerald, Murray)
Next 4
picks: Outstanding (Bryant, Hernandez, Ryan, Wayne)
Late
Rounds: Not Good.
Trades: The trade of the year! Thomas and spiller for fitz
and mcfadden. No doubt the reason he won it all.
Side note: Perpetual
Dynasty was still a juggernaut even with that awful trade. He’s a good manager.
Free agency: Got key pick-ups later in the year as well as
throughout the season.
Luck/ timing: No team had more luck or better timing. His
team got hot at the end, (Ryan, Hernandez, Bryant, Thomas, Spiller, Seattle D).
I’ll take you back all the way to week 1 when McFadden got 13 catches to beat
Loco by 2 points! Hernandez scored 22 points in the 2nd half of the
Patriots game, to steal a playoff win from Perpetual Dynasty. You need luck to
win ships.
2nd Place: Gothams Reckoning (Come Back Manger of
the Year/Best Start to a season I have ever seen)
Record: (9-4-1)
Top 4 outputs: 169, 143, 141, 140
Worst 4: 100, 117, 121, 122
Best Stat: started 7-0, averaged 130 points a game, (6-1)
road record, 7-1 division record
Worst stat: only won 2 of final 7 games, 4th
easiest schedule
Draft:
First 3 picks:
Great: (Brady, Sproles, Green)
Next 4:
Spectacular (Peterson, Thomas, Martin, Austin)
Late
Rounds: not good
Trades: As is the case with Gotham every year he won some
and lost some.
Free Agency: 94 moves, shattered old record for most moves
in a year, not very good
Luck/timing: no one had better timing to start the season;
teams averaged a horrible 101 points against him in his first 6 games. But his luck
and timing gave way, most notably losing Percy Harvin and Sproles to injury.
3rd Place: Perpetual Dynasty (Manager of the
Year/Best Team All Year)
Record: (11-3)
Top 4: 158,158,154,150
Worst 4: 95,96,110,128
Best Stat: (7-0) at home, 136 points a game, won 12 out of
last 13 games, (7-1) division
Worst stat: lost his first 2 games,
Draft:
First 3:
Great (Foster, Marshall, Nicks)
Next 4:
solid not great (Stafford, Richardson, turner, Lloyd)
Late
rounds: Good (Luck, Amendola, McGahee, Olsen)
Trades: As is the case every year with Perpetual, win some
lose some, biggest loss was Thomas and spiller.
Free agency: Key pick-ups at WR and RB (Marcel Reece, Josh
Gordon), most talent came through draft and trades though.
Luck/ Timing: he didn’t need luck most of the year, he
finished 11-3 even with the 4th hardest schedule, but his timing was bad,
his players played terrible in his first round playoff loss. Also, winning the
number 1 seed at the end of the year cost him. If he got the 2nd seed he would
have won a ship. He would have beat TDs, Gotham would have beat McCoy, then in
the ship he would have won by 3 over Gotham. I’m just saying.
4th Place: ShowMeYourTDs (Surprise manager of the
Year)
Record: (9-5)
Top 4: 155,147,134,131
Worst 4: 102,105,105,106
Best Stat: won 6 out of last 8,
Worst stat: Easiest schedule in the league
Draft:
First 3:
Solid (Johnson, White, Wallace)
Next 4:
below average (Bradshaw, E. manning, brown, finely)
Late
Rounds: Amazing (RG3, Moore, Spiller, Daniels)
Trades: Made great trades to improve his roster.
Free agency: Not much here
Luck/ timing: very lucky year considering schedule, but he
proved he is a manager to be worried about.
Consolation Champ: El Pollo Loco (Rookie of the Year)
Record: (8-6)
Top 4: 156,151,146,145
Worst 4: 82,88,94,99
Best Stat: Won 6 out of 8, (5-2) home record
Worst Stat: only 13 moves, over $100 in cap not spent
Draft
First 3:
Great: (McCoy, Gronk, Harvin)
Next 4:
Good (Bowe, Newton, Jackson, Greene)
Late Rounds:
Bad
Trades: Up and Down, got martin but lost Harvin and Jackson
Free agency: nothing
Luck/timing: Bad luck throughout the year. It started in
week 1, and the loss of gronk, mccoy, and bowe all in one week really hurt.
