Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Year in Review


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. 

2 comments:

  1. The Surprise manager of the year believes that his odds are 1:1 he will win the championship next year.... how about them apples

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