The ScooterBlog

So this hits me as a bit strange. First of all, that my fantasy teams are better than my real favorite team, the Bengals. I would have never thought before the season began that they would be so bad, and they’re not going to get any better. Heck, their offensive MVP this week was Antrel Rolle … of the Cardinals!

But maybe stranger, or maybe this is normal (some other fantasy owner can shed light on this?) is that all three of my fantasy teams share the same record 11 games into the season … 6-5. In all three cases, it has be competitive but not secured in the playoffs … one spot out (and a half a game in each) in my ESPN and CBS leagues. In the Yahoo league, I’m one game out of the lead in what might as well be our All-Pro league (even though I had to pick up Ryan Grant to have enough running backs … cursed depth), and in second of six due to points. I figure it means I’ve been a very average fantasy player, for one reason … if you’re average, you’re going to be over .500 because there is the one or two players in a big league that stop caring, and thus become obvious wins (except when I lose to the 0-9 team in the ESPN league …. grrrrr!), so the true league average record is more like .550 or .600. All in all though, I guess that isn’t bad when you figure that by me not having any Patriots in any league I do, I’m doing a good job of picking the best of the rest.

By the way. Is it a sign of sickness that in anger at my own team’s ineptitude on Sunday, I began to be happy that Anquan Boldin was earning me fantasy points?!