Slacking Season Has Begun!
Wednesday, September 07, 2005I have officially drafted my Fantasy Football team for my work league. That means it's truly football season! Fantasy football is the second biggest productivity killer next to the NCAA Basketball championship. It's just that cool.
For those of you who don't know, Fantasy Football is this:
Get a group of people together and make a league, each person has a team. You "draft" players from any team onto yours to make a sort of super team. You draft any quarterback, a couple wide receivers, a couple running backs and a few other positions depending on the league. Each player can only be on one team in the league.
Before each set of games on the weekend, you pick your players to start, and you get points according to their stats. Most leagues give points for touchdowns and yardage. The better your player does in the game, the more points your team gets that week.
Each week your team matches up with another team from your league, and whichever team's players collectively score the most points wins. You amass wins and losses and most of the time that record leads to "fantasy playoffs" in the last couple weeks of the regular season.
Yup it's Fun. It make all those other games that go on - that aren't your favorite team - much more interesting. And it give a good reason to slack off and read the sports news ;O)
You know you all want to play! Join the Slackerland FFL league! It's free through Yahoo.
Click here for the main page, then click "join a league" under Free Fantasy Football.
League #:639162
Password:joinslack
We'll draft Friday night at 7:30 central time. Some games will have been played, but that's the earliest I could schedule it and not have it be during the day.
There are eight spots left! Join on up!
An in case you're wondering, here's my starting lineup for my work league:
QB: Carson Palmer
WR: Terrell Owens
WR: Deion Branch
RB: LaDainian Tomlinson
RB: Julius Jones
TE: Antonio Gates (I have Tony Gonzales as well)
K: Shayne Graham
D: Indy
posted by Chief Slacker @ 9:29 AM,
2 Comments:
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At Wed Sep 07, 06:26:00 PM,
Sunny said...
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OMG- and we have to keep up with all the points and yardage our players score?
Even thinking about it makes my head hurt.
However, YOU have managed to explain it so I have a somewhat decent idea about the how and what of the leauge now.
Maybe next season when my life is a bit slower and less chaotic?
Thanks Chief.
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At Thu Sep 08, 09:27:00 AM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Diana - Yeah, ever since that Super Bowl win, they've jsut being going downhill. Hopefully they be better this year!
Sunny - No no, you don't have to keep track of anything, Yahoo does all of taht automatically, all you have to do is make sure your players aren't hurt each week. Or get new ones of the waiver wires if your guys suck.