We've reached the end of our 3rd season in this league and we have a new totally rad champion: me! Dynastic Dan took out TDs or Bust to win season 3 of this league. Woo hoo. A winner is me. In three seasons, this is now the third different team to win a title:
Ned in 2023
Mike in 2024
Dan in 2025
So far no real dynasties have taken hold. TDs or Bust has the best regular season record across three seasons of this league, but he has lost in the title game twice. Dan finished the #1 team in the regular season two years in a row, but only has one title to show for it. Ned is consistently great. Mike's team is always dangerous.
Before we move on, let's give overdue props to Chase Brown for Dynastic Dan! Usually the player of the week award goes to the highest scoring player overall, but I can't give basically the Super Bowl MVP award to someone on the losing team, which would have been Bijan with 37.4 points. Instead the award goes to Chase Brown. He led Dynastic Dan's team with 27.6 fantasy points in the Bengals' game against the Cardinals.
Dynastic Dan
(12-3 reg, 2-0 po, 14-3 ovrl)
160.93
vs
TDs or Bust
(11-4 reg, 1-1 po, 12-5 ovrl)
142.81
This game gave me anxiety all the way to the very end. It started out well for me during the early games, as IDP Van Ginkel had 16 points for me, while Pickens and Gibbs, two of Perry's better players, combined for fewer points than that.
As the week went on, my team started to pull away. Chase Brown had his big game. Josh Allen salvaged a game he was sucking big time in with 2 late TDs. He finished with 23.18. Ja'Marr Chase had 21.5. Achane had 12.7. Even Harold Fannin got in on the action with 10. On the down side of that, Brian Thomas Jr and James Cook did not show up at all and massively underperformed. But still, I had a 71 point lead coming into Monday night.
Perry had London, Stafford, and Bijan left to play. Unfortunately for him, he left Drake Maye and his 42 points on the bench. But still, I had to sweat out the end of this, as Bijan was having a mammoth game. I also had Kyle Pitts, but he didn't really do anything in that game.
The actual NFL game was back and forth between the Rams and Falcons. There were several near misses by Stafford late in that game that could have been touchdowns. This finished as an 18 point margin in our fantasy matchup. But it felt closer than that. If Stafford throws a TD, there goes 7 or 8 points to Perry. Then it's a 10 point game. Now Atlanta gets the ball back. Who would probably get the ball? Bijan. And then imagine the game goes to overtime. I had all kinds of nightmare scenarios rattling around in my head.
It's funny to say I had to sweat out the game when I ended up winning by 18, but that's exactly what happened. In the end, I was able to breathe easy and celebrate winning my first title in this league. As I said in text, it doesn't quite "feel right" for some reason to win my own league. I remember being kind of relieved when I lost last season. But this year I was like you know what? I want to win, darn it. There is so much luck involved in fantasy football. No matter how good your team looks or how well you've built it, a random bad week could knock you out in the playoffs before they've barely even started. Injuries play a major part, too. I came into this season thinking I was stacked at WR, and now in the title game I had to end up playing Brian Thomas Jr, who has been complete ass this season, because all my other guys are either on IR or rookie prospects that I can't trust. So I know going into next season that I still have things to work on.
I hope everyone enjoyed, and I will be posting a big write up in the next day or two where I show:
1. Everyone's draft picks going into next year
2. Everyone's roster going into next year
3. A deadline to make roster cuts that will drop you from whatever you have down to 15-20
4. Everyone's FAB getting carried over to next year
5. Everyone's contact information in case you want to make any offseason trades
6. A more detailed explanation of how offseason trades work (basically you message each other, make the deal, message me, and then I update my offseason tracker. When the next season opens on Yahoo, I update the changes - whether they be roster changes or draft pick trades, on the actual Yahoo page)
I also have to do the season awards soon, too. So look forward to that.
Congrats to Perry for his second place finish. He puts a lot of thought into his roster and making trades, and I thoroughly appreciate how big of a player he's been in this league. Shout out to Scotty as well. Taking over a bad team and leading it to the #2 seed and the playoffs. Shout out to Ned for being consistently great. Shout out to TBone for being consistently terrible. Shout out to all of you. You are who makes this league fun, and I look forward to doing it again next year.
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