Filed under: NFL Value Machine, NFL Sink or Swim, Playoffs Advice
It's that somewhat illogical time of year again: the fantasy football playoffs.
You've humiliated your friends for over three months. Some genius scouting has produced draft steals such as Arian Foster and Dwayne Bowe en route to the No. 1 seed.
However, in Week 14 Foster gets the face-smashing Ravens, while your opponent lucks into Joe Flacco against the historically pathetic Texans pass defense. Dwayne Bowe's quarterback undergoes a Wednesday appendectomy. Along with a couple more poor breaks, this one week of bad matchups will nullify a 12-1 season.
That 200-point advantage over the first 13 weeks no longer matters. This isn't because the players on your fantasy team don't have a knack for raising its level of play in the postseason. It's not because of team chemistry, the right mix of youth and veteran leaders, a great game strategy, utilizing favorable matchups with the opponent or just the better team refusing to lose when the two-minute warning arrives.
It's that your buddy's players happened to total more on this one given week, which matters more than the previous 13 combined.
People sometimes attempt to factor Weeks 13-17 into their draft strategy, but no one passed on Adrian Peterson at No. 2 or 3 in the draft just because he gets the Giants and Bears in Weeks 13 and 14. I'd say at least 95 percent of everyone's equation is devoted to just piling up enough points throughout the season to make the playoffs.
Then, when it's all gone so fast, fantasy football becomes a cruel game...
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