End Of The FF Year

Outside of the Jets/Bengals game tonight, our FF season is over, although most leagues are over in week 16.  Unfortunately the combination of getting busy at work with the Christmas season led me to not have time to write the last couple seasons, but since I generally shy away from start/sit advice, I think your teams were pretty much set.  If you made the playoffs, there isn't a whole lot else do with your team as the season's marathon has come down to a sprint, and you hope you get the right opponent on the right week.  Both of my leagues award the regular season winners more than the playoff winners.  It's a bit backwards as the playoff winner is indeed the league champion, but most of my friends and I agree that there's more involved in winning the regular season, and it's a little less based on luck.

I have a couple notes on this season:

1) I did less start/sit advice this season than last season.  You can do all the statistical analysis you want for your matchups each week, but anything and everything can happen during an individual week.  I will point out things that make players safer/riskier each week, but I will rarely say definitely start/sit a player unless it's fairly obvious.  As far as my team is concerned, I stick to trends and generally try not to mess with my team each week unless there's a player who plays his way out of my lineup with extended poor play.

2) I personally liked my format this season, although I didn't update injuries as often as I would have liked.  I plan to use the same format next year by reviewing each game on Monday/Tuesday, picking out waiver wire candidates on Tuesday, and then doing injury updates on Thursday/Friday.

3) In my draft guide, I allowed some outside reading I did to influence my decisions on some players, most notably Brett Favre.  I loved him, but I read a decent number of negative articles and allowed them to sway my opinion.  Next year, I plan on not reading what anyone else is writing, focusing on ADP, and making my own judgments on every single player.

Hopefully my advice and opinions helped more than hurt, and I plan to be back at it next year,  After taking last baseball season off, I'll probably write up a draft guide again this year and see what happens.  I'm much stronger in football, but I'll see what I come up with.

Now onto the draft guide analysis...