There are ways that you win each week and sometimes it is like a great book that ends all too badly or a good hockey fight where a guy trips over himself and falls to the ice. Sometimes in fantasy circles, you have those weeks where you are getting pounded over the head and yet somehow you come away with a win. It is not a proud feeling and it is not even a feeling of relief. It is more a feeling of shame…yes shame.
So do you mean to say that fantasy gm’s feel shame when they beat an opponent? At times the answer is yes though this is rare. Imagine a hotly contested week ends with a GM winning because a player took a diving penalty or a 5 minute major injuring someone. On the surface, it is great because you won but then a little thought goes into it. After that thought, you realize there are things more important than the fantasy game. Or you just think to yourself (if its a diving penalty)…of all the things to win by. What is the other guy going thru? Thinking he was so close to victory then to lose like that.
Now granted with only a few weeks gone in the regular season this has little meaning. However, what if it happened in the playoffs? Or you won this week because of the following that came from the Kings-Blue Jackets game. Here is the boxscore…note at 11:04.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIav-Su5-bs&hl=en&fs=1&
Awfully low on the hip check.
So what if you lost on a Sunday Night that way because no penalty was called on Scuderi like there should have been? Nothing like throwing the reverse twist out there. This is how head to head fantasy leagues work on a week basis. It is why points leagues have that different dynamic that takes this kind of “quirk” out of the equation.
For me it is why I join a balance of leagues (points, keeper, auction, h2h, etc.). However every so often you win a week like this in a H2H league. It doesn’t make you feel very good…that’s for sure. So to Brian Sanborn, I apologize for winning on a diving penalty. Surely it would not make him or me feel much better but I had to get that off my chest.
When this happens in the playoffs and over money…it does get ugly. I have heard and seen fist fights result over something like this when it occurs over hundreds of dollars. A lesson to be learned that no matter what…it is still just a game. We all get caught in the moment sometime and would be naive to say that we do not. Just remember that when you are the victim of this to handle it in the same grace as when you win.
That is all for now this week. See you next Monday….I am out of here with my win but not necessarily happy about it either.
