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Fantasy Football Content: I had Concerns Starting Jackson Over Ryan...

For most of the last 20 years, I have considered myself an alt-football fan.  I have enjoyed watching indoor, Canadian and semi-pro football when I've had the opportunity (and thoroughly enjoyed the AAF for as long as that lasted), but never really enjoyed the NFL or NCAA football.

But when I moved to New England, I started a fantasy league as a way of staying in contact with my coordinator at work, as he would be in a position to promote me, and I wanted to make sure he didn't forget who I was while I was whiling away at one of his locations.

That's how the Masshole Fantasy Football League was born.  I got promoted right before draft season last year, and was too busy to run the league, but after a career change this spring, I found myself with plenty of time to bring the MFFL back.

And this year, I'm taking it seriously.  During the first season, I decided that we were going to go big with the championship trophy.  The team that won got an undisclosed sum of money, and also a professionally made, custom 2ft x 3ft championship banner (which, according to his wife, "will never see the light of day as long as I'm around".)

The MFFL drafted two weeks ago.  We're a 12 team, .5 pt PPR league.  During our draft, I picked up Lamar Jackson in round 9 as a back-up to Matt Ryan.  Patrick Mahomes had gone #2 overall to my partner's brother's team Flutie Flakes.  So everyone's quarterback strategy was immediately screwed up.  I went with Jackson as a back-up because I liked the synergy of Jackson coming off a week 8 bye into Ryan's week 9 bye.  But then as I looked at the match-ups, and read some coverage, I started to like Jackson versus the Dolphins more and more.

Fantasy Football Content: What Do You Do When Mahomes Goes Two?

My fantasy league drafted last night.  It's a 12-team half-point PPR.  We missed last year, because I was just too busy to get it organized.  But this year we're running full barrel.  Up 4 teams from 2017, and this year we're adding keepers.

The draft started predictably, Saquon Barkley went number 1.  Then my girlfriend's brother decided to screw up everyone's plan and took Patrick Mahomes second.  I had a long wait, having drawn the 12 slot.  By the time it got down to me, I was kind of where I expected to be and went JuJu Smith-Schuster and Joe Mixon with the 12 & 13 picks.  Then I went Ertz and Woods.  Josh Jacobs was probably my steal of the draft.  He came in at the end of round 5, about 30 slots lower than where I had him predicted.  I picked up Matt Ryan in round 6 and Lamar Jackson in round 9 was my backup.  Jackson has a week 8 bye and Ryan has a week 9 bye.  So Jackson coming off the bye week seemed like a good spot for him.

Week 9 is going to be my hell week.  I've got 6 players with a week 9 bye, so I'm hoping for some depth magic for that week.

My week 1 match-up has me as a point and a half dog with losing match-ups at every position except for TE, FLEX, K & DST.  My opponent has Odell Beckham starting WR1.  So I'm hoping either Odell is a game time scratch, or gets limited snaps.

How did your drafts go?

Fantasy Football League & Championship Logos

I don't mess around when it comes to fantasy football.  This is the second season I'm running a league (with a one year break, because I'm unorganized AF sometimes).  But he first season of the Massholes Fantasy Football League, the winning team got a 2ft x 3ft vinyl banner with their team's logo and the MFFL logo on it.  Unfortunately, because the defending MFFL champion is of a weak constitution, he refuses to take my advice of hanging the banner in the middle of his living room, against his wife's wishes.