This is a day when I want to hear from you: Did you win the title, and if so, what roster move (draft, waiver, or trade) had the biggest impact on your success? Let's take a moment to celebrate greatness.
Also, were any of you undefeated? With bye weeks and injuries and slumps, it's asking a lot of any fantasy manager to never have an "off" week. Let's take several moments to celebrate the greatest of greatness.
And powering through the playoffs couldn't have been easy for many of you, what with Mitchell Trubisky compiling more points than Tom Brady and Russell Wilson, while Jakeem Grant outperformed the likes of A.J. Green and Dez Bryant. So many early-round draft picks were nothing more than bench fodder by season's end, forcing most of us to continually adapt to new realities--and even then, never sensing that little-used Richard Rodgers would go off Week 15, or backup T.J. Yeldon this past weekend.
True, some things were fairly predictable. Todd Gurley and DeAndre Hopkins entered the fantasy playoffs as arguably the top players at their respective position. As it turned out, Gurley scored the most fantasy playoff points among RBs (123.1), while Hopkins just beat out newcomer Keelan Cole to lead all wideouts during weeks 14-16.
But as we know, there were plenty of surprises. Blake Bortles led all QBs with 65.9 fantasy playoff points. That's right: the guy who this summer was arguably most at risk of losing his starting QB job led all quarterbacks when it mattered most. If you read my unconventional predictions this summer, you know why I was surprisingly high on Bortles: http://www.fantasyfootballforwinners.com/p/bold-predictions.html. Hats off to those who stuck with him.
Another one of my unconventional picks, Eric Ebron, led all TEs in fantasy playoff scoring (51 points). It surely helped that Gronk and Zach Ertz each missed a game. But give Ebron--and those who believed in him--credit. For some of you, I'm betting he was the difference between a near miss and a championship.
And how about Robbie Gould? While I don't mention kickers often, when I do, it's usually to point out how they can be difference-makers. Gould averaged 16 fantasy points per game in the past four weeks and led all kickers in the fantasy playoffs. Those are RB2/WR2 numbers at a position where RB3/WR3 equivalency is celebrated.
For those of you competing in Week 17, this daily site will continue to churn out content--and responses to fantasy questions--through Sunday's final games. Then I'll take 2-3 days (probably two) to offer final thoughts on the season and to offer full disclosure on my preseason predictions: how I did, and what can be learned from the good and the bad.
Also, were any of you undefeated? With bye weeks and injuries and slumps, it's asking a lot of any fantasy manager to never have an "off" week. Let's take several moments to celebrate the greatest of greatness.
And powering through the playoffs couldn't have been easy for many of you, what with Mitchell Trubisky compiling more points than Tom Brady and Russell Wilson, while Jakeem Grant outperformed the likes of A.J. Green and Dez Bryant. So many early-round draft picks were nothing more than bench fodder by season's end, forcing most of us to continually adapt to new realities--and even then, never sensing that little-used Richard Rodgers would go off Week 15, or backup T.J. Yeldon this past weekend.
True, some things were fairly predictable. Todd Gurley and DeAndre Hopkins entered the fantasy playoffs as arguably the top players at their respective position. As it turned out, Gurley scored the most fantasy playoff points among RBs (123.1), while Hopkins just beat out newcomer Keelan Cole to lead all wideouts during weeks 14-16.
But as we know, there were plenty of surprises. Blake Bortles led all QBs with 65.9 fantasy playoff points. That's right: the guy who this summer was arguably most at risk of losing his starting QB job led all quarterbacks when it mattered most. If you read my unconventional predictions this summer, you know why I was surprisingly high on Bortles: http://www.fantasyfootballforwinners.com/p/bold-predictions.html. Hats off to those who stuck with him.
Another one of my unconventional picks, Eric Ebron, led all TEs in fantasy playoff scoring (51 points). It surely helped that Gronk and Zach Ertz each missed a game. But give Ebron--and those who believed in him--credit. For some of you, I'm betting he was the difference between a near miss and a championship.
And how about Robbie Gould? While I don't mention kickers often, when I do, it's usually to point out how they can be difference-makers. Gould averaged 16 fantasy points per game in the past four weeks and led all kickers in the fantasy playoffs. Those are RB2/WR2 numbers at a position where RB3/WR3 equivalency is celebrated.
For those of you competing in Week 17, this daily site will continue to churn out content--and responses to fantasy questions--through Sunday's final games. Then I'll take 2-3 days (probably two) to offer final thoughts on the season and to offer full disclosure on my preseason predictions: how I did, and what can be learned from the good and the bad.