Choo has been working extremely hard over the last couple
months.
He’s been crunching numbers, studying players, reading
expert insider stories and following all the latest breaking news on Twitter.
It’s a tough life building a champion.
It takes strength. It takes time. It takes determination.
And some day it will pay off with a fantasy baseball
championship.
Or will it? I mean, Choo just showed how little work it
takes to win a fantasy title, which makes you wonder why he spends so much time
with all the aforementioned tedious work trying to win a World Series when he
did so little to win JFL Super Bowl X.
That’s right, it’s a JFL championship for the JLB’s Buffalo
Bills.
Choo scored 95.3 points to handle the Graybill Generals who
scored just 74 in his second JFL Super Bowl appearance.
Without the stupid suspended Odell Beckham Jr., Choo
continued his offensive dominance, this time getting 44.5 points from backup QB
Blake Bortles and another 19.3 points from waiver wire grab David Johnson.
Johnson finished the season with six straight weeks of
double-digits, totaling 129 points, averaging 21.6 per week. He was easily the
MVP for him down the stretch.
Graybill strayed away from Jameis Winston, who would have
got him another 13 points, but it wouldn’t have been enough against the
offensive Juggernaut that was the Choo in 2015. He scored more than 90 points
11 times this season, and after a 3-4 start, Choo rolled off eight wins in his
last nine contests.
And this all coming from the guy who doesn’t like football.
It’s merely just a fantasy sport to pass the time while he makes offseason
baseball trades.
While he was rolling off that 8-1 record over the last 9
weeks, he traded David Price and was in heavy negotiations to get rid of
Clayton Kershaw.
He was more worried about where Aroldis Chapman was headed
over whether Blake Bortles should crack the starting lineup.
How perfect is it that the Yankees, his team, lands Aroldis
Chapman and he scores the Super Bowl title all in the same week?
Now he can sit at home and wait for that box shipped from
T-Money that has the one thing that has eluded him all these years in fantasy
baseball — a championship trophy.
JLF Postseason Challenge:
Another championship for T-Money!
Speaking of T-Money, are you freaking kidding me? After
weeks and weeks of absolute abysmal offense, T-Money scored 110.5, 118.7 and
131.7 points in the last three weeks to win the JFL Postseason Challenge.
The 131.7 just beat out the Cheese Steaks who had 130 and
earn the second-place prize.
The Jammers would have gotten the third-place prize with 92
points had he made such a thing when he designed the JFL Postseason Challenge.
Oh well.
JFL for 2016 and
going further
The 16-team experience has two years in the book, and I think it's going pretty well. We had the "three-QB" hiccup in year one that was fixed with the new rule, and the smaller roster led to waiver wire possibilities for everyone.
To me, the only thing I saw this year that was an issue was the defenses. There was not much room to make any changes unless you wanted to add the NFL's two worst defenses.
That's why, I'm proposing no defenses for 2016, and in its stead, defensive players.
I know, I know. Initial reaction is, "Get out of here, Jimmy."
I was the same way, especially when it was brought up as an option a few years ago.
But recently, I have been thinking about how something small would as a whole be close to what we see now with the team defenses, especially with the idea I have for rosters and scoring that would not lead to outrageous scorers on defense.
The starting lineup would be expanded to include the following:
2 defensive linemen (max 4)
2 linebackers (max 4)
2 defensive backs (max 4)
Total roster number would rise from 15 spots to 22 (takeaway 2 for Team DEF, add 9 for single players), which allows for all six new starters and a backup for each defensive position. IR would go from 3 to 4 to accommodate for the roster expansion.
The scoring would be:
0.1 points for every tackle (solo & assisted)
1 point for a sack
0.5 points for a fumble forced
1 point for a fumble recovery
2 points for a safety
1 point for an INT
1 point for a block punt/kick
6 points for a TD
0.25 points for every 10 return yards
For the most part, those scoring stats are the same as team defense points you get now. The only difference will be the addition of points for tackles, which at 0.1 per tackle, it will be about 1 point per player if you have six double-digit tacklers on your team.
This will create more interest on the waiver wire now with numerous defensive players available, and it will take away the "points for" issue where your defense is penalized for the offense throwing a pick-six.
Will it take some more research? Yes, I guess it will take some to know what defensive players are out there, but let's be honest, it's fantasy football. Some of our teams wake up on draft day and wing this thing anyway. It's been admitted as much in the draft room.
So why not wing it with some defensive players, and then have the opportunity to better your defense on the waiver wire, rather than pick the Buccaneers and be stuck with them all year because it's either them or the Raiders or the Browns.
Now, you'll at least have a chance to grab players on a good defense.
J.J. Watt becomes a high pick. Seattle players are more interesting and no longer a collective sixth-round pick by Ryan Dotterer.
I'll place a poll up on the Facebook page to collect votes to enact such a rule. It will take three-fourths approval to pass.
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