Top 10 Thursday: 10 Reasons You know your Fantasy team sucks

We are two weeks into fantasy football season and all my teams are 1-1. I still feel good about two of them but I think my family league team is in trouble. Many of you may be 2-0, 0-2 or 1-1 like me. It’s still early but here are some signs that your fantasy team probably sucks. And even if they don’t suck now, here are some signs to look out for.

10. More players landed on IR than scored points for you last week.

We’ve all had that team over the seasons that no matter what you do everyone keeps getting hurt. If your fantasy team resembles the 49ers you are probably in trouble.

9. You seem to play everyone on their best week.

I put up 140 points in one league and still lost by 20. A couple of years ago I was second in points but finished 9th. We don’t really have much control in fantasy football but sometimes you have no control.

8. Your number 1 receiver is AJ Brown.

AJ is a talented guy but they refuse to throw him the ball and when they do, they don’t throw it farther than 5 or 10 yards. He doesn’t even get to be apart of the tush push. Poor guy.

7. You drafted Joe Burrow and forgot he was made of glass.

Burrow is an awesome fantasy quarterback…when he plays. The problem is he only plays every other year.

6. All your running backs are handcuffs.

For those of you who don’t know the fantasy football lingo, a handcuff is when you draft or pick up a player who won’t score you a lot of fantasy points unless the starter gets hurt. The handcuff is you are prepared for this injury or prepared to take advantage of the injury with a solid player who doesn’t start. You typically want to have 2 or 3 good starting running backs and then maybe 1 or 2 handcuff running backs. Some examples of a good handcuff at running back are Zach Charbonnet, Treyvon Henderson, Trey Benson and Ollie Gordon. These also happen to be 4 of my 5 running backs in my family league.

5. You drafted too many rookies.

The saying goes, every year a rookie or two will win you a championship. You took this too serious and now have 10 rookies on your team. It is not going well.

4. You have multiple kickers.

If there is a kicker on your bench, this might not be the game for you.

3. You thought auto drafting continued with the waiver wire throughout the season.

Auto drafting is not a terrible strategy. The problem is that most auto drafters are also not active during the season. If you roll with the 15 or so players that the system told you to draft then you are likely not to have a good year. Joe Mixon and Justin Tucker are not going to help you win much this year.

2. You’re a homer but your home team stinks.

You just couldn’t turn down drafting that 3rd string running back or 4th receiver from your favorite team in the 8th round and you nabbed your teams kicker and defense in the 5th and 6th round. So now you have extra reasons to be upset because not only does your favorite team suck but so does your fantasy team.

1. It’s week 3 and you are just now realizing you are in a fantasy league.

You ignored the multiple texts and emails about the draft. Your commissioner asked for your payment via PayPal back in July and you are just now realizing that you are 0-2 and basically out $50 and your only goal now is to avoid the last place punishment.

Joking aside, I wish you all the best of luck in your leagues this year. Unless you play in my leagues then I hope your team is made up of injuries, handcuffs and homer picks.


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