Fantasy 2010: Year-End Wrapup Screenshots

Fantasy 2010 Final Screenshots

After combing through the HC archives, I realized that it might be helpful for future Dave if I kept screenshots of how the fantasy season ended.

fantasy playoffs are set

Mark secured the #1 seed. And how important was that Swag-Cobbler tie? If Cobbler gets another half point, Swag is 8-5 and I beat him head-to-head. Of course, if I hadn't had the Hartley miracle in week 2 over Harlan, I'd be a game further back.

I know my team sucked and I was lucky my record was as inflated as it was. I'll still compare my record in week 15 to Mark and see what would have happened if I had grabbed the #4 spot.

For now, let's see if I could have won this week, moving me into first place in my division.

If I started Kitna over Fitzpatrick, +10.
Lynch over Tolbert, +19.5.
Garcon over Johnson, +12.

Those three moves and I would have scored 110 and beaten Harlan's 100.5. So it's all my fault.

this performance deserves its own post: volume 2

Mark set a new season record, and within a half a point of last year's all-time record (though last year we had milestone bonuses, so this is more impressive). And to think, he did all this with mediocre stats from his running backs and a zero from his tight end.


Mark is clearly the best all-time at fantasy. Though Stevo has been really good in both seasons, as well. But before Mark's head gets too big, he did lose to me and Burnsy in the two weeks that really mattered, and will get his face smacked with a burrito because of it.

mark picked a bad week to SHIT THE BED

He loses for the first time all season. Now he and I are both 3-1.

And now he's looking down the barrel of taking a burrito to the face.

Do you believe in miracles? YES!

I needed 12 to win. I got 12 to win. As the clock expired.

Of course, every point mattered. I needed Schuab's game to go into overtime. I needed my defense to get 6 turnovers. I even needed that stupid 1 catch for 11 yards by Garcon.

But on Monday night, I needed 12 from a kicker. At the start of the 4th quarter, Hartley had 2 points. Look, I knew coming into this that it wasn't likely. Candlestick is up there with the Meadowlands as the toughest place to kick field goals in September. Plus, he missed 2 last week in a dome, giving him -1 points. But whatever hope I had, was certainly gone when I saw that he only had 2 points with 15 minutes to go.

So what happened?

1. The Saints go 3 and out after a long Bush punt return, and Hartley his a 46-yarder. 4 crucial points, and now I'm only down 6. This kick starts out at the right upright, and the wind shifts it dramatically at the end, falling down the middle.

2. With 5:36 to go, the 49ers muff a punt, giving the Saints the ball at the SF 15.

3. With 2:33 to go, the Saints give it to the full back on a 3rd and goal from the 1. Stuffed. Up 19-14, Payton calls on the field goal. He makes it and now I'm down 3 with 2 minutes to go.

4. I'm praying for SF to get a touchdown and 2-point conversion to send this to overtime. Alex Smith executes a perfect 2-minute drive, players getting out of bounds often, and they get a touchdown with 1:23 to go. They ran it in on 2nd and goal, probably thinking it would eat some more clock, but Gore scores.

5. 2-point conversion to Vernon Davis. Ruling on the field was stopped short. Stuff was thrown in the Fymbo-Verrette household. I go stomping up the stairs pouting. But I come back down, thinking that it looked good to me, hoping for a challenge. (Side note: the only ESPN feed I have at home, is a sports summary channel. So the game is taking up 1/6th of my screen and I have no game audio.)

6. The officials review the play and call it good, making it a tie game.

7. But the 49ers left too much time there. A few plays later, including a great 30-yard catch by Colston, and Hartley is attempting the game winner.

8. Whether it was partially deflected or not, the knuckleball fluttered and sputtered through the air, falling sharply over the crossbar.

All of those had to happen last night for me to win by half a point.

Easily, the best fantasy win I've ever had. When the 2-point conversion was ruled no good, I couldn't stop thinking about how stupid this whole thing is. How I hate fantasy.

Now? I'm facing a cakewalk next week, and could easily be 2-1 and tied for 1st place in the division. My team can score points and has depth. And Adam will be taking the red banner of shame away for a long time.

going into monday night

During the early games, I was down in the neighborhood of 70 to 30. Going into the Sunday night game, it was really close. I had Garcon and Hartley, he had Addai and Hicks.

Throughout the game, Hicks had no catches and it looked like his injury might be affecting him. Addai was running well, but didn't get a touchdown. And Garcon didn't do anything.

But with 5 minutes to go, I saw that Addai was on the bench, with the Colts up 31. I was up 117.5 to 115.5. I was ready to start thinking about if I should bench Hartley. I had this wrapped up.

And then after the two-minute warning, stupid Hakeem Nicks gets a touchdown worth 9.5 fantasy points. I went to bed thinking that I was down 117.5 to 125, with a kicker to go.

And then I wake up, and all of a sudden Harlan has 129. I believe they added 4 pts to his defense.

So now I need 12 from a kicker.


We've seen this situation before, a week 2 divisional matchup which you would expect to have serious playoff implications. If I go to 0-2, it could be nigh impossible to get back in things against 2 opponents that are 2-0.

So now I need Hartley to kick 3 field goals and some extra points.

my first trophy

Can anyone take the crown away? Maybe during a bad bye week, but I bet I'll hold onto this for a while.

2010 draft (for future reference)

Here's my 2010 draft, from the 6th position. RB/QB/WR/WR/WR


When I had my draft, I thought that I was weak having Harrison at my RB2. With Hardesty out for the season, suddenly, Harrison could be a top 20 running back.

Before yesterday's kickoff game, I was convinced that I was going to win my division. I think Burnsy's weak at receiver and I'm not worried about the other two teams.

But last night my kicker gets me negative points, and Burnsy's Henderson scoring as many points as Adrian Peterson. So, while I look good on paper, that doesn't mean anything.