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Every fantasy football junky has their own story of the most horrifying of bad beats in our beloved pastime. Mine comes from the Westbrook slide of yesteryear, and I am sure there are many that can relate with the same move coming from M. Jones-Drew this season. Let me set up a scenario, and remind you this is not my bad beat, but some friends of mine from my local big money league. That is a mere $200 entry, but big for a guy on my budget.
The team owners, Justin Smouse and Dave White of team “The Scratchers”, started the season 0-6 and left for dead. This was also the most stacked team in the league with QB Brady, RBs C. Johnson and R. Williams, WR W. Welker, and TE V. Davis to name the team’s core players. It is a PPR league with really heavy QB scoring that included one point for every ten yards. Well, The Scratchers had just won five in a row and due to a very tight league a .500 record would get them in the playoffs.
Here is the bad beat part of the story: Scrathers had just taken the lead at 173-172 with 5 minutes left in the Monday night game between the Pats and Saints. Scratchers was marching Brady onto the field down 21 points and poised to seal another victory. They also had W. Welker, and to top it off K Carney from the Saints as insurance. Brady winds up and throws an immediate INT scoring (-3) points and costing them the lead at 170-172, but no worries the Saints were in FG range. Carney proceded to shank a chip shot 30 some yard FG costing the Scratchers yet another valuable point making the score 169-172. There was still no worries, since they still had Brady and Welker with over four minutes left in the game, and remember it is a PPR league with 1 point per 10 passing yards. The most agonizing part of the whole bad beat was watching Belichick role out Hoyer and a ragtag bunch of receivers in surrender sending the Scratchers, our leagues best team, home for the playoffs. Final score 169-172.
I have yet to see either Justin or Dave, since that devastating defeat, so I don’t know if they have stepped away from the ledge yet. So, today when you march your seemingly unbeatable squad into a playoff clinching matchup, make your fantasy football battle cry “Remember the Scratchers” or ”Let’s win just one for The Scratchers”.
Good Luck this Sunday, step away from the ledge, it is just a game.
Please feel free to post your own Bad Beats of Fantasy Football here.
I’m not a smart man…
I lost by .54 points. I’m claiming that we lost because the NFL screwed up. We use IDP’s so a tackle = 1 point (even for offensive players). Jeremy Shockey (played against me) got credit for a tackle that Marques Colston (plays for me) made = 2point swing = I should win!!!!!!!!!
See the video here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNsFqCAEpk
at about the :20 mark you see Brees throw a pick. Shockey is on the ground and doesn’t touch the defender (now the ball carrier) who gets up and runs downfield. Then you can see #12 (MY MAN COLSTON!!!!) come flying in and (sort of) make the tackle. I saw the play on TV & marked it in my memory (hey, cool, a cheap point for Colston!). The next day I see that Shockey got credit for a tackle… WTF??? So I thought maybe the refs ruled that he was down where Shockey touched him… then I checked the play by play recap (here : http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/playbyplay?gameId=291115014&pe riod=3 )
in case you don’t want to hit the link – the description of the play is : (Shotgun) D.Brees pass deep middle intended for J.Shockey INTERCEPTED by J.Butler at SL 23. J.Butler to SL 40 for 17 yards (J.Shockey). Put the play by play together with the video… they don’t match!
I’m in the playoffs with the #2 seed, but this loss clinched the regular season title for someone else.