The Bad Beats of Fantasy Football E-mail
Written by Gene Zarnick   
Friday, 13 November 2009

Earlier this year I wrote an article, Fantasy Football is a Game of Poker where I basically compared how the season was like a poker tournament and other stuff that you can read if you click the link above. Well now were into the point of the season or tournament where you could get knocked out with a bad beat. Like they say in poker, "You never remember the big hands you won, but always remember the bad beats."

Well yesterday I saw a bad beat that I'm sure happens weekly, but I haven't seen happen to my league before. In one of the divisions the first place team was playing the last place team. The last place team had Eddie Royal going into Monday night up 1.5 points and the first place team had Santonio Holmes. After Monday night's game the first place team got the victory by .5 points. Tough loss for the last place team as it pretty much knocked him out of any playoff consideration. I wanted the first place team to lose as well because it would've sent me up to first.

Yesterday night the last place team calls me and says, "Did you mess with the scoring? It shows I won." I went into my league and amazingly that's what it showed. I was in disbelief at what had happened. I knew there were stat corrections, but I thought they were usually done by Tuesday night. I finally found a <a href="http://www.quickstats.com/nfl/nfl-fixes.htm">web site</a> that listed all the stat corrections for the week and found out that they eliminated a sack fro mthe Dallas defense and made it a negative rushing attempt for McNabb. It was unbelievable! I got phone calls and texts from everyone. The first place team was rightfully ticked off, but what was I to do.

So as you can see there is more to fantasy football that makes it better and better every year. There's situations like these that you would never expect, but happen every year. I'd like to hear some of your best bad beat stories in your leagues. Hopefully they didn't happen to you.

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written by RFS, November 13, 2009
Not to mention message board fights and the ruined friendships! smilies/smiley.gif
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written by RFS, November 13, 2009
I won by a 1/2 point earlier on Jason Elam's FG that cut the Saints lead to 7. Woke up to an expletive filled text from the night before from the guy I beat. It was fantastic.

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