This was going to be the year. You read countless blogs. You bought $200 worth of strategy guides. You watched NFL network for two hours each night before bed. And what did all of that get you? An embarrassing 1-4 record.
Welcome to fantasy football.
Maybe it's not your fault (all the experts said to draft David Wilson). Maybe it is (no one forced you to execute a 95-second keg stand after your first pick).
Regardless of how you got here, face it -- if you've only got two wins this season, it's over.
Accepting defeat of any form is always a tough pill to swallow, but ingloriously sucking at fantasy football is one of the cruelest forms of humiliation a person can suffer. You lose a ton of money, endlessly get tormented by friends/co-workers for months, and, worst of all, dread turning on the TV every Sunday.
As someone who's spent a considerable amount of time in the lonesome bowels of league standings, I feel your pain. Below are some coping mechanisms that might help ease your misery.
- Change your team's name to something self-deprecating. No one's going to taunt the owner of "The Bottom Feeders."