Author Archives: molecularbear
Fantastic Fall
I went into the 2008 fantasy football season thinking that I’d scored a hole-in-one with my draft: LaDainian Tomlinson Terrell Owens Earnest Graham Wes Welker Jason Witten Willie Parker Jake Delhomme Patrick Crayton Colts DST Matt Schaub Eleven weeks into … Continue reading
Fantasy football head-to-head matchups considered harmful
Another fundamental complaint that I have with fantasy football, aside from the WR/RB flex position, is the way your win-loss record is determined. In “standard leagues” you are pitted against another team each week – score more points than your … Continue reading
Dare I abandon the desktop?
Using the spoils from the 2007 holiday season, I built a solid workstation/gaming system that has carried me through 2008. The vital statistics: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2 GB RAM GeForce 7600 GS (512 MB) Dual boot Ubuntu (64-bit) … Continue reading
Fantasy football players that scared me in 2008
A quick list of fantasy football players that had me running the other way in the 2008 draft… QB Matt Hasselbeck: CBS ranked Hasselbeck as the #12 QB going into 2008, summarizing with, “He’s a low-end No. 1 Fantasy QB … Continue reading
Centro > Treo 650
Following up on my previous smartphone post, I’ve been using the Centro for over a month now and find it to be a pretty solid upgrade from the Treo 650. I’ll try to keep this brief and just lay out … Continue reading
Frustration with fantasy football “experts”
You know that fantasy football has hit the big time when you can turn on ESPN and watch some dork telling you about his Starts and Sits of the Week. Fantasy football “experts” are on TV and radio, and of … Continue reading
CBS Sports pwn5 Yahoo in fantasy football
This is a brief description of the total pwnage that CBS Sports exhibits over Yahoo in fantasy football. Free Agents / Waivers: Yahoo has a free-for-all system where you basically pick up players at any time. This means that the … Continue reading
Treo, Centro, and Verizon: a bubbling cauldron of misery
The title of this post is a little extreme, but I have had some frustrations when looking to upgrade my Treo 650. Here are a few notes I’ve made over the past few days: I’m not going to do business … Continue reading
WR/RB flex position considered harmful
This is the first year that I’ve played in a league with three WRs instead of two WRs + one WR/RB flex position. The season hasn’t even started yet and I’m loving the change already. I like to play in … Continue reading
Draft advice for fantasy football beginners
When first getting your feet wet with fantasy football it is easy to feel like you are drowning in rules, stats, and players you’ve never heard of. This post is intended as a rough guide to the very basics, including … Continue reading