Last Second Decisions

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JB Gilpin

Last Second Decisions Week 16 – Championship Edition

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Unlike a real champion, I’m mad and not going to re-trace my steps for this awesome open I wrote.  Friggin’ Word crashed when I went to save!  Typical.  It’s as if I was going against Matt Ryan, Roddy White, and Calvin Johnson last night.  I just feel defeated.  Let’s just get into my picks:

Here’s five guys not started in enough leagues and five guys started in too many leagues that should be benched, along with their % started in ESPN leagues and Yahoo leagues, respectively.  And remember, these picks are not always suggestions for direct 1-for-1 swaps if you own players in both sections, but merely picks for guys not started enough and started too often.

Please, blog, may I have some more?
JB Gilpin

Last Second Decisions Week 15 – Getting Hit By A Semi

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The semis are here for fantasy football playoffs, and it’s the most interesting week of the year in my opinion.  I don’t know why, but my most memorable stories seem to happen in the semis.  Maybe it’s because I seem to lose in the championship more often than not…

There’s the big news that RGIII is officially out, meaning fantasy playoff teams lead by RGII are going to have to search for options either on their bench or on the wire, if their league can even have roster moves.  Since RGIII has become such an integral part of winning fantasy rosters this year, it adds another part of the mystique to my favorite week of the year.  Imagine making your championship with the story line, “The highest scoring fantasy player got hurt and I had to play Josh Freeman, yet I still won!”

My favorite story is still my cobbled together fantasy team from 2004 in my long time dynasty league, featuring Billy Volek, Drew Bennett and Derrick Mason on the Titans that went on a tear through the playoffs, especially in week 15 in the semis.  Boy was my opponent mad.  If you have any good stories share them below!

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JB Gilpin

Last Second Decisions Week 14 – Fantasy Land Gets Myers-ed

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 Playoffs baby!

 In a stunning late push in the Razzball Writer’s League, I was able to sneak into 6th place. And what do I get for my late season surge? A one-catch. 7-yard performance from Brandon Myers…

The march into the playoffs is great in fantasy football, but nothing is more frustrating than your key, consistent guys bombing in the game that matters most.

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JB Gilpin

Last Second Decisions Week 13 – The Final Regular Season Week

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In many fantasy leagues, the playoffs start next week, making this the final regular season game and the final shot at hope for fringe teams.  The last week of the regular season is the biggest week for me if I’m not a lock at the top – all the scenarios and following other matchups, needing this team to lose and that team to score less than 40 than me – it gets pretty hectic.

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Sky

Last Second Decisions With Tommy Chong: JB’s Not Here, Man

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Hey all, it’s Tommy Chong…er, Sky.  You might remember me from such hits as ‘Weekly Rankings: The One Where I Get Everything Wrong’ and ‘Buy/Sell: You Want Me To Do WHAT To Get Jonathan Stewart?!?’.  With JB out traveling home from his Thanksgiving foofaraw, I’m stepping in to at least handle last minute start/sit questions.  I know you typically get some suggestions from the article itself but that’s what JB does.  Typically I’d be croqueting like my good friend Propecia (RIP…oh and NSFW).  So yes, I’m simply here to give you an outlet for all your burning start/sit questions that you were too afraid to ask in the forums.  Oh, you didn’t know about the forums?  Well now you know and trust me, all the cool kids are doing it.  So go ahead and let’er rip.  No, I mean with the questions.  You really need to lay off the deviled egg leftovers from Thanksgiving.

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JB Gilpin

Last Second Decisions Week 10 – No More Political Ads!

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The election is finally over.  As someone that doesn’t want to pay my cable company for DVR (they charge an additional $15!  I’ll just play on my phone for two minutes, thank you very much.), I couldn’t be happier that there are no more political ads.  They just don’t make sense to me.  You’re going to spend $300 million dollars?  Let’s get some production value!  Not just a slide show with a stark narrated voice.

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JB Gilpin

Last Second Decisions Week 9 – Hanging On A Prayer

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There have been a lot of stud early-round picks this year that have disappointed, leading a lot of fantasy teams to .500 or sub.-500 records that could still have a shot at the playoffs if those big-name studs bank on their high-price value in the second half.  A guy I’ve been notoriously down on all year, Matthew Stafford, finally showed fantasy owners something against a tough Seahawks D, but it might have been too late as he was started in just over 50% of fantasy leagues.

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JB Gilpin

Last Second Decisions Week 8 – The Halfway Point

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It’s pretty hard to believe that we’re halfway through the 2012 NFL season.  I know there’s 17 weeks, but with most leagues wrapping up their championships in week 16, it’s a good mid-point marker.

When you’re halfway through and have a middling or losing fantasy team, it’s easy to feel like you’re already out of it.  But just think about how much time is left.  Halfway through Titanic they hadn’t even hit the iceberg.  Halfway through the Republican Nomination Race, Herman Cain was leading polls.  Point is – there’s still a lot of time.

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JB Gilpin

Last Second Decisions Week 7 – The Week of Your Worst Fantasy Roster, Ever

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How many of you have looked at your fantasy roster(s) this week, and have thought, “Man, if I can salvage a win this week with this line-up, I’m golden”?

Well in three of my leagues I had that exact thought, piecing together a makeshift line-up with duct tape and super glue to hopefully sneak in a win.  With the most teams on bye we’ll have all season (Six teams – the Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, San Diego Chargers), it effectively removes 19% of players.

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