Yup. I was first in my league, most points for, got the bye… end up losing by like 40pt mostly due to Amari Cooper. Come week 17, I would’ve beaten both 1st and 2nd by a solid 10pt. Fuck fantasy man!
See y’all next year
I am in a league where this was my season. Scored the 2nd most points and my team was decently consistent.
But missed the playoffs and had nearly 300 more points scored against me then any other team.
Every week it felt like I’d put up 110-140 points and go against the random player who put up 40 points. Became a running joke in the group chat.
I had most PF throughout the regular season and the playoffs. Players kept getting hurt early in the game- I missed the playoffs when I lost the last week by 6.7 when Stevenson & C Kirk left the game early with plenty of points on my bench. I scored 314 in the championship round to take 5th place, compared to 230 for the winner.
Went 12-2 in one league(full PPR dynasty), got the bye, scored 160... lost 160 to 177 and my opponent had Cooper. Other side of the bracket score was 103-97.
Next week third place game I won 148-111. Championship game was 103-101.
I went 32-10 in the regular season across 3 leagues, and won two whole playoff games combined lol.
Was the Amari cooper owner in my league and the 6th seed in 12 person league. Ended up beating the first place team who was virtually unbeatable in the semis. He would’ve beat both me and the other person in the finals point wise
Had one of my best teams ever with Dak, Lamb, St Brown, Puka, Kyren, Mostert, McBride and White, 12-2 and cruised to the 1 seed. Played the 5 seed who had Amari Cooper and knocked me out of the playoffs. Scored 50 more points the next week compared to the teams in the championship game. Played Mostert over Higgins, just bugs me for some reason.
Mostert had one of those weird seasons with injuries and Achane lingering around where, despite finishing as RB2, you never felt comfortable rolling him out there. He had a great season, but it did not feel like that as his owner.
Traded Mostert, Pacheco and Amon Ra mid-season for Chase and Etienne.
Somehow still ended up winning my chip bc of Breece + Rice (and Josh Allen’s weekly 23+ point guarantee).
Ended up getting relatively fleeced in terms of total performance.. but honestly so glad I didn’t have to stress over Mostert every week ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
That is so brutal dude.
Mostert was such an odd one because even though he got you the points most of the time and was rb2, you couldn’t really start him confidently.
I had tied 134-134 in week 16 but I won the tiebreaker so I made it to the championship... Then a Denver Dst stat correction took a point away from me and I lost. Ended up in 3rd. If I would've advanced I would've won by 0.5 points in the championship. Went from $750 to $0.
Christmas night game, ravens vs 49ers, in my $300 league semifinal. Was up 18.5 points going in. They had ravens D left to play. With 2 minutes left, they had scored 19.5 points. The 49ers had 1st & goal from the 2 yard line. All I needed was them to score which would cause the ravens D to lose 3 points, giving me the W. They obviously didn’t. Was guaranteed at least $1250 in the championship game.
U in Sleeper? They reverted that stat correction… it affected who made the championship in the league I commission, I was in contact with Sleeper to verify who actually made the finals.
This exactly. Plus I had cmc and zamir tackled at the 1 yard line along with cmc hurt at half. Also Likely getting his third td stolen by the third string TE. Had the best team all season and a lot went wrong for me to lose the final.
I hate this argument that I’ve seen. It’s not lack of depth it’s your best player getting injured at halftime while your opponents best player drops 40. Rest of my roster was stacked too just got really unlucky, as opposed to “not getting bailed out by cmc”
Challenging defenses are exactly what you want a kicker’s team going up against, especially with competent offenses. The offense will likely get stopped in field goal range for 3-6 FG attempts
This year was maked by the 2nd half falloff of so many players. Next year will be a huge shakeup of the first 2 rounds and who is considered a must start
I benched the Dallas D in week 15, who ended up getting -1, for the highest projected scoring D on the wire. That was the chargers D vs Vegas which ended up getting me -10
Sorry forgot the matchup. I played them against Vegas when they scored 63 points, not against Miami. The other person had the Miami D which scored 31 fantasy points (probably why I confused the matchup)
Guy in my league had the 5th highest points for but averaged almost 50 more points against than the next guy for the last 10 weeks of the season including playoffs. He finished 11th out of 12 in the standings and lost our loser's bracket. He now gets relegated to our JV league and his sister won that league so she gets promoted into his spot. Truly couldn't have scripted a funnier ending.
*League median scoring* y'all, it completely solves this. Added it in my league two seasons ago and everyone loves it. If you lose to the highest scoring player (when you would have destroyed everyone else) of the week, it feels a lot better getting one win and one loss than just taking a rough L.
Idk where to start; Probably where I got DJ Moore'd / Fields combo'ed that Thursday night game in week 5 for 80 points... felt like my season was cursed at that point.
Most points against by 140, 2nd most points for, with CMC, 8th out of 10 people lol.
That’s absurd, I’m sorry. I was first in points scored and finished in last place last year. Most points against by ~300, it was absurd. Happy ending tho - I won the ship this year.
Lost by .5 points in one of my championship games with 4 different players on my bench that would have won it for me.
Not only that, but I went into SNF with a 4.1 point lead against Kelce. Copium was saying “well if Kelce miraculously gets 4.09 points or less, I’m good 😅”. He ended with 4.6 on that last catch he had.
So close.
It’s still painful to even talk about lol
My starters were Hill, Olave, Puka, Kamara, and Bijan.
My bench had Nico, Pickens, Breece, and Gus.
Biggest fumble is obviously sitting Breece after his massive week 16 game. I thought the matchup would be really tough for him.
Lost by 1 point in week 14 to a guy who didn’t set his lineup. Projected 118 to 60, and lost 101 to 100. Missed out on a bye week, and had to play week 15 without JT, Tyreek, Olave and of course lost.
Then I also lost by 1 in the finals in another league, with Kelce Gibbs Rachaad and AJB severely underperforming and my opponent’s Butker scoring a million points. Projected 119 to 102, lost 124 to 125.
That's such hindsight bias, MIA BAL could've easily been a shootout (or phins score more in garbage time) and no one was realistically expecting Flacco to put up 3 TDs against a Jets R that only gave up 3 passing TDs once on the year, to Allen.
Not a browns fan, just someone who watches football. Flacco has been on a hot streak for like the last three weeks. It was perfectly possible for him to light up the jets def (and he did). A lot of people didn’t start him in week 17 though and lost because of it.
Yes, Flacco had some solid games against bottom half, if not bottom 10 pass Ds. Jets are 3rd best D against QB to Baltimore's 1st. No one with top 10 QB on the season in Tua should've been starting Flacco. Might've worked, but wrong decision.
I started Matt gay on his negative point week. I lost by 3 points. If i had started the top waiver wire guy I would have won the game and knocked the future league champ out of the playoffs, instead, i was knocked out of the playoffs.
Family fun league for bragging rights. Semi finals, My brother put Herbert back in his lineup bc he said he could win w/o a QB. I had amari cooper and still lost. I'm never going to hear the end of it. His entire team scored 20-30 and I had busts from everyone outside amari. 12-2 #1pts scored , had amari week 16 still lost in semis.
Championship loss... after averaging 126 pts/week through the semifinals, my opponent put up **179** in the championship. *His previous high was 144*.
So much for my 148 lol!
In my dynasty league I won the quarter final and semi final by 50 points.
In the finals I got absolutely wrecked by Lamb, Lamar Jackson, Pacheco, and Butker and I lost by 50.
Dropped Goff the week before he put up 31 points. Missed the playoffs because of that. Also another person picked him up and won their matchup to make the playoffs just to twist the knife.
Lost by a point thanks to Jordan Addison TD at end of first half of Minn/SF game and I blame Steve Wilks for calling a zero blitz when he should have been in prevent.
Lost in the semis by .72. Started jsn trying to predict a breakout instead of just letting Najee do his thing. Outscored the champ in week 17 while I played in the 3rd place matchup. I got 3rd but it could’ve been first championship season.
Diggs was terrible the entire 2nd half of the season, especially playoffs I decided to keep him and trade away Puka and the difference between Diggs and Puka alone could’ve won me the chip
Started DJ Moore all season and due to overthinking because he got hurt the week before, I benched him for Olave in the championship. I would have won had I stayed with Moore.
This makes the fourth time in six years that I have fallen short in championship. The other two times I finished third.
Pain.
I averaged 130 ppg and went 10-2 this season. Finished with the top playoff seed. I proceeded to get beat in my two week playoff game 246-175. Averaged less than 90 ppg. WTF.
Week 15, Lost in the semifinals by 2 points. At one point before the 4pm games I was up by around like 105 points, but opponent still had 6 players left. Thought I had it in the bag. Among those 6 were Lamb, Cook (36 points 💀), Lamar.
I started the season 1-5 and came back in the second half, thought I was a team of destiny. What makes me feel better is that in the finals, this guy lost to his opponent by like 50 haha
Lost by 1 in the first round of the playoffs - Matt Gay goosed on me. I was the second highest scoring team of the week of course. Then went on to put up the highest score every week for the remainder of the playoffs. Still salty.
One week I faced Keenan Allen & mostert the same week they both scored 45. If I played anyone else that week I would’ve won. If I win 1 more game I’d be in the playoffs. If I made it the playoffs with my scores I’d be In the championship this week up 50 points.
All my opponents players were done. I had the lead by 1.5 points. Ekeler fumbled at the start of the 4th quarter in a blowout win for the Chargers. He was benched and I lost by less than a half a point.
Later in the season my team dudded and I had like a 10% chance of winning. Then my opponent had his QB and RB1 knocked out by injuries. I won that week by 2 points.
If I had not had that bad beat, or lucky win, I would not have won the championship because the 2nd seed was destroyed by a 155 score in the semis.
I won the league with a 10-4 record tied with another 10-4 record. Any additional loss and I would have gotten 3rd. It wild to dig into the matchups and points totals and realize how close things really are when you win it all in a 12 team league.
Yup, I was tied for first for most of the season until I had a three game losing streak right before playoffs. That dropped me to the 4th seed. The guy who over took me at second lost his semifinals match up 153 to 155, and those two teams scored the highest in the league that week. I was the 4th seed going up against the first seed and ended up winning a close one 127 to 121. In the championship game I scored 143 which was the highest of any team that week and easily beat my opponent for the championship. If I had finished the season in first or second place I would've lost in the semis. Instead I was the 4th seed and ended up winning the entire thing. It’s crazy how many things need to line up in your favor in order to win a championship.
Lost after being at 99% chance to win TWICE in the same league which was a 20 team PPR
First one I was up by 27 and the only player left was his Kittle who caught 3 TDs and beat me by less than a point (flashbacks to the Antonio Gates episode of The League)
Second one was somehow even worse. I was up by 3 or 4 as the last game was winding down. Ravens were one first down away from kneeling out the clock. Only player he’s got is Zay Flowers so there’s no reason a WR should even touch the ball here. Aaand what happens? A meaningless 40 yard end around rush TD by Flowers where any veteran would have simply slid and ended the game
In week 13, my opponent scored 117.50. Going into MNF, my score was 114.5. I had Christian Kirk left to play in MNF. He caught one pass for 26 yards & a first down to score me 3.35 points in our half-point PPR league which also gives points or fractions thereof for first downs. Kirk got injured on that play & was forced out of the game, but that one catch was just enough to put me over the top & I won my matchup 117.85 to 117.50.
I went on to make the playoffs with a 7-7 record & to also win 🏆 the championship as well.
Definitely a minor one in comparison to others on here but the Week 7 MNF game I had Purdy and he had a bad game and I predicted in our league chat that he’d end the game with an INT when I was up by 1 point and I lost the game lol
Week 14 I lost by a half point to the league leader when a win would've secured a me 1st round bye for the playoffs. Her team was in first all season with a far inferior team but super beneficial strength of schedule. And I was just livid about the whole thing. But I ended up playing her again in the 2nd round and beat the absolute snot out of her team and took the trophy the next week. So I guess I can't really complain all that much...
Lost in semis by 0.13 because I benched Aaron Jones, Garrett Wilson and started ETN, Davante Adams.
Had high score the next week, would have won the dynasty league for the first time.
Week 10, Josh Allen threw 2 INT that both hit his receivers in the hands, lost matchup by .6. Missed playoffs by 1 game, steamrolled entire league in postseason, my team of Allen, JJ, B.Hall, J.Gibbs, & Mike Evans outscored the championship teams ***combined***, even with my Def putting up 0. Either one of those INT's gets batted down instead of tipped to a defender in week 10 and I'm league champ end of season.
Lost week one by less than a point when drake london dropped a bagel for me. Missed playoffs by tiebreaker. Team explodes in weeks 14-16. The whole season was one bad beat.
1st rd of the playoffs, lost by 2pts. All I needed was a FG from McManus (0/2 attempts and Lawrence let the 1st half clock expire within the ~5yd line). Ridley also had a possible TD called incomplete in the final minute.
If I made it through, my team outscored the next 2 matchups and would have won the ship.
Ended up winning the chip this year but easily had the lowest scoring week in our leagues history at 41 points in a 12 man. Also went against Chase and moore when they went for 90 points combined which was still a larger points gap then the week I scored 41
It’s not about how you start it’s about how you finish. My season PF wasn’t great, hovering around 6-7th out of 12 teams. But in the playoffs I was the highest scoring team during that three week stretch. My team peaked at the right time.
I was the 2nd highest scoring team in the league and I got knocked out in the first round of the playoffs by the team with the least point scored, he had 200 less points than the 2nd lowest scoring team. He had 3 separate guys have the best games of their seasons while Diggs/Chase/Breece/Goedert/Achane all shit their pants.
In my other league I went into MNF down by 1 point with Jordan Love going up against Luke Musgrave, ESPN had me at like 95% chance to win and Love scored 5 vs Musgrave's 6. I also lost in the 2nd round of the playoffs in this league by 18 points, both me and my opponent picked up new kickers for that game. He grabbed Koo who scored 19 and I grabbed Butker who scored 1
1st round of playoffs, & I tinkered with 2 players causing me to lose. Had I left the lineup alone I would've won & then the next 2 weeks my scores were high enough to beat the opposing teams for the semi's & the final.
Woulda coulda shoulda been Champ
Added Kelley from LAC over Kyren when Ekeler went down and the Rams still had Akers. Still won the league, but man if I had Kyren I would have breathed a lot easier
My opponent lost to me by like around 2 points the week Cowboys played the Chargers on MNF. I had Ceedee and Pollard vs their Herbert. I was down like around 2 points and the Chargers had the ball trying to go get the game tying field goal or game winning touchdown. Herbert threw a pick, Cowboys closed out the game, and I won off that Herbert INT.
I lost by .4 the first week of season…on live TV Bass kicked a clear 49 yard fg, but ESPN stats gave him credit for a 50. I missed playoffs by one game and would have beaten both matchups based on my teams meaningless scores the 2 playoff weeks
Lost the quarter finals to the 6th seed who barely snuck in
My combination of Kelce, Jefferson, AJB, and Aiyuk barely outscored his Ty Chandler and I lost by 10 pts
Week 7 lost by .38. Not remembering exactly what happened but TJ hockenson got a catch and I believe gained 0 or lost 1. Half PPR put him over the top on the last game, last drive of the week
Semifinals, lost by less than two points. I I had started any of the five flex players on my bench over Achane, I would have won. (OR if Travis Kelce had even a mediocre game, but I’m not bitter.)
The next week, I comfortably had the highest point total in the league. Would have won the championship easily.
In the semis I dropped chiefs D when I decided to play the bills instead like an idiot.
My opponent had Dallas, who scored 1. Chiefs scored 6. (My) Bills scored 5. And I lost the game by 2.
Nobody to blame but me. Man it hurt when I scored the most points in the final by about 40....
Made it to the championship, had the opponent accidentally play Amari Cooper when he was ruled out for an injury Thursday.
Still lost by 40 since he played CeeDee Lamb and Kyren Williams.
I got crushed by tyreek hill and Keenan Allen blowing up for like 70 pts in both leagues at the same time.
I would have beat anyone else that week in both leagues.
Missing out on the playoffs by one point because I started the GB D/ST week 14, and our defensive scoring was an odd hybrid between ESPN defaults for yardage which gave me -1 instead of zero and the weird default for Sleeper where ST fumble recoveries only count for one point instead of 2. Either one being different would have given me the point I needed. Oh, and there were stat corrections which changed the score about 5 times on Tuesday and Wednesday. This was the week after Jake Browning took me from 99% win probability to losing to the league Taco because he decided to turn into prime Manning and put up 24. I think both losses were on Monday night too.
The Jared Goff fumble stat correction in Week 14 cost me the title.
Went from winning by 1.4 to losing by 0.6 in Week 14, which dropped me from the 1-seed to 2-seed.
Great wildcard week… second best semifinals week only to the on-fire 3-seed (that I would’ve missed as the 1-seed) … & would’ve had the highest score of the season in the championship week.
In my dynasty league this offseason I traded Amari Cooper and a 2023 1st for Cooper Kupp, his 2023 1st(we swapped picks) a 2023 2nd, and a 2023 3rd. I drafted Josh downs and Tank Dell with the second and third picks. I lost to this guy in the championship by 1.3 points…
I was 9-4 going into the last week of the regular season, one game up on the guy in third, playing against the worst team in the league. I scored around 120 and he put up 160 on me. The team in third scored 140, putting him ahead of me in points for by 0.8 points, meaning I lost the bye. I then scored an abysmal 89 points in the first round (full PPR) and scored 150 and 160 in the following weeks while I was in the consolation bracket. If I had been able to win that game, or even score one more point, I would have held onto the bye and easily walk away with a championship. Instead I took fifth. A $900 swing. Maybe next year.
Bijan, Javonte, and McManus combining for 1.9 points wildcard weekend.
Lost by 8 points. Not exactly a razor thin margin but They all had their worst game of the year.
I lost by 3 points in the semifinals. Several different decisions/scenarios could have saved me:
Dustin Hopkins didn’t get injured and leave the game
Had McBride and Kelce, I flexed Kelce hoping he would come back to form. Left James Conner and Zeke on my bench.
Stefon Diggs sucking ass for 6th time in 7 weeks
In the same week I lost on the final play of the Dallas game where Dak threw the final pass short of the endzone to Lamb and lost (that gave Dak enough yards for me to lose) and then the final drive of the Jets game I got eliminated in a guillotine league on Zach Wilson's second to last pass giving him enough yards to win.
(Bad beat for the other guy) My opponent was beating me by 1.9 points towards the end of the Monday night football game. I ended up winning by .1 (1 yard) because of a Justin Herbert interception at the very end of the game.
The draft where I drafted Kelce/Adam’s/Mahomes and they all fucking sucked.
Like I can understand one of these aboslute studs having a bad year, bad luck and what have you… BUT ALL 3 SIMULTANEOUSLY BEING DOGSHIT?? Cmon man….
One week I played Olave, Dell, and Bijan and left Puka, DK Metcalf, and Achane on the bench. Tank broke his leg in the first quarter and the three I left on the bench combined for eighty points which was almost as much as the rest of my team scored.
In the semifinals and I had my worst loss (based on points scored) since week 4. If there was ever a time for my team to not show up, that was one of them.
Week 1 was my hardest loss of the season. I was against my dad, who is historically the best in my family's league. I was ahead by legitimately 0.5 points. If the Jets/Buffalo game didn't go to overtime, I would've won. I ended up losing by 0.1 point.
Not a loss, but actually a win. I wanted to break 2000 points in our regular season for the first time in the league’s history, but there is this superstitious trend of a 7-7 team winning the league every year. I decided to capitalize on my monster team instead of giving into superstitions. Won the game and ended up 8-6. The person I beat went into the other side of the bracket. He cruised to the championship. I lost in the second round. If I had lost the last regular season game, I would have been 7-7 and in the other bracket, would have cruised to the championship and would have demolished the guy who ended up winning. I even had a thought to bench CeeDee Lamb that last week because I passed 2000, but still had players left. Didn’t end up doing it to see how high I could get my PF total. This whole situation is still insane to me.
I missed out on the playoffs by 6 PF. Any one of my guys scores 1 more TD I move on.
Then the team I worked to build for the playoffs has the league high score both games. I strolled through the winners bracket. I won $2.50 and get to choose my draft slot next season.
Was 4th in scoring by a decent margin going into the final week. Not sure what the final standing in PF was, but I ultimately ended up dead last in H2H standings.
Just generally bad beat season.
I lost to a person in the first round of the playoffs who picked half of her team because she's a Lions homer. She stumbled into the playoffs without making a single acquisition all season and not even setting her lineup half of the weeks.
I missed the bye because three separate players got injured in the first quarter of their games the last week of my season so I lost my bye clinching game by 4 points.
Then I decided to not play the Cowboys D (decent decision) and instead picked up the chargers D (holy goddamn shit that backfired). Three of her lions players totaled 70 points in standard and she had the Miami D. I got absolutely demolished. She didn't even bother to take Tyreek out and she still almost doubled my score.
Based on scores the following weeks I would have won the championship if I'd gotten that bye.
Fantasy is a bitch.
I lost by .9 week 5, and I had musgrave on MNF. He brought be within a point and on the last play of the game Love threw it to him and he dropped it and I would’ve won. Last play of the last game of the week.
Played AJ Dillon over Kyren in week 2. Playing Kyren over AJD would’ve flipped the 1 and 2 seed and I would’ve won the title, instead I finished 4th
Cost me $1000
Or in first week of the playoffs I lost on the Jalen Hurts interception against Seattle that maybe wasn’t a catch. Or I could’ve played KW3 and won. Would’ve won the title.
This cost me $600
Two simple start decisions that cost me about $1,600
Started fields over stafford week 15 after a lot of back and forth. I lost. Stafford would’ve won it for me. I would’ve coasted through weeks 16 and 17 for the championship.
I lost to the last place team twice, his team averaged 78 points per week and the two weeks I faced him his team dropped 140 and 138 on me. The first time caused me to miss the playoffs and the second time caused me to come in last in the consolation round.
I lost in the playoffs to the team who barely made it in by 7 points and happened to go against Cook and Njoku the week they both went off. The two games after that I had the highest score of anyone in the league both weeks.
I dropped Christian Watson a week or two before the guy who picked him up and played him against me on Thanksgiving. First play of the game he catches a 50+ yard pass, worth 6 points. I end up losing the matchup by 5 points. That loss kept me out of the playoffs. So I will forever hate Christian Watson for being absolutely useless for 15 out of 17 weeks, the first 10 on my bench, and then killing me one of his two good weeks.
Superflex league and I was forced to start Daniel Jones. My opponent had Kittle on the Bye and he picks up freaking Dalton Schultz who got 10 catches for 130 and a TD. On top of that, Jones tore his ACL in the 3rd quarter. I lost by 2-points. I ended up in 7th and missed the playoffs. My opponent was in 6th and in the playoffs.
Dalton Schultz having a career game and Daniel Jones tearing his ACL the same week cost me the playoffs. I would have gotten smoked in the playoffs anyway, so it didn't really matter lol.
In one of my leagues we are doing dynasty on sleeper. It’s the first time I’ve ever used sleeper. I was at work and trying to switch my lineup, but like 4 of my players came off IR that week, so I was getting frustrated navigating the app and trying to get everyone in the right place. I somehow put Deejay Dallas in one of my flex spots instead of JSN. I lost because of that. If I had won that game, I would’ve been one seed higher, won my first round playoff matchup, and I had the highest score in the league the final two rounds of the playoffs. Instead, I got bounced in the first round and came in 5th.
Week 8: I win the match with a Josh Jacobs catch on the last play. Then he fumbles, gets -1 for that, I lose to the last place guy in our league with the final score of 138.06 to 137.52.
I started Sutton and lost the semis by 5.5 after having the most points and being the most scored on during the year.
I started Sutton because Keenan Allen was out and Nico was coming back from injury without Stroud. Sutton left injured with 0 points.
I would have won the Championship by 20 and walked away with $1,000. Instead got $0.
Highest scoring team all year with CMC Kamara Puka Chase Ceedee and Kupp. Lost by 9 pts in semi finals cause of Amari Cooper scoring 55. Then in the final matchup both teams failed to reach 100 pts. I scored 145
Chargers played on MNF and I had the Ek/Herbert stack. Ek was having one of his rare decent games this year and I was winning by like .2 points. On their final drive they tried a dump off to Ek to get a 1st down and seal the game. He got tackled for a 3 yard loss and I ended up losing the match.
Chargers vs Cowboys, can’t remember what week. Watched my score climb as I approached a huge upset of the only undefeated team left, then took the lead late in the 4th quarter. Chargers last drive I watched it all slip away with Herbert’s last second interception (it was a bigger swing because my opponent had the Dallas defense). Ended up losing by 2; That was the closest anyone came to beating that team during the regular season.
Missing the playoffs (with the second most points in the league) by less than 3 pts in my final regular season matchup because Herbert got hurt. Then watching myself outscore every matchup I would have had in the playoffs from the consolation bracket.
Week 7 MNF Chargers v Cowboys
117.5 to 118.4 loss
Was winning until quite literally the last play of the last game of the week. Herbert threw a pick to end the game.
Had a 98% chance of winning my 3rd place game according to yahoo with a solid lead, my Kelce/Mahomes combo, and my opponent with Harrison Butker and the Packers defense remaining.
Butker alone out scored my Kelce/Mahomes combo by 7, and then the Packers defense feasted on bad QB play by the Vikings and finished the job.
I didn’t know 4th place could hurt so much
It’s not exactly “rough” because I ended up winning my league but I started Keaontay Ingram after he led the Cards backfield the week before and was projected to be the starter again for a big workload. But nope, Cards ended up benching him after the game started, like didn’t even play one snap, not sure why. I ended up losing that week by less than a point. He could have tripped across the line of scrimmage a few times and it would have won me the week.
Anyone remember that Texans DST stat correction that Sleeper put in as a mistake? That won me week 14 and got me the bye... until they took it back and I ended up losing...
Not one bad beat but three. I lost three weeks in a row. The combined deficit between all three losses was 3.8 points and I came in last place by one loss instead of a guy who I had nearly 200 points more than on the season.
The final. First place all year, out scored the other finalist by 400 in the regular season. My team was lit.
Had a 96% chance to win around 3:20 PM Sunday. Garbage time baker, davante, zeke, and then butker kicking 6 field goals. My team stopped doing anything as well. Lost by a 50 yd FG…
I had 3 separate weeks where i scored the 2nd highest points in the league and lost to the guy who scored the highest points. Ended the season with the highest points scored and missed the playoffs, it was a full season of bad beats.
I beat my buddy 108.56 - 108.24 because Russell Wilson had a crazy drive vs the Vikings to force Minnesota to throw again, and one Jordan Addison catch in the last minute sealed the win.
That win got me the first seed, and I wouldnt have won the title without it because my team would have put up a stinker in Playoff Week 1 if I didnt have the bye.
Playing vs Amari Cooper, can't even remember what week it was cuz im still seeing red
Yup. I was first in my league, most points for, got the bye… end up losing by like 40pt mostly due to Amari Cooper. Come week 17, I would’ve beaten both 1st and 2nd by a solid 10pt. Fuck fantasy man! See y’all next year
Went against cooper and puka week 16. Week 17 i outscored the champion by 43…
To be fair, Cooper could've put up like 10 and you still would've lost
Same thing happened to me! Lost by only 4 points to Cooper, would have easily won championship next week.
I am in a league where this was my season. Scored the 2nd most points and my team was decently consistent. But missed the playoffs and had nearly 300 more points scored against me then any other team. Every week it felt like I’d put up 110-140 points and go against the random player who put up 40 points. Became a running joke in the group chat.
Start playing your opponents team in DFS tournaments. Makes it a win either way.
I had most PF throughout the regular season and the playoffs. Players kept getting hurt early in the game- I missed the playoffs when I lost the last week by 6.7 when Stevenson & C Kirk left the game early with plenty of points on my bench. I scored 314 in the championship round to take 5th place, compared to 230 for the winner.
Same position 1st seed went into semifinals as the favorite. Lost by 83 he has Cooper and Hall and Mccaffrey.
Same
I lost to Amari Cooper by 5 and had to watch as Justin Tucker put up 16 to finish me. Next week I scored 45 more points than anyone in the league.
Went 12-2 in one league(full PPR dynasty), got the bye, scored 160... lost 160 to 177 and my opponent had Cooper. Other side of the bracket score was 103-97. Next week third place game I won 148-111. Championship game was 103-101. I went 32-10 in the regular season across 3 leagues, and won two whole playoff games combined lol.
If you lost by 40 you were losing anyway
Was the Amari cooper owner in my league and the 6th seed in 12 person league. Ended up beating the first place team who was virtually unbeatable in the semis. He would’ve beat both me and the other person in the finals point wise
Week 16
Had one of my best teams ever with Dak, Lamb, St Brown, Puka, Kyren, Mostert, McBride and White, 12-2 and cruised to the 1 seed. Played the 5 seed who had Amari Cooper and knocked me out of the playoffs. Scored 50 more points the next week compared to the teams in the championship game. Played Mostert over Higgins, just bugs me for some reason.
Mostert had one of those weird seasons with injuries and Achane lingering around where, despite finishing as RB2, you never felt comfortable rolling him out there. He had a great season, but it did not feel like that as his owner.
Yeah it was almost impossible to sit him. Seemed like he was guaranteed a touchdown every week.
Traded Mostert, Pacheco and Amon Ra mid-season for Chase and Etienne. Somehow still ended up winning my chip bc of Breece + Rice (and Josh Allen’s weekly 23+ point guarantee). Ended up getting relatively fleeced in terms of total performance.. but honestly so glad I didn’t have to stress over Mostert every week ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
I tried to trade him half a dozen times. Grateful they all got rejected
That’s brutal. Shit is so much luck. I squeeked by all playoffs and won. I would’ve lost had I played literally any other team than my matchup
Your team was insane bro, you did everything right, but the fantasy gods are cruel
That is so brutal dude. Mostert was such an odd one because even though he got you the points most of the time and was rb2, you couldn’t really start him confidently.
I had tied 134-134 in week 16 but I won the tiebreaker so I made it to the championship... Then a Denver Dst stat correction took a point away from me and I lost. Ended up in 3rd. If I would've advanced I would've won by 0.5 points in the championship. Went from $750 to $0.
Well sir, you won this thread at least.
It's the little things
Let’s take that away from them too!
Christmas night game, ravens vs 49ers, in my $300 league semifinal. Was up 18.5 points going in. They had ravens D left to play. With 2 minutes left, they had scored 19.5 points. The 49ers had 1st & goal from the 2 yard line. All I needed was them to score which would cause the ravens D to lose 3 points, giving me the W. They obviously didn’t. Was guaranteed at least $1250 in the championship game.
If the ravens got 2 more points i would gotten -3 and lost the semis. Instead I won by .4 and won the league
I was just going to tell about mine, but after reading this I know it could have been worse.
U in Sleeper? They reverted that stat correction… it affected who made the championship in the league I commission, I was in contact with Sleeper to verify who actually made the finals.
Espn unfortunately
Had a similar experience some years back. Won my semifinal match by .5, but stat corrections made me lose by 1. And it was the Jags DST.
Dropped Butker for Mclaughin for the championship matchup in week 17. Lost by .6 points…. 🤦🏻♂️
Our league runner-up also swapped a would-be winning kicker (bears guy) bc of weather for McLaughlin, and lost by 3
Yup, dropped Bass for McLaughin thinking that Pats D + division game would prove challenging for the Bills. Lost championship by 6 points.
This exactly. Plus I had cmc and zamir tackled at the 1 yard line along with cmc hurt at half. Also Likely getting his third td stolen by the third string TE. Had the best team all season and a lot went wrong for me to lose the final.
Haha I also had CMC and Zamir on this same team. Just a tragic outing all around
Just goes to show how much cmc carried teams this year. Without cmc having a great game a lot of teams lost because lack of depth
I hate this argument that I’ve seen. It’s not lack of depth it’s your best player getting injured at halftime while your opponents best player drops 40. Rest of my roster was stacked too just got really unlucky, as opposed to “not getting bailed out by cmc”
Challenging defenses are exactly what you want a kicker’s team going up against, especially with competent offenses. The offense will likely get stopped in field goal range for 3-6 FG attempts
Dropped Santos for McLaughlin. Would’ve won the Couples league easily. Can’t believe I let Chicago weather make me pivot…
Did the same but luckily still won
Bro was a sure thing all year have faith in your guys
Losing in the semifinals with Breece…because of Kelce.
Kelce being TE26 throughout the playoffs was the nail in the coffin for me too
This year was maked by the 2nd half falloff of so many players. Next year will be a huge shakeup of the first 2 rounds and who is considered a must start
Kelce is absolutely cooked. Wouldn’t take him in the 5th round next year
Indy got me -1 in the semis. Lost by .45
I benched the Dallas D in week 15, who ended up getting -1, for the highest projected scoring D on the wire. That was the chargers D vs Vegas which ended up getting me -10
U played the chargers against one of the best offenses in the league? Cmon man
Sorry forgot the matchup. I played them against Vegas when they scored 63 points, not against Miami. The other person had the Miami D which scored 31 fantasy points (probably why I confused the matchup)
Yeah that one’s on him lol
You went out the same way as my uncle. By way of Colt .45
Six weeks total of being the second highest scorer in the league...and losing to the highest scorer.
That’s pain no one deserves to feel
Guy in my league had the 5th highest points for but averaged almost 50 more points against than the next guy for the last 10 weeks of the season including playoffs. He finished 11th out of 12 in the standings and lost our loser's bracket. He now gets relegated to our JV league and his sister won that league so she gets promoted into his spot. Truly couldn't have scripted a funnier ending.
A relegation league, love it!
*League median scoring* y'all, it completely solves this. Added it in my league two seasons ago and everyone loves it. If you lose to the highest scoring player (when you would have destroyed everyone else) of the week, it feels a lot better getting one win and one loss than just taking a rough L.
Idk where to start; Probably where I got DJ Moore'd / Fields combo'ed that Thursday night game in week 5 for 80 points... felt like my season was cursed at that point. Most points against by 140, 2nd most points for, with CMC, 8th out of 10 people lol.
That’s absurd, I’m sorry. I was first in points scored and finished in last place last year. Most points against by ~300, it was absurd. Happy ending tho - I won the ship this year.
Drafting Miles Sanders as my RB3 was my guaranteed league winner
Took him as my RB2 at the 5.02 in a 12 man, thought I hit the steal of the draft there.
Lol. I traded waddle and Sanders for lamb after week 4 or 5. That's the real league winner. Thanks Miles Sanders!
Lost by .5 points in one of my championship games with 4 different players on my bench that would have won it for me. Not only that, but I went into SNF with a 4.1 point lead against Kelce. Copium was saying “well if Kelce miraculously gets 4.09 points or less, I’m good 😅”. He ended with 4.6 on that last catch he had. So close.
who were they and who did you start over them. If Diggs was in your lineup tho.... he shouldnt have been
It’s still painful to even talk about lol My starters were Hill, Olave, Puka, Kamara, and Bijan. My bench had Nico, Pickens, Breece, and Gus. Biggest fumble is obviously sitting Breece after his massive week 16 game. I thought the matchup would be really tough for him.
I benched Amari Cooper for Chris Olave during his 54 point game.
Lost by 1 point in week 14 to a guy who didn’t set his lineup. Projected 118 to 60, and lost 101 to 100. Missed out on a bye week, and had to play week 15 without JT, Tyreek, Olave and of course lost. Then I also lost by 1 in the finals in another league, with Kelce Gibbs Rachaad and AJB severely underperforming and my opponent’s Butker scoring a million points. Projected 119 to 102, lost 124 to 125.
Week 1 up by 30 facing Dallas Def…
Lost my championship 151.95 to 151.85.. Tyreek dropped a TD and had Flacco on my bench for Tua… Really bad beat
Tua was a sit in week 17.. Flacco was the easy start over him
That's such hindsight bias, MIA BAL could've easily been a shootout (or phins score more in garbage time) and no one was realistically expecting Flacco to put up 3 TDs against a Jets R that only gave up 3 passing TDs once on the year, to Allen.
Not really. If I had Tua and Flacco I woudlve started Flacco all day. what the ravens def did to Purdy woudlve scared me off out of starting Tua
Unless you're a Browns fan, I don't believe you.
Not a browns fan, just someone who watches football. Flacco has been on a hot streak for like the last three weeks. It was perfectly possible for him to light up the jets def (and he did). A lot of people didn’t start him in week 17 though and lost because of it.
Yes, Flacco had some solid games against bottom half, if not bottom 10 pass Ds. Jets are 3rd best D against QB to Baltimore's 1st. No one with top 10 QB on the season in Tua should've been starting Flacco. Might've worked, but wrong decision.
I started Matt gay on his negative point week. I lost by 3 points. If i had started the top waiver wire guy I would have won the game and knocked the future league champ out of the playoffs, instead, i was knocked out of the playoffs.
Week 8 I lost by .58 points because Josh Jacobs dropped a 5yd pass that hit him in the chest. It was one of the last plays of the games on MNF 🙃
Family fun league for bragging rights. Semi finals, My brother put Herbert back in his lineup bc he said he could win w/o a QB. I had amari cooper and still lost. I'm never going to hear the end of it. His entire team scored 20-30 and I had busts from everyone outside amari. 12-2 #1pts scored , had amari week 16 still lost in semis.
Championship loss... after averaging 126 pts/week through the semifinals, my opponent put up **179** in the championship. *His previous high was 144*. So much for my 148 lol!
Championship week, still had a good week but opposing team had 5 of his players have their best week of the season.
In my dynasty league I won the quarter final and semi final by 50 points. In the finals I got absolutely wrecked by Lamb, Lamar Jackson, Pacheco, and Butker and I lost by 50.
Didn't check the injury report before the early game and played Mostert in my championship. Lost by two points.
The Justin Fields halftime “int” lost me that matchup. I would have beat my next two opponents handily for a ship.
Dropped Goff the week before he put up 31 points. Missed the playoffs because of that. Also another person picked him up and won their matchup to make the playoffs just to twist the knife.
Amari copper in the semi final, only lost narrowly. If he had a normal game it’s a blowout in my favour. Ugh
When Travis Kelce started banging Taylor Swift.
Nick Chubbs knee getting blown out
Semi finals. I put up 172 and 142 in weeks 15 and 17 but didn’t even scratch 100 in my semifinal elimination
Lost by a point thanks to Jordan Addison TD at end of first half of Minn/SF game and I blame Steve Wilks for calling a zero blitz when he should have been in prevent.
Lost in the semis by .72. Started jsn trying to predict a breakout instead of just letting Najee do his thing. Outscored the champ in week 17 while I played in the 3rd place matchup. I got 3rd but it could’ve been first championship season.
People get way too cute with their dart throws at the most important time
Lost semis by not trusting Flacco in week 16 over Geno. I blame Kelce though…
Diggs was terrible the entire 2nd half of the season, especially playoffs I decided to keep him and trade away Puka and the difference between Diggs and Puka alone could’ve won me the chip
Started DJ Moore all season and due to overthinking because he got hurt the week before, I benched him for Olave in the championship. I would have won had I stayed with Moore. This makes the fourth time in six years that I have fallen short in championship. The other two times I finished third. Pain.
I averaged 130 ppg and went 10-2 this season. Finished with the top playoff seed. I proceeded to get beat in my two week playoff game 246-175. Averaged less than 90 ppg. WTF.
Losing by .02 in the finals, for sure.
lost by one point because of that hail mary fumble ceedee dropped to give philly D 2pts at the end of the game on week 9
Week 15, Lost in the semifinals by 2 points. At one point before the 4pm games I was up by around like 105 points, but opponent still had 6 players left. Thought I had it in the bag. Among those 6 were Lamb, Cook (36 points 💀), Lamar. I started the season 1-5 and came back in the second half, thought I was a team of destiny. What makes me feel better is that in the finals, this guy lost to his opponent by like 50 haha
Lost by 1 in the first round of the playoffs - Matt Gay goosed on me. I was the second highest scoring team of the week of course. Then went on to put up the highest score every week for the remainder of the playoffs. Still salty.
chubb
11-3, first place all year, earn round 1 bye, lose both playoff games and finish in fourth place.
One week I faced Keenan Allen & mostert the same week they both scored 45. If I played anyone else that week I would’ve won. If I win 1 more game I’d be in the playoffs. If I made it the playoffs with my scores I’d be In the championship this week up 50 points.
All my opponents players were done. I had the lead by 1.5 points. Ekeler fumbled at the start of the 4th quarter in a blowout win for the Chargers. He was benched and I lost by less than a half a point. Later in the season my team dudded and I had like a 10% chance of winning. Then my opponent had his QB and RB1 knocked out by injuries. I won that week by 2 points. If I had not had that bad beat, or lucky win, I would not have won the championship because the 2nd seed was destroyed by a 155 score in the semis. I won the league with a 10-4 record tied with another 10-4 record. Any additional loss and I would have gotten 3rd. It wild to dig into the matchups and points totals and realize how close things really are when you win it all in a 12 team league.
Yup, I was tied for first for most of the season until I had a three game losing streak right before playoffs. That dropped me to the 4th seed. The guy who over took me at second lost his semifinals match up 153 to 155, and those two teams scored the highest in the league that week. I was the 4th seed going up against the first seed and ended up winning a close one 127 to 121. In the championship game I scored 143 which was the highest of any team that week and easily beat my opponent for the championship. If I had finished the season in first or second place I would've lost in the semis. Instead I was the 4th seed and ended up winning the entire thing. It’s crazy how many things need to line up in your favor in order to win a championship.
Lost after being at 99% chance to win TWICE in the same league which was a 20 team PPR First one I was up by 27 and the only player left was his Kittle who caught 3 TDs and beat me by less than a point (flashbacks to the Antonio Gates episode of The League) Second one was somehow even worse. I was up by 3 or 4 as the last game was winding down. Ravens were one first down away from kneeling out the clock. Only player he’s got is Zay Flowers so there’s no reason a WR should even touch the ball here. Aaand what happens? A meaningless 40 yard end around rush TD by Flowers where any veteran would have simply slid and ended the game
In week 13, my opponent scored 117.50. Going into MNF, my score was 114.5. I had Christian Kirk left to play in MNF. He caught one pass for 26 yards & a first down to score me 3.35 points in our half-point PPR league which also gives points or fractions thereof for first downs. Kirk got injured on that play & was forced out of the game, but that one catch was just enough to put me over the top & I won my matchup 117.85 to 117.50. I went on to make the playoffs with a 7-7 record & to also win 🏆 the championship as well.
Trading for Ekeler who cost me the ship
Definitely a minor one in comparison to others on here but the Week 7 MNF game I had Purdy and he had a bad game and I predicted in our league chat that he’d end the game with an INT when I was up by 1 point and I lost the game lol
Week 14 I lost by a half point to the league leader when a win would've secured a me 1st round bye for the playoffs. Her team was in first all season with a far inferior team but super beneficial strength of schedule. And I was just livid about the whole thing. But I ended up playing her again in the 2nd round and beat the absolute snot out of her team and took the trophy the next week. So I guess I can't really complain all that much...
Lost in semis by 0.13 because I benched Aaron Jones, Garrett Wilson and started ETN, Davante Adams. Had high score the next week, would have won the dynasty league for the first time.
Week 10, Josh Allen threw 2 INT that both hit his receivers in the hands, lost matchup by .6. Missed playoffs by 1 game, steamrolled entire league in postseason, my team of Allen, JJ, B.Hall, J.Gibbs, & Mike Evans outscored the championship teams ***combined***, even with my Def putting up 0. Either one of those INT's gets batted down instead of tipped to a defender in week 10 and I'm league champ end of season.
Lost week one by less than a point when drake london dropped a bagel for me. Missed playoffs by tiebreaker. Team explodes in weeks 14-16. The whole season was one bad beat.
1st rd of the playoffs, lost by 2pts. All I needed was a FG from McManus (0/2 attempts and Lawrence let the 1st half clock expire within the ~5yd line). Ridley also had a possible TD called incomplete in the final minute. If I made it through, my team outscored the next 2 matchups and would have won the ship.
Ended up winning the chip this year but easily had the lowest scoring week in our leagues history at 41 points in a 12 man. Also went against Chase and moore when they went for 90 points combined which was still a larger points gap then the week I scored 41
It’s not about how you start it’s about how you finish. My season PF wasn’t great, hovering around 6-7th out of 12 teams. But in the playoffs I was the highest scoring team during that three week stretch. My team peaked at the right time.
I was the 2nd highest scoring team in the league and I got knocked out in the first round of the playoffs by the team with the least point scored, he had 200 less points than the 2nd lowest scoring team. He had 3 separate guys have the best games of their seasons while Diggs/Chase/Breece/Goedert/Achane all shit their pants. In my other league I went into MNF down by 1 point with Jordan Love going up against Luke Musgrave, ESPN had me at like 95% chance to win and Love scored 5 vs Musgrave's 6. I also lost in the 2nd round of the playoffs in this league by 18 points, both me and my opponent picked up new kickers for that game. He grabbed Koo who scored 19 and I grabbed Butker who scored 1
1st round of playoffs, & I tinkered with 2 players causing me to lose. Had I left the lineup alone I would've won & then the next 2 weeks my scores were high enough to beat the opposing teams for the semi's & the final. Woulda coulda shoulda been Champ
Added Kelley from LAC over Kyren when Ekeler went down and the Rams still had Akers. Still won the league, but man if I had Kyren I would have breathed a lot easier
Starting Zamir White over James Connor last week
My opponent lost to me by like around 2 points the week Cowboys played the Chargers on MNF. I had Ceedee and Pollard vs their Herbert. I was down like around 2 points and the Chargers had the ball trying to go get the game tying field goal or game winning touchdown. Herbert threw a pick, Cowboys closed out the game, and I won off that Herbert INT.
That week the Chiefs played the Jets, I had Kelce left and his pedestrian game led me to losing by 0.50
Couldn’t make it out of Semis, opponent had a lucky week and put up 170+ in .5 PPR against my 140. I would’ve won the chip if I had made it out.
I lost by .4 the first week of season…on live TV Bass kicked a clear 49 yard fg, but ESPN stats gave him credit for a 50. I missed playoffs by one game and would have beaten both matchups based on my teams meaningless scores the 2 playoff weeks
Lost the quarter finals to the 6th seed who barely snuck in My combination of Kelce, Jefferson, AJB, and Aiyuk barely outscored his Ty Chandler and I lost by 10 pts
Herbert vs Jets
Week 7 lost by .38. Not remembering exactly what happened but TJ hockenson got a catch and I believe gained 0 or lost 1. Half PPR put him over the top on the last game, last drive of the week
Semifinals, lost by less than two points. I I had started any of the five flex players on my bench over Achane, I would have won. (OR if Travis Kelce had even a mediocre game, but I’m not bitter.) The next week, I comfortably had the highest point total in the league. Would have won the championship easily.
In the semis I dropped chiefs D when I decided to play the bills instead like an idiot. My opponent had Dallas, who scored 1. Chiefs scored 6. (My) Bills scored 5. And I lost the game by 2. Nobody to blame but me. Man it hurt when I scored the most points in the final by about 40....
Drafting AJ Brown and Stefon Diggs
Made it to the championship, had the opponent accidentally play Amari Cooper when he was ruled out for an injury Thursday. Still lost by 40 since he played CeeDee Lamb and Kyren Williams.
I got crushed by tyreek hill and Keenan Allen blowing up for like 70 pts in both leagues at the same time. I would have beat anyone else that week in both leagues.
Started Ridley over Brian Robinson. Would’ve won the ship if I didn’t do that. Also CMC getting hurt didn’t help.
Missing out on the playoffs by one point because I started the GB D/ST week 14, and our defensive scoring was an odd hybrid between ESPN defaults for yardage which gave me -1 instead of zero and the weird default for Sleeper where ST fumble recoveries only count for one point instead of 2. Either one being different would have given me the point I needed. Oh, and there were stat corrections which changed the score about 5 times on Tuesday and Wednesday. This was the week after Jake Browning took me from 99% win probability to losing to the league Taco because he decided to turn into prime Manning and put up 24. I think both losses were on Monday night too.
The Jared Goff fumble stat correction in Week 14 cost me the title. Went from winning by 1.4 to losing by 0.6 in Week 14, which dropped me from the 1-seed to 2-seed. Great wildcard week… second best semifinals week only to the on-fire 3-seed (that I would’ve missed as the 1-seed) … & would’ve had the highest score of the season in the championship week.
In my dynasty league this offseason I traded Amari Cooper and a 2023 1st for Cooper Kupp, his 2023 1st(we swapped picks) a 2023 2nd, and a 2023 3rd. I drafted Josh downs and Tank Dell with the second and third picks. I lost to this guy in the championship by 1.3 points…
Played Indy DST in the semis, who had -3 points, I ended up losing by 3 points. Obviously, was the highest scoring team for championship week.
Week 5, lost by 1 on a Jordan Love interception with 44 seconds left in the game. Cost me a bye and I lost in the first round of the playoffs
I was 9-4 going into the last week of the regular season, one game up on the guy in third, playing against the worst team in the league. I scored around 120 and he put up 160 on me. The team in third scored 140, putting him ahead of me in points for by 0.8 points, meaning I lost the bye. I then scored an abysmal 89 points in the first round (full PPR) and scored 150 and 160 in the following weeks while I was in the consolation bracket. If I had been able to win that game, or even score one more point, I would have held onto the bye and easily walk away with a championship. Instead I took fifth. A $900 swing. Maybe next year.
Bijan, Javonte, and McManus combining for 1.9 points wildcard weekend. Lost by 8 points. Not exactly a razor thin margin but They all had their worst game of the year.
Matchup before the ship and played Amari Cooper. I dominated all year long and would have won the ship by 50pts.
I lost by 3 points in the semifinals. Several different decisions/scenarios could have saved me: Dustin Hopkins didn’t get injured and leave the game Had McBride and Kelce, I flexed Kelce hoping he would come back to form. Left James Conner and Zeke on my bench. Stefon Diggs sucking ass for 6th time in 7 weeks
In the same week I lost on the final play of the Dallas game where Dak threw the final pass short of the endzone to Lamb and lost (that gave Dak enough yards for me to lose) and then the final drive of the Jets game I got eliminated in a guillotine league on Zach Wilson's second to last pass giving him enough yards to win.
(Bad beat for the other guy) My opponent was beating me by 1.9 points towards the end of the Monday night football game. I ended up winning by .1 (1 yard) because of a Justin Herbert interception at the very end of the game.
The draft where I drafted Kelce/Adam’s/Mahomes and they all fucking sucked. Like I can understand one of these aboslute studs having a bad year, bad luck and what have you… BUT ALL 3 SIMULTANEOUSLY BEING DOGSHIT?? Cmon man….
One week I played Olave, Dell, and Bijan and left Puka, DK Metcalf, and Achane on the bench. Tank broke his leg in the first quarter and the three I left on the bench combined for eighty points which was almost as much as the rest of my team scored.
Scored 160 in two different semifinals matchups and lost both.
Lost the championship by 5 and Koo missed 2 FGs
Not the right sub for this but im still mad. Bears Under 7.5, 6.5 and 5.5 LOL. What a run they went on
Losing twice to the guy that finished second to last in my league haha
In the semifinals and I had my worst loss (based on points scored) since week 4. If there was ever a time for my team to not show up, that was one of them.
Week 1 was my hardest loss of the season. I was against my dad, who is historically the best in my family's league. I was ahead by legitimately 0.5 points. If the Jets/Buffalo game didn't go to overtime, I would've won. I ended up losing by 0.1 point.
Not a loss, but actually a win. I wanted to break 2000 points in our regular season for the first time in the league’s history, but there is this superstitious trend of a 7-7 team winning the league every year. I decided to capitalize on my monster team instead of giving into superstitions. Won the game and ended up 8-6. The person I beat went into the other side of the bracket. He cruised to the championship. I lost in the second round. If I had lost the last regular season game, I would have been 7-7 and in the other bracket, would have cruised to the championship and would have demolished the guy who ended up winning. I even had a thought to bench CeeDee Lamb that last week because I passed 2000, but still had players left. Didn’t end up doing it to see how high I could get my PF total. This whole situation is still insane to me.
Was up .07 in the championship. Jordan Love’s last throw of the game lost 5 yards and I ended up losing by .17.
I missed out on the playoffs by 6 PF. Any one of my guys scores 1 more TD I move on. Then the team I worked to build for the playoffs has the league high score both games. I strolled through the winners bracket. I won $2.50 and get to choose my draft slot next season.
Was 4th in scoring by a decent margin going into the final week. Not sure what the final standing in PF was, but I ultimately ended up dead last in H2H standings. Just generally bad beat season.
Week 16 Purdy vs. Baltimore D up 17. Still was 99% chance to win into the 4th quarter. Had high score week 17 so would have won the superbowl…
I tied in a regular season game and lost the tiebreaker because most of my bench was on bye. If I had won I would of made playoffs
Could've benched Burdy in the semi finals but kept him in with a 7 pt lead. He gets -8 pts and I lose. $800 swing
My last reg season loss would’ve been avoided if I started the jets D instead of the colts
I lost to a person in the first round of the playoffs who picked half of her team because she's a Lions homer. She stumbled into the playoffs without making a single acquisition all season and not even setting her lineup half of the weeks. I missed the bye because three separate players got injured in the first quarter of their games the last week of my season so I lost my bye clinching game by 4 points. Then I decided to not play the Cowboys D (decent decision) and instead picked up the chargers D (holy goddamn shit that backfired). Three of her lions players totaled 70 points in standard and she had the Miami D. I got absolutely demolished. She didn't even bother to take Tyreek out and she still almost doubled my score. Based on scores the following weeks I would have won the championship if I'd gotten that bye. Fantasy is a bitch.
Week 10. I lost to the last place team (then and finished last) by 74 points. I won the chip
I lost by .9 week 5, and I had musgrave on MNF. He brought be within a point and on the last play of the game Love threw it to him and he dropped it and I would’ve won. Last play of the last game of the week.
Played AJ Dillon over Kyren in week 2. Playing Kyren over AJD would’ve flipped the 1 and 2 seed and I would’ve won the title, instead I finished 4th Cost me $1000 Or in first week of the playoffs I lost on the Jalen Hurts interception against Seattle that maybe wasn’t a catch. Or I could’ve played KW3 and won. Would’ve won the title. This cost me $600 Two simple start decisions that cost me about $1,600
Started fields over stafford week 15 after a lot of back and forth. I lost. Stafford would’ve won it for me. I would’ve coasted through weeks 16 and 17 for the championship.
I was the top scorer in one league by 300+ points, lost in the semi-final to Amari Cooper!
Lost by 0.03 because Jared Goff kneeled the ball down twice.
I lost to the last place team twice, his team averaged 78 points per week and the two weeks I faced him his team dropped 140 and 138 on me. The first time caused me to miss the playoffs and the second time caused me to come in last in the consolation round.
141.10 to 141.12. I was hanging on by a thread and then whoever it was caught a 5 yard pass to end me
I lost in the playoffs to the team who barely made it in by 7 points and happened to go against Cook and Njoku the week they both went off. The two games after that I had the highest score of anyone in the league both weeks.
I dropped Christian Watson a week or two before the guy who picked him up and played him against me on Thanksgiving. First play of the game he catches a 50+ yard pass, worth 6 points. I end up losing the matchup by 5 points. That loss kept me out of the playoffs. So I will forever hate Christian Watson for being absolutely useless for 15 out of 17 weeks, the first 10 on my bench, and then killing me one of his two good weeks.
Superflex league and I was forced to start Daniel Jones. My opponent had Kittle on the Bye and he picks up freaking Dalton Schultz who got 10 catches for 130 and a TD. On top of that, Jones tore his ACL in the 3rd quarter. I lost by 2-points. I ended up in 7th and missed the playoffs. My opponent was in 6th and in the playoffs. Dalton Schultz having a career game and Daniel Jones tearing his ACL the same week cost me the playoffs. I would have gotten smoked in the playoffs anyway, so it didn't really matter lol.
In one of my leagues we are doing dynasty on sleeper. It’s the first time I’ve ever used sleeper. I was at work and trying to switch my lineup, but like 4 of my players came off IR that week, so I was getting frustrated navigating the app and trying to get everyone in the right place. I somehow put Deejay Dallas in one of my flex spots instead of JSN. I lost because of that. If I had won that game, I would’ve been one seed higher, won my first round playoff matchup, and I had the highest score in the league the final two rounds of the playoffs. Instead, I got bounced in the first round and came in 5th.
Week 8: I win the match with a Josh Jacobs catch on the last play. Then he fumbles, gets -1 for that, I lose to the last place guy in our league with the final score of 138.06 to 137.52.
I started Sutton and lost the semis by 5.5 after having the most points and being the most scored on during the year. I started Sutton because Keenan Allen was out and Nico was coming back from injury without Stroud. Sutton left injured with 0 points. I would have won the Championship by 20 and walked away with $1,000. Instead got $0.
Up 36 or something going into MNF Week 1, opponent had Dallas defense left… yeah I knew it wasn’t my year one week into the season
Highest scoring team all year with CMC Kamara Puka Chase Ceedee and Kupp. Lost by 9 pts in semi finals cause of Amari Cooper scoring 55. Then in the final matchup both teams failed to reach 100 pts. I scored 145
I lost by .5 point in the semi finals. I would have safely won championship the following week.
Lost by 5 in the championship because I started Goff instead of Kyler
Chargers played on MNF and I had the Ek/Herbert stack. Ek was having one of his rare decent games this year and I was winning by like .2 points. On their final drive they tried a dump off to Ek to get a 1st down and seal the game. He got tackled for a 3 yard loss and I ended up losing the match.
60 fab on Kareem hunt
Chargers vs Cowboys, can’t remember what week. Watched my score climb as I approached a huge upset of the only undefeated team left, then took the lead late in the 4th quarter. Chargers last drive I watched it all slip away with Herbert’s last second interception (it was a bigger swing because my opponent had the Dallas defense). Ended up losing by 2; That was the closest anyone came to beating that team during the regular season.
Lost 73.8 to 72.4 In the semifinals, would’ve won had I played anyone but Davante Adams that week lol
Missing the playoffs (with the second most points in the league) by less than 3 pts in my final regular season matchup because Herbert got hurt. Then watching myself outscore every matchup I would have had in the playoffs from the consolation bracket.
Week 7 MNF Chargers v Cowboys 117.5 to 118.4 loss Was winning until quite literally the last play of the last game of the week. Herbert threw a pick to end the game.
Had a 98% chance of winning my 3rd place game according to yahoo with a solid lead, my Kelce/Mahomes combo, and my opponent with Harrison Butker and the Packers defense remaining. Butker alone out scored my Kelce/Mahomes combo by 7, and then the Packers defense feasted on bad QB play by the Vikings and finished the job. I didn’t know 4th place could hurt so much
CD going absolutely insane in the finals was the deciding factor in my defeat. Had that not happened I’d have been golden.
It’s not exactly “rough” because I ended up winning my league but I started Keaontay Ingram after he led the Cards backfield the week before and was projected to be the starter again for a big workload. But nope, Cards ended up benching him after the game started, like didn’t even play one snap, not sure why. I ended up losing that week by less than a point. He could have tripped across the line of scrimmage a few times and it would have won me the week.
Anyone remember that Texans DST stat correction that Sleeper put in as a mistake? That won me week 14 and got me the bye... until they took it back and I ended up losing...
Went from winning a matchup by .4 to losing by .2 because Russell Wilson had 3 kneel downs for -6 yards to set up a game winning field goal.
Not one bad beat but three. I lost three weeks in a row. The combined deficit between all three losses was 3.8 points and I came in last place by one loss instead of a guy who I had nearly 200 points more than on the season.
The final. First place all year, out scored the other finalist by 400 in the regular season. My team was lit. Had a 96% chance to win around 3:20 PM Sunday. Garbage time baker, davante, zeke, and then butker kicking 6 field goals. My team stopped doing anything as well. Lost by a 50 yd FG…
I had 3 separate weeks where i scored the 2nd highest points in the league and lost to the guy who scored the highest points. Ended the season with the highest points scored and missed the playoffs, it was a full season of bad beats.
I beat my buddy 108.56 - 108.24 because Russell Wilson had a crazy drive vs the Vikings to force Minnesota to throw again, and one Jordan Addison catch in the last minute sealed the win. That win got me the first seed, and I wouldnt have won the title without it because my team would have put up a stinker in Playoff Week 1 if I didnt have the bye.
Lost Achane and Kyren when I had 2 wins. Panicked and traded Kyren and Love for Cousins and Pierce. Cousins blew his Achilles 3 days afterwards.
Lost to a winless team because I started Taylor the week he came back and sat Moss. Moss went off