Fantasy Football Playoff Rosters: Semifinals

Fantasy Football Playoff Rosters: Finals

*Writers may change rosters up to the start of a game. These were the rosters as of Thursday night.

(2) Gregory Cox (8-5) vs. (4) Michael Abromowitz (7-6)
Gregory Cox		Michael Abromowitz
QB WR WR RB RB TE WR/RB K DEF Key Bench Players BN BN BN	Jon Kitna vs. KC Reggie Wayne vs. HOU Andre Johnson vs. IND Earnest Graham vs. SF Edgerrin James vs. ATL Vernon Davis vs. TB Frank Gore vs. TB Josh Brown vs. BAL Tennessee vs. NYJ Kolby Smith vs. DET Laveranues Coles vs. TEN Jerious Norwood vs. ARI	QB WR WR RB RB TE WR/RB K DEF Key Bench Players BN BN BN	Peyton Manning vs. HOU Braylon Edwards vs. CIN Larry Fitzgerald vs. ATL Willis McGahee vs. SEA Fred Taylor vs. OAK Jason Witten vs. CAR Marshawn Lynch vs. NYG Stephen Gostowski vs. MIA Dallas vs. CAR Kevin Curtis vs. NO D.J. Hackett vs. BAL Owen Daniels vs. IND

by Michael Abromowitz. TheFootballExpert.com’s Fantasy Football season ends this week with two senior writers in the finals: Gregory Cox and myself. Paul Eide, fantasy football director for the site looked to be on autodrive toward the championship, but with a poor week for Tom Brady, Terrell Owens, Plaxico Burress, and Wes Welker, I was able to squeak by. It didn’t help Eide too much that his genius of starting a Cincinnati defense against a 3rd string quarterback would turn out to be a disaster. How was Eide expect to know the Bengals would make Shaun Hill look like a Pro Bowler. So with that, Eide’s season long domination (11-2) went down the drain and he will have to settle for the third place game against Bill Chuang, our head columnist.

Bill should be just as upset as Paul for his team’s outcome. He just so happened to have Brian Westbrook, and just so happened to lose by 2 points, 87-89. If only Westbrook would have been the stubborn, cocky player that most NFL players are he would be in the finals. But, the fantasy gods had to punish him somehow for stealing both Derek Anderson and Ryan Grant off the waiver wire only to have them become fantasy studs. Fantasy gurus and nerds may say otherwise that winning your league’s championship is all about the waiver wire because no one can predict injuries and which players will emerge. Unless someone is a huge Oregon State Beaver fan or anti Charlie Frye fan, who actually thought Derek Anderson would have the type of season he would be having? \

Even with all the unpredictability of the NFL season, a fantasy football draft still means something or at least to me. It was Gregory who actually noticed that all 9 players that I start on my fantasy roster were drafted by me. And besides kicker, those players were all picked in rounds 1-9. For those math illiterates out there, 8 starters were drafted in the first 9 rounds. The one player who doesn’t start, 6th round pick Mark Clayton - my draft’s bust. But, basic statistics assumes at least one player is going to bust. So 8 out of 9 is not too bad. Or in the words of Adam Sandler, “Not too Shabby!”

Peyton Manning, QB, 1st Round (7)
Willis McGahee, RB, 2nd Round (18)
Larry Fitzgerald, WR, 3rd Round (31)
Marshawn Lynch, RB, 4th Round (42)
Braylon Edwards, WR, 5th Round (55)
Fred Taylor, RB, 7th Round (79)
Jason Witten, TE, 8th Round (90)
Dallas, DEF, 9th Round (103)
Kevin Curtis, WR, 10th Round (114)
Owen Daniels, TE, 12th Round (138)
Stephen Gostkowski, K, 14th Round (103)

Luck has much to do with fantasy football success because of the health of one’s players, but a solid fantasy draft is the first giant step in getting your team to the playoffs.

Gregory’s top four draft picks are all fantasy starters and so his 6th pick Jon Kitna.