Playoff listing is out and man, I am disappointed in this league. The owner blames Covid, but I don’t. I feel like he put a lot of work into D1 and let the rest slip. Still there are some match ups. As a coach of a weighted team that went into an unweighted league, I am really looking forward to seeing the GYFC Bruisers move through the playoffs and, hopefully, knock out the AZ Suns in the ‘ship. The start with the AZ Champions 10u, who are largely weighted kids playing unweighted and they should win easily. The Bruisers are the real deal. They are anchored by a core of kids whose parents are former NFL and NFL agents. That means the level of education about the game they are getting from these individuals is top shelf. I look forward to seeing what they do.
In terms of our own play we ended up at the bottom. Team 4 of 4 in the D1 bracket. We too play a Suns team. We play the 11u suns in a matchup I’ve been looking forward to seeing. They are a good overall team and have a solid record. I haven’t seen a lot of what they do, but I know my son will have a serious matchup at corner against a basketball star turned WR. Should be exciting. The hype train is already running and flooding instagram, so we will see. He’s playing his best football–fearless football–which should help us do what we need in the run game and on defense.
Meanwhile the D2 team is mired in a bad situation. There were already several d2 teams and they were all sorted into groups based solely on records. The d2 squad only played 2 games and finished the season 1 and 1. Meanwhile two of the D1 teams who didn’t make the playoffs wound up slipping down past the top 8 d2 teams into the second tier of d2 competition and will be facing off against our d2 in the playoffs. We already played one of those teams and it didn’t go well. Sounds like a rematch is coming…
That is all the youth stuff. The Fantasy stuff is even worse for me. I’m dead last in my family league. I’m #2 in the coach rankings (based on starting the right people week to week) and #3 in true rankings (an aggregate based on coaching, points for and against, and record). Still, the record is J U N K. I am about to miss the playoffs without a major turnaround.
I’ve been talking this out for nearly ten minutes, so I will continue this tomorrow when I make my picks. Suffice to say, I expect things to get better and I realize things only get better when you work harder and do more research, so I ought to get on that.