One play that makes or breaks a season
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 7:31 am
Many people have stories about how a single play in a single NFL game completely makes or breaks their Fantasy season. Even though a Fantasy season is comprised of thousands of plays which individually make a difference, it's not unusual for one play to stick out and never be forgotten. I have my story this year, but I'm warning KJ right now that he may not want to read this. One single controversial play won me $70,000 as the Diamond League Champion.
Back in Week 3 on Monday Night Football, the Seahawks played the Packers in the infamous replacement ref game. With the Seahawks trailing 12-7 and down to their last Hail Mary pass play, I was losing 108.7 to 106.75 but my opponent had Green Bay Defense. When that desperation heave was (incorrectly) ruled a TD by the replacement refs, that knocked 6 points off the Green Bay Defense's score and handed me a 106.75 to 102.7 victory.
Now we've all won and lost games like this before, and yes there were many other close games over the course of the 16 game season. But I ended up winning the Diamond league H2H by only one game, and would have lost the tie breaker in points had I tied in H2H. That was $10,000.
More importantly, it punched me a ticket into the Diamond playoffs which I otherwise would NOT have made because I was not in the top 4 in points. Then I got hot the last three weeks, won the Diamond League playoffs, and netted another $60,000.
If it weren't for that one play, I wouldn't have won H2H or made the playoffs at all.
Did I get lucky? You bet I did. Does my signature at the bottom of my posts apply? Maybe. But every player who wins a Championship has to also get lucky. Usually there's one play that sticks out as the make-or-break moment that served as the tipping point for the season. This was mine, and I'll probably never get this lucky again.
Back in Week 3 on Monday Night Football, the Seahawks played the Packers in the infamous replacement ref game. With the Seahawks trailing 12-7 and down to their last Hail Mary pass play, I was losing 108.7 to 106.75 but my opponent had Green Bay Defense. When that desperation heave was (incorrectly) ruled a TD by the replacement refs, that knocked 6 points off the Green Bay Defense's score and handed me a 106.75 to 102.7 victory.
Now we've all won and lost games like this before, and yes there were many other close games over the course of the 16 game season. But I ended up winning the Diamond league H2H by only one game, and would have lost the tie breaker in points had I tied in H2H. That was $10,000.
More importantly, it punched me a ticket into the Diamond playoffs which I otherwise would NOT have made because I was not in the top 4 in points. Then I got hot the last three weeks, won the Diamond League playoffs, and netted another $60,000.
If it weren't for that one play, I wouldn't have won H2H or made the playoffs at all.
Did I get lucky? You bet I did. Does my signature at the bottom of my posts apply? Maybe. But every player who wins a Championship has to also get lucky. Usually there's one play that sticks out as the make-or-break moment that served as the tipping point for the season. This was mine, and I'll probably never get this lucky again.