{"id":198,"date":"2008-08-28T14:55:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2008-08-28T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T22:24:06","slug":"fantasy-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/i-iz-reddy-to-play-nao-coach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the last several years my friends asked me to fill in a spot on their fantasy league.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t until last year I was faced with the ultimatum of &#8220;Play or we&#8217;ll get someone else&#8221; to which I finally agreed to play.\u00a0 Unfortunately for them, I was the all time greatest player ever in the history of their league!!!\u00a0 Ok maybe a little hyperbole, but I did end up winning the playoffs which was pretty funny however, I found out my victory is a little hollow due to how the system is setup.\u00a0 The playoffs are played where most of the first string players are sort of kept fresh and don&#8217;t have as much playtime as usual.\u00a0 So the best overall teams of the season get a little gimped when it matters most.<\/p>\n<p>Ok and like last year, I missed the draft again.\u00a0 So my automated team looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>Manning, Eli QB NYG<br \/>\nSmith, Kevin RB DET<br \/>\nTomlinson, LaDainian RB SD<br \/>\nBurleson, Nate WR SEA<br \/>\nMason, Derrick WR BAL<br \/>\nWard, Hines WR PIT<br \/>\nGonzalez, Tony TE KC<br \/>\nFolk, Nick K DAL<br \/>\nJaguars DST<\/p>\n<p>Campbell, Jason QB WAS<br \/>\nBush, Reggie RB NO<br \/>\nEdwards, Braylon WR<br \/>\nOlsen, Greg TE CHI<br \/>\nTexans DST<\/p>\n<p>I think I got a fair team for missing it entirely.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see if I can pull off a 2 year streak!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several years my friends asked me to fill in a spot on their fantasy league.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t until last year I was faced with the ultimatum of &#8220;Play or we&#8217;ll get someone else&#8221; to which I finally agreed to play.\u00a0 Unfortunately for them, I was the all time greatest player ever in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}