Football Stats Sunday So this is the first year I've done fantasy football. I've done fantasy basketball and fantasy nascar before, but never football. I'm in two leagues at nfl.com. It's the free leagues. One is with a group that I know and I they've all played for a few years. The other group is with a couple friends but then the rest are just strangers. I didn't have the best draft in either. I got decent players but I didn't sort my draft preference beforehand. We ended up going with an automated draft in both leagues, so I had actually forgotten about the draft till after it happened.

Well as it turns out in the league with the veterans I'm 3-0 and up as of right now in this week's game. But in the other public league, where I know there are a few guys that aren't even playing, I haven't won a game yet. This is despite the fact that I've been favored in every game. So much for the guru predictions. But I'm up in that game as of now as well.

Fantasy sports educates you a lot in the same way that any sports video game does. Just through osmosis you end up being able to name the 3rd string tight end for any team in the league. While I'm not quite at that level right now, ask me again around week 14. But I do remember when we were all playing NBA Live '97 and '98 non-stop back in the day I could probably name 8 of the 12 guys on every NBA roster.  ¶ 1:53:00 PM