A Special Thanks to Jeff A.

I gotta give credit where credit is due.....A special thanks to Jeff A., commish of my Yahoo league 2 years ago who got so fed up with my lengthy posts and predictions that he banned me from the message board for a week and inspired me to leave that league in search of greener pastures. Thus began the great FFOC adventure...Thanks padna!

The Wager - Chris V.

Chris V. in the ffoc forums on 7/6/09 posed a wager that his best team would win more $ than my best team. In the event of a tie it's his team with the most total points vs my team with the most total points:

"Let's keep it simple.
Winner is the person who wins the most money based on one team.
Tiebreaker is total points by a team, any team."

The loser has to send the winner a crisp $10 bill. This dude has no idea who he's dealing with. If not for luck I would win every time!

Team HELLMUTHofFF4

My first Tier-team draft out of the #3 hole. It has some gambles, similar to last year when I "gambled" on Cutler and Rivers and everyone said my QBs could never do it. This year it pains me to say it as a Cowboys fan, but I like Campbell more than most. It's his first year to play in the same offense from the previous year, he had over 500 pass attempts last year (with only 6 INTs and a career best completion %), and finished the year with about the same fantasy value as Matt Ryan and Big Ben.....yes I was surprised too. If he improves he could be a nice surprise as my #3 QB....and Moss's numbers should improve along with him. If that happens this team is pretty hot ladies and gents!


HELLMUTHofFF4

Round 1: Michael Turner
Round 2: Greg Jennings
Round 3: Brandon Jacobs
Round 4: Kevin Smith
Round 5: Matt Ryan
Round 6: Wes Welker
Round 7: Santonio Holmes
Round 8: Santana Moss
Round 9: Matt Hasselbeck
Round 10: Michael Crabtree
Round 11: Owen Daniels
Round 12: New York Jets
Round 13: Jason Campbell
Round 14: Ahmad Bradshaw
Round 15: Dustin Keller
Round 16: Arizona Cardinals
Round 17: Laurence Maroney
Round 18: Rob Bironas
Round 19: Mason Crosby
Round 20: Brian Robiskie

Historic Event...My first blog post

Yes it's official. The HELLMUTHofFF has gone global. I have to take my hat off to the REAL Phil Hellmuth....the greatest tournament poker player of all time. I plan to take my first "bracelet" this year in Vegas on December 28. Last year I took a bad beat in week 11 with my one and only team in the FFOC.com million dollar fantasy open challenge.....a team that would have easily made the cut every subsequent week and finished in 2nd place in the Vegas bracket for $100K. And yes hold true to form as the Fantasy Football Brat and throw a tirade in my living room after week 11. It wasn't meant to be. Instead I finished 8th in the First and Goal for a pitiful $250....with a point total that I think was 9th overall out of 6,660 teams. Congrats to Schroeder and the other Vegas 15. I refuse to call you the "Elite" 15 because I was not there!

But it's a new year and I'm back with a vengeance. And I have made it my mission to win it this year without spending a dime of my money. (Sorry Stan) I will play with the 3-team pack I got for winning my league last year. Of the other $250 I won, $125 was last year's buy-in, so I have $125 to work with this year plus any referral credits I can muster (so far $150 that I know of). As of now I have 4 Q teams, one of which I can't take the credit or blame for. It was the first day or two of Q drafts and I signed up last minute because Ryan C. in the ffoc forum was begging for entries to fill a draft.....I thought I didn't get in....noticed in Round 14 that I did. It's not a horrible team but I have no idea why Matt Jones is ranked so high in the ffoc rankings and found his way onto my team when he's not even in the NFL at the moment. I bought one more Tier 1, so with the 3-pack I have 2 Tier 1's and 2 Tier 2's.....with $10 left. I won't bother posting Q teams here until later when I am dominating the Q bracket. Trying to post my first real team on here but it won't let me paste for some reason....I'll figure it out.