I don’t really mean it. Fantasy football is a lot of fun. But you can have a great lineup and be projected by your fantasy app to be a clear winner with a 75% chance of winning and still get demolished. Sometimes, fantasy football sucks.

Week 15 Results

To give you an example of why fantasy football can be so frustrating, here are some players who carried people to the fantasy playoffs who let you down when it mattered most. I’ll use 4PPPTD PPR scoring.

• QB3: Dak Prescott (7.06)
• QB6: Sam Howell (9.28)
• QB8: C.J. Stroud (Out)
• QB10: Justin Herbert (Out)
• QB11: Trevor Lawrence (14.66)
• QB12: Tua Tagovailoa (16.96)
• RB3: Travis Etienne (9.90)
• RB7: Derrick Henry (5.00)
• RB8: Bijan Robinson (0.40)
• RB9: Breece Hall (2.80)
• RB10: Tony Pollard (7.70)
• RB12: Josh Jacobs (Out)
• WR1: Tyreek Hill (Out)
• WR3: Keenan Allen (Out)
• WR4: A.J. Brown (10.60)
• WR5: Ja’Marr Chase (10.40)
• WR6: Stefon Diggs (8.80)
• WR7: D.J. Moore (9.20)
• WR10: Puka Nacua (10.30)
• WR11: Michael Pittman Jr. (11.80)
• WR12: Nico Collins (Out)
• TE5: Taysom Hill (1.50)
• TE6: Mark Andrews (Out)

Half the top-12 QBs didn’t help you, half the top-12 RBs didn’t help you, and most of the top-12 WRs didn’t help you. Surprisingly, TEs were mostly reliable. I also didn’t include the names of players who were top-12 and only put up average numbers in week 15. So on top of the names listed above, there were even more names that, though they didn’t hurt you, didn’t help you win either.

On the other hand, the top 4 QBs were Jared Goff (31.12), Baker Mayfield (29.04), Aidan O’Connell (25.92), and Brock Purdy (25.68). The top 4 WRs were Jordan Addison (29.10), Jaylen Waddle (28.20), Terry McLaurin (26.10), and Chris Godwin (25.50).

Wrap-Up

Fantasy football sucks. But its unpredictability is what makes it so much fun. You could play a roto league with no playoffs for the most “fair” way of playing the game, but there’s a reason I don’t know of anyone who plays that way. The randomness of the head-to-head format with do-or-die playoffs makes the game so enjoyable.

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