I can speak from experiecne here. Last week in the Super Bowl of my local league and in week 16, the last week of the Fantasy Football Players Championship (http://www.theffpc.com/) I pulled a bonehead move......
While at a friends house I forgot to check to make sure Steve Jackson would start even though he was listed as Questionable. Lets face it he played the past 3 weeks when Questionable and had not practiced. Well I got complacent since I was out of the top 10 at the FFPC and was 20 point favorites in the local league.
That was the week S Jax did not play. Instead of checking my sources (http://www.footballguys.com/
one of many) 30 minutes before the 4 PM EST game I let myself become distracted because Todd "Probable" Heap, who I considered starting over "Shank
" Visanthcoe, was going off for 2 TDs. Next thing I know it is 4:15 and I check my live stat scoring and do not see any points for S. Jackson.
"That's odd" I say to myself. "No points for Sjax" As I look closer I see Ken Darby getting the carries.
"why is Darby carrying the rock for STL" Awwwwwwww shhhhhhh$%^& " as it dawns on me that I did not do my normal routine this final week and check for injured guys status before the late games.
Long story short-I started a player in both leagues that did not play and scored no points. I had a backup plan for this contingency and yet failed to execute it.
It did not cost me money (But it sure could have). I won the local Super Bowl.
It did cost me a few spots overall in the FFPC as I would have finished 12th instead of 16th overall. Shh%^^^^^^
Why am I bringing up my bonehead moves? So you will not let it happen to you.
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