Ask the Expert Question: You just suffered a tough playoff loss; a narrow one, or one where Josh McCown or Jamaal Charles dropped 50 points on you. What do you say to yourself to come to terms with the disappointment of a fantasy season ending?

You just suffered a tough playoff loss; a narrow one, or one where Josh McCown or Jamaal Charles dropped 50 points on you. What do you say to yourself to come to terms with the disappointment of a fantasy season ending?

You congratulate yourself for making the playoffs (and then check the rules to make sure you get something for third place). After that, you console yourself with the rationalisation that fantasy football is 25% draft skill, 25% start/sit decisions, 25% free agent pickups and 25% luck. There I said it. Lady Luck plays a pernicious role in fantasy football. If you lost to Jamaal Charles-I did, you chalk it up to the greatest fantasy football performance in modern history and appreciate the story you will get to tell every year about this time for eternity. If you lost a close one-I did, then you...

Give me a week I will tell you how it went.

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Sam Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips and Fantasy Football Basics , all available at his website, http://www.ffguidebook.com/, at all major bookstores, and at http://www.amazon.com/. He is a 20+ year fantasy football veteran who regularly participates in the National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC), Fantasy Football World Championship (FFWC) and finished 7th and 16th overall (out of 228 top players) in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC).

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