The Luxury of Comfort

The championship game culminated today. On the way home from church, I didn't know the lineup of my opponent, but knew I would be done at the end of the noon games. I needed to have a comfortable lead at that point.

The day started with me leading 13-8 after we had each gotten some points from either the Thursday or Saturday Night football games. Unfortunately, my 5 point lead came at the expenditure of using an extra player. I had played 2, he had only used 1.

With only 8 roster spots to play each week, that 5 points wasn't as secure as the extra spot might have been.

While my remaining 6 played, 4 of his remaining 7 were playing. He would be left with three players in the 3:00 games that could only close the gap of any lead I had. I needed to be far ahead.

Lucky for me, it was my fantasies, and fantasizing powers that seemed to be controlling the day. At half time of the first games, the score was roughly 41-8. He had not accumulated a point from his 4 players yet. My 6 were doing far better than that.

By the end of the first set of games, I had a comfortable lead at 69-9. He had three remaining players to try to amass 60 points to catch me. Comfort was a luxury you don't get often in this setting, but I was pretty comfortable.

At half time of the second games, I got a little nervous as I realized he had made up 26 of those points. Another half like that and the game would be much closer than comfort. Fortunately, it never got close. I ended the day with a 25 point margin of victory.

I am the fantasy football champion.

For anyone curious, had Jason won last week and faced me in the championship, I would have beat him, though it would have been much closer than the game I ended up with today.

Yay for an early Christmas.

I'll be spending the night away and with family tomorrow night, so I don't know that the blog will be updated.

Merry Christmas!