Fantasy Football Results

Talk about tension!

We were all shacked up in Rick's basement on Sunday night. Before you knew it, it was just exactly like a "War Room," just like they do on NFL Draft Days. There wasn't much ventilation going on in the basement and before long, we were getting frustrated and sweat began to appear on many brows that night.

Instead of the original 10 teams we had last year, we expanded it to 12 teams. My draft order was #9 out of the 12. If you are unfamiliar with how we draft our guys, we go #1-#12, then #12 picks again, then back down to #1, then #1 picks again, then back up, etc. and so on.

Our teams will start: 2 quarterbacks, 2 running backs, 3 wide receivers, 2 tight ends, 1 kicker, 1 defense, and new to this year, 1 individual defensive player. Also, each team can have 3 reserves.

Here's my team for the 2004 season as they will look for Week 1.

• Round 1: Michael Vick, QB -- Atlanta Falcons
• Round 2: Randy Moss, WR -- Minnesota Vikings
• Round 3: Tom Brady, QB -- New England Patriots
• Round 4: Michael Bennett, RB -- Minnesota Vikings
• Round 5: Jeremy Shockey, TE -- New York Giants
• Round 6: Mike Vanderjagt, K -- Indianapolis Colts
• Round 7: T.J. Duckett, RB -- Atlanta Falcons
• Round 8: Peter Warrick, WR -- Cincinnati Bengals
• Round 9: Jerry Rice, WR -- Oakland Raiders
• Round 10: Oakland Raiders Defense
• Round 11: Jason Taylor, defensive player -- Miami Dolphins
• Round 12: Daniel Graham, TE -- New England Patriots
• Round 13: Kyle Boller, QB -- Baltimore Ravens
• Round 14: Tyrone Calico, WR -- Tennessee Titans
• Round 15: Jerome Bettis, RB -- Pittsburgh Steelers

I do have confidence that this will be a tough team to beat in 2004. Hopefully I'll finish Top 6, so I can finally make the playoffs this year. I'll be heavily depending on Vick, Brady, and Moss to generate the most points. But I have to keep in mind of the bye weeks! I know that I have picked players from the same teams and I'll half to sacrifice or shuffle them around a little bit, letting go of my reserves and picking up other guys from the free agent list to fill those spots.

It is also nice that Yahoo! Fantasy Sports does all of this for us -- our commissioner will put our draft picks into the Yahoo! database and they will control the points, who plays who each week, etc. It's going to be yet another exciting year, and of course, the stories and the results will be published here on TonyTimes.