This is going to be a really brief post today. I just wanted to give you an update on how the season ended with my fantasy football league. If you remember from last week, there was a huge event at the Monday night football game between the Bills an the Bengals.
A player from the Bills got hit just right in the chest so hard that it caused him to go into cardiac arrest on the field. They had to bring an ambulance out and take him to the hospital. After much consideration, the league decided to postpone the game.
Since they were only in the first quarter of the game when this happened, that left a lot of fantasy owners up in the air about what was going to happen with their team. Myself and my opponent both had players in that game that could have determined the outcome of our contest.
Likewise, my sister in law and niece who were competing in the championship game were left hanging by the postponement. My sister in law was in the lead with no players left to play. On the flip side, my niece still had Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow left to play and she was only down by something like four points.
Given how Burrow has been playing this season, there was zero chance he was going to score less than the five points she needed to win.
And yet, with the postponement and eventual cancellation of the game by the NFL, Yahoo Fantasy Sports has determined my sister in law the winner of our league.
Personally, I felt this was a really crappy way for my niece to lose the season. It was clearly a technicality that she didn't win out for the season. She had an amazing season spending most of it in the top spot. She was the one we all dreamed of beating and for her to lose this way just didn't sit right with me.
I sent out a message to the members of the league before the NFL decided to cancel that game. I told them we would have to wait and that once a decision was made, everyone could buy their prizes for the winner.
In the past each loser had to buy the winner a 750 ML (A fifth) bottle of alcohol. Since we added the kids this year, we changed that to each loser has to buy a $10 gift card to anywhere for the winner. This means the winner will get $110 in gift cards to a variety of places to use through the year.
Somewhere along the line, I forgot the rules and I had it in my head that the gift cards were to be $5 a piece. When someone called me out on it, the NFL made their decision to cancel the game, and a talk with @mrsbozz, a new plan started to form.
I sent a message out to the owners asking them how they would feel about having a split champion. Instead of a single winner getting 11 $10 gift cards, the two winners would each get 11 $5 gift cards. This seemed the fairest way to do it since according to Yahoo my sister in law was the winner, but according to common sense, my niece would have been the winner.
I waited to replies from each of the owners. Actually, I'm still waiting for replies but my sister in law already agreed to it and she had the most right to be opposed to it as the declared winner, so I think that is how we are going to move forward.
I plan on sending out an official message today and after that, the prizes should start rolling in for the winners.
If we do this again next year, I have some big changes in store. We will see if the owners will agree to them or stage a mutiny against me as the league manager!
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