Before play this after­noon, the Pur­ple Whales were pre­dicted to score 101 points. By the end of the first quar­ter of the early games it was down to 87. At around half time it had fallen to 75. Near­ing the end of the early games my pre­dicted point total was 64, so I stopped watch­ing both foot­ball and my fan­tasy scoreboard.

I just checked the score­board before tonight’s game and my point total is a mere 54. I have one guy going in tonight’s game and that guy is LeSean McCoy for Philadel­phia, the pre­sea­son #1 run­ning back, my first draft pick, so maybe he’ll go off and get 30 points and I’ll get lucky. More than likely he will pull what Andre John­son of the Tex­ans did today. Mr. John­son was the #3 rated wide receiver pre­sea­son and my #2 draft pick. Andre scored my first 5 points today by catch­ing 2 of the first three passes thrown in the first drive of the day for 53 (33 + 20) yards. The rest of the game, 1 catch for three yards, so those 5 points were all he got.

I got more tales of woe, but here is a prime exam­ple, I picked up the Jets kicker Nick Folk as he was pre­dicted to get 11 points as opposed to 5 for Greg Zuer­lein of the Rams. Mr. Zuer­lein scored 18 points today, Mr Folk not so much. In the scor­ing on the web page, if a player doesn’t get any points they put a nice big 0 next to his name, well, Nick Folk got —. Which I assume from the thirty four to noth­ing vic­tory for the 49ers over the Jets means my kicker never even got on the field.