Putting the Stink into Stinkball Fantasy Football?Anyone can predict that Adrian Peterson is going to have a good game, but who can predict what players are going to absolutely stink it up? Enter Stinkball. About a month ago, Real McCoy Fantasy Football officially launched Stinkball Fantasy Football. The concept is to put together as bad a fantasy football team as you can. The worse your players perform, the better you do. If your stud (err, dud?) running back only gets two carries for two yards and actually manages to fumble the ball, you are going to have a great day.

Stinkball is attempting a paradigm shift for the fantasy football player looking for a new challenge. Is picking duds harder than picking studs? Personally, I like to think that Stinkball appeals to the George Costanzas of the fantasy football world. Those fantasy players who realize that their every instinct is wrong, so why not just do the opposite of it. Perhaps, your fantasy football league’s perpetual cellar dwellers will have finally find something they are good at.

This is definitely not a new concept, but perhaps the first site solely dedicated to it. At the end of the day, all Stinkball has really done is change the scoring system. My biggest concern is the negative connotation to the game. Will fantasy players have as much fun rooting for their players to do poorly, and their opponents to have a good game. In some sense, this amounts to watching a movie and rooting for the bad guys. It’s like rooting for the prison guards in The Longest Yard, or the Yankees in Major League. Once players play Stinkball once and get their novelty laugh out of it, will they keep coming back?

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New Fantasy Sports Website, Stinkball.com, Gives Fantasy Football Fanatics an Innovative Challenge (Press Release)