Yep, that’s right. What I momentarily thought was a lack of proofreading by NFL.com (screenshot below) was actually a personal realization that for the last three weeks of the season, there are Saturday night football games! For those of you keeping score at home, this means you now have to check your fantasy football lineup on Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday nights.
For the micro-managing fantasy owner, this is both a blessing and a curse. You now get to judicially decide which players to start, watch the injury reports, and adjust your lineup knowing results from some of your players already. The downside is that you have to make decisions about your fantasy team four days throughout the weekend.
Why am I talking about this? It is playoff time for fantasy football, and just like real sports, how you play the game is different for the post-season than it is for the regular season. What was once a simple task to check fantasy lineups on Sunday morning is now a nearly daily ritual.
Sometimes it is amazing how much fantasy sports can resemble real sports without even trying.
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Ryan Parr
Oddly enough this year, there are no Saturday games during Week 16 and Week 17 this year / :
We got a ‘Thursday’ night game tomorrow, but then thats it. I wish the NFL did a better job of spreading out the games and as far as I can remember I thought they always had Saturday games as soon as college football ended. This year, they don’t which make Saturday just another boring day. Ah well.
Ryan Parr
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Dec 24th, 2009