Football season means only one thing for my group of friends… Fantasy football. 

As a football fan, I took part in two fantasy leagues this year, Squad Function Fantasy and Kill Adonny. Within the Kill Adonny league, I am a league giant, boasting a 4-2 record and weapons such as Aj Brown and Justin Herbert. However, in Squad Function, I have the ninth worst team with a 3-9 record (league median adds an extra win or loss). 

Squad Function Fantasy has a few strange rules, including individual defensive players which give players either one or two defensive players along with a whole team’s defense, a league median which takes the average points of the league and gives a win or a loss, depending on if a team is greater or lesser than this median, and a rather strange scoring change in which a sack would account for 11 points.

During Week 1 of the fantasy league in Squad Function Fantasy, I was defeated due to an abnormality in the league in which a defense scored 40 points. The average is around 10 I defeated even with my 99-1 odds of winning. Week 2 was no better due to an error in the scoring setting, resulting in a whopping 11 points per sack. I played Micah Parsons that week who recorded three sacks, scoring 33 points from that alone again and causing me to lose to an abnormality. I spiraled after this week trading away many of my great players out of spite and in strike. The punishment for this league is to complete a puzzle in the dark with nothing but a wind up light, and these two losses and the trading away of players have set me up for failure. 

The league has changed the rules so that this horrible fate no longer falls on another player, but the damage has been done due to my temper tantrum and trading of the team into the horrible franchise it is now. Since then, my team has been riddled with injuries, including the injured Reserve placement of No.1 running back De’von Achane. 

My outlook of fantasy in Kill Adonny is far more pleasant due to the simplicity of the league, including no median and no individual defensive player. I am ranked No.3 in this league and have acquired weapons, such as Puca Nacua and Jahmyr Gibbs, through waivers and trades. I have a real shot at winning this league and plan on doing so to make up for the dud in the other. 

Fantasy this year has had its ups and downs, but the second half of the season looks far greater in both leagues.