Fantasy Football Maven

Here's a picture I snapped the other night of my dear friend Cyndi as she drafted her second fantasy football team of the season. It's a great testament to our friendship that she joined both of them because she's my friend, and also because she's crazy competitive (and likes it more than she lets on). In this particular instance one of our favorite students, Liza, decided on the fly to form a league and Cyndi and I got caught in the jet stream. Liza asked me to send around an introduction to the other students about fantasy football, which I did, and some instantly summarily mocked for its length and specificity. It included the classic rules for fantasy football: don't draft based on your favorite team; don't draft quarterbacks in the first round; wait until your kicker until the 16th round; don't draft your defense until rounds 14 or 15; all of which the students ignored infamously (except for Ashley, who clearly paid attention and used her digital forensics skills to good measure and put together a great team). The rest of the students made, uh, inspired choices. Essentially, I might as well have put my instructions inside of my syllabus, because they would have read it as closely.

She should be happy, her team is better than mine.