I’m sure some of you outside of America, or those of you who don’t care about sports, may not know what fantasy football is. You basically draft a team of real NFL players and you get points based on their performance every week. We have 12 teams in my fantasy football league, and we’re all ‘real life’ friends, so it makes it very fun and ultra competitive. I’m a huge fantasy football nerd and spend way too much time on it.

This week marks the first week of the Fantasy Football playoffs in our league. Since I won my division with an 8-5 record, I will be playing this week against the worst Wild Card winner. I’ve beat this guy already twice this year, and shouldn’t have a problem beating him a third time so I advance to the next week. If you lose in the playoffs, you’re out.

Check out my team:

QB: Jon Kitna, Jay Cutler

RB: Larry Johnson, Travis Henry, Chester Taylor, Kolby Smith, Selvin Young, Ron Dayne

WR: Braylon Edwards, Steve Smith, Marques Colston, Chris Chambers, Andrew Walter

TE: Antonio Gates

K: Nick Folk

DEF: Broncos

There are definitely areas I could have improved on, but my team was solid enough to make the playoffs. Losing Larry Johnson for the season really hurt me. But good news came out this week… Travis Henry won’t be suspended, so that helps a lot.

In the fives years my group of friends have been playing fantasy football, I’ve only one the Superbowl once… that was like 2 years ago when I had Larry Johnson, Shaun Alexander, and Tiki Barber (all of them had completely insane years that year).

I’m not the favorite going into the playoffs this year, but I could possibly win it all if my players get hot. I especially need Steve Smith to return to form.