convergence

i supppose this is what i get for detailing the successes of my 'best' team. all of a sudden, i wake up and realize that roster has only exceeded 85 points once in the past 5 weeks. the dreadfully embarrassing team in the work league has exceeded 85 points once in the past 5 weeks. granted, that was the first time that team made it even as high as 85 all year long, and i'm not getting 21 points out of dallas clark every week. still, this is the moment in the season when i look at everything and realize i'm a lot more vulnerable than i'd thought, even where there's the perception of strength. another big surprise has been the emergence of valuable depth on the team that drafted 8 backup qbs in the auto-draft. at the time, my starting lineup looked fine and i had no bench at all. in this league, with some odd qb scoring, ppr, and 7 pts per touchdown (including passing), my bench now consists of:

rb - chris johnson, steve slaton, dominic rhodes

wr - desean jackson, devin hester

qb - kurt warner

truthfully, some of those guys are not 'bench' guys; i sat adrian peterson one week, which is easier to do in a ppr format. rhodes' value may have dipped significantly already, but the lesson here is that need can create some interesting opportunities. warner wasn't necessarily being touted as arizona's potential starter by aug 21, when our autodraft was held, and he didn't even make it to my first round of waiver picks. this is one league where i hated waiting for the post-draft waiver period to end. thanks to that weird autodraft glitch, i had jim sorgi and billy volek, among many others, sitting on my bench. most of my first round of pickups didn't yield long-term or even short-term results, but i knew i was vulnerable and i kept looking. to some extent, i was lucky; the bench guys i picked up here are better than people i start in that work league. such a sad statement. still, i think i might break 90 another couple times with that awful team, and i could even get back over 100 one week. i've got donnie avery now, darn it.