Welcome to the fantasy football Troll of the Year ceremony.
What does it mean to be a fantasy football troll?
A troll is the absolute worst player you’ve got the option to have on your fantasy team.
Bad players are usually bad.
Good players are usually good.
Before we meet our finalists - let’s give some respect to the trolls of the past.
An ‘In Memorium’ (but still actually alive) if you will.
If I had a trophy for this award, it would be a bust of Will Fuller.
(Sorry the y-axis is different from the earlier versions.
We’re sticking with start percent from here on out)
OK. Let’s get to it.
Here are your finalists for 2023.
They gave you highs.
They gave you lows.
But how many points they’d score nobody knows.
Finalist #1 - Calvin Ridley
Calvin Ridley was Mr. Preseason training camp social media clip porn.
That gave 30 percent of managers the hook line and sinker to bench him for a decent Week 8.
But Week 10 disappointed once again to set up his crushing blow.
He won’t be the last.
Complete opposite start as Ridley.
But there are some key blemishes with annointing a Troll of London.
They would pay the price.
All fantasy managers could do was watch it marinate.
And let’s be honest.
We already knew who was winning this.
I present to you your winner of 2023 Troll of the Year.
Let’s pull up the full graph one more time.
We need to fully appreciate this with a proper post mortem.
Gabe was always the guy you wondered if you should flex or bench.
He started off the season with a solid first five weeks.
Like an artist setting up his easel and canvas, he was just getting ready to paint.
We gave him a break after Week 6 and stuck with him in Week 7.
For that we paid the price.
And when we benched him in Week 8 we paid the price again.
We would go on to learn nothing once again in Week 9.
It was a spectacle to behold.
Week 12 was a key week in this campaign.
His most important week.
Even more so than Week 9.
It was as evil a setup as you’ll ever see.
It’s not even because he blew up after being almost unilaterally benched.
You somehow managed to win and get the next round?
Or you’re playoffs started in Week 15?
We might not ever see anything else like it.
Thank you for joining me.
you’ve got the option to get up now.
That is if your legs haven’t fallen asleep like the fantasy seasons for Gabe Davis managers.
