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My Perfect Season

A perfect FFB season is an incredible rarity. It has only happened once in our league’s 20+ year history —to me! Here's how it happened...

In 1998, I finally got the first overall pick. I took Terrell Davis, who scored his customary 20+ TDs. My 2nd pick (24th overall) was Cris Carter. Immediately after him, I took rookie Randy Moss with my 3rd pick (25th overall), and you should have heard the catcalls and chortling.

In the last two rounds of the draft, I continued the leap on to the Vikings bandwagon, taking Randall Cunningham as my #3 QB. The guy I drafted as my #2 kicker was Gary Anderson, who only set the NFL scoring record that year! 1998’s picks of Moss, Cunningham and Anderson were arguably among the top sleepers at WR, QB, and Kicker in Fantasy Football history!

Well, we were underway with the season, and the guy I had originally drafted as my #2 RB, James Stewart, broke his leg after 3 games [he had 3 TDs].  I traded for Jamal Anderson, who only led the Falcons to the Super Bowl.

My lineup that ran the table 17-0:

  • QB: Cunningham-34 TDs + 1 TD rushing
  • RB: Terrell Davis-23 TDs, Jamal Anderson-16 TDs
  • WR: Carter-12 TDs, Moss-17 TDs
  • TE: Ben Coates-6 TDs
  • K: Gary Anderson-164 pts, including 59/59 XPs
  • Def: Pittsburgh-4 TDs, 35 takeaways

We re-draft every year, and in 1999 I won my first nine games, also giving me the league's most consecutive victories (twenty-six) over two seasons.

The beauty, of course, at every subsequent draft is not that my league-mates credit me with our league's only Perfect Season, but that they all give big-time grief to the guy who traded me Jamal Anderson!

YOUR Perfect Season

How do you have a perfect season?

A little luck and not too many bites from the injury bug are good, but mostly it's all in the depth of your roster. Anyone can tell you to draft Adrian Peterson in the first round, but who's your #3 RB? Your #4 WR? Back-up TE?

Call "The Coach” and let’s TALK LIVE about your Fantasy Football team & league! In pre-season 2010, I advised my subscribers to pick up Peyton Hillis of the Browns, TO from the Bengals, TB's Josh Freeman & Mike Williams, plus NE's Super Sleeper Rob Gronkowski. Were they on your radar?  Oh, I also advised against drafting highly-touted RB Mathews from SD and the Vikes' Brett Favre--just saying.

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