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Unluckiest fantasy baseball team ever?

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Hey everyone, I believe I may have one of the most cursed fantasy teams ever. It was in a league with 14 teams, standard innings limit, with a CI, MI, and 5 OF spots (so a pretty deep league). I will admit, I did some prospecting to try to fill spots cheap- but who has this bad of luck? Here's my draft:

Batters:

1. Matt Holliday - Bad play first half, DL stint

2. Víctor Martínez - Absolutely useless, and DL

3. Carlos Lee - Just went on DL for last 2 months of season

4. Garrett Atkins - So-so play, I'll take it.

5. Bobby Abreu - SB down, but otherwise okay.

7. Paul Konerko - Almost as bad as V-mart. DL

8. Édgar Rentería - A drain in every category, but not injured!

9. Hideki Matsui - DL for most of the season.

12. Jim Thome - Doing okay, so far...

16. Felipe López - Upside pick, useless after first month.

19. Julio Lugo - Impossibly low R totals, given his OBP. Confusing.

21. Ryan Theriot - The only player to overperform.

22. Billy Butler - Useless, then demoted. Dropped but have back...

23. Randy Winn - Got a good couple months out of him.

24. Dave Roberts - SB source was waste of a pick. DL.

6. John Smoltz - DL for almost whole season.

10. Brett Myers - Played awful, then minors. Still waiting...

11. Rich Hill - Okay, then minors? Nada.

13. Clay Buchholz - Killed my ERA, and minors! This is a trend...

14. Oliver Pérez - Performed as expected.

15. Joakim Soria - Overperformed, go Soria!

17. Brian Wilson - Underperformed on ERA, but I'll take it.

18. George Sherrill - Performed as expected.

20. Kerry Wood - Only 1 DL stint so far. Overperformed.

25. Bob Howry - Handcuff pick (closer situation was unclear)

So out of 25 picks, 7 position and 3 pitchers went on the DL. 6 of these were in my top 10 picks (and all of the top 3), of those only Holliday has shown any signs of being useful after the injury. 3 pitchers sent to the minors! There should be a category for that, and I would win it handily.

To recap, categories of players:

Complete busts: V-mart, Konerko, Renteria, Matsui, Lugo, Roberts, Smoltz, Hill, Buchholz

Partial busts: Holliday, Lee, Butler, Myers

Median performance: Atkins, Abreu, Thome, Lopez, Winn, Perez, Wilson, Sherrill, Howry

Overperformed: Theriot, Soria, Wood

Tell me if you have a team that had worse luck. I'm not talking about a bad draft (this was not a perfect draft, but it was a pretty early one in a deep league). I'm talking about a team where nearly everyone did worse than their projections, either due to injury or unpredictable ineffectiveness and basically no one overperformed. Have at it, lets see your bad teams!

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  1. yeah bad team


  2. I had Holliday, V Mart and Smoltz too, but my team didn't stink as much as yours did. Tough luck. Good luck next season!

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