We as an industry spend a lot of time reviewing our just-finished drafts, but while we’ll occasionally incorporate our experiences from those leagues in our other articles and definitely in discussions on radio shows and podcasts, we often don’t do league recaps. And those recaps that we do are usually from our expert league titles – nice victory laps, and fun to write/read, but usually low on substance. It’s not often that we give you the full picture though – how did we do in all of our leagues?

It’s not as if we’re purposefully cherry-picking, trying to add polish to our overall record. At least, I don’t think that’s the case with most everyone in the industry. Rather I think it’s more of a time allocation issue. We are in a ton of leagues, and many of us cover and play in multiple sports. So we move on to the next league, the next draft kit, etc…

When it comes to our advice, our recommendations, our ratings, we like to say it’s the reasoning behind it that matters. Process is important, we say. And it’s true. It is really important. But you know what else matters? Results! How did our practice translate in our leagues? And guess what, we probably will learn more from our failures than our successes, and each season provides us plenty chances to learn. I’m in 14 leagues this year – here are my results so far.

Normally, I watch the 40-minute condensed version of the standalone night games when I wake up in the morning and immediately write them up on the blog. But this game was so bad, I watched it, then got caught up in other things and forgot to do the post until midway through the SXM show (4:00 pm my time.)

I thought it might be a bad week, and in some ways it was. I’m 7-8 ATS heading into Monday night, lost my best bet (Chargers) got knocked out of the playoffs in one league and am a 2:1-ish favorite to advance in another pending Monday night. My NFFC playoff team with George Kittle and Amari Cooper blew up, but realistically without Kareem Hunt and A.J. Green, that performance is probably wasted. And the one team I had on bye also had Hunt as its first pick. It could have been worse, though.

I was feeling pretty good about JAX plus four when they had the ball first and goal from the three, down 7-2 in the second quarter. Three stuffs and an incomplete pass later, Derrick Henry takes the carry from his own one-yard line and has the best long TD run since Marshawn Lynch in the 2010 playoff game against the Saints. Game over.

Had I known Mark Sanchez would be quarterbacking the Redskins for most of the game, I probably would have laid the wood. Like his predecessor, Colt McCoy fractured his fibula early in the game, and that was pretty much it for the Redskins offense, other than Adrian Peterson’s 90-yard TD run.