By: Lily Hass (@flannelGoddess)
It all started with a Tweet.

For some ungodly reason I thought a fantasy league where there were very few options at three positions would be incredibly funny.
Apparently several other people also thought this would be a very fun idea. Being that you don’t have to really manage a team where you have no bench and no other options at any position, it would be low maintenance. So, I started a league.
Then things got weird.
See, ESPN Fantasy allows you to draft basically any position you want that isn’t offensive line. This means that you can draft punters, as well as a head coach, to make for a roster that looks a little something like this:

Yes, there are two injured reserve slots, and yes, it is now team quarterbacks, for two reasons:
1. I didn’t want anyone to be forced to draft Deshaun Watson the person; and
2. I thought there were only 30 teams in the NFL so there would be no QBs left over after a draft.
(My dear reader, the NFL has 32 teams, so that math was not mathing.)
The scoring, much like the rosters, is fucked up, and I will not be posting that screenshot because it’s extremely complicated. Some highlights are: QB receiving touchdowns are worth 25 points, TE passing touchdowns are worth 25 points, wins and losses by head coaches are 5 and -5 points respectively, QB interceptions are a point gained instead of two lost, and D/ST get points for return yards, both punt and kick returns.
With all that said you may be asking: Lily, are there prizes for this league? And to that I say, yes, but they are incredibly stupid and almost impossible to get.
The prize is one dollar, and all the other prizes are basically impossible to achieve. I needed something to get my victims, friends who joined this incredibly stupid fantasy league something to strive for-something impossible to achieve yet doable if they make a team insane enough.
How do you draft a league like this? Well my leaguemates had some ideas:

When the draft ended, there was one common sentiment: this league is chaos.
So, how did Week One of the World’s Stupidest Fantasy Football go? About as absurdly as you could imagine.

Multiple teams have 30+ point defenses and a lot of quarterbacks had high scoring games. But what’s most surprising is two teams had kickers amongst their highest scoring players, and one of those kickers scored nearly 20 points due to the fact that every made field goal and punt gets .01 points per yard.
That’s just one week, however, and there are 16 more in the NFL season to go. So check back in in a couple of weeks and I’ll give an update on where things are at and some of the most insane things to happen as this league moves along.

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