It seems every year I suffer the indignity of falling victim to the Paper Tiger.  What's the Paper Tiger?  You know, that team in your league that looks like it should suck, does suck regularly, but manages to win each and every week because they just happen to be playing against a team whose quarterback goes down, or who's defense gives up 60, or who's running back decides right before the game to change his profession and move to Mexico City to become a street performer.  You know whose team I'm talking about.  Whatever their team name, their your fantasy football league's Paper Tiger.  Scary record, relatively harmless fantasy team.

I wish that I could give you some purely analytical approach to taming this beast, chopping its head off and mounting it on your wall, but I can't.  Fantasy Football, while it is a game of numbers, is at its core a game of luck, and some people simply have more of it than others (particularly me).  But hey, that's what it makes it so fun.  Like the saying goes, "Any given Sunday."  Any weekend yours could be the team that wins.  Overcomes a typically superior opponent, leaving you laughing all the way to the bank.  I find I need to remind myself of that a few times during the season, especially when a team of mine goes on losing streak that I just can't seem to comprehend.  

So if you find yourself in a losing battle with the Paper Tiger this week, stay strong.  They can't win forever.  And if they do, well then there's someone you probably want to avoid at the poker tables as well, because that is one lucky son of a gun.

And yes this was inspired by my team's unfortunate loss this weekend.