Reflection

I love sports, football, and fantasy football particualrly. I've been playing fantasy sports since High School. I also love a good trainwreck. In traditional fantasy football, the object is to predict which NFL Players will perform at the highest level. I developed a system of playing Fantasy Football where the object is instead to predict which Quarterback and Defense will perform the worst any given week.

Every year I run this game with three friends. And every year I've utilized technology to make my job easier and improve the player experience. In the early days, everything was done manually: weekly picks were texted to me and I manually calculated things like waiver priorities on paper in order to derive every player's resulting choices for the week and score was kept (and continues to be kept) on ESPN.

I initially created the manager tool first in Java, to simplify my job. Then I created a tool in which the players could submit their weekly picks through the web. The project evolved from a simple command-line tool and barebones html form to its current incarnation, and continues to evolve every football season. I have considered creating a webapp that would allow others to get in on the fun and bring the fun of reverse-fantasy-football to the masses, but for now it remains a game between friends.

As of 2024 the league continues, with plans to migrate to an entirely web-based frontend for users to select their picks