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When an extremely short bench beats a finely tuned lineup

Andy Behrens details some very unfortunate fantasy football tragedies that haunt managers after Week 6.

Video Transcript

ANDY BEHRENS: Yeah, it's that time again. This is the place and this is the time that we talk about your most humbling, humiliating, gutting fantasy defeats. This right here is "Fantasy Bad Beats."

We had another smorgasbord of Monday night games. We had players who were no-shows. We had players who were surprise performers. But I don't want to focus on Monday night this time. Instead, I want to talk about the absolute worst way to lose a fantasy matchup.

And I'm not talking about a Monday night last play kneeldown. I'm not talking about missed extra points or some nonsense like that. Instead, I am talking about facing an opponent who doesn't even maintain their rosters and they end up starting a bunch of players who are on bye. And we had a handful of submissions that were just like that this week.

I'm looking at the Vermont Victors. This filed by Erik Post. Erik says, Andy, I'm losing to a guy with-- all caps-- four inactive players in his lineup. The keys for him, Ryan, Julio, and Ridley. Were the difference-makers on my bench? You know it.

This is a masterpiece of bad beats. This is like a hang it in the Louvre sort of bad beat right here. First of all, Vermont Victors loses to someone who never even changed their Yahoo-assigned team name.

- Huh?

ANDY BEHRENS: This is just Devin's Team. Devin probably doesn't know that Devin is involved in a fantasy league at all. Perhaps this was an auto-renewal. I don't know. Maybe this is some workplace thing, and Devin has been fired. Who knows.

Who knows what the situation here is with Devin. He drafted a nice team, but a lot of them weren't in action this week. Alvin Kamara on a bye. Austin Ekeler, injured. Dallas Goedert, injured. Chris Carson on a bye.

None of it mattered because he had all those Atlanta Falcons going for him. Had Harrison Butker in the kicker spot. That's something. This is incredible.

Plus, the Vermont Victors, poor Erik, also started Alexander Mattison, who was a bust, like an all-time single week bust, right? Perfect situation for Mattison facing Atlanta. No Dalvin Cook in the lineup. He's gonna go off. I had him ranked number three overall at the running back position.

Absolute total bust. Erik, that's just the worst way to lose because you can't even say that it's about luck, right? You lost to a team that had four zeros in the lineup. That is just brutal.

And shout out to Shea Castle, who had much the same situation. Shea writes in, how about this league where I'm getting crushed-- again all caps-- by a team that left Dalvin Cook, Jared Cook, and the Saints defense and special teams in their lineup. Yeah, it's bad. This is a terrible way to lose. Shout out to anybody who happened to lose this week to an opponent who played people on a bye. That's just awful.

And our honorable mention this week, it goes to my Yahoo coworker Daniel Haight-- good old Dan Haight-- who lost on the Kenyan Drake play. I don't even want to talk about this because I got burned by it as well. Kenyan Drake against just a zombified, crusty, dusty Dallas defense that isn't even trying and has not tried all year. Kenyan Drake busts off a 60-plus-yard run that ends in a touchdown very excruciatingly late in the final Monday night game.

Dan lost to Brian Marshall who, if we're being honest, is not even a good fantasy player. This is a heart-breaking way to lose. I'm so sorry, man.

Remember, next week, things probably aren't gonna go your way. And when they don't, think of your Yahoo fantasy friends. Hit us up with the hashtag #FFLBadBeats.