Fantasy Football: 10 Sorry Excuses Failing Fantasy Owners Love to Use

Every fantasy league has at least one know-it-all who has a million reasons why his "stacked" team crashed and burned this season.

This is the guy who had infinite swagger and smack talk on draft day, but failed to deliver during the season.

If you don't think your league has that guy, then you are likely that guy.

Regardless of the rules, type of people and amount of teams in the league, the same lame fantasy excuses never fail to surface.

We're at the point in the season where a botched year is imminent for some teams.

Here are 10 sorry excuses failing fantasy owners love to use.

My Star Player Got Injured

So you drafted Jamaal Charles in the top 5 of your league. Boo hoo. Rather than replace him with a capable back like Fred Jackson or working the waiver wire and striking gold with Jackie Battle, you chose to feel sorry for yourself when Charles tore his ACL right out of the gate this season.

There were guys who drafted Chris Johnson, Peyton Hillis and Rashard Mendenhall in your league. One guy shouldn't make or break your fantasy team.

I'm in Too Many Leagues, I Don't Keep Track

Really? Before the season started it seemed like you were going to be able to handle the "workload" of all of your leagues.

This excuse is thrown out there to make the league you're losing in seem less significant than the ones you're beasting. When you sign up for five or more leagues, you are bound to win and lose some of them.

Suggesting that you are struggling in one of them because you don't care about it is lame.

It's Not Enough Money for Me to Care

We common folk just don't measure up to your baller status. A $200 prize awaiting the winner is pennies to you.

It's tacky to pull out this excuse.

If you want to make a "donation" to the league by abandoning it half-way through the season, more power to you. Just don't try to trivialize the amount the league is worth. Fantasy football isn't all about the Benjamins. the money is meant to enhance the experience, not define it.

I Forgot to Set My Lineup

This is totally understandable. Fantasy football might not be your first priority. Between paying the mortgage, picking your kids up from school and watching Deal or No Deal reruns, you've got a full schedule.

Forgetting to set your lineup is a legitimate reason for failure, but it doesn't fly as an excuse. Everyone is busy. You didn't have three minutes to make sure you weren't starting a kicker on a bye week?

Please.

Someone Else Set My Lineup

This is even better than the last excuse.

"I told Billy Joe to set my lineup while I was at work."

Since when did it become Billy Joe's responsibility to manage your team? If you can't find the time of day to set your lineup, so be it. Don't try to pawn off responsibility onto your buddy and whine and cry about it when he or she fails to deliver.

The Rules/Scoring Are Dumb

Got a problem with the structure of the league, the flex spot, the amount of points passing yards are worth or any other gripes about the league?

Address it before the draft.

It's your responsibility to complain to the commissioner before the season ever starts. Don't like the format?

Don't join the league.

Week 10 is not the time to start picking apart how the league is set up or what you would like to see changed.

Well, at Least I Beat You

So you had a good game or two and feel like it's your right to rub it in the faces of your "victims"? That's absurd.

Just like even the best teams in your league will have an off game or two, every dog has his day.

Nobody is impressed by your two wins, no matter who they came over.

I Don't Have Time

Anyone who says they don't have time for fantasy football is kidding themselves. If you are like the other guy and you don't have time to juggle all of your leagues, keep it to one.

If you only have one or two and you still throw this excuse around, shame on you.

Everyone can put in the bare minimum. If you aren't someone who has five hours a week to troll the wavier wire and check out trends, that's okay. You can find ten minutes in your week to devote to fantasy football.

I Didn't Pay Attention to Bye Weeks

Not paying attention to the bye weeks can make it to where you've got all of your stars at one position sidelined in the same week.

Let's say you completely neglect bye weeks on draft day and realize later on that you're going to be in a bind for a week later in the season.

Don't you pick someone up right then and there to avoid the hardship? This is a correctable mistake, which is the main reason this excuse doesn't fly.

It's a Rebuilding Year

It doesn't matter if you are in a dynasty league, a keeper league or a league that starts from scratch every year.

This idea that you can have down years in fantasy football is absurd.

Chances are if you are using this excuse, you are in the sort of rebuilding mode the Browns have claimed they are in for the last decade.