Weird news: Fantasy Football Owners Are Freaking Out Over Hurricane Joaquin

Friday, 2 October 2015

Fantasy Football Owners Are Freaking Out Over Hurricane Joaquin

Hurricane Joaquin will make its way up the East Coast this weekend, threatening homes, businesses and even fantasy football lineups.

The NFL has been closely monitoring the hurricane's forecast, because it could make landfall in Washington, D.C. and conceivably pose enough of a problem to impact Washington's Sunday home game against the Philadelphia Eagles. NFL officials have already discussed scheduling contingency plans with representatives from both teams, according to the Washington Post.

But wait, if the game gets canceled, what happens to the Washington and Philadelphia players scheduled to start in millions of fantasy football lineups? Do they get some sort of hurricane bonus points in absence of actual game statistics and fantasy points? Is life even fair?

How would a game getting postponed via hurricane work for fantasy.......? #actualquestion
— Dylan Boettcher (@thisisdbotch9) October 1, 2015

Is it bad that I'm sitting here wondering how this Hurricane could affect NFL games Sunday, and thus my fantasy team?
— Stephen Blue (@SBlue84) October 1, 2015

Ignoring the fact that our priorities when faced with a hurricane are 1) Fantasy football 2) Everything else, there appears to be a clean fix here. While the NFL declined to elaborate on prospective changes should Hurricane Joaquin force the league to cancel Sunday's game, a convenient solution appears in each team's schedule: Both have byes during Week 8, so the game could be rescheduled then.

But that would mean players from Washington and Philadelphia would take their bye week this week. Audible! The very thought of making last-minute, hurricane-related fantasy football changes is putting owners in a Twitter tizzy:

This hurricane is really gonna mess with my fantasy team if this Eagles/Skins game gets rescheduled #notpreparedforabyeweekalready
— Stacy Salotti (@Stace824) September 30, 2015

This hurricane fucking up my lineup severely
— Revis & Butthead (@ThatShitKrej_) October 1, 2015

How am I supposed to set my lineup with a hurricane coming
— marc (@marcdch) October 1, 2015

damn hurricane better not ruin my fantasy line-up...I already dont know how I lost a game.
— Twitta Gold (@twitta_antrax) October 1, 2015

@Holdenradio This would suck. I have Gronk and Jordan Reed as my TE's.
— Nevets Leahcim (@SportsNutDC) October 1, 2015

#Redskins / #Eagles may be postponed to Week 8 due to Hurricane Joaquin - That could really ruin some fantasy teams this week!
— Mike Lott (@Mike_WeTalkFS) October 1, 2015

As if fantasy / DFS isn't hard enough, now we have to think about the potential impacts of a hurricane.
— Mark Stopa (@MarkStopa) October 1, 2015

@one_LB http://t.co/PPNBNBtPPy you see this bullshit a fuckin hurricane is gonna cost me a fantasy football game
— Sergio (@SergioSamano) October 1, 2015

I'm really over here monitoring a hurricane because it could affect a fantasy football decision
— Chris Legg (@c_legg) October 1, 2015

Don't worry, owners of DeMarco Murray, Alfred Morris, Jordan Reed and Sam Bradford: Fantasy football experts are here to talk some sense into you.

Fantasy ramifications of Joaquin: Hurricane now, but projected Tropical Storm come Sunday. If WASH stays home, rain/wind factors. Monitor.
— Brad Evans (@YahooNoise) October 1, 2015

Actually, owners of Murray, Morris and Bradford, you should worry anyway: Those three have been awful this season. This hurricane may be the best thing that's happened to your crappy team.

Fantasy owners, avoid this game -- hurricane or not -- like the freaking plague.

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