At roughly the midpoint of the 2022 fantasy football season, we should know whether our dynasty teams are contenders or pretenders. We can see how injuries are affecting us and others. What kind of depth we have at our disposal for these upcoming bye weeks. Whether we've been lucky or unlucky with scheduling.
Speaking of which, head-to-head scheduling can sometimes put you in a tough spot where you're among the top scorers in any given week, yet you just so happen to play a higher scorer. Those are always the toughest Ls to take. If you're going to lose, it's nice for the sweet relief of being down big heading into Monday Night Football. You can mentally move on, so to speak.
Rather than hit refresh incessantly waiting for Harrison Bryant to do ANYTHING against the Bengals on Monday night. David Njoku averages over seven targets per contest in Cleveland's last five games, yet Bryant gets no targets in the Browns' 32-13 drubbing of the Bengals—go figure. I digress.
But that aforementioned unfortunate scheduling is just the luck of the draw and it's out of our control—to an extent. I recommended setting up a extra game system. In Sleeper leagues, it's possible to set up your league to enable "Extra Game Each Week Against League Median." As explained in Sleeper support:
This option allows the top scoring teams of the week to gain an additional win, while the other half gets hit with a loss.
The purpose is to help create a fairer option for those times where you finish in the top half of scoring, but you still lost to someone who scored more than you. You would at least go 1-1 for the week instead of 0-1.
