There have been some bad teams and there have been some awful teams. This list is where you find the awful teams. However, just because we don’t want to be reading about a bunch of people who haven’t been in the league for years, I’m keeping this list to just people who are still in the league, as well as David. Obviously, if you want to find the complete list, you go to the ‘Season’s Rank’ list.
#10 (2006) Eric Vozzola – Record: 3-10, PPG: 1,136 No doubt, Eric has been the lovable loser in Robioland football, at least in his first six years. In those first half-dozen seasons, Eric never had a winning season, he never cracked the top-six in scoring and he never tasted the playoffs. In reality, 40 years from now, we’ll probably still be talking about that awful six-year run. He’ll appear on this top-ten list a couple times, but this one was his worse, if you base it only on wins. He never was competitive in 2006. He lost his first three, followed that up with two 4-game losing streaks, never producing back-to-back wins. He went 0-6 against the ’06 elite. Eric never cracked 1,500 points in a game. Oddly enough though, Matt also only won three games and David produced one win, so Eric was the first three-win team to only land the third pick in the following season’s draft.
#9 (2004) Eric Vozzola – Record: 5-9. PPG: 1,110 Heading into Eric’s fourth season in Robioland, he was coming off a 6-8 season, where he again missed the playoffs due to tiebreakers. However, he finished 2003 strong, winning four of his last five. Obviously, that means almost nothing in fantasy, but it looked like the winning ways were going to carry over as Eric won four of his first six in 2004. The 8-3 record over the 11-game stretch was his best ever…again, too bad it was over two seasons. Like so many of Eric’s hopes and dreams, his season fell apart. He would win only one more game the rest of the way, ending the year with nine loses and no playoff trip. He never cracked 1,500 points in a game, producing his second worst season scoring average, taking home the league’s ‘Worst Second Half Collapse’ award.
#8 (2001) Don Vozzola – Record: 5-9, PPG: 1,170 Before he was ripping my heart out, winning championship after championship, Don was a lovable loser much like the other Vozzola. 2001 was his first season and while it wasn’t his worse, it certainly was the oddest. He struggled out of the gate, dropping four of five, with two weekly low scores, but bounced back with back-to-back wins, both weekly high scores. That would be the highlight though, as he dropped five straight, before taking the last two. He became the only team in league history to earn three weekly high scores and three weekly low scores in one season (officially, he had four low scores). Still, too many ugly games (597, 495) kept Don out of the post-season party.
#7 (2005) Rob Masterson – Record: 5-8, PPG: 1,056 Masterson’s 2005 was one for the record books and one to forget. It started off swell, 5-3 after eight weeks, but Masterson would have to play his final six without both his starting running backs (Ahman Green hit the IR in week two, Priest Holmes followed in week seven), along with elite WR, Javon Walker, who went down in week one. With no real RB options (he was starting back up running backs; J.J. Arrington and Greg Jones his final week), Rob would have one of the worst five weeks in league history. He went 0-5, failing to crack 1,000 points four times, earning the weekly low score three times.
#6 (2008) Matt Neatock – Record: 3-10, PPG: 1,136 Strangely, there are not one, but two defending champs on this list. Based on my numbers, Bob’s 2005 collapse was worse (as you’ll see below), although Matt did his best to earn that honor. Despite walking in with a solid keeper class that included rookie of the year, Purple Jesus, Matt could only manage a single win in his first eight games. He actually followed it up with a two-game winning streak, giving himself a very outside chance of winning a weak division, but he decided instead to go 0-3 in his final three. When it was all said and done, Matt won seven fewer games from his title run the year before, finishing 11th in scoring, going 0-6 against the top half of the league. How bad was it? He not only never cracked 1,500 pints, he never even broke 1,400 points in a single game.
#5 (2001) Eric Vozzola – Record: 5-9, PPG: 1,033 The young Vozzola makes his third appearance on the list, this time with his inaugural season in Robioland. At first though, it didn’t look that bad. After a 1-3 start, he was actually 5-6 heading back into divisional play. In reality though, Eric was a fraud. He had only cracked 1,200 points a total of two times in eleven games. He collapse under the pressure, dropping his final three. He never broke 1,500, while failing to hit 1,000 six times.
#4 (2005) Bob Castrone – Record: 3-10, PPG: 1,125 In 2005, Bob became the first defending champ to not only miss the playoffs, but earn the top pick in the following draft. Now that’s something. Bob actually entered the 2005 season riding a eight-game winning streak, but he began the new year winless in his first five. In fact, after ten weeks, he was 1-9. He did manage to win two of his final three, earning a weekly high score in the final game, but it was way too late. He finished the season with six games below 1,000 and five weekly low scores.
#3 (2007) Colby Hall – Record: 4-9, PPG: 1,039 So this is what life would be like without Tiki Barber? After losing their first four, the Pounders got to participate in and win the classic 0-4 vs 0-4 match up with Griff. However, they would lose their next three. Their 1-7 start to the season tied David (’06) with the worst start to a season. They would save some grace winning three of their last five, but the four wins were a career low. Like so many other season’s for the Pounders, they suffered in the division, winning only once. They had three low scores, and five games below 1,000.
#2 (2003) Don Vozzola – Record: 4-10, PPG: 966 Easily the worst start to a fantasy football season. Don started 0-3 and failed to crack 1,400 points TOTAL in the first three games. In the last of the three games, Don scored a Robioland record low 263 points, a record that should stand the test of time. After producing a single win in his first seven games, Don did ‘rally’ to finish 3-3. Surprising, when he did win, it usually a solid win, as he went 3-3 against the top six teams in the league. However, his 966 points per game is the third lowest in league history and he’s the only current league member to have a season where he averaged below 1,000 per game.
#1 (2006) David Hightower – Record: 1-12. PPG: 1,046 While he’s no longer with us, this 2006 classic season will be with us forever. Dave’s one win in thirteen tries is the single worst W-L record in league history. His nine-straight loses to end the year is still the longest losing streak in league history. His lone win came against Rich Calderon (a non-playoff team). While he was able to top 1,000ppg for the season, he still failed to hit the 1,000-mark six times throughout the year. Ironically, he followed up this 2006 season, with a league record, 11-2 mark in 2007.
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