Dalvin Cook Is The 2020 Fantasy Football MVP [New York Post]

Eagan MN

03 January, 2021

1:36 AM

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Press release from purplePTSD: January 1, 2021 2020 was the worst. I know every writer who considers themselves pithy and witty has started an article this way and thus that statement has lost it's true meaning. That is; 2020 was the worst. In every way, society was hanging by a thread before soon-to-be-former President Miscavige decided that his feelings trumped democracy. Now? We're left wondering what could've been had the Mayans calendar actually predicted anything outside of how far their calendar-makers decided was long enough to end up on calendars sold in the gift/merch shops of most legal US mobile casinos. Obviously, there are other things more important that were terrible last year (and technically there is nothing less important than some other person's fantasy football team), but the Minnesota Vikings were awful and as the owner of a team that had Dalvin Cook that didn't even make the playoffs? It sucked, too. Each year I typically have a pre-and-post TWK season (with TWK meaning "Trade with [our Editor] Kirby".): Think of the pre-stage as the Vikings pre-Bye, the TWK that bye and the post-period Weeks 7-13/14, with the peak being last season when I ended up finally winning a fantasy league championship despite playing since the Priest Holmes era. This season I traded Joe Mixon and Calvin Ridley for Cook. Who immediately scored nearly 50 points against the Packers where as Mixon literally never played a single game after the trade (although Ridley had a strong year). Again, though, I didn't even make our 4-team playoff (after finishing the year 8-6). But I said that hearing about someone's team is the worst, so why am I doing it? Because Dalvin Cook was named the fantasy league MVP by the New York Post, which started their glowing profile by saying: "As we say goodbye to the nightmare of 2020…" See? "…we welcome an annual arena of horror: the end of the fantasy football season. As awful as this year was, at least the NFL completed its schedule (so far) and gave fantasy owners something hopeful, at least for parts of the season." Go on… "So let's take a look at this season's MVP, Vikings running back Dalvin Cook, who might have helped you steal a moment of championship happiness in this calendar of misery — before we throw those calendars into a sacrificial fire." Ouch. That kinda hurts. How did the fine purveyors of tabloid journalism somehow made worse define that? "It was a difficult decision. We eliminated quarterbacks because there are too many good ones (six in the top eight overall). We eliminated Travis Kelce, despite being nearly 65 points better than the next best tight end, because he demanded a second-round pick, so he simply met value. " Typically saying "we eliminated a group of players from our best players list because there were too many good players in that group…" isn't a great start to an article about the best player. But, maybe they mean QB's by virtue of how the league operates produce a lot of points so let's go to the position group that doesn't do that (anymore, a la Priest Holmes era) because the outlier then clearly is playing disproportionately well? But I doubt it. "Davante Adams got a moment of consideration, but we tried to look at this with more than just the severely flawed narrow scope PPR provides, and Adams got a huge boost from that prejudicial scoring format." But maybe not! "That left us looking at running backs. And Alvin Kamara was the top scorer. Not only top RB, but top scorer overall. Then how in the world did we land on Cook as the MVP? Well, do you have a minute?" Don't answer that. But if you do you can read their assessment HERE. https://nypost.com/2021/01/01/why-vikings-dalvin-cook-is-the-2020-fantasy-football-mvp/ I don't want to just steal their clicks. Fully. After all, no one likes a pithy writer who isn't self-aware. Dalvin has a strong case to be the actual MVP in 2020, which is something we'll see Sunday when the Vikings finish out the 2020-21 campaign with a whimper against the Detroit Lions. However, unlike the New York Post the NFL doesn't ignore the best players from it's best players competition and thus quarterbacks will be MVPs in perpetuity. This press release was produced by purplePTSD. The views expressed here are the author's own.