Marvel Comics has a quirky series of comics titles "What If?" which hypothesizes unusual events in their universe and shows how it might play out. They have scenarios like what if Dr. Doom was a good guy, or what if the Hulk was smart like Bruce Banner? That kind of thing. Kind of cool, right?

We can play the what if game too, but the results aren't always so fun.

For example, what if Keenan Allen hadn't gotten hurt when the Chargers faced the Chiefs on Thursday night? Could you imagine that much (or most) of Mike Williams' production going to him? Would the Allen owner be moving on this week? Would their opponent be eliminated? And will that outcome affect who wins next weekend? Could your league's champion be determined by a hip pointer in the first game of week 15?

Or how about the last game on Sunday? What if Todd Gurley had stayed out the rest of the game after he got hurt? The extra catches, the second touchdown, all gone. How many leagues were affected by those extra points that wouldn't have been scored with a more cautious approach?

Isn't this game great? We could play it all day. What if the Dolphins had let Kenyan Drake loose after Frank Gore got hurt, instead of letting Kalen Ballage carry the ball? What if the Cowboys' opening possession field-goal attempt hadn't been blocked, giving them confidence and an early lead? What if James Conner and Spencer Ware had been the bargain-basement fantasy heroes instead of Jaylen Samuels and Damien Williams? And on and on.

Fantasy players love to trash-talk their opponents. But sometimes they trash-talk themselves. Not out loud, of course. But quietly, when the scores had been tallied. They can't help but wonder: What if? What if you had started player X over player Y? What if your opponent didn't have waiver priority over you the last two weeks, when you really needed certain players? Things might have turned out differently.

And that's true. But it's also true that there are several plays in every game that can affect enough points to change that week's outcome. What if the Josh Reynolds touchdown hadn't been overturned by replay on Sunday night? Gurley wouldn't have gotten that second score, right? What if Josh Rosen hadn't been benched? Would Trent Sherfield have caught that touchdown, helping justify him as a waiver pickup?

You could do this to yourself all offseason if you wanted. But the bottom line isn't that one play spoiled your season. It's that dozens went your way and dozens went against you, and you probably don't know about most of them. And you came up on the wrong side of the ledger at the wrong time. It's happened before, and it will happen again. But it will go your way as well.

And for the other teams in the equation, it did go their way. Maybe you're really lucky, or maybe it's cosmic payback for what happened to you last week, or last year, or five years ago.

This year I've had a number of circumstances go against me, and it's cost my teams dearly. But I also recall a few years back when I started Aaron Rodgers in a Super Bowl. He got hurt and probably should have stayed on the sidelines the rest of that game. Instead he came back at the half and threw a couple of touchdown passes, including one to another player I started. I don't need to wonder what if Rodgers hadn't come back into the game. I know that the title would have gone to someone else instead of me.

But again, that was just one out of many things that went for and against me that week. I just remember that particular one. So if you think one circumstance cost you a shot at a title, try to put it in perspective. And if you won a game because of it, congratulations. Let's hope the other side of that fateful coin doesn't come up next week.

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