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Besides fantasy sports, one of my favorite things to do is waste away reading "interesting facts" on the internet. For instance, did you know that most American's car horns beep in the key of F? Or that Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds? Usually, interesting facts are interesting because they are unintuitive and completely useless. Well here at draftperfect.com we are re-writing the book on interesting facts! The following are 5 interesting facts about the 2009 football fantasy season. We hope you'll find them interesting, and eventually useful... Next week, look for 5 interesting facts pertaining to fantasy baseball.

One of my favorite shows on television is HBO's Entourage. Like fantasy football, Entourage has grown into a phenomena, especially among males ages 18-35. I played in four fantasy football leagues this year and I saw three Entourage-related team names: Repped By Ari Gold, Queen's Boulevard, and my personal favorite Mrs. Ari. Re-watching the first season, the first episode in fact, reminded me of an all too common theme I saw in a number of fantasy leagues this year.

What a letdown.  Who could have expected the Wild Card Playoffs to be that boring?  Yeah, the Cardinals-Packers game last night might have salvaged the weekend to some extent, but many of us could have been better off not wasting our time watching the other games.  As me and Freish have discussed extensively, the opportunity cost of watching the rest of the games over the weekend was waaaaay too high.  (If you didn't understand that, don't worry.  I don't even understand half of what I say.)  The only reason those games were not completely worthless is that half of the teams doing the blowing out were the underdogs.  Looking at these rankings, however, we see that none of the games were really THAT surprising.  The Jets finished ranked 7 spots ahead of the Bengals.  The Ravens and Patriots were two of four teams tied for fifth.  The Cardinals made the second biggest jump up the rankings over the final four weeks of the season.  Finally, the Cowboys finished in the top ten after stinking up the place for the first month of the season.  The rankings don't lie.