Recently, I created a fantasy football team. My team, the Pittsburgh Tungsteners (it’s a metal joke) have star players such as Patrick Mahomes, Isaiah Pacheco, and others. Now, keep in mind that I completed my draft with no prior research and very minimal knowledge of the players at all. Surprisingly, it has not been going as badly as you would think.

Since my draft started after the NFL season began, I started with a match in week 2. My opponent is a team whose name appears to be multiple orangutan emojis. According to the app’s predictions, I had a 45% chance of winning. While I only had a 45% chance of winning at that moment, the percentage was constantly fluctuating based on the stats of my players as they participated in games.

I actually was doing pretty well until one of my best players got injured. Isaiah Pacheco fractured his right fibula in the middle of the week, and he will need at least six weeks to recover from the ensuing surgery. This drastically lowered the amount of points I was able to gain throughout the course of the week, lowering my chance of victory to 1%, all but guaranteeing my loss to the orangutan guy.

It wasn’t all bad, though; I’m currently 6th out of ten teams in the league’s power rankings. I’ll be honest, I don’t know what this means, but I’m assuming higher is better.

As a newbie, I definitely think people should give fantasy sports a try. “I don’t really know anything about fantasy football,” says senior Daphne Linn. “But last year I was in the top 0.001% of all basketball brackets for like two days, so I think everyone should give fantasy sports a shot!” Even if you don’t know much about the sport, you can still make out well in a draft. For instance, senior Seth Kazinski says that my fantasy basketball team is pretty good, as evidenced by the “WWWWW” that my team received.