Week 14 is one of the most emotional weeks in fantasy football. You spend almost a quarter of the year preparing for this moment, and it all comes down to a series of single-elimination matches. It's an intense experience, and I don't think anyone who plays fantasy football would trade it for anything.

Hopefully you all were able to survive the first week of your fantasy playoffs. If you're reading this site then you know you've worked hard to get where you are, so kudos to you.

If you managed to escape some of the absolutely monstrous performances this week and made it out of the first round of the playoffs alive, congratulations. Maybe you even had a couple of those top performers in your lineups this week.

But you know the struggle isn't over yet. There are stills weeks -- plural -- left in the fantasy season, and you cannot afford to get lazy now. You need to stay on top of your stuff if you want to have a real chance at taking down your title. Here are five things we learned in Week 14.