Disagree that it boils down to luck. Everybody goes in with the same amount of luck. But it takes a certain amount of skill to put yourself in the position to get "lucky."
I should elaborate what I meant by that, yea you obviously gotta draft smart and make the shrewd waiver moves throughout the season along w/ using your best judgement on which players to start/sit but....my part about the "luck" is correlated w/ the scheduling of who your opponents are each week.
A team could go 11-2 for reg season but his team actually stinks as far as points scored for the season and he just happened to have the "better" luck of drawing the right people most weeks and vice versa where a team can be legit good and put up points each week but for the "worst" luck, they just happen to draw the wrong guy almost every week.
Seen it happen so many times where if you take a L one week, you look at the other players and you notice you would have won if you had played any of them instead. Goes both ways too, you get a W on a week your team barely put any points up and if you had played anyone else, you'd have lost for sure.
I know it can be considered hella nitpicking on that but I think it's relevant.