Argh, one minute away from clinching first place, and Tyreek Hill manages to catch one more pass. I lost by .8 points, barring a point correction.
Still need to see how tonight shakes out, but it looks like we’re going to end up in a 4 way tie for first going into the final game.
sorry for spoiling the party
Well Marvin Jones is out this week, bringing me to being out Jones, Reed, Ryan Mathews, and Kendall Wright on bye makes it really hard to field a team this week.
I’m not complaining.
If I’m reading the situation correctly, I’m fighting with Evil Monkey for the last playoff slot. He’s very likely to win nad tie my record, and he’s 18 points behind me with the TY Hilton, the Colts D, and Jack Doyle left to play.
I’m 2 points behind the next lowest guy with 7 wins and I can’t catch up there.
Shit. I may lose out on the playoffs at the last minute by a few points.
Yeah, I’ve been running the math all weekend and it looks as if you’re likely to miss the last spot by about 8 points. Tough luck…
4 wins in the past 4 weeks. I climbed up from 12th place or something like that.
6th place and made the playoffs!
woot!
After holding first place all this time, I lose it at the last second by 2 points. All because I forgot to pull the Panther’s defense. Hopefully my team bounces back because I’m not going to make it through the playoffs scoring 90 points a game.
Sorry for spoiling your playoff run despite having absolutely no chance to play in the post-season.
I made fifth place, with the highest total points scored.
I was really worried a couple of weeks ago, when i lost my RB2 and TE1 to season-ending injuries. I lost the next game, but managed to win the last game of the season on the back of massive performances from Dwayne Allen, Golden Tate, and kicker Matt Prater.
Interestingly, i got through the season by exceeding the predicted points total on a majority of occasions. I’m not sure how accurate Yahoo’s projections are on a league-wide basis, but it has been quite noticeable to me that my team beats the projections more often than not, often by a considerable margin.
I’m still not especially confident about the playoffs, and i’ll need two or three players to step up with big games each week to have a chance. While Melvin Gordon has been great, the loss of Giovani Bernard means that i’m effectively a one running back team, with Baltimore’s Kyle Juszczyk (who?) good for only about 3 points per game.
I also don’t anticipate that Dwayne Allen will score 3 TDs in a game again anytime soon. He’s has two good games, and one massive game, but the rest of his season has been mediocre. Zach Miller is no Travis Kelce in terms of fantasy points, but he was solid, and losing him was a pain in the ass. Still, i think that some other players in our league have had far worse luck with injuries than me.
My Rams D has also let me down recently. After some good performances (admittedly, against mediocre offenses), they’ve put up negative numbers two weeks in a row, and now have to face the Falcons, who score a bunch of points even in games they lose. The Rams are predicted for 6 points this weekend, but i’m considering benching them to avoid another negative score.
I was also looking at my team and thinking about value for money.
My two most expensive WRs, Golden Tate and Kelvin Benjamin, cost me $26 and $20 respectively, but they have both produced fewer points than my other two WRs, Mike Wallace and Jamison Crowder, who cost $9 for both combined!
Crowder must be one of the value picks of the season; he’s the 7th-ranked WR with 162 points, and he cost one dollar. Melvin Gordon was also a huge return-per-dollar pick for me. He cost $20, and is third among all RBs in points, with 229.
I think the closest I had to a bust in terms of money paid for draft picks was RB Bernard. I paid $23 for him, and he produced some decent performances, mainly due to his use in the short passing game, and then he got injured. I was hoping for more production from Golden Tate, but while he hasn’t lived up to expectations, he’s still been solid, especially in the second half, so i wouldn’t call him a bust.
Early in the season, it looked like Aaron Rodgers might not be worth the top QB money i paid for him. The Packers looked shaky, and some commentators were questioning whether Rodgers had lost his touch. But he has produced at a high level even while his team struggled, and he’s currently the #1 QB and #1 overall in fantasy points.
Anyone else want to weigh in on the value for money thing?
Who was your best-value draft choice? Who was a big-money bust? Who was your biggest injury loss/es?
Here are our standings at the end of the regular season:
*1 Not Sure 10-3-0 1509.53
*2 Rough and Tumblrs 10-3-0 1507.59
*3 No Use For A Name II 10-3-0 1416.06
*4 Red Hochuli Peppers 9-4-0 1436.95
*5 Inglewood Chargers 8-5-0 1513.62
*6 Evil Monkey 7-6-0 1284.36
*7 Garcon's Cedilla 7-6-0 1280.94
*8 Overly Sentimental 7-6-0 1273.01
9 Exploding Pancakes 7-6-0 1265.58
10 poopiusdickimus 6-7-0 1402.76
11 Varlos' Zzzzzzz 6-7-0 1343.84
12 Court Jesters 6-7-0 1280.88
13 Curry Porkrinds 6-7-0 1145.04
14 Bloom County Bills 5-8-0 1279.57
15 Chicago Cardinals 5-8-0 1252.42
16 Up By Three 5-8-0 1191.74
17 Mundi Madness 5-8-0 1171.94
18 Nine Inch Neils 4-9-0 1214.80
19 Fourth and Nineteen 4-9-0 1091.60
20 Frosted_Lightning 3-10-0 1068.31
Playoff quarterfinals bracket:
Not Sure vs
Overly Sentimental
Rough and Tumblrs vs
Garcon’s Cedillia
No Use For A Name II vs
Evil Monkey
Red Hochuli Peppers vs
Inglewood Chargers
And sorted by points scored:
1. *5 Inglewood Chargers 8-5-0 1513.62
2. *1 Not Sure 10-3-0 1509.53
3. *2 Rough and Tumblrs 10-3-0 1507.59
4. *4 Red Hochuli Peppers 9-4-0 1436.95
5. *3 No Use For A Name II 10-3-0 1416.06
6. 10 poopiusdickimus 6-7-0 1402.76
7. 11 Varlos' Zzzzzzz 6-7-0 1343.84
8. *6 Evil Monkey 7-6-0 1284.36
9. *7 Garcon's Cedilla 7-6-0 1280.94
10. 12 Court Jesters 6-7-0 1280.88
11. 14 Bloom County Bills 5-8-0 1279.57
12. *8 Overly Sentimental 7-6-0 1273.01
13. 9 Exploding Pancakes 7-6-0 1265.58
14. 15 Chicago Cardinals 5-8-0 1252.42
15. 18 Nine Inch Neils 4-9-0 1214.80
16. 16 Up By Three 5-8-0 1191.74
17. 17 Mundi Madness 5-8-0 1171.94
18. 13 Curry Porkrinds 6-7-0 1145.04
19. 19 Fourth and Nineteen 4-9-0 1091.60
20. 20 Frosted_Lightning 3-10-0 1068.31
Well, i’m fucked.
Melvin Gordon went down in the first quarter, and if he doesn’t make a quick return to the field it’s all over for me. The only consolation is that San Diego is losing and Rivers has already been sacked three times. Rivers hitting the deck always cheers me up a little bit.
Melvin Gordon is out, maybe for the season. I have him in another league that starts playoffs next week. This probably gets me kicked into the consolation round.
Retrovertigo has defeated Evil Monkey.
Not Sure needs 19.3 points out of Julian Edelman and Justin Tucker to beat Overly Sentimental.
Red Hochuli Peppers is playing Inglewood Chargers in the “your opponent is the only person you could’ve possibly beaten this week” bowl, sitting at 61 and 45 points. Peppers has Blount and a 16 point lead against Mike Wallace and, uh, Kyle Juszczyk, gatorade jockey for the Baltimore Ravens.
Garcon’s Cedillia needs 7.76 out of Malcolm Mitchell to beat Rough n Tumblers.
Yep. As i said, earlier today, i’m fucked.
Not only did i lose my stud RB1 early in the first quarter, but fully four of my other players (including 2 x WR, 1 x TE, and my Defense) had their worst or second-worst game of the season today. Not only will i lose, but my team total will, most likely, be my lowest score of the season by more than 30 points.
Well Not Sure pulled it out on me at the last. Congratulations to you and the other advancing squads. I was pleased to even have a shot, because I don’t think my team was ever very good. It was way too reliant on Eli for anybody’s taste. So I’ll enjoy two more weeks of being the defending champion, and start in on next year!
Well that was disappointing. I switched out the Carolina D for Buffalo 10 minutes before the games started, and that was enough to knock me out. That’s what I get for trying to be clever.
5 years, 4 playoffs made, 0 championship appearances. I have become the Cincinnati Bengals of this league.
Not Sure defeats Red Hochuli Peppers.
No Use For A Name II defeats Garcon’s Cedilla.
Overly Sentimental defeats Inglewood Chargers
Evil Monkey defeats Rough n Tumblrs
Championship game:
(1) Not Sure vs (3) No Use For A Name II
Third place game: (4) Red Hoculi Peppers vs (7) Garcon’s Cedilla
Fifth place game: (6) Evil Monkey vs (8) Overly Sentimental
Seventh place game: (2) Rough n Tumblrs vs (5) Inglewood Charges
Let’s see of I can pull off an upset.
Well provided that Detroit’s doesn’t absolutely shit the bed I should prevail.