#1 seed, sons! 7th year in a row making the playoffs.
This one still stings.
Until last week, Drew Brees was averaging 25.7 points per game. Not only was he the highest-scoring QB, but he was the most consistent too. If he hadn’t completely collapsed last week, I would have beaten Varlos and I’d be heading to the playoffs.
I’m going to need to make some major changes starting next year. So if anyone is looking for veterans next year, I am willing to trade for picks.
With Vance McDonald this week, I now have 6 players on IR.
I kinda can’t believe I’m in the playoffs. To be frank, I had mostly checked out for the season a few weeks ago when it looked like my team was toast (along with the teams in my two other leagues).
My team may be pretty mediocre (only the 6th most points scored), but I think I still have a chance since so is everyone else this season. Our top scoring team (Petey, 1768.88) is by far the lowest scoring league leader we’ve had; in fact, every previous season has had at least two teams that scored more than that (excepting last season, when only my team was awesome enough to score more). And, thankfully, one of the top two teams this year won’t make it out of the first round. Plus, my opponent is starting Matt Asiata at RB – I can’t lose! (Please bookmark this post for future quoting after Asiata scores three goal-line TDs and I lose.)
I’ll have you know I am also considering starting Kenneth Farrow instead of Asiata. It has been kind of fun this year having no running backs.
Another disappointing season, although I’m starting to like my team. I have a very good RB corps, but my WR are very thin after Green (who has been hurt) and the younglings haven’t progressed like I had hoped.
My issue is that I’m in constant just wait til next year with young players and I’m hesitant to give up on them. I have had a lot of players go down with injury and end up on the IR list, and my 2nd line is thin.
Did a last minute swap of Ty Montgomery for Taylor Gabriel. That’s going to end up biting me in the ass. Part of the reasoning was that since I was at a projected deficit I needed to allow for circumstances to go right - I would need good performances out of Rodgers and Montgomery and they work at odds a little bit, so I didn’t want to limit my upside by starting both.
Ah well, fuck it. You’d think I’d manage to have a good week 15 in more than 1 out of 7 years, but apparently that’s my special power.
Green Bay scored 1 non-Rodgers rushing TD all year, and they decide to score three today.
After being projected to lose big all day, now I’m probably going to lose small so that I can question all decisions in my life leadng up to this day.
Somehow my game is going well. If I won the league three out of four years it would be one the least dominant dynasties imaginable.
I have a 20 point lead, Cameron Brate, and Rob Kelley against Petey’s Mike Evans, Dez Bryant, and Tedd Ginn. Yahoo projects me as a 54% favorite, but I’m not feeling optimistic.
Stringer has a 10 point lead and Kelvin Benjamin against Varlos’ Newton, Olsen, and Stewart. It projects Varlos as an 89% favorite. All Carolina and kind of a niche route to a win.
Brate TD!!
This game is going about as well as I could expect so far.
Alright, I survived the worst of it: going into tonight’s game with a 16 point lead and Rob Kelley still to play against Ted Ginn. I’m definitely not out of the woods - Ginn rips off those 20+ games sometimes.
Stringer has a viable path to winning that mostly involves the Carolina offense stuttering but what offense they can generate going through Kelvin Benjamin.
Meanwhile, I’ve got to make up an 8.5-point deficit with Newton/Olsen/J-Stew going against K. Benjamin tonight. Yahoo says I’m 89% to win, which I guess sounds about right, though I’m honestly not sure whether the fact that Stringer’s lone source of points catches his passes from my QB makes me more or less likely to win than if our players were independent. I guess it helps me in this case, since Stringer probably needs a huge game from Benjamin (the projections think I’ll win by 25 when all is said and done, so in a sense he’s the one who needs to come from behind), and if 1/3 or so of his points automatically get cancelled out by Newton, then it has to be bigger still.
A Varlos/Beef championship game would be pretty epic, IMO, even if neither team is one for the ages this time around…
Newton could give those points back with sacks or picks.
Championship game: (1) Exploing Pancakes vs (3) Varlos’ Zzzzzzz
Third place game: (4) Isotopes vs (2) We Do HGH
Consolation bowl (5th place): (5) JB’s Gusterrhoids vs (6) Nine Inch Neils
7th place game: (8) CuteWiddleBunny(Hmlt) vs (7) Ides of Martz
Well shit. Lamar Miller is like 50/50 to play at best and I don’t have anyone to try to swap him out with later if he’s declared inactive.
The projected score yahoo has is about 50/50, but I’m really not feeling it. I have three Green Bay players against one of their worst possible matchups - Minnesota has done a good job this year shutting offenses down and keeping scores low. Whereas Varlos has the most players from Carolina - against Atlanta - which is a nice warm weather shootout matchup.
Damn. When I was deciding who to replace Miller, I considered Chris Thompson for his high 7ish point floor. But he’s now at 15 points and stealing all my Rob Kelley production. Ah well. Good start for me overall, Rodgers is doing well - concerned they’re going to pull him in the second half like they do. Green Bay never allows him a full game of point scoring.