Might not matter with Matt Ryan doing nothing and fog settling in. Unless the Falcons get moving I’m going to need a big game from Jordan Reed.
Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk
Looks like you won’t need Jordan Reed after all. Losing my top RB and my 2nd WR sucked. Losing my *kicker *midway through the game sucked. Going up against a miracle 40 points from your kicker and defense sucked, Suckiest 145 point performance you’ll ever see.
Yeah, that is a ridiculously tough break - outscoring everyone but the one team you’re playing by 40. If it makes you feel any better, after this week I’ll have outscored everyone by 90 points in terms of season totals, and everyone but Retro by something like 150 - and yet (had I lost to you) I’d still be tied for the lead of my division. You’re going to drop a game to Varlos but you’re two up on him in division standings, and you’ll still be two up on Ellis in overall standings. I suspect we’ll be meeting again in the playoffs unless there is an all-time waiver wire wonder that pops up later in the year.
You also had the second fewest points against coming into this week, so you were kind of due for a correction. Nobody has scored fewer than 106 against me, and my opponents have averaged 115 (not including you). Looking at your scores, only one team has scored *more than 100 *against you until now, and your opponents average 96.
Time for a bit of history. I’m averaging 130 points per game, or 134 if we include this week and assume Jordan Reed’s projection is accurate. The latter would be right in line with the scoring averages for the top teams in the league each year (all numbers are rounded to the nearest whole point, obviously):
2017 Nine Inch Neils - 130/134 PPG
2016 Isotopes - 126 PPG
2015 VarlosZzzz - 135 PPG*
2014 We Do HGH - 133 PPG*
2013 JB’s Gusterrhoids - 134 PPG
2012 We Do HGH - 133 PPG
2011 We Do HGH - 137 PPG
2010 We Do HGH - 131 PPG*
2009 CuteWiddleBunny - 138 PPG
The highest-scoring team only won the championship three times (indicated by asterisks), and has been knocked out in the first round of the playoffs a worrying number of times.
I am, however, worryingly reminded of last season, when I had 771 points after the first six games (777 after six this year), had comfortably the highest team score, and a 4-2 record including three division wins and a loss to Stringer (this year I’m 5-1 but the other stuff is the same). I only scored 820 points over the last eight games and alternated wins and losses, winding up 8-6 and third in my own division. It was mostly down to my entire RB corps going down to injury, but it also happened with Matt Ryan having a career year; this year the Falcons’ offense is awful and Andy Dalton is not much of an improvement. Beef is also worryingly close in the standings even though his team isn’t doing much.
What’s kind of amazing is that nobody has bettered Hamlet’s season score from 2009 in eight years. His 2009 scoring title was at least partly consistency-based, as he scored 107 points or better every week - though he also ran up 202.6 against Stringer* and then averaged 164 points over the final three weeks! Every other top-scoring team has managed a dud here or there. Weirdly, Hamlet’s team that year wasn’t all that impressive on paper; it was all about the depth. Brandon Marshall had 1100 yards and 10 TDs, AP had 1400 and 18, Thomas Jones had 1400 and 10, Chad Johnson had 1000/9, Ryan Grant (remember him?) had 1250/11, Vernon Davis had 950/13, Steve Smith Sr. had 1000/7, and Percy Harvin had 2000 total yards (mostly receiving) and 8 total TDs. None of his quarterbacks had more than 28 touchdowns.
By comparison, my team was the second-highest scoring that year and I only had one player with 10 touchdowns in any category (Michael Turner, 10 rushing), and one more (DeSean Jackson) with 10 total.
*this seems to be the all-time single-game scoring record. I didn’t even realize somebody had done that before; I thought Varlos’ 180-something a couple of years ago was the record.
Yahoo has an 11% chance that Reed fumbles a handoff and gets and game ending injury in the same play. So there is that.
Ironically, Reed’s huge night resulted in a 0.5 loss for me in my office league. :mad:
Travis Benjamin would be a great player to own in a best-ball league. His scoring goes like 3, 5, 3, 24, 0, 3, 7, 22. I can’t start him, but he has plenty of big weeks.
So under the league’s power rankings, which is the expected points yahoo expects you to score for the rest of the year, I went from #1 before the Rodgers injury to #11 today. Of course part of that is secondary effects - how much Jordy Nelson and Ty Montgomery lose too.
I don’t think there’s any other player that could’ve caused a swing that big.
Trade announcement!
RNATB (NIN) gets Jameis Winston and a 2018 third round pick.
Justin (Gusterrhoids) gets Andy Dalton and a 2018 first.
No need to push it through as I’m staying Dalton this week.
I’m sad to see Andy go but Matt Ryan has turned into a pumpkin again and I need a reliable QB to maintain my production. Jaboo isn’t winning a lot of games but he’s become a consistent 300/2 guy, and he’s obviously much younger.
This means - consistent with my “don’t own a qb and rb from the same team” philosophy - Doug Martin is now on the block for a similarly situated RB.
Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk
You traded away Andy “guaranteed top 10” Dalton? Or was it top 5? Can’t remember.
It was top 10. And he’d have finished as a top 10 qb again but his line is awful.
Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk
“Again” is an interesting word choice. When did he ever do that?
Need a league judgement on something.
I’ve been setting Varlos’ roster to the yahoo optimal projected points every week for the whole season. I don’t know when he’ll get back. I missed Thursday entirely - for myself and for Varlos, I was busy and the TNF slipped my mind.
If I had set his roster, the projected Ravens (10 points) would’ve been his starter at defense instead of the Panthers (6 points). By not having adjusted his roster, he missed out on the big night by the Ravens D.
Given that there was no subjectivity in it, I would’ve set Baltimore by our agreed upon absentee management rules, should I go back and correct this oversight and retroactively start Baltimore in his lineup?
That seems most consistent with what we intended to do, and having it slip my mind to manage his (and my) roster is my fault. Anything I missed because I forgot to set my roster is my fault, so I wouldn’t adjust it - but in this case his roster is being managed automatically, I’m just the custodian.
If you’ve been setting the lineup by projected points, it makes sense to retroactively apply that since it skipped your mind. But for the record, I’m not really a fan of that system. I didn’t get a chance to say anything the first time it was mentioned, so we may as well keep doing it now that we have started. At least for what we can determine is a lengthy absence, such as this.
Full disclosure: I know I’m not playing Varlos this week, but he is in my division.
At this point it’s not for Varlos’ sake but for league integrity. It’s the same thing that can happen if people quit leagues mid-year (obviously not a problem for SDMB leagues fortunately).
Some teams will win against other teams that aren’t really trying, that aren’t fielding a viable team. So let’s say that team A points more points and went 9-5 against all real weeks, that is to say, none of his opponents were absentee. Player B had the worse team overall, scored fewer points, but managed to go 10-4 against a schedule that included an absentee player. It’s not really fair because player A had to beat 9 real teams to get to his record, but player B only had to beat 9 real teams too even though he has 10 wins. The freebie screwed player A out of the playoffs even though he would’ve had the better team under a scenario where no one was absent.
In a more concrete sense, we play each of our division teams twice. If Varlos is a free win (and he often would be - several of his players on IR, normal bye week absenses, injuries, etc) then the rest of the players in your division can count on two extra free wins per year (with everyone else only getting one, netting one free win for everyone in your division). It gives them a huge undeserved advantage in the wildcard race.
You may still disagree and I’ll respect that, but I want to at least understand why it is I’m doing it. It upholds league integrity for all games to be real games against opponents who are fielding a team that has a legitimate chance to win.
He was the #3 qb in 2013 and would have been in the top 10 in 2015 had he not missed the last three games.
Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk
I’d vote to allow the retroactive change to the Ravens D. And, my God, I HATE these Thursday games. I completely forgot to check on Maclin and ended up leaving him on my bench during a week where I’m really hurting at WR.
Me losing as a 30 point favorite is the most me thing ever. Just another tally on the long list of things that go wrong for absolutely no reason.
I think I’m like 19-5 against you in fantasy or something absurd across multiple leagues. We had a streak that lasted like 3-4 years.
Far from over though.
True, but I often ended up winning the championship during those stretches, too. Maybe it’ll work out in the end. It’s definitely over this week, though. The entire reason I quit playing fantasy football for so many years was how often my RB/WR/TE randomly combined for zero TDs. Nobody has that happen more often than I do.
On the plus side, Varlos crushed by so much that the defensive swaperoo ended up being irrelevant.
15 kicker points in a half keeping you alive.