My roster is already spread so thin this year that Rodgers and Thomas on a bye may sink me. I’m having to start Dexter McCluster which is a sure sign of a McClusterfuck. I also doubt Josh McCown has one of his silly volume games. I considered swapping him out for Mettenburger for this week.
Andre Ellington appears to be fine and appears to be gaining 20 yards per touch, but they still only give him 3 touches per game. Not safe to start him yet.
Damn, I got spanked this week.
But if the projected scores hold up, at least I’ll continue to hold on to the Wild Card slot.
THANK you. Was that so hard, Justin? Huge week for me; I pick up the one-game lead in the division, plus another 40-70 in my points scored lead, plus I have the one game lead in intra-divisional record over JB.
Unless **Petey **can come back against furt, **RNATB **really separates himself in the Sunbelt this week (two game lead plus a big edge in both of the tiebreakers).
Ditto for **Hamlet ** in the Midwest if **Stringer **can make up his modest deficit.
Sooo glad I didn’t jump on this like I probably should have. (Actually, Miller’s had two really good games in a row now that I look; maybe it’s still a mistake.)
I’m probably going to squeak by to be 3-4. I guess that’s good, since 2-5 would’ve ended my season. But then I’m in that awkward position of probably not going anywhere this year, making every win pointless and just hurting my draft position. Sort of where I am in my real sports fandom by week 5.
I was lucky to squeak by, if I do, with my little score - most of the league had huge scores today. Stringer could potentially go 2-5 while scoring 130+ this week which would be pretty brutal.
It’s too early in the season to predict anything, and we’ve loaded divisional games into the last three weeks which I like, but it’s a tough climb to catch RNATB and the wildcard is probably going to Northeast in one form or another. It’ll be the first time I haven’t made the playoffs since year one.
Mathews for whatever reason has crazy per-touch efficiency in Philly. I wonder how long they’re going to continue to make him second fiddle just to follow the amount of money they paid for Murray. If Mathews would start getting regular touches it might save my season.
It was, actually. It took…
Stringer is in 11th place.
I think we’re going to have a pretty different playoffs this year than most years.
Would anyone be interested in Alfred Blue? PM me if you want to throw out an offer (a draft pick is an option).
Just not my year. I’m 5th in points scored but 11th place.
I never really paid attention before but how does the consolation bracket work for the #1 pick???
The winner of the Consolation Bracket gets the #5 pick. The runner-up gets #6.
Projected Standings at the Halfway Point in the Season
Northeast Corridor
Rank Team W-L-T Pct Div Pts Pts Against
1. Varlos' Zzzzzzz 12-2-0 0.857 5-1-0 1885.67 1607.28
3. JB's Gusterrhoids 10-4-0 0.714 3-3-0 1749.80 1684.01
9. Fightin' Quakers 5-9-0 0.357 1-5-0 1603.12 1662.52
11. New York Fanboys 5-9-0 0.357 3-3-0 1487.76 1652.44
Midwest
Rank Team W-L-T Pct Div Pts Pts Against
2. CuteWiddleBunnyHmlt 10-4-0 0.714 4-2-0 1779.82 1512.80
7. RetroVertigo 6-8-0 0.429 1-5-0 1541.33 1766.48
8. We Do HGH 5-9-0 0.357 5-1-0 1711.63 1737.20
10. Ides of Martz 5-9-0 0.357 2-4-0 1563.26 1685.65
Sunbelt
Rank Team W-L-T Pct Div Pts Pts Against
4. Nine Inch Neils 9-5-0 0.643 4-2-0 1751.83 1579.14
5. Exploding Pancakes 8-6-0 0.571 4-2-0 1646.14 1641.50
6. Isotopes 6-8-0 0.429 2-4-0 1579.83 1625.95
12. Warner's Brothers 3-11-0 0.214 2-4-0 1450.11 1595.33
Notable Moves Versus Preseason Ranking
Varlos rose from 4th all the way to 1st.
Stringer dropped from 1st all the way to 8th.
Hamlet jumped from 7th to 2nd.
Petey falls from 2nd to 6th.
Ellis, Beef, RNATB, and Omni are all playing almost exactly to their preseason expectations.
Apparently, if I’d played RetroVertigo’s schedule, I’d be 2-4 despite having the most points scored. His opponents really have been pretty bonkers: 5 of the last 6 weeks they’ve topped 145 points; averaged together they’d be the highest scoring team in the league by a fair margin (which of course is very unusual, since your Points Against tends to average out as it’s a mix of strong and weak teams).
Huh. I hadn’t noticed. I mean I knew that I was getting beat, but didn’t realize my opponents were scoring that much every week.
So Yahoo expects me to get 5 more wins this season? Heh.
It looks especially odd now that one of my two losses was against Retro, who doesn’t look likely to win even *one *more game this season.
That 9-5 projection seems a little worse than my expectations. I still have four of the five sub-800-point teams on my remaining schedule. My only scary remaining game is Varlos in week 10.
Speaking of which, who wants to trade me a backup QB? Breshad Perriman is available, and I might consider moving V-Jax for the right guy.
Well, I would have squished you no matter what (though you did score 170 back in week 3).
Brutal bye week for me. Ryan Mathews, LeSean McCoy, Allen Robinson, Darren Sproles, Denard Robinson, Chris Thompson. I have a severe shortage of running backs to begin with and I have 5 on a bye in one week.
I’m going to have to start Dexter McCluster. At least Ellington has a chance to be the latest back to rip Cleveland a new asshole. It’s just a matter of whether Chris Johnson will run for 150 or they’ll split it. I might start Robert Turbin on a flier, but this is probably not the best week for it.
I basically have no viable starting defense this week. Would a second round pick next year land me a good defense from someone? Maaaybe Travis Benjamin for a top defense. Chris Thompson. Kenny Britt. Jordan Cameron. For decent ones.
This is a disaster!
Anquan Boldin is scratched late this morning after it was assumed all week that he’d play.
Andy Dalton puts up single digits while I leave Brees (and his 51) on my bench.
Matt Forte might be hurt.
And I’m probably going to lose.
I hate fantasy football right now.
Hey, another season ending injury for my team. I was a bit concerned, because it was a couple weeks or so since the last. Now I lose the 10th highest scoring WR for the year. Goodbye Steve Smith Sr.
And, to compound things, Keenan Allen gets injured in the second quarter. Just don’t know how severe it is.
This fucking sucks. How many IR spots do we get?
Smith is retiring so I don’t think you need to keep him
Yeah, good news: you’re not losing him for the season, you’re losing him forever!