Tuesday, November 12, 2013

[League Update] Week 10: It's a cruel, cruel game

Fantasy football is a cruel game sometimes.

PerpetualMotionSquad dropped Nick Foles Oct. 30 when he got injured. Since then he's had weeks of 45 and 22 points.

The Muscular Mathletes kept Tavon Austin on the bench since he had scored less than a point in each of the previous two weeks. He scored 26 Sunday.

And even when The Reservoir Dogs lost their running back to injury early in the Monday night game, Jeff Fisher's Mullets couldn't get .9 points out of Vincent Jackson to win the game. (Didn't catch a dadgum pass in the second half!) The Mullets lost by less than a point.


Then there's Blaupunkt. Blaupunkt set a full lineup with active players and scored -- wait for it -- 29 points. The highest point scorer on his team was the Seahawks defense with 8 points. That's the lowest point total in league history, beating out a 35 by PMS last year.

For that exercise in epic futility, Blaupunkt is Week 10's clear winner of the Sad Trombone Award. Forget Sad Trombone. Blaupunkt needs a whole Sad Orchestra. Blaupunkt needs to sit in a corner with a dunce cap on while a whole Sad Orchestra circles around and mocks him.


Big Kahuna Burger is just happy Blaupunkt was more pathetic this week. BKB scored 42 points.

Fantasy Football is a frustrating and unpredictable game. That's what makes it fun (and what makes the projected points all but useless).
After 10 weeks of play, there are the haves -- Muscular Mathletes -- the have nots -- PMS -- and everyone else.

The Mathletes extended their lead on the league back to two games with a 20-point win over Something and a Mullet loss. PMS finally won a second game, but is still two games behind the 13th place team. PMS' owner told me his goal was to win out and go 6-8. That's how he finished last year, just missing the playoffs.
Everyone give yourselves a pat on the back. You deserve it.

The trash talking on Twitter has been incredible since my little temper tantrum a couple weeks ago. The Reservoir Dogs started it with me early in the week (and backed it up). Tweets were flying left and right all weekend, so much so that I missed some and didn't see them until I was looking back over the @RoyaleWithCheese mentions for this post.

There are so many good ones I couldn't decide on TWEET(s) OF THE WEEK, so here's a good sampling:



Thank you all! It makes it so much more fun. Keep it up the rest of the season!

On a related note, all 14 league members are now on Twitter. I have created a Twitter list with everyone in it. Now you can direct your trash talk to exactly who deserves it.
Correctamundo led the league with 102 points this week. He and Dolphins of Old were the only teams to break 100 this week.

And the Week 10 You Got Lucky Award goes to Cant Be That Hard for winning with just 61 points. (For those wondering why iwishiwouldhaveplayedtuba benched his entire team, click here. We've talked. It's cool. Moving on.)


Cant Be That Hard is on a three-game win streak and has moved into a tie for second place in the league. Trust me, you guys, Cant Be That Hard winning is bad for everyone. We'll never hear the end of it.

It is more important than ever to set your lineup this week. The difference between second place and 13th place is two games. Every game is important to playoff seeding. There are only four more games left in the regular season and only four teams make the championship playoffs. Four more make the consolation bracket. The tie-breaker is "Points For."

This week's Thursday night game is between the Colts and Titans. Decide what you want to do with players on those teams before Thursday night. Set the rest of your lineup by Sunday.

Teams with a bye in Week 11: Cowboys and Rams.

Wishing you sure hands and strong ACLs,

Corey
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