[League Update] Week 4 (and 2 and 3) — yeah, it's been a while

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So yeah ... I missed a few weeks. But we're back with a brand spankin' new post this week full of hot taeks and stupid jokes.

Let's dive right in.

This season is like NFL "Survivor": The team with the most healthy players at the end wins. We picked one hell of a season to jump to 16 teams, huh? *ducks*

Eve's haiku from last week:

All y’all’s teams are hurt
I have ZERO injuries
And yet, I’m dead last*

*Now next to last. 

Six players that were in RWC starting lineups Week 1 are now on injured reserve. (#research) That doesn't include the random other injuries that have popped up along the way. Needless to say, some weeks it's been hard as hell to set a lineup full of legit starters.

But at least one person has it figured out: SugaLumps sits alone at the top of the league at 4-0, blowing teams out 422.54-289.54. Which means ...

NEW AVATAR ALERT!

That cat has murder in its eyes.

On the other end of the standings is ... sigh ... Something witty at 0-4. From the Facebook: "did something witty misspell their team name in the beginning? maybe something _hitty?" Burn.

Bunched in the middle we have eight teams at 2-2, three at 3-1 and three at 1-3. Off the top of my head I can't remember how many teams make it to the playoffs but the competition should be thrilling.

Awards

SugaLumps was the top scorer in Week 4, beating Dolphins of Old 107-64. (In Week 3 it was Bueller with a ridiculous 133, and in Week 2 Get Off My Dak had 122.)

This week's Sad Trombone goes to Cant Be That Hard who once again prove that, yes, yes it can. He lost to Off Constantly 95-60. (Blaupunkt womped a 56 in Week 3 and Something witty also splatted a 56 in Week 2.)

The Johnny Football Award for Poor Decisions winner for Week 4 helped me out. Get Off My Dak kept Amendola and his 10 points on the bench and started Robert Woods, who scored a whopping 1.7. And I won by 7, 79-72. I'LL TAKE IT.

(I'm not going to take the time to look these up for previous weeks. My research only goes so far. Throw any suggestions in the comments.)

The Grumble Grumble Award for the past two weeks goes to One McCaffrey Latte Please. In Week 3, he lost to Muscular Mathletes by .08 points. (For the record, we have had a tie before in this league. Academic Probation and Off Constantly tied in the first week of the 2014 season). Then in Week 4 he had a nearly 40 point lead going into the Monday night game — and lost 101-95 after KB's Belly Shirts got a butt load of points from Alex Smith and Travis Kelce. Savage.

This week

The dreaded bye weeks start this week. Lord help us. (Atlanta, Denver, New Orleans and Washington are off this week.)

Eleanor's pick of the week

Let's just assume she got the last two weeks right, so she's 3-1 for the season. 

hfdkloooooomkfnnfnfnfnfnfnfaaaaaaahhhhhgggllgllglg splurt grrrrrrrjklnfioanovinveoilakin  fihoihoijkajkom vnkliahimeimne *spit up* (Dolphins of Old 87, Off Constantly 76)

The Book of Faces

"I actively hate fantasy football this season, but I have to say that our Facebook group has never been more entertaining."  -WattCanISayExceptYou'reWelcome. It's true. Y'all are killing the GIF game. Keep it up, team.

Haiku for me, Haiku for you

From Eve:

As kids say these days:
Y’all, our meme game is on fleek!
(By the way, I won.)