Done that? Moving on...
REKAPS!!
Lockett, Evans give Team Provost the edge over Hooked On A Thielen, 130.5-82.5
Hey, it's really hard to beat a team with multiple 30 point scorers, like Provost had in Tyler Lockett and Mike Evans. It wouldn't even have helped if HOTA had played Lamar Jackson instead of Aaron Rodgers. The downside for HOTA was that he also left Carlos Hyde on the bench, who would have been his second (or third) highest scoring player of the week. HOTA cansecond guess all he wants, but he would have had a hard time winning this week anyway, especially with 3 of his players on bye, and a mid-game injury to Adam Thielen.
Pedro Pickles shows signs of life, silences Hamilton Rod and Gun 118.5-103
FOUR guys on bye for Pickles didn't matter, because he finally got what he had been looking for all year from Zach Ertz. And also DK Metcalf, presumably added as a bye week fill in and a hope for something, put up big numbers. Meanwhile, HRG continues to ride with Carson Wentz, who has been pretty pedestrian the last 3 weeks. He's running into a problem similar to other teams in the league: his highly-talented, highly-drafted players just haven't been putting up numbers.
Death Valley Driver moves to the top of the league, softens Hardcore Sacks 119-101.5
In a matchup of what might be our two most talented teams, DVD pulled out the victory; this time, with no help from the Patriots D. He did get a lot of help from David Montgomery's two 1-yard TD runs. Hey, TDs are 6 points no matter how many yards to get beforehand. Hardcore went in "shorthanded" with Cooper Kupp on bye, but still put up a good fight. Aaron Jones and the ineffective Packers offense sort of did him in.
Jeff Fisher Effect continues Jekyll and Hyde act, takes out Utah Falco, 117-97
Melvin Gordon finally did some Melvin Gordon things for JFE this week. Two TDs, and a pretty cool hurdle over a Packers defender. It covered up a stinker from Stefon Diggs. Well, so did the crazy performance from Russell Wilson. Falco had a reasonable week, but the 2 points from the heretofore good 49ers D (who had put up double digits 4 straight weeks) and virtually nothing from Shady McCoy sort of doomed him here.
Iron Ryan uses big Monday Night from Dak, Gallup, squeaks by Released Dix On Boobies, 101.5-100
The hapless Giants looked good in the beginning of Monday Night Football. And then, same as the viewers, they #gotboogered. Dak Prescott and Michael Gallup remembered they play for the better team, and helped I-Ry barely escape with the win. It's the narrowest margin of victory in the league this season. For Boobies (heh), it was Mitch Trubisky who killed him. Yeah, he didn't start Trubisky, but he's so bad, his stink extends to Allen Robinson, who managed just a half-point. Shoulda played Mike Williams.
It's A Money Thing; You Wouldn't Understand
Team Provost topped the league scoring this week, winning his second Tidwell of the season. The nine Tidwell awards this year have been spread across 5 owners, with 4 of them winning twice. The owner with a single Tidwell also happens to be our top scoring team (DVD). Meanwhile, Team Provost is 7th in total scoring and has two, while Boobies (heh) is the #4 scoring team, and has no Tidwells.
Fantasy is weird, man.
Other Scoring Hodge Podge
I referenced earlier that Utah Falco probably doesn't deserve to be 2-7. He's had 1140 points scored against him. That's 86 more than the next highest points against, which translates to an extra 9.5 points against per week. It's an AVERAGE of 126.6 points against per week. That 126 point average, would be the highest points FOR per week average in league history (by about 5 points). And if it continues (which it can't, right? Regression and all that?) would be the highest points against average by a FULL 10 points. To be fair, Falco has the third fewest points for, so it's not entirely a fluke of high scoring against him. But what would his record look like if he had the points against of The Jeff Fisher Effect, who has 331.5 FEWER POINTS AGAINST!
No one has scored less than 103.5 points against Falco this year (and that 103.5 was in Week 1), and he's played against the Tidwell winner THREE TIMES! Using the "against league average" every week, he'd be 4-5. (Though, interestingly, using that same metric, our teams would only be either 5-4, 4-5, or 3-6. You can see that on the "Points" tab here.)
Fantasy is weird, man.
Coming Up Next
We've got two matchups for 5-4 teams this week: Hardcore vs. Boobies (heh) and HRG vs. HOTA. Every one of those teams wants a win to keep pace with first-place DVD, who draws The Effect this week, and seems likely to get Alvin Kamara back. I-Ry and Pickles face off, and Team Provost takes on Falco. We're going to have at least two 6-4 teams after this week, and we'll see how the standings separate out beginning Thursday night with Raiders-Chargers.
On to Week 10!
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