You can’t make this stuff up, I was three paragraphs into this week’s write-up when I got a notification on my laptop screen that says “Your computer is being restarted by IT.” Son of a bitch, I hope this doesn’t delete everything I was writing. It did though, so here we are. It’s too late to do that all again (what I had was basically a love letter to Brendan’s and my team (or our FAAB moves at least) and a lot of good jokes that will never see the light of day.
If anyone knows how to get that back, maybe I’ll finish it out but the short story is this: Brendan made great moves and won, I made a good move (the best move) and won, Max and Alex made some not great moves and lost, and Ryan made many mostly bad moves and still won. You can figure out the rest by looking up at the chart. Speaking of the chart, I made some additions and want to show you some new things I’m working on in lieu of a proper rundown.
So the owners’ names that are highlighted blue are just who I write about for one reason or another, I think I’ve left that in there before. Any player name shaded in blue has shown up on The Wire before, either as a player bought with FAAB or dropped for a FAAB pick-up. A red border around a player added means they’ve been bought with FAAB bucks before (used goods used goods). Orange border means this person has been dropped for a FAAB pickup before (whatever that’s worth, they’re good at being dropped). This doesn’t take into account waiver wire pick-ups for free, only money transactions, but maybe I’ll add that later.
What you see now is the list of players who have achieved what I’ve dubbed a “Double Whammy”. This means the player has positive differences in the K column (points-amount paid) and the N column (more points than who was dropped for them). Bonus points if they’re the same position (I highlighted), and extra bonus points if it’s the #1 most expensive player of the week. That’s what half of the love letter to Brendan’s Boston Scott pick-up was about. I also thought it was a coincidence that he and I both got a Double Whammy on a defense in a week where we beat Abie. Really cool that three happened this week, but now onto something completely different.
This is what I named the “Fate Chart”, because it’s based on the player you bought’s fate whether or not you actually got points for the FAAB dollars you spent. If anyone has a better name I’m very open to suggestions. Basically, this table looks for value in the players you bid on after the week of their pick-up, but it only counts the points they scored on your team whether they started or sat. There will be more to this as the season goes on and I have time to toy with it a bit, but look upon it now in its young glory! I can also sort it by owner, position, team, offer amount and most efficient offer (even though you can clearly tell it’s Rodrigo the GOAT).
There were a lot of other things I wanted to say, I wanted to congratulate Ryan on the win despite sitting Christian Kirk, dropping Randall Cobb, and not picking up Gio Bernard, but my IT Department took that chance away from me. They’ve helped me out of many jams before so I’ll let it slide this time. I thank you all for your continued readership and hope we all score 150 next week! This has been The Wire, kind of. Go League and goodnight.
Must Be Sunday 