Look at this fun little chart! Remember my long chart listing the teams back in Week 4’s Wire and the amounts spent and number of adds and drops? Well, this is just taking a look at that first metric in the form of a Tree Map. Hopefully you’re able to see the dollar amounts, but basically the bigger the logo the more FAAB has been spent on players of that team. Let’s break down the top 6, who account for $275 of the $506 spent so far this season:
Arizona Cardinals: Who would have thought they’d be the top dog in the NFL and right here in The League?? Bids for players of this team only started in Week 3, starting with Rondale Moore ($34) and Cardinals Defense ($10) by Brad and Beans. They played each other that week, you can guess who won. The very next week Brad dropped another $20 on AJ Green and kicked Rondale to the curb. $1 bids for Maxx Williams (Brad, Week 5) and Matt Prater (Abie, Week 7) round things out.
New York Giants: This one was surprising. A brutal loss to the Cowboys in Week 5 got some League members thinking they could get a steal on some G-Men in the following week. The most expensive player from this team was Devontae Booker (Max, $28). He also is currently the worst of all the Big Blue teammates who have been bought this season. Abie grabbed Sterling Shepard for $13 once he was ready to play in Week 2, but now he’s back on the bench and off the 69ers. Toney Tone had an impressive performance in the Cowboys game and still seems kinda viable if the Giants can keep from stinking the rest of the season, so the $8 investment from Beans Corp remains to be fully actualized. Finally, I grabbed Graham Gano for a few weeks and a few bucks. He’s gone now.
Carolina Panthers: Where were you during the Great Scramble for Chuba Hubbard took place? I was still recovering from Gov Ball, where I missed a whole week of games to stand in a parking lot, which was awesome. Our buddy Kris was thinking about how many points he’d need to get in order for the $41 of FAAB he dropped for the CMC back-up to be worthwhile. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been as many as he needs to get back to the domination he enjoyed in prior years, but it was a pretty good move in terms of knowing how much to bid and who to bid on, as we all know Kris is the free agent king. Now that he’s recovering from surgery, he’s got nothing but time… Also I bought the Panthers D for $3, because Panthers D is basically Sex Panther.
San Francisco 49ers: Elijah Mitchell was one of the first big bucks FAAB pick-ups of the year. And Brent immediately trades him, to Max, who also bought Trenton Cannon (-1.6 points on the season) for a buck, woof! In the games that Mitchell has played, he’s played pretty good! But the key phrase here “in the games that he’s played” is crucial. Another big purchase that goes hot and cold and doesn’t do much for your bottom line, aka the win column, aka what you need to win The League. The Niners themselves are having a rocky go of it, we’ll see if calmer seas are ahead for both organizations. Also, just this week, Beans picked up the SF D-Fence for $6 and got a perfect 6 point bang for his FAAB Buck. We love to see that on The Wire.
Las Vegas Raiders: Now for the team with the highest number of players on this Top 6 list, I’ll be listing off the list of players that helped the Raiders make this list, sponsored by Listerine:
Week 3 – Daniel Carlson, 12 points (Kris, $5)
Week 4 – Hunter Renfrow, 13.5 points (Abie, $11)
Week 5 – Raiders D/ST, 4 points (Thomas, $7)
Week 6 – Raiders D/ST, 10 points (Abie, $1)
Week 7 – Derek Carr, 19.02 points (Brendan, $2)
Week 7 – Henry Ruggs III, 5.1 points (Ryan, $11)
The trades made by Kris and Abie resulted in wins, and are pretty clearly the best moves out of the bunch of those.
Cleveland Browns: Here we go, Brownies, here we go, WOOF WOOF! Max got D’Ernest Johnson for $27, which resulted in 23.8 points and a 12.4 point win against Beans. That’s pretty consequential, I would say. I got Demetric Felton for $6, I don’t wanna talk about it. Abie got the Defense in Week 2 for $4, they scored 5 but he won by 20 so it didn’t really matter. Boring team, last one I’m gonna talk about because this has taken way too long already for a little chart.
Bye!
Must Be Sunday 