I’m really gonna try and make this short and sweet because let’s face it, there’s already a ton of content recapping what went down last week and even this week and it’s Friday then, it’s Saturday Sunday WHAT.
In terms of close match-ups, there was only one in Week 8: Kris vs. Brent. As always, it was a good showing from both sides, with Brent edging out the victory. This was thanks in part to Cousin Greg Josephs (12 points) and Joe Burrow ($3, 20.26 points). Kris was actually beat out by one measly FAAB dollar for Ohio’s native son, although Josh Allen’s near-30-burger was pretty much all you can ask for. Still, there’s been situations in the past where someone’s picked up a player that another team needs just to keep their opponent that week from having them. Who’s to say that if Kris outbid the reigning champ, Matt Ryan would be making a start for the Flandrews and only dropped 6 points? We’d be singing quite a different tune, and Joey B wouldn’t be my starter for Week 9. It’d still be Tua Time, a simpler time… Further, Kris made another savvy move by picking up Cole Beasley for an 11 point surplus ($5, 16 points, you know the drill).
We had something fun/rare happen this week that not many people would notice, but I did. If you check out the chart above, there’s one line where the added and dropped player have no color filling their cell. This means this is the first time the added player has been added (MVS) and the first time the dropped player has been dropped (Curtis Samuel). Shout-out to Ryan for that little treat, because the rest of the FAAB moves my guy made were pretty awful. Every player that Ryan shelled out a few bucks for (MVS for $3, Gallup for $2 and Kalif Raymond for $2) threw up a goose egg, either due to injury or just being plain bad. Not sure about the logic of spending money on hurt players when you could get them for free, but my guy’s always got a master plan none of us can see. C.J. Uzomah is definitely somewhat viable as a TD-vulture, but DeVante Parker scored 12.5 compared the the Bengals TE’s 5.3. Better luck with your pick-ups this week, Marz.
Tommy Bonez was the high roller of the week with a modest $13 on Bobby Tonyan. Definitely not the biggest dollars-to-points deficit we’ve seen here (-6.6) and Buffalo pulled out a solid win against Max Trade-room over here, so we’ll take it in stride. This guy’s a contender.
Zero moves by Brad this week, must have been busy getting his Randy Marsh costume together. I appreciated the hell out of that, Tegridy Farms is on par (if not at times better) than South Park and it deserves its respect.
Beanso ALWAYS knows just how much to spend on defenses, he’s like Rain Man in that respect. He can probably do it without even knowing the match-up. I haven’t seen the movie so I’m guess that’s about where the comparisons end, but the 49ers costed $6 and spat out 6 points in return. This was also the most sought-after acquisition of the week, with 3 other teams making offers that didn’t quite cut it. Randall Cobb was a solid grab, David Johnson not so much.
Lastly, I’d like to give a big “fuck you” to reddit user newtya (a Lions fan, like the animal from the circus, what a joke) for sticking his nose in places it doesn’t belong. A different reddit user, AlbuquerqueAardvarks, called me terrible for “confirming that you’re trying to collude with another owner and then using that publicity to push your blog” and I responded with a sarcastic comment. This idiot Lions fans calls me a dick and says “I’m never clicking that link”. Can people not just leave things alone on the internet anymore? That’s another joke for ya. Obviously I didn’t know I was colluding if I’m making a post about it, and then when everyone tells me it’s collusion I’m not lashing out at every single comment (I already did that in the GroupMe discussion), but when you start attacking my character I’ll play along and feed into your anger over whatever it is you’re projecting onto me. As for pushing the blog once I realized I’d get a lot of views on my post, you’re clearly mad you didn’t think of that for whatever little creative thing you’re trying to push. Otherwise, why would you care? I literally say “damn, this is doing numbers”, the most generic jokey shit you put in an edit or reply post, after getting like 5 upvotes and 12 comments, big whoop. You’re looking at it and we’re talking about it, I win.
Goddamn. This has been The Wire, enjoy the weekend folks. Go League.
Must Be Sunday 