“Are you sure?”? Fuck yes I am, you kidding? Idk what my company thinks this is, but everyone needs a PASSION PROJECT. One that’ll eventually get them fat stacks of cash and a private jet, but we can keep that on the down low. For now, let’s get back into the swing of things:
Ahhhhhhh, the board has never looked better and all the familiar name and faces are showing up. We all remember the rules; names shaded blue have been added and dropped at least once, red border means multiple times added, orange border means multiple times dropped, we compare FAAB spent to point for that week (for some reason) and then the points of the added player vs. the dropped player, as well as whether that difference could have changed the outcome of your match-up.
I’ll keep this brief because I have to go record the pod soon. If you look closely at the table you’ll see two match-ups that were quite close, we’ll discuss them both right here…
Abie vs. Brent: Now, Abie himself alluded to this in the GroupMe on Sunday, but if you missed it you won’t find it on the table. You might see his add of the Rams Defense and how they scored a respectable 11 points in a walk-on job that was easy peasy because they were playing the Falcons. However, you take a look at that W/L column and still see an L. How could that be? Abie’s got all the moves down to a science, you think. That is until you take a look at Abie’s bench from that very same week and notice that the Bucs ended up with a whopping 22 points against the Saints in a crazy real-life game that would have saved the Hockeypro’s fantasy week. Based on the Saints’ performance in Week 1, I probably would have done the same thing. Not sure if that says something bad about you or good about me, I won this week but it was an ugly, and I mean ugly win. But I’m not here to talk about that. On we go.
Vigs vs. Max: I think Max might have released Beetlejuice or Candyman or whatever demon controls fantasy football bad luck because holy cow. I’m not going to rehash the most recent LeagueStory column, but it’s looking worse and worse for Max. The Commish must have been pretty happy to see his team hang on after a Josh Allen 30-burger on Monday Night. Everyone pitched in for this win, take a look at the box score and you’ll understand that depth is what really counts in fantasy, next-man-up mentality at its finest. This week, no one proved that more than Tyler Higbee (or Higsby), who replaced Cole Kmet (lol) and scored 10.6 to put Vigs ahead by 5.52 when all the dust settled. There is quite certainly a bizarro world where our friend Andwoo thought “y’know, the Bears had a bit of a fluke game Week 1. Plus Cole Kmet has two consecutive consonants in his last name, just like me! Based on those two vague notions alone, I’m gonna give him a second chance.” In this timeline, Max probably goes on to win The League, and gloats about it so much on the air that he gets a standing invitation for a seat at the FOX NFL Sunday Countdown table. I guess we’ll never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lastly, I’ll just say this now and probably again on the podcast: Yes, I picked up and started Rex Burkhead this past week. No, I didn’t listen to the advice from the podcast. Yes, he only scored 1.9 points. Yes, I still got the win and have now beaten the two main hosts of the podcast this year and Tommy has not beaten me since joining The League. As Erica Sinclair from Stranger Things says, “just the facts”.
Anyway, here are those other tables I keep track of, the one with the amount of times you Add/Drop and the net amount of points that come out of it, and the tracking of your budgets for Week 2.
After that flop of a FAAB buy in Week 1, Beans seems too be biding his time. So is Ryan, who’s in a tight race with Brad for most points. That’s a sentence I’d laugh at a year ago today, but now they’re the ones laughing. Like I said before, Abie’s got the moves, and he’s starting most of those points. Let’s see if he can keep it up or if someone else finds a diamond in the rough. Once again, pound-for-pound Kris is looking scary good at picking and choosing, so it’s quite possibly going to be him. On the FAAB side, I’m not as sure about Kris since he blew $27 in one week, but we’ll see if scarcity can breed some innovation. Let’s trick Brent into spending some maybe, even though he’s pretty occupied with trades right now…
With that, I bid you all farewell, good night, and don’t spend it all in one place. Go League.
Must Be Sunday 