Yoooooo, I missed last week because I was running around getting ready to go away, so here’s a quick two-fer. Lots of transactions Week 7 but not much action on The Wire, probably even less in Week 8. Gotta put together a LeagueStory to run through some of the overarching trends of the season so far, but that’s for another time:
WEEK 7:
1) Real close game here between Beans and Kris, with Kris squeaking out a win by 4.46. Brendan dropped Darnell Mooney for Isiah Pacheco, who scored 6.8 points. If you saw the auction report and noted that Beans also got Michael Gallup on auction for $5 FAAB and started him, you’ll probably want to know that Pacheco’s 6.8 points is exactly 6.8 points more than Gallup’s output that week. A few other gentlemen who rode the bench put up the points needed to keep the Beans Corp. comeback alive, but Kris is in a bit of a comeback era himself, and there can only be one in this situation. Better luck next time Beans, but as you’ll see this is a “next time” in week 9, not week 8…
2) If you turn now in your history books to the Battle of 1017, you’ll see it was a hard fought affair won by Commissioner Andrew I by a margin of 11.44 over Lord Thomas of the House of Bones. The Commissioner made a few very beneficial strategic moves before battle, acquiring a cavalry of Colts (9 pts.) and soliciting the services of a great Hunter named Renfrow (7 pts.), which surely turned the tide of this great battle. Less deft however was the choice made by the Lord of Bones, by keeping his newly acquired Panther, Chuba Hubbard (14.3 pts.), chained in his castle and unable to ravage his opponent with its razor sharp claws and teeth. These medieval/animal puns doing anything for you?
WEEK 8:
Before I get into match-ups I do want to mention this. I noticed Abie dropped Russell Wilson on Tuesday before the waiver transactions went through. This does happen every now and again and I don’t usually pay much attention to it, but this week I thought it was funny that he didn’t get either of the auctioned players he bid on and basically dropped the guy anticipating an add that never happened. Anyway, let’s keep going.
1) Beans, Beans, Beans. Guy can’t catch a break on The Wire. This week he drops TWO players who would have erased his -5.4 point loss margin, in Romeo Doubs (14.2) and Rondale Moore (19.9), while purchasing Wan’Dale Robinson for $5 FAAB and only getting 2.5 points in return. This was a bad game for the New York Football Giants, but still don’t be surprised if you see Wan’Dale in the Dropped column next week. That’s what you get for trusting your rivals (Giants) to beat your other rival (Brent).
2) Tommy Bones redeemed himself this week in the eyes of The Wire by grabbing Jason Meyers for 11 points and defeating Max by a 6.68 point margin. However, Max would like me to inform you all that he slept through the start of the 1pm games and was therefore unable to swap Darren Waller out for Mike Gesicki after Waller was ruled out. I haven’t listened to this week’s Pod yet so I’m not sure if he called in and mentioned that already.
And those are all the games that had stakes related to add/drops and auctions. It’s a skimpy article, but it’s here and that’s what matters. Now, here’s BenchBooms:
In descending order for both weeks…
5 BBs – Ryan (Mecole Hardman, 26 pts.) & Brent (D’Onta Foreman, 31.8 pts.)
4 BBs – Beans (Juju, 21.9 pts.) & Brent (Tua, 29.18 pts.)
3 BBs – Abie (Eno Benjamin, 21.3) & Tom (Jamaal Williams, 21.1)
2 BBs – Vigs (Gus Edwards, 18.6 pts.) & Beans (Geno Steaks, 19.08)
1 BB – Yours Truly (Parris Campbell, 18 pts.) & Brad (Matt Stafford, 17.38 pts.)
A nice variety of Boomers! Max has still not cracked the Top 5 benched players which is probably good but he better keep it up if he wants to stay out of last place where it really counts. Kris has 2, pretty impressive.
That’s pretty much it, LeagueStory coming soon maybe, keep an eye out for fun charts and graphs there š
Must Be Sunday 