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Should Taysom Hill Be Permissible As A TE?

The following column is a direct email that was sent by yours truly, Ryan (aka Marzy), owner of The Martians, to all other league managers. The original email content was not altered in anyway.

To give some context on the developing story, I bid $11 FAAB on Taysom Hill Tuesday night to pick him up off waivers and add him as a part of my team, with the intention of potentially playing him in the flex spot as a second TE. Due to past events and the nefarious tyranny of The Commish (aka Andrew) I have been told that I cannot start Taysom Hill as a TE, only QB, which has me bewildered considering ESPN Fantasy Football, the New Orleans Saints, and the NFL all consider him a TE. This decision by The Commish to not permit Taysom Hill as an acceptable TE was made after he was on my team and I have yet to have my $11 FAAB returned to me.

You mean to tell me I can’t use a TE in the TE spot?

I feel I have been defiled and violated. This is my story …

*Law & Order Intro Music*

Good afternoon my fellow league managers,

I hope you are all enjoying your Friday and looking forward to a football packed Sunday. I am writing you to formally address the Taysom Hill dispute. Although this precedent has been addressed in past seasons, with an unfortunate ending to one of our fallen league members, I believe the circumstances of the current development are much different.

The League has grown a credible reputation through the last few years and is considered a respectable fantasy football franchise all throughout the NY/NJ region. Although the high acclaim for The League has grown in popularity and prestige, it does not mean the statutes of The League are taboo. Every season of The League leads to new developments and affairs. With no two seasons being the same, causing The League’s regulations to change every year. Yes, there are some statutes that remain the same, but many come and go season to season based on the affairs of the NFL. This being said, it was never stated before the start of the season, nor during the season, that Taysom Hill would not be able to be played as a TE. To find out that a league manager cannot use him as a TE after spending $11 FAAB on him is a criminal offense and downright goes against the honor of The League. To retrograde ruling after the circumstances have occurred is corrupt and deceitful.

Taysom Hill is by definition a TE for the New Orleans Saints and the NFL, and thus should be seen as the same for fantasy managers. Many could argue that using a TE that both throws and runs the ball, which gives him a slight edge over other TEs, is unjustifiable and objectionable. But that is why we make risky decisions and manage our teams the way we do, to get that slight edge over other teams. If Taysom Hill can’t be used as TE because he throws and runs the ball, then players such as Josh Allen and Jalen Hurts should not be able to be used as QBs because they rush the ball, and many times have the highest number of rushing yards on their team. Players should not be dealt with in different ways or have inconsistent fantasy permissions just because they are playing different positions.

Taysom Hill only has such a high value because Jameis Winston is hurt, and will most likely be out for week 6. Taysom Hill has put up a decent, but respectable, 24.3 points in the first 4 weeks of football. Without the game where he scored 34.08 points, he is nothing more than a mediocre TE. A manager should not have to guess if he can play him as a TE, when he is by definition a TE. If a manager were to play him as a QB and Jameis Winston was throwing the ball, leaving little passing attempts for Taysom Hill, then he would be averaging 8.1 points, which by any standard is horrendous for a QB. He is currently projected to score 6.5 points in week 6, which again, is abysmal if he were to be played as a QB. This calls attention to the intentions of the other FOUR league managers that bid on Taysom Hill. If Taysom Hill is to be used as a QB and would only score an average of 8.1 points a game then why did Abie, Brendan, Thomas, and Max bid $8, $5, $4, and $3 respectively? This is not only the highest amount of individual bids we’ve had on a single player all season, but collectively the highest amount of FAAB bid on a player. This is due to no other reason than the fact that the four other league managers had the same intention as myself. To use Taysom Hill as a TE.

This problematic conflict has warranted me to petition for two things. One, in future seasons, we generate a rule book. A list of rules that can be amended and added to from season to season. Two, the dispute of whether Taysom Hill is permissible to be used as a TE in The League goes to a vote. In the case that the majority of managers vote to approve Taysom Hill’s TE candidacy, myself and any other league manager is able to use him as a TE. In the event that the majority of managers vote to decline Taysom Hill’s TE candidacy, The Martians should be returned the full FAAB bid amount that was spent on Taysom Hill and won’t be obliged to drop him.

I have a great love for The League and I wanted to address this situation in a courteous and sportsmanlike demeanor. I ask that league managers take a moment to contemplate whether they think Taysom Hill should be able to be played as a TE if he was on THEIR team. I wish everyone’s fantasy team the best of luck in the upcoming matchups this Sunday and as always, the interactions of The League come from a place of love, morale, and competitiveness.

Thank you,
Your fellow league manager,
Ryan O’Connell

The Wire: Week 5 2022

Mfw it is Wednesday my dudes:

We had some fun this week fellas, and by we I mean me because I didn’t lose to Owen. There were two games that were pretty close that we’re gonna talk about but first I’ll reiterate something that was said on the podcast last week: Almost everyone got who they bid on, so y’all spent too much again. There was one competitive bid after the initial Tuesday-Wednesday rush that could have had some big implications on the week, let’s get into it.

Andrew vs. Ryan: 18.32 point win by Ryan
If you check the #4 slot of The Wire chart there, you’ll see that our Commish grabbed the Dolphins defense for $3 (too much) and actually LOST a point. Dude basically paid to get his ass kicked. I’ll have to look up how many times that’s happened. He dropped the Broncos D which by the rules of The League means they go to Waivers. None other than his opponent, King Marzy, steps up to bat and delivers a perfect bid of $3 to beat out Owen’s $2, relishing in the 13 points of glory come Thursday. Even though it was the Colts D who were dropped and they themselves ended up scoring 12 points in Free Agency Land, this meant a 14 point swing for Andrew, accounting for over 75% of his loss Margin. Say you decided to give Kenneth Walker III a shot instead of Diontae Johnson at Flex, your prophecy would be halfway to becoming true. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Pittsburgh is not a reliable team for fantasy players. Just my two cents.

Brent vs. Kris: 4.42 point win by Kris
I saw something on the board yesterday while putting everything together that made me go “oof”, as they usually do when I think I can write something about the transaction. You can see above that this was a close game, but you might be wondering where the fire is in relation to the moves made on The Wire. Brent didn’t make any moves, and Kris sat all the players he spent (too much) money on or picked up? Well, you have a good eye my friend. Nothing that happened on The Wire would have affected the outcome of this matchup. I mistakenly thought that Kris had picked up and started Derek Carr (17.94) over the dropped Carson Wentz (21.86, [+3.92]) and then LOST to Brent by that 4.42 margin! Instead, Kris lengthened his winning streak and is low-key on the rise! Apologies for my unconscious mind assuming that Brent had won, I was still recovering from the gallon of vodka and IPAs that I had on Saturday.

Now even in that scenario with everything else happening exactly the same, the margin of win would have still been half a point. In real life, Brent is probably equally pissed whether it was half a point or 4.42 points. Even with Kelce hitting a 30-burger, it wasn’t enough to overcome the margin from Sunday and Daniel Carlson’s impressive 16. I hope Brent didn’t see that tweet that was like “Some fantasy managers’ already going into MNF were ‘I can still win if Kelce gets 4 TDs’.” Not In This League. Either way there was a path for Brent that would have had him sitting pretty by Sunday night and floating across the GWB come Monday. However, instead he decided to have some… BENCHBOOMS!

Yes, that’s right folks! Welcome back to BenchBooms. The Back to Back Champ did make this comment in the GroupMe and I mistakenly dismissed it, but it’s true. With a combined total of 45.5 points between Tyler Lockett and Jacobi Meyers, Brent is officially the winner of Week 5’s Golden Bench. These 7 BenchBooms bring his overall score to 13, but he’s still runner-up to Tommy Bonez (17) after Gabe Davis’ outstanding outing while sitting out. And if you’re wondering, players that score points while in the IR slot ARE still considered BenchBooms.

Lastly, all this talk of wins and losses further leads me into a tiny little section where I revisit some of the Historical Matchup Records of The League and let you know how things are going. If you remember my preseason column, there were three overall records that were tied going into 2022. Here are the outcomes so far:

Kris vs. Brent: 4-4 (now 5-4)
Is the Champ on a decline? Can he trade his way out of it? It looks like the scales may be tipping a bit…

Ryan vs. Andrew: 3-3 (now 4-3)
This isn’t that shocking to anyone paying attention, Ryan is really good.

Jack vs. Andrew: 3-3 (now 4-3)
This match-up was so bad back in Week 1, let’s not remember it.

As of right now, 8 of the 45 possible match-ups are in a stalemate. I won’t say which, although some are related to Tom & Brad since they just got here. Keep your eyes peeled though, you may have an important week coming up…

That’s my spiel! A little different but I like talking about different things and they waiver players doesn’t really stand up on its own. As always I love to hear suggestions for graphics and things you want to know about related to the stats so say it on the Pod or in the GroupMe or slide into my DMs! Consider me the Amazon Web Services of The League. Hope you liked it!

LeagueStory x LeagueTalk: Redux

Ohhhhh boy. Ohhhhhhhhhhh God. I don’t even know what to say right now. Should I be upset that the Pod thinks my team is bad? Should I laugh at them for not realizing Breece Hall has been in the top 20 RBs for the past few weeks and is only going up from there? Should I remind you I’ve done this before? Should I give you a history lesson? What should I do?

I guess I will say that I’m glad I didn’t join the Pod last night, if only so that I could come in here again and be right about stuff (which I love). We’ll start with the main two points that were asked for by our gracious hosts.

Biggest Margins of Victory:

As you can see, Brad’s win last week over Abie is in the ballpark of the highest in LeagueStory, but definitely not the top spot. However, it is another entry in the “Margins that are Higher than the Loser’s Score” list, which might have to be updated after 2021…

Highest Scores:

Once again, it looks like we’re all doin a little too much drinkin & smokin to remember the stats. Definitely impressive though for Tommy to crack the Top 20 in his second year in The League when it took me until last year. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ryan and Brad made their way up there this year as well, not so sure about Abie as of now 😦 The margins in green are also included in the highest margins table you get the idea.

Lastly, about “history repeating itself”, Mr. Vignali was technically correct but maybe used a bit of framing to make the narrative sound better. While he DID give Brent his first losses of 2021 and 2020, there’s a little more to it… In 2020, he actually went up against The Future Champ in Week 2 and LOST before coming back around in Week *7* and knocking him down just slightly. In 2021, the first loss for Brent came in Week 3, which also saw the first loss for the also previously undefeated HOCKYPRO69…also. This just goes to show that while the letter of the statement (Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas) was true, the spirit of the statement (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thurgood Marshall, God) tells a different story. What does this mean for Week 5 2022? Who the hell knows…

The Wire: Weeks 3 & 4 (2-for-1 SPECIAL)

Alrighty, I’ve got a lot to go over and some new stuff to talk about so we’re keeping the Wire talk pretty brief. In Week 3, everyone got who they bid on except for me who wanted the Saints Defense. It would not have mattered because I got whooped by Ryan the fantasy football Gawd. This is to say that aside from Brent and anyone who bid only $1 and got their guy, y’all spent TOO MUCH. We’ll see if that comes back to bit ya later in the season.

The only transaction in the above table that even remotely matters it Kris, who paid $1 for a Chargers defense that took 6 points from his total and got rid of the Broncos’ 17 point payday. For the math geniuses out there, that’s a 23 point swing and Kris lost to Tommy by around 26. A few potential roster moves and things would be looking a little better for the “Someone Call 911″(?)s. I might need Kris to explain that one if I ever see him around Hoboken Town…

Onto Week 4. It’s so crazy because this column/format doesn’t really make sense to talk about unless games are close AND roster moves that are made in the week leading up have a effect as big as those close game margins. Max has lost two weeks in a row by less than 3, yet there were no roster moves by either teams that week where the player started and had any effect on the match-up. So that’s just great. Instead, let’s talk about myself.

Remember I said Kris made a bad move last week and lost? Well this week I made two bad moves and Kris won. I spent FAAB on David Njoku, which wasn’t a bad move in itself, but I dropped Donovan Peoples-Jones who outscored Amari Cooper 9.6 to 1.4. I lost by 6, so you can see it clearly would have gone another way if there was a single lead pass-catcher in Cleveland. Also, Devonta Smith! What’s up with this guy? I picked Rachaad White back up to handcuff Playoff Lenny and dropped Rex Burkhead to make room. Either ones of these guys in the RB/WR spot over Smith would have won me the week, womp womp.

Lastly, I want to mention that Brendan was a madman on the Wire this week. Jared Goff? More like Jared Godd with the 33-burger, plus Romeo Doubs putting up a respectable 11.20. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite enough to best The Commish (as I’m sure they’ll discuss on League Talk), but a valiant effort I wanted to mention nonetheless.

NOW… I’d like to introduce a new feature of The Wire that is currently in beta stages. As of now I’m calling it “BenchBooms”. Basically in an effort to more seamlessly put these Wire and LeagueStory articles together I have begun fully importing the starting and bench players of every team into the Excel, which affords some fun opportunities to compare many different things. One of the things I thought would be interesting would be to see who left the players with the most points on the bench each week. So that’s what this is; I assign the Top 5 benched players of the week a point value from 5 to 1, and the team who has the most points at the end of the season will receive The Golden Bench. Through four weeks, here are the current teams in the running:

Buffalo Bonez (12 points)
Week 1 Kareem Hunt – 21 pts. (4) [i.e. 2nd highest benched player of the week]
Week 3 Jamaal Williams – 23.7 pts. (4)
Week 4 Clyde Edwards-Helaire – 21.9 pts. (4)
South Jersey 4th ‘n’ Schlong (10 points)
Week 1 Michael Thomas – 20.2 pts. (3)
Week 2 Jaylen Waddle – 34.6 pts. (5)
Week 3 Devin Singletary – 19.6 pts. (2)
Beans Corp. (9 points)
Week 1 Cordarrelle Patterson – 21.1 pts. (5)
Week 1 James Robinson – 19.4 pts. (2)
Week 1(!!) Kirk Cousins – 19.08 pts. (1)
Week 2 Curtis Samuel – 19.4 pts. (1)

So that’s my new thing I’m doing because The Wire is getting Boring! If you’ve made it this far, please let me know how you like it, also if you think we should keep track of the Top 10 benched players and give them Golden Bench points accordingly instead of just 5. I’m gonna put a poll in the group with vague options so you have to read the above to know what I’m asking.

Last of all, here’s a few little charts through four weeks as a treat for me missing a week. Enjoy!

Posted this one last year so you can go back and find what it all means if you can’t figure it out and care enough. We all know this, but RBs SUCK!

The position points are regardless of if you started or sat them, just everyone who has been on your team any given Sunday (so basically add up to your total total and not just PF). Might be good to take a look at if you want to trade with someone,,, Bench points are bench points

Also posted this last year for comparison, had to add the Jags this year for obvious reasons lol.

LeagueStory x League Talk: Worst 2-Week Runs

This is long overdue, much like The Wire which will be coming out some time early-ish this week, but I mentioned I would look into the archives and see if anyone has had a worse two week stretch than Beans’ start to the current season. The Corporation scored 151.6 over the course of these two weeks, a total which may not even guarantee you a win if scored in only one week (see the first graph at https://mustbesunday.com/2021/09/15/the-wire-week-1-2021/).

This claim was made by our frequent podcast contributor and Hoboken resident, Tommy Bonez, who can be forgiven for not knowing about the rough patch undergone by The Martian himself, Ryan O’Connell. This skid actually carried over across two seasons as you’ll see below:

2018 Week 15 (vs. Alex Vignali): 76.74 points
2018 Week 16 (vs. Jake Devin): 69.2 points
2-Week Total = 145.94 points
2019 Week 1 (vs. Beans): 73.8 points
2-Week Total = 143 points

If we want to count multi-season streaks (which I usually do) and ignore the fact that the first two games were in the losers bracket of the playoffs (I also usually do), this is most likely the worst 3-Week Run in LeagueStory. The last match-up against Beans also saw the Corp. scoring 164.82, making this one of the widest recorded margins as well. Just when you thought we were done though, there’s one more…

2019 Week 11 (vs. Kris): 95.62 points
2019 Week 12 (vs. Andrew Lebron): 51.5 points
2-Week Total = 147.12 points

This one is certainly more bona fide and comparable to what we see in the current year – no playoffs, no carryover, just a historic collapse at the end of a historically bad season. I’ll further remind everyone that this was the season that gave us the TikTok dance punishment. On the other side of the coin, Ryan has since never scored that low and ended up in the Championship Game of 2021 and is currently a frontrunner for Most Points in 2022. It’s based on this Reversal of Fortunes that I can justify bringing up his past failures, and it just goes to show that the Fantasy Gods giveth as much as they taketh away. Stay humble everybody, and Go League. More content coming soon…

Cuck of the Week – Week 3 (Revenge of the Cuck)

Good Afternoon Cucks and Cuckettes,

Before we get started, I would just like to say, I’m sorry. I know I missed the first two weeks of cuckings. Some may speculate that I did not write those cuck of the weeks because I was the cuck. But I’m here to clear the air…..jk, those who think that are completely right. Sue me, Idc, my *roommates* dad is a lawyer.

But anyway let’s get back to our regularly scheduled broadcast — The Cuck of the Week – Week 3 – Revenge of the Cuck 😈

Beans looks upon Max before chopping off his arm and both legs

Week 3 was a certified stinker for most teams and straight up forgettable except for the close game between two 0-2 squads — Ja’Marr-a-Lago Chase vs. Beans Corp. After a strong performance over the first 2 weeks, this week, Max decided to sit in the corner of a motel 6 room and watch Beans pump hot goo into his beloved team. With beans coming off the worst 2 weeks in league history — Jack, please fact check me — he decided to put on his suit of cuck armor and get to work. Kirk Cucksins put up a respectable 18 points, which nobody expected. But the real hero was Cuckdarrelle Paterson, who gave a smooth 21.8 pumps to beans, brining him to sweet sweet climax. You may look at the score and say, wow beans only won by 2.8 points, but let’s not forget he took out Zeke. A fine choice, Zeke is known to enjoy the sight of another man taking his balls (Bad Tony Pollard joke). Anyway, Max may be the cuck of the first 3 weeks after missing this layup against the Corp.

Max drops to 0-3 on the year while Beans gets his first victory, brining him to 1-2.

P.S. You may think this photo/caption does not line up with the plot of Star Wars Episode III; but a fact that many people don’t know is that Obi Cuck Kenobi has been trying to plow Padamé’s fields way before Anikan came into the picture.

P.S.S. We still need to vote on punishment; my vote is to gangbang the losers significant other, as is tradition.

P.S.S.S. Judge hit his 61st in Vladdy Jr’s house, what a nice host. I wonder if Vlad Jr has a hot GF he can share with judge for the night 🤡

The 0-3 Blues

Huntsville, Ala — A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day!

Inspired? I’m not.

If there’s anything that makes my blood boil, aside from the Mets and Jets, it’s losing in fantasy. Through three grueling weeks, my team has not managed to find the win column even once. Sure, the competition is fierce this season, but the numbers speak volumes.

Ja’Marr-a-Lago Chase, my wonderful squad, is currently fourth in the league with 376.96 points scored — not too shabby. For reference, the league’s other winless team has only mustered 298.42, the second-fewest in the sport. What this means is five other teams, including the league’s lowest scoring team (Beans Corp), have not matched my point total, yet the fantasy gods have graced them with a win. Fair? No, but neither is life.

When I drafted this blue-chip group of men, failure was never a thought. Not even once. Now in Week 4, I face a brutal test in Ryan O’Connell. A squad I once thought would be no more difficult to defeat than my little cousin in any video game. Ryan has proved us all wrong.

Now, with follicles on the line, I fear for my life. If 0-3 is bad, 0-4 might be the kiss of death.

LeagueStory x GroupMe: Historical Records through Week 3

Interesting, interesting, interesting. By GroupMe request, here is everyone’s records through Week 3 (of course using projected results for any match-up that is still to be decided this MNF). Max was correct in that this is his first recorded 0-3 season in The League. Ryan we love to see it. Interesting that nobody went 3-0 in 2018 or 2021. Everyone else’s trajectories are fun to look at as well, and I’ll reiterate that requests like these dealing with records and points and historical match-ups are always welcome and usually don’t take too long to put together. Last but not least, lol Lebron.

The Wire: Week 2 2022

“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.

The W1re: 2022 Edition!

Ahh The Wire. It’s good to be back, folks. I’m in a new apartment but it’s still the same deal as last year; I’ll tell you where you went wrong or right while waiting to watch the weekly wonder that is these world-famous warriors rushing and whirling that wobbly ball all over the goddamn place. It’s been about 2 hours in the making so far and I’ve been listening to the end of Season 12 of Family Guy in the background (Chris dating Jerome’s daughter, Peter and Meg bonding on a college trip, Cleveland coming back to Quahog, Stewie using his time machine to be in a British family). So let’s get this thing going!

First week is such a crap shoot, nobody knows who’s doing what and everyone wants to start the guys they drafted for the most part. Basically this should be pretty short. The only FAAB used in the lead up to opening day was from the host of our podcast, League Talk, Brendan “Beans” Cahill. He spent $3 on the Browns D/ST, who scored 8 points compared to the Steelers’ 22. It wouldn’t have saved his week anyway since he lost by more than 40, so it’s not the worst way to spend your FAAB. We’ll call it Week 1 jitters, but it might have been Zyn.

Literally no one made any moves that would have made or broken their week, the closest was Brent swapping Green Bay’s defense for Denver’s and getting a 7 point swing. If Brent had started GB then he would have only won by 4 points, which would have been the closest margin this week, but that’s just a hypothetical. Abie made a good move by grabbing the legend Pat Freiermuth for a quick 10 points, but he won by 28. We’ll see how he pans out if Abie decides to keep him, basically how fantasy football works. Everyone except him and kickers and defense sat out in The League after being acquired by the various managers, so we’re all playing some wait-and-see as should be expected.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I think that’s it. I don’t want to write anymore. Since it’s Week 1 there isn’t really any other graphs and stuff to include. Have a nice Friday, listen to the pod when it drops, Go League.