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Better luck next week, Somethin' Else & Sayville Flashes.
Where's Waldo can rot, seeing as I'm facing them in the Battle of the Losers this week.
His autodraft netted him Brady, Moss & Maroney so his first two picks may be completely unproductive and his third is not too stellar either. You've got a good shot!
A rarity in my life: I'm actually pulling for the Patriots this week. I'd rather have them start 2-0 than the Jets. For some reason I think that bodes better for my Bills. I pull for the Packers most of the time, though.
Bad week for me. I chose to start Rothlisberger over Cutler.....BAD IDEA!! Then I never got around a computer to take Andre Johnson off my starting roster. LT has a bad game. On to next week for me....
I like the week I had... it certainly beats being a 0-2 noob.
Looks like once this week is over, we'll have: one 2-0 team (unless tonight goes well for Skeeville), one 0-2 team, and six (or five) at 1-1. I like how that's shaping up.
Looks like Fighting Wienerdogs are the team to beat.
It's weird. I ended up in three leagues and I'm 2-0 in one, 1-1 in another and 0-2 in the third. I guess that's a good indicator that the 2-0 is not a testament to my management skills : )
It looks like we're head to head this week and you're favored by about ten. Best of luck to you!
Is it just me, or did half the managers in the league not adjust their roster for byes/injuries this week? And dammit, why couldn't I have played one of them instead?
Reminder: Thursday games through the remainder of our season.
I found this out the hard way. I thought those weren't until after everyone had taken their bye weeks. When I finally got some time to manage Week 10, I learned I missed out on 21 points from Eddie Royal two days after the fact
I've probably said this before, but this is getting quite interesting... Two weeks to go, and I'm only comfortable writing off two teams at this point.
Fighting Wienerdogs and Somethin' Else are definitely in the playoffs.
After this week (if my math is right) we will have three teams at 6-6, fighting for two remaining playoff spots with two weeks left: The Taints Skeetown Seahawks dogg sQuad [Edit: after double-checking, I think I forgot to carry a one while scoring one of these matches. Ignore this.]
Water Curses isn't exactly out of it, either, even though they're (again, if my math is right) going to be 5-7 after this week. They could still pull off a 7-7 record and possibly make playoffs.
I'm quite relieved that I'm up against Sayville Flashes in Week 14...
OK. I'm a first-timer with no basis for comparison. Are your other leagues larger than Arepa? That seems to me like I could (at least partially) explain the tight spread.
I'm going to make sure to sign up for a bigger league next year. I'm having too much fun with this.
It looks like this week determined our playoff contenders. I figured it would take another week, but The Taints' victory over Somethin' Else seems to have sealed the deal.
Fighting Wienerdogs 10-3 / 1019 Somethin' Else 9-4 / 1029 dogg sQuad 7-6 / 1012 The Taints 7-6 / 974 (not including MNF points, but Somethin' Else probably won't overcome that deficit so I'm chalking it up as a loss)
I look at this playoff roster and can't help but notice that the three teams that did show up for the draft are in.
Despite the possible 7-7 record for the Skeehawks, they're 100 points behind in that hypothetical tiebreaker race - even if they win while dogg sQuad & Taints lose next week.
I am so very glad I decided to use my final roster move to pick up DeAngelo Williams. I was on the fence between playing it safe (upgrade @ TE) or taking a gamble to boost my RB corps (getting sick of my first-round pick Steven Jackson's lingering injuries) when I made that move. I decided to go for the latter and grab someone who'd help me win this week's make-or-break game, and Williams didn't disappoint - 72 yds & 4 TDs for 27 points. I'd be cursing myself out rather severely if that had blown up in my face.
I'm sure I'll be cursing soon enough... my road to the championship game would require upsetting a team that's beaten me twice, regardless of seeding.
Congratulations on making the playoffs in your first season!
My spirit's been so broken since the Bills' latest horrible, soul crushing loss that I haven't had the heart to look at standings. At least the Fighting Weinerdogs showed up to play this week!
I'm going to have to root against your Bills, in the event we meet again in Week 15. All I know thus far is that dogg sQuad & the Taints are going to be the underdogs.
I'm not terribly surprised about making playoffs. I went into this knowing there was a 50% chance of making the playoffs - the same odds as a coin flip, but a hell of a lot more work. I'm definitely liking this better during the second half of the season. I was 3-4 halfway, but I'm well over my learning curve. I did some number-crunching that suggests the playoffs might not be completely futile for me, either.
I mentioned some number-crunching I did... I conducted a mock playoffs, using our end-of-season stats plus maximized team projections for weeks 15-16. Here's what I found:
Standings @ end of regular season 1*. Fighting Wienerdogs 11-3 / 1099 pts 2*. Somethin' Else 10-4 / 1107 pts 3*. dogg sQuad 8-6 / 1109 pts 4*. The Taints 8-6 / 1082 pts 5. Skeetown Seahawks 6-8 / 923 pts 6. Where's Waldo 5-9 / 1008 pts 7. Water Curses 5-9 / 844 pts 8. Sayville Flashes 3-11 / 793 pts (plus Steve Smith on MNF tonight) * clinched playoff spot First two tiebreakers separate 3/4 and 6/7 apart: 1. Overall winning percentage. 2. Fantasy points scored. (how the hell did I wind up being the league's leading scorer with an 8-6 record?)
I then calculated the maximum projected score for each playoff team weeks 15-16, using numbers from today, and got this:
Week 15 Fighting Wienerdogs 77 The Taints 79 These teams split their regular season games; week 5 to the Taints 69-68, and week 12 to the Wienerdogs 74-55.
Somethin' Else 80 dogg sQuad 94 Somethin' Else won both regular-season games, 76-58 Week 4 and 91-63 Week 11.
The week 15 projections make the following week 16 matches and resulting projections:
Championship dogg sQuad 83 The Taints 68 Split regular-season games, Taints 69-67 week 1, and dogg sQuad 101-56 week 8.
3rd place Fighting Wienerdogs 81 Somethin' Else 75 Fighting Wienerdogs won both games, by 75-70 and 83-65 in weeks 1 and 8 respectively.
I'm actually surprised by what I found out doing this. I've been of the mindset the championship game would be Somethin' Else vs. Fighting Wienerdogs and was surprised to find otherwise. As a lower-seeded team, I'm glad to know I'm not completely doomed.
Of course, this is all based on projections. We know they're not completely accurate. They - not to mention rosters - will probably change during the next two weeks, and actual results should inevitably vary from my calculations. I just wanted to see how our playoffs would shape up, and they were the best numbers I had to work with.
That's all of the playoff preview I've got for now. Good luck, everyone.