Every week brings a few surprise FFL stars, and week five was no different. It's utterly amazing to me to be mentioning Tom Brady as a pleasant fantasy surprise, but it has taken the New England offense this long to get into gear. Naturally, I have him on my fantasy team and sat him in favor of Joe Flacco, who had less than half Tom's FP.
Thankfully, however, it didn't cost me a win as I still managed to take down 13 Degrees of Kelvin Benjamin by a score of 112.1-89.54, raising my record to 2-3, but still clinging to last place in my division where only 50 FP separates first and last place. Lots of fantasy football left to be played, as we're about a third of the way through now if you include the FFL playoffs.
Congrats to team Greensboro Gray Wolves for winning this week's contest!! Greensboro had the most fantasy points by Carolina Panthers, using Graham Gano's solid 8 FP for a kicker while the defense put up 21 FP in a solid effort against the Bears despite being put in horrible field position multiple times by turnovers.
Speaking of which, my own defenses hadn't been posting much scoring so I trolled the waiver wire only to find the Philadelphia Eagles sitting there. Yes, last year's worst NFL defense is this year's fantasy gold since they tend to create turnovers and score on a number of them and rewarded my vigilance with a whopping 25 fantasy points.
My point there isn't to beat my chest over it but to underscore how important it is to keep an eye on that waiver wire! It's going to be the managers who stay on top of things and reacts to ever-changing NFL news that wins this whole schmeer, I will bet you dollars to navy beans!
Top scorers? Let's see....in my league, the Rucker one, this week's top scorer was ChiveOn with 149.54 FP. A close second in another matchup in Rucker league was the Fig Newtons with 145.86. I noticed Fig Newtons had ever single player in double digits except the kicker, Dallas' Dan Bailey, who had 9. That's the way to do it consistently - not so much have a "star" or two that often get 20 or more FP but have those "stinker" games mixed in. Knowing your team and whom you can count on is one key while knowing the matchups is another.
In league Muhammed, team I Am Your Father IS my daddy this week with 158.86 FP. What's scary is the "Optimum" points for him was 171.86 so he still had some of his powder dry, woah! Peyton Manning's 479 yard, 4-TD performance didn't hurt either.
But it just gets better: In league Mills, team Show Me Your TDs sure lived up to his name, scoring an incredible 177.82 FP in his win. He had no Peyton Manning, but RB DeMarco Murray continues to chew up the field with 29.4 FP last week while his top WR, yes, was Demaryius Thomas on a career day of 43.6 FP (!!!) His is one of the more "fun" fantasy weeks as Thomas got 19.1 FP on a single play...an 86-yard TD catch. Do the math. 0.5 FP for the catch, 8.6 FP for the yardage, 6 FP for the TD, and 4 FP for the TD of 80 or more yards as a bonus.
Rounding out the top scorers in league Mills was a recent contest winner of the LEAST FP scored, which just goes to show how much your team can change its FP output from week to week. The lady scored 156.84 and was the only one of the top scorers to be 100% optimal on FP scored, so she made the most of what she's got.
Everyone keep on making trade offers if you want to - I haven't had to veto any submitted trades yet (and don't expect to need to, but still....) so keep on thinking up combos to hopefully put you over the top!
- The Commish
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