Anyhow, let's take a glance at the league standings and our contest winner for the week. Just to remind people, this week the contest was for "smallest margin of victory," but first let's see which team had the top score for the week.
Oh! That's right....*I* was the top scorer this week! Well, congrats to ME, NYAHH!!! Team Carolina Rifles fired off quite a volley last week, scoring a whopping 186.24 FP - and achieving a 100%/fully "optimum" scoring week. This means everyone I started was the highest-possible scorer for that slot. Of course, half my bench was on a BYE week, so that helped, but when you score 186 FP you're doing something right!
Tom Brady, Arian Foster, Branden Oliver, Mohamed Sanu, and the Philadelphia Eagles defense all had at least 24 FP - each - while Ahmad Bradshaw and Antonio Brown each turned in a hair over 15 FP. That's a potent week, but all it did in the end was help me keep the pace, still 2 games back from the division leader at 3-3.
Yeah, I mention this all to toot my OWN horn a bit - how often will any given team lead 48 total teams in scoring in a week? It's pretty rare.
The OTHER reason I mention it is to point to a guy named Branden Oliver. He's yet another example of a mid-season pick-up that can really make a big difference for you. Oliver, a rookie UFA, is filling in for perennial fantasy dud Ryan Matthews at RB while Matthews recovers from injury and Danny Woodhead is gone for the year.
You see, once again, I want to prove how having even kind of a BAD draft doesn't mean doom and gloom, or if you get several stars injured, scour that waiver wire. SOMEONE has to replace their production, and it's not always as murky as the receiver situation in Cleveland. Ryan's hurt, Woodhead's hurt, Oliver was the next batter up. Mix in a rookie with really too many skills not to have been drafted with a hot, rising San Diego "Supa" Chargers team, and the results are an explosion of fantasy points.
As more and more injuries occur, keeping current on a fluid personnel situation and claiming the "next man up" on waivers can really be fantasy gold. Oliver scored 26.6 FP for me last week, a total surpassed by few other backs. Arian Foster was one, however, with 32.6.
The points are out there - it's just a matter of you being alert enough to find them. Here are the current league standings...and my apologies for not including them last week:
There were a LOT of close contests this week. Several games were decided by just a few fantasy points. Sure, I won MY match-up by over a hundred points this week, but some of you had to have been pulling your hair out all the way down to the wire this week. Without further ado, the winner of this week's "Close but no Cigar" contest is.....
....I Am Your Father from League Muhammed! I Am Your Father schooled Stah Set The Bah, squeaking out a 119.08-118.3 win, a 0.78 margin of victory! Congrats to I Am Your Father! Sheesh I kinda feel like I know what it's like to live in Bwahston now....
- The Commish
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