DFL 2016 Week 16 Semi-finals: This game is stupid and I hate it.

So, I'm not sure how many people are actually at their own places this week, but I know that I'm not.  Currently, I'm sitting in my sister's den, on a computer which I "am fixing" for my mother. So, I'm definitely on borrowed time.  That being said, this is going to be a hella short update this week, in stealth mode.

Really, only two games that people are interested in this week:

Patrick vs Mike.  Ouch.  HUGE upset here.  And the beat down of the week.  I don't have the numbers in front of me (again - on borrowed time here - AND I was just tapped to go to the grocery store because my hostess is making lasagna and doesn't have any ricotta cheese.  I mean, really.  What is this?  Amateur hour?  Sorry - digression...), but I'm pretty sure that Patrick has hands down the biggest beat downs this season.  PAtrick had 3 20+ point players and another 15 pointer to boot!  And one of the 20+ers was Carr, who didn't even play the whole game.  Which could spell trouble for Patrick going into championship week, without a QB...

This guy is still available, if you're interested.

Ben vs Phil.  Well, the upset bracket kept true to itself this week. Ben won against a higher seed.  Again.  And freaking Luck did it to me.  I can't be too upset considering that Wilson also went into crazy points mode, but still.  Nobody on my team could compete with Ben's thorough ass-kickery.  So, congrats, Ben on sliding up into the finals.  Well done, you silly sod.  

So, that means that we will be getting a Mike vs Phil rematch in week 17.  Sadly, it's in the consolation bracket.  Fighting for bronze is as exciting as fighting for golden when the pugilists are as bad ass as Mike and Phil, right?

Yeah, it's going to be an epic fight!

Oh, yeah, and I guess that Patrick will face off against Ben this week too.  So, good luck, fellas!

And since we're here, let's not forget about the pick'ems.  (You thought that I had forgotten about that, didn't you?)  Only two people making picks this week:  Phil (@ 2-2) and Mike (@ 1-3).  So, yay for upsets, right?

This leaves us with:

Player  Overall    Playoffs
Phil         53             5-3
Mike       45             4-4
Terry       43             0-0
Dave       43             1-3
....
Kookie     0              0-1

OK, Dave and Terri - Time to step up and win that bronze!  One more week to go. Let's end strong!

(And now, I'm being tapped to unload a car.  Some of them are presents, but I'm outta time.  See y'all next week.)

DFL 2016 Week 15: Here come the playoffs! (RISE UP!)

Not sure if you were watching the playoffs this weekend, but if you did you might have been all like:

And I'd be all like:

Yeah, the top bracket went as expected, but the bottom bracket was solid upsets.  But, I'm getting ahead of myself...

Pick'ems.   It's the play offs and I don't know whether we should restart the counting or keep it going or what.... so, I'm going to keep track of both!  4 people made picks on the 4 games this week.  Phil and Mike both went 3-1 (Thanks, Kookie for killing the dream of a bingo this week!)  And RA Dave went 1-3.  But wait!  Didn't I say that there was one more pick?  Yeah, Kookie did it again.  He only made one pick and he picked himself, and he picked wrong.  So, the outlooks is this:

Player  Overall    Playoffs
Phil         51             3-1
Mike       44             3-1
Terry       43             0-0
Dave       43             1-3
....
Kookie     0              0-1

Overall, it looks like it's a battle for second place at this point.  As long as I can make 2 picks correctly I'll put myself out of striking distance from anyone else.  But for race for silver and bronze is still on.  Have at it!

OK, not quite, but it's close.

OK, *now* we can talk about the games.  High score down to low score.  And here we go!

Ben vs. Kookie.  Yeah, Ben was a full 10+ points higher than anyone else this week. AND HE SAT TWO PLAYERS doing it.   (Or as he calls it "Victory Formation".)  He had beaten Kookie by 10 points going into Monday night, so he  decided to play it safe.  Had he actually played all 8 starters, he would have easily cleared triple digits.  But at this point in the season a win is a win.  Smart move, sir.  Smart move.  As for Kookie, this sucks not only because he was the 2 seed, but also because he totally Ben'ed this game.  Second highest point total of the week, and he happened to play the highest point total.  It'll happen every season, you just hate to see it in the post season.  O well, Kookie, start playing for honor at this point.  This kinda feels like how Kookie's season has treated him:

Phil vs. McClennen.  This was the other seeding upset.  Phil's running backs carried this victory with a little help from Wilson.  Though the real reason that Phil was able to snag the beat down of the week this week is that McClennen's team just imploded.  *ONE* of McClennen's starters high double digits.  And that was his kicker.  After such an impressive regular season, it's hard to watch a team just shit its pants right out of the gate in the post season.

Mike vs Crutch.  Finally... The universe has corrected itself with Mike throwing the phantom Crutch out of the playoffs.  Crutch hasn't touched his line up since September and he just kept winning.  Well, Mike put an end to that tomfoolery this week.  OK, really Drew Brees put an end it that this week, but the rest of Mike's team helped too.  I mean, I guess that his team could have put up more points, you know, had they not been thrown out for PUNCHING THEIR OPPONENTS IN THE FACE WHILE THEY WERE STILL WEARING THEIR HELMETS.

Mike started Jordan Reed, on the far right.  I guess that you can't expect
too much thinking from TEs, considering how much respect they get. BEN.

Patrick vs RA Dave.  I mean, someone had to win this, right?  When Carr is on, he's really on, but when he's not... he's just barely good enough to pull out a W, right?  Dave Johnson was really the biggest player on the field in this match up, and his 20 points were enough to give Patrick the victory, in this overly sad and underly scoring game.  So, well done, Patrick.  Keep your groove on, however sad it might be.

So, that leaves us with these match ups for the semi-finals this week:
Mike (1) vs Patrick (5)
Phil (6) vs Ben (7)

So, this means that if the victories go as the seeding would go, we might just get a rematch of the Mike vs Phil Championship that nobody really wanted.  Well, nobody except maybe Mike.  But I am getting ahead of myself, and seeding predictions haven't exactly been all that rock solid, so I'm not saying that anything is set in stone right now.

Anyways, good luck everyone (except Ben)!  Enjoy the last few weeks of fantasy football for the next 8 months!

DFL 2016 Week 14: That's that for the regular season!

And what a week it was!  Didja see the scores?  Because they were....  well, not so good.

 NOBODY cracked triple digits. Heck, half of the league didn't even break 60.  Plus, we have a new all time low score.  I don't want to tip my hand too far, but it's by the current first place team.

But we'll get to that in a minute.

First off, pick 'ems.  Well, the insanity that was the NFL this week didn't stop the 4 usuals from making their picks.  Phil was top dog going 5-1, which also landed him in first place.  RA Dave made some great picks as well, going 4-2.  This jumped him up to 3rd place over Mike.  Mike went 2-4,and Terri just got the touch of death this week getting a miserable 1-5.  So, this means that the regular season picks end like this:

Phil 48
Terri 43
RA Dave 42
Mike 41
Skoot 8
Ben 6

We'll definitely continue this on into the post season, but with Phil pulling ahead and the limited number of games, there's not a lot of hope for an 11th hour upset.

We'll make this pretty quick here, starting at the high score and working our way down.

Kookie vs Crutch.  Well, well, well.  Kookie breaks his 4 game losing streak at just the right time.  Kookie was the high score of the week at 89 points.  It's a bit of a hallow number, considering that he left *70* points on the bench.  And Crutch, yeah, he took the beating and still was able to sneak into the playoffs with an 8 seed.  I asked him last night if this means that he's going to actually look at his roster, what with this being the post season.  His response "Eh, not looking has been working for me so far..."  I think that we can all say this about Crutch's uncanny luck this season:

Ben vs. Skoot.  Well, Skoot did it.  He won out.  This was his 4th win in a row.  And considering that this record was 5-9, well, you get the idea...   His starter's performance ranged from abysmal to Le'Veon Bell.  Yeah, Bell outscore two of the teams in the league this week with 38 points.  Ben's team did perfectly respectable, knocking out 73 points himself, but it just wasn't enough.  So, Ben barely slips to 7th seed.  One other fall of from this game is that Skoot was able to climb out of 11th place.

Skoot celebrating his win.

Missy vs. Melanie  IT was the bitterest of rivalries, the stuff of legends... This is the game that people will be talking about for 10,000 years... Nah.. I'm just kidding.  This was the 10th place team (Missy) knocking the stuffing out of the dead last place team (Melanie).  The big surprise of this game is that Bilal Powell ranked up an impressive 26 points.  He's so obscure that you'd think that he was on Patrick's team.  But at the end of the day, this game didn't amount to a hill of beans.  So, no more ink on this one...

McClennen vs. Terri.  Well, McClennen is riding high.  This marks the *6th* straight win for him.  (Yes, that's easily the longest running streak in the league.  And who could question it, what with such a stud as Cousins as his QB.  (And speaking of QBs, what happened to Big Ben? I mean -2 points?  Sure, it was snowing pretty bad in his game, but ouch!)  So, it's official.  McClennen did NOT misname his team....

RA Dave vs. Patrick.  Once again, RA Dave shows complete disregard for favorites here and manhandles Patrick.  Going in, not only was Patrick ranked higher, he was supposed to beat RA Dave like a red-headed step child.  (The only vote that RA Dave pulled in this week from Pick'ems was cast by himself.)  But that's not to worry.  Because of the outcome of this game, you two get to play each other NEXT week too!!!

Phil vs. Mike.  I know what you're thinking.... we were doing the teams in descending order of the number of points scored.   AND I haven't yet talked about the beat down of the week.  That's because, though I scored the least winning points, I also administered the beat down of the week.  Not only that, but  Mike set a record for the lowest score in the league EVER!  (That would be 13.19 points.)  Yes, that beats the previous lowest score, set by Skoot last year in the championship game.  Skoot had an impressive 27.19 points.  So, congrats for cutting that score in half.

Pictured above:  A graphical representation of the Phil v Mike game.

So, yeah.  That's it.  Playoffs are locked in, and we're ready to start the post season insanity.  The top two seeds have been on a crazy losing streak recently, and the bottom half o the playoff participants are just at .500. So, who knows?  This could be another crazy upset like last year.

As a side note from last year, I do feel that I have to mention that this is Terri's second year reigning as Queen of the losers, having finished in 9th place.

DFL 2016 Week 13: Well isn't this ... Interesting?

SNL does not sanction this post.

Man, will you look at that! Things are definitely tighter than they are in most years.  One week left in the regular season and there are 3 (count 'em THREE) teams locked in to the post season.

And before any of you boring-ass Negative Nellies tell me that Patrick is so far ahead in points that he's pretty much in by default, save your freaking breath.  Ben's already pointed that out.   The fun has already been sucked out of that drama.

Pictured above, Ben in his natural state of sucking the fun out of things.

So, yeah, week 14 is going to be wild with 6 people (OK 5 really) vying for 5 (yeah yeah yeah 4) slots.  But before we get into that...

Pick 'ems.  Well, this is also heating up.  I was thinking that it was going to be a 2-3 person race going into last week.  Well, fate intervened and it looks like there's a shot that 4 people could win it.  Big man on campus was RA Dave, going 5-1 this week, and putting himself just barely into 4th place.  Right behind him was Phil going 4-2.  This rocketed me into first place (barely).  Next was Mike, who had a paltry 2-4.  Sadder still was Terri who only got 1-5.  But lest we forget the real winner here.  Kookie tried to sneak in a vote for himself this week, which blew up in his face.  SO here's were we stand now:

Phil:  43
Terri:  42
Mike:  39
RA Dave:  38

Fun fact.  We had one game where ever chose correctly :  Scott (who eeked out a win against Melanie).  And we also had one game where every chose wrong:  Ben (who just barely lost to Crutch, who as far as I can tell still isn't actually playing).  So, there go you.  Thanks for messing up our picks, Ben.

Before we jump into the games this week, lemme just say that this was a pretty conservative week.  Nobody even got close to triple digit score and the beat down of the week was less than 23 points.  Always good to see tight games.

And we'll start with the beat down of the week.  Phil vs. Kookie.  Somehow Kookie is continuing his losing streak.  This time, Phil picks up the win and delivers the aforementioned 23 point beat down of the week.  I'm not even sure what went wrong. Of course, having a butt ton of the patriots injured sure didn't help Brady, and Vinatieri sure didn't get the note to slow down.  But still, everyone else on Kookie's team was just kinda ho-hum, leaving Kookie looking like this:

Patrick vs. Terri.  Patrick pulled in the high score of the week this week with 87 points.  Terri put up a respectable 70 points, which I might remind all of you hosers, would have beaten most of y'all this week.  That lands Terri in 9th place this week, o so close to a playoff berth.

RA Dave vs. Missy.  Well, this was hands down the lowest scoring game of the week.  Dave pulled in a win on this one against Missy who had the low score of the week.Oddly enough, Missy did hit line up Nirvana this week, even with her sadly under performing starters.  That's mostly because the sum total of her bench was a big ol' goose egg.  So, Dave pulls out a W, even with a goose egg of his own, and his D left wishing for a goose egg.

I solemnly swear, no more egg references for the rest of the write up.

McClennen vs. Mike.  In what has to be the most painful, least impactful game of the week, Mike loses this one against McClennen.  And it's pretty much down to Drew Brees getting completely shut down, resulting in net negative points.  Sure it hurts, but really didn't do much, outside of extend McClennen's massive winning streak to 5.  Mike was first and still is, McClennen was third, still is.

Crutch vs. Ben.  OK, this was probably the most straight up painful game to watch this week.  Crutch is still completely on autopilot and this game is crucial for both Ben and Crutch to get into the playoffs.   Crutch is even nice enough to spot Ben a player.  And what happens?  Crutch goes and wins the game straight up.  Meanwhile, Ben is left watching Andy Luck on his bench, coming off a BYE, and more than tripling his actual starting QB, Manning the Lesser.

Ben at the post game interview.

Skoot vs. Melanie.  Yeah, this is definitely a "Wait, they are still playing game?"  Yep, both this week and next week, both of these teams are still playing.  Though next week, they will be playing the part of spoiler really.  :)  Anyways, Skoot pulled the victory here, but that's mostly because this was the most interesting thing about the game:

Yeah, I don't know either.

And that's about it.  Melanie, Missy, and Skoot.  This is officially the end of your post season run.  But you've got one more game to play spoiler in.  Embrace that and mess up your opponents this week.  (Especially you, Skoot.  I'm not forgetting that you snaked Prescott away from me off the waiver wire.  Really put him to good use this week,)

Mike, Kookie, and McClennen...  You're set and pretty much the seeding is done.  So... enjoy a practice week.  Except for you, Mike.  You can just go ahead and bench your players this week.  That'll keep em nice and rested for next week.  :)

Everyone else?  Get hungry for the win and go get it.

DFL 2016 Week 12: FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU......

....UUUUDGE

I actually said cock sucker motherfucker.  'Scuse my French...

Yeah, let's take a look at what happened in week 12:

1. Panthers lost after having a phenominal 3rd quarter.  (Fucking Carr....)
2. Eagles lost on national television.  (Don't even get me started)
3. I added a 3rd game to my losing streak.
4. It was FUCKING Crutch who beat me this week.  That would be the guy who hasn't even set his line up in 6 weeks!!!  DAMMIT!
5. And most anger-inducing of all:

ARGGG!!!!

Let's play a little game.... Let's see who everyone drafted in the first round of the draft, and how they are doing now:

Crutch:  Brown 142

Kookie: ODB 114

Missy: Rodgers 218

Terri:  Hopkins 70

Mike: Jones 108

Patrick: Johnson 190

Ben: Gurley 89 

Melanie:  Elliot 174

Phil: Gronk 52

McClennnen: Miller  100

Skoot: Bell  119

RA Dave: Newton  129

WTF, GRONK????  You were supposed to be my ace in the hole you jerkface.  Oh, but TEs don't score as much as other positions, I hear you say.   How are the other TEs doing??? I'll put it to you this way, Gronk, isn't top 5.  He's not top 10.  Shit, he's not even top 15.  ARRGG!!!!

Don't you even start, Ben.

So, yeah....  Not exactly a banner week for ol' Phil.  I could go on and on.... but I better not.

Yeah, this seems about right.

But let's get to the important stuff.  Starting, of course with the pick 'ems.  The G's did well this week, both going 4-2.  Me? Not so well (But really, who's surprised about that this week??) at 2-4.  So, now we're sitting at

Terri 41

Phil 39

Mike 37

RA Dave 33

What's that?  Did I forget to mention someone on their pick count for this week?  Well, RA Dave made all 6 picks, and all 6 of them were wrong.  Ouch.  Now, if Terri could just take a page from Dave's playbook, we'd all be sitting in butter.  So, it looks like pick 'ems is going down to the wire.  Rah!

OK let's do this.  And we'll start.. Well, shit, let's just get the pain out of the way first:

Crutch vs Phil.  Highest score of the week (the only one getting triple digits) versus the lowest score of the week.  So, yeah, a pretty freaking thorough beat down of the weak.  105.68 - 40.98.  But let's take a closer peek under the hood.  Gronk, who left in teh first FREAKING quarter wasn't the low scorer on my team this week.  Not, there were *TWO* players going negative.  Just so that I could get a peek into the mind of a winner, I texted Crutch to get his reaction.  His exact words were:

Wait... are we still doing that? Yeah, I don't think that I looked at that in weeks.

and

Wait... was that the first time that I broke into a triple digits score? Bwahahahahahahaha.

 And for the record.  Yes, yes it was.  The closest before that was back in week 2, with 85 points.  (Also, fun fact, this is the second time this year that I played Crutch AND the second time this year that I couldn't break 50 points.  ARRRG!!

Kinda how this week felt.  Oh and 3/4 people picked me to win this week.

Mike vs. Patrick.  And the next highest score of the week was Mike, who racked up an impressive almost 89 points.  Well, it would be impressive if between his QB and his TE, there weren't 7 freaking touch downs.  I mean, really, what did the rest of your team do?  Patrick pulled in 61 points, which would have been decent, had he not started the LA D.... who was playing against the TD machine Brees.  So, Mike keeps his stranglehold on 1st place.  I've got an awfuly bad feeling that this is what Mike is going to look like in about 5 weeks:

Ben vs. Melanie.  Ben pulled off this solid victory over Melanie 84-57.  Each had impressive QBs and an impressive RB performance.  It's just the this is all that Melanie had, meanwhile the rest of Ben's team fared pretty well.

Terri vs. Missy.  Well, Terri is keeping her season alive now....barely.  Though this as a pretty solid win over Missy.  (77-45).   The bad news is that pretty much all of her scoring cam from Big Ben and the KC D (and really, who thought that the KC D would hold up so well against Denver?).  The good news is that Missy didn't really have anyone except for Rodgers scoring,so it didn't really matter. And man.... Missy had 2 players playing on Monday night....  so her score was pretty low.  I am kinda bummed that Rodgers did so well... I mean, I'm a sucker for a low scoring team, as long as it isn't mine.

I Also have nothing to say about this game...

Skoot vs. RA Dave.  OK,gotta tell ya.  Was not expecting ANOTHER win from Skoot.  Especially not when going up against RA Dave.  But our (still) in 12th place team Skoot caused a BIG upset, adding another loss to the longest losing streak in the league.  Dave hasn't won a game in over a month and he needs to make some changes if he wants to make it to the post season.  Maybe dropping Cam will help.  Just lemme know when you're about to do that.

McClennen vs. Kookie.  Holy cow!  What a game to end on.  Sure, it wasn't the most impressive scoring game.  Neither starting D actually had positive points. and oddly, Kookie (who lost) was the only one who had anyone with double digit points, except for the QBs.  But here's the thing....  Kookie was dominating the league a few week ago.  But he's ona 3 game losing streak.  Yeah, he secured a playoff berth this week, but unless he can turn things around he's got MAJOR problems heading into the post season.  Well done, McCelnnnen (who is currently sitting in 3rd place - I mean, who saw THAT coming??)!

It's OK for me to take sides... my season is pretty much over.

Well, on the plus side, there is still a LOT of room in the playoff race.  Currently, only Mike and Kookie have secured space.  So, nobody can *really* give up quite yet.  Well, nobody except for Skoot, who's on a 2 game winning streak.  

And there was much rejoicing.

Next week.  Next week will be better, right?

DFL 2016 Week 11: So.. kickers.. yeah....

OK, so if you read my blogs, you know that I always say that kickers (and defenses) win games.  So, if you're like me, you're wondering why all of the place kickers looked like this, this week:

 A record high 12 missed PATs this week around the league.  Good gord, folks.  Come on now.  You're killing me!

Anyways, this has got to be a quick write up this week cuz Thanksgiving and all, so let's get to it!

Pick 'ems!  Let's just call it the week of ties this week.  Phil went 3-3. and Terri and Mike both went 2-4.  So, that means that Terri and Phil are tied for 1st at 37, which Mike and RA Dave are tied at 33.  Now, in RA Dave's defense, he did forget that there was a Thursday night game this week.  Since, like, that doesn't happen every week.  O wait.  Yeah, it does.  So, Dave, just as a  heads up there are multiple games this week on Thanksgiving.  And you probably don't have to go to work.  And you'll probably be eating turkey on Thursday.

So, a few things to note on this short write up week:

1. Beat down of the week goes to Skoot.  No, not for receiving it, but for delivering it.  Yeah,I know, it feels weird to type that.  Skoot score 77.88 points to Terri;s 31.13 points.  
2. Everyone on Terri's insanely under performing team had positive points.  I mean, some just *bare*hit the mark, but positive nonetheless.
3. Both teams at the top took losses this week.  Kookie lost by 30 points to Patrick, and Mike lost by 12 points to Missy.
4. That last one kinda bears repeating.  Mike, who was and is in 1st place, lost to Missy who is second to last place.  
5. And since we're talking about the lower echelon of the league, it's probably worth pointing out that while the top two teams lost this week, the bottom three teams won this week. That's right, Melanie was able to pull off a win against RA Dave this week.  And Melanie did this while spotting RA Dave 2 players.
6. The longest streak of the league current is RA Dave with 4 losses.
7. And perhaps the best smack of the league comes this week, straight from Ben's keyboard:

We're coming down the final stretch here, y'all.  Even with his loss this week, RA Dave secures the first playoff berth here.  3 weeks left and 7 playoff spots left.  IT's anyone game, y'all.  (Except Skoot's.  Probably it's out of Skoot's hands now.)

DFL 2016 Week 10: Are you freaking kidding me???

OK seriously, what in the hell happened this week?  It seem like the world got flipped, turned upside down....

No.. I think that it was crazier than that...

Yeah, that is much more like it.

So,let's get into it.  Remember how last week Dave, Terri, and I were all intensely battling for first place in Pick 'ems??  Well, Dave forgot to make ANY picks, I went 1-5, and somehow Terri pulled in 3-3.    But wait!  There's more!  Mike was the king this week with 4-2, which means that he's right back in it!  So, that leaves us like this:

Terri:  35
Phil:  34
Dave: 33
Mike:  31

Or to show this in picture form, this is kinda how we look coming down the stretch:

Ugly, ugly, ugly.  Exciting, sure.  But Ug-ly.

And if you get that reference, I take my hat off to you.

I'm not even going to beat around the bush.  We're going to get right into the games, the most important ones first:

McClennen vs Phil.  Mother-fucker.  That's all that I can say about this game.  With this win, McClennnen ends my 4 game winning streak and most importantly, keeps his razor thin advantage over me.  How thin?  Going into the game, I was 5-4, he was 4-5. Coming out of the game, we're both 5-5.  But he is ranked higher than me because his point total is a whopping 2.35 points higher than me.  What was the point difference in the game?  2.5 points.  DAMMIT.  Of course it's not like there was a controversial call that would have given me the game, should it have gone my way...

Yeah, that would be Gronk getting manhandled in the end zone.  Who's team is he on again?

This is what I've been reduced to, griping that the Pats aren't getting calls going their way...  What have I become??

Missy vs Kookie.  Wait... what?  Shouldn't this have been a blowout?  Why is this such an imporant game?  Well, it was pretty thorough beating, but not the way that you'd expect. Missy pulled in her 3rd win of the season, while Kookie took his second loss of the season.  What happened?  Well, Brady was shut down, Harris couldn't get things going against AZ, an Nick Folk...  Well, he missed his only scoring shot all day, which was a PAT.   Damn Kookie, when it rains it pours.  But, I think taht I speak for the rest of the league when I say:

'Specially Mike.  And speaking of Mike....

Mike vs Skoot.   Now, THIS was as bad of a beating as you'd expect with the #2 team going up against the ass last team.  Mike administered the beat down of the week because pretty much his whole team was firing on all cylinders.  As for Skoot... well, next yer will be better, right?

Just this season, man. New draft next year.  And just think of it!
You're going to be seeded awesome!

Patrick vs Crutch.  Well, despite Patirck's best efforts to sabotage himself, he pulled out a win here.  (I mean, really, Patrick?  Cutler?  What were you thinking?)  This means that Crutch's uncanny win streak is broken.  It was a pretty good run, but it's over now.  So, get back into the swing and start setting your line up, dude!

Unless you are playing me.  In which case you can piss right off...

Terri vs Melanie.  After this week, fully half the league has a 5-5-0 record.  With Terri's win over Melanie, she joins this illustrious group. See, three positions on Terri's team went wild (Big Ben, Santos, and KC D).  Meanwhile, only two on Melanie's team did (Bortles and Elliott).  And as insane s it sounds, even with Elliott scoring OVER 30, Melanie's other team members pissed their pants  JUST enough to cost her the game.   I'm pretty sure that this is the only team that I've seen this week to start Elliott and still lose.

Ben vs. Dave.  Not entirely sure what happened here, but I like it.  The game was predicted to go down to the wire, but Ben said "Fuck all that" and won with a comfortable 7 point margin.  Good for Ben, as it puts him in the 5-5-0 club, bad for Dave, as it put him within striking distance of the 5-5-0 club; Dave's record is currently 6-4.

I didn't really have an appropriate image for this game, and I've been sitting
on this gif for so long.  So...

Alrighty folks, we;re entering into the last month of the season.  Keep yourselves sharp and fight for those coveted 8 playoff spots.  Good luck! (Except to my competitors... and Im just seeing that my season ends playing first Kookie, then Mike.  Shit... that's definitely going to put a crimp in my playoff run.)