DFL 2017 Week 2: Tiny, tiny margins here, fellas.

Ho-ly Crap.  Did y'all see this shit this week?  Half of the game this week had a tiny, TINY margin of victory.  How small?

A lesser man would have felt inclined to make a penis joke here, but I'll
just let the image speak for itself.

Josh saw how close his game was on Monday morning and asked if that was normal.   I'm pretty sure that we have had all of a half dozen games in the history of the league that have been within a point of each other.  So, this really is an interesting week!

An interesting, academic week for all of us to enjoy!

OK, to be fair there are three teams out there who aren't so much "Hey, look at this anomoly!" so much as they are:

Sorry, Terri, Patrick, and Skoot.

Anyways, let's take a look at how things went.

Elimination League!  Two strikes doles out this week, both for not actually making a pick.  One to Skoot and one to Kyle.  Of course, this means that Kyle earn the dubious distinction award for going out in week 2.  Well done, sir!  On the plus side, that'll give you more time to do whatever it is that you do....

Pick 'Ems....  Well, the same 6 from last week picked again this week and the results... well they were all over the board, as would be expected when all of the games are so close.  Up top, Phil went 5-1, then Mike and Ben hit 3-3, Josh, strangely only make 5 picks and went 3-2, while Patrick did a paltry 2-4.   And lest we forget Terri, who also made picks, but goose egged, so might have well not have even tried.  Ouch.

So, that leaves us with the following standing:
Phil 8
Mike 5
Patrick 5
Ben 5
Josh 5
Terri 2

One thing to note is that not one person picked Josh to win this week.  (I mean, Josh didn't even pick himself... come on, man!  Have some confidence!)  But still, Josh prevailed.  Well done, sir!

Now, are you ready for the crazy?  I mean crazy, crazy?  Cuz here we go with the head to head match ups.

Yeah, Nic Cage levels of crazy sounds about right...

We'll start from the blow out of the week and work our way down to the smallest margin, shall we?

Kerry vs. Mike. Beat down of the week, friends!  Kerry bounces back from a devastating week 1 and throws a terrible beating onto Mike.  Kerry, with 3 players on IR (still on her bench - you know that you can change up players, right?  I'm just asking because your dear husband didn't know that for almost his entire first year...) rides the rookie Fournette, Anderson, and Boswell to victory on this one.  Highest points of the week and beatdown of the weak, both going to Kerry.

Big D v Big Crutch.  Big D decides "You know what?  Crutch was so nice to spot a player last week, that I'm going cut his a break and spot him 2 players"  Brown didn't play and while Crowell did play, he's a RB on the Browns, so who knows if he actually played or not?  Crutch, who is already breaking his "Let's not touch anything and see how far that goes" theory actually had a decent game, but just couldn't quite get all of the pistons firing at the right time.

Ben vs. McClennen.  Somehow, Ben won this game without being bothered to actually put up 60 points.  Somehow McClennen's team just took a collective shit and lost the game, pretty decidedly.

And here is where the crazy starts to kick in.  I'm going to put in the margin of victory in each of these games.  Why, it makes Mike and my championship game from a few years ago look like a normal score!!!!  (I hesitated posting this write up now, for fear that there could be a stat correction and a game could be reversed....)

Phil vs. Terri (0.15 point victory).  Well, my second rivalry game did not disappoint.  I did NOT think that it was going to be that close.  Of course, having my TE go out after his first reception didn't help all that much.  But on the plus side, Jimmy Graham also didn't do anything eithe, so it kind of comes out in the wash.  :)  The kicker here (and please pardon the beautiful pun) is that Terry's kicker was in field goal range with time left on the clock and the Lions opted not to kick the field goal, which would have been a gimme and put her over the top.  Thanks, Detroit!

Kyle vs. Patrick (0.13 point victory).  Oh man.... this one has to hurt a bit.... Patrick had Carr and Gronk playing and they exceeded the already high expectations.  BUt it wasn't quite enough, even with Kyle's goose egg on TE.  Not surprisingly, these teams kinda mirrored each other down the stat block. (Outside of TEs, of course.  Man, a lot of TE talk this week.)  But Kyle just happened to get a hair more points, and snagged the victory.

Josh vs. Skoot (0.02 point victory)  Yes, you read that correctly, Josh absolutely squeaked by in this game.  Easily, the closest game that we've ever had since we implemented partial points a few years ago.  The most delicious thing here is that Josh was starting Dak and Dak was really pushing it at the end.  Which means that he threw a pick 6 on the last drive.  I just can imagine Josh jumping out of his seat waiting for the points update to push to see how close it was going to be.

So, pretty even league so far.  Nobody's running away with points scored or points against.  Coupla 2-0 teams, coupla 0-2 teams.  This week was hella interesting, can't wait for next week!  (Well, I guess I actually can.  I'm playing Patrick and that fucker is like my kryptonite..)