The wheel in the sky keeps turning / Where will I be tomorrow? How random is the fantasy football season?
BYOB and Semi-R are now playing for 3rd place. Semi-R wasn't even able to hold onto their division title, despite leading for the first 11 weeks of the season. BYOB led wire to wire and lost their first playoff game.
Sage Rosenfels / Matt Schaub have more fantasy points than McNabb, Peyton Manning and Patriots QBs. Tyler Thigpen, on a 2-12 NFL team, is 11th in the league, ahead of Favre, Rothlisberger and Eli. Free agent San Francisco QBs are 12th and have 10 weeks out of 14 with at least 18 fantasy points.
Team Brokerage, who had exactly one healthy RB on their roster, rose up and put down Semi-R, holding on despite having to rely on Cleveland to hold down Westbrook and D Jackson.
And BYOB puts up the second most points in the week, but ran into the machine that is the Mighty E-Head. Andre Johnson, Randy Moss and Dallas Clark combine for 64 and Slaton and Peyton do enough to put down the Colossus. The E-Head started the season 0-4, putting up a total of 247 points in those 4 games (61 per game) and now they are in the Enchilada Bowl. Since week 5, they have averaged just under 90 per game. Remarkable. Big pick-ups were Eddie Royal, Dallas Clark and Derrick Ward. Otherwise, it is largely the same team they started the season with.
The top three running backs in the league in fantasy points were all available in the draft portion of our auction/draft, and every team had a chance to take Thomas Jones (last pick of the first round) and DeAngelo Williams was a 3rd round pick. Forte was a 2nd round pick, Slaton went in the 6th, Chris Johnson was the 11th pick of the first round. So 6 of the top 10 producing RBs on the season were in the draft. Michael Turner was the 2nd pick overall, but everyone had a chance to draft 4 of the other 6 at least once.
Dale's Doormats led the league in points scored for the season and lost their first round playoff game as well as 5 other games in the regular season. The Fatties, who finished with high points 2 weeks and were within 5 points of high points 3 other weeks, went 5-8, missed the playoffs and lost in the second round of the Toilet Bowl.
For WRs, it's been a bit more predictable, with only Roddy White, Greg Jennings, Antonio Bryant and Vincent Jackson as top 12 WRs who were available in the draft. That said, White was a 3rd round pick and Bryant and Jackson went completely undrafted, as did Kevin Walter, Lance Moore and Eddie Royal, also top-20 WRs.
In the Toilet Bowl, we have one of the more improbable match-ups, with Pep & Cheez, who finished the regular season with a 4-9 record, going against the Killer Ds, fresh off their 3-win season.
All that said, it should be noted that Team Brokerage is one win away from their second Enchilada Bowl title. Team Gump missed their 4th straight Enchilada Playoff appearance by one game. Since their inceptions as teams in this league, the Mavs, Wombats, Fatties, Doormats and Gumpsters are all averaging over 82.7 points per game. So, like life, there is a significant amount of just rewards amid the apparent randomness. And that is your deep thought for today.
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