It's the year of the underdog! It's the year of the improbable! The impossible is happening! The Cleveland Indians and YOUR Chicago Cubs have made it to the World Series. The Indians have a 71 year championship drought hanging over their heads. The Cubs? I'll see your 71 years and raise you 108! Needless to say, it has been quite some time for one of these teams. Every team has one of those underdog moments where they rise like a Phoenix from the ashes and win a game (or a championship) that they're not supposed to win.
Take JP Chase for instance. He came out of nowhere to win the championship in 2015 after finishing dead last in 2014. He had his moment in the sun, now he is quietly slinking back into his room, closing the door and turning off the lights like the good boy he is (but hey, he won this week!).
Another underdog story is your humble commissioner Nick. Finishing in the bottom third of the standings for 3 years in a row, he has slowly started to build a roster with staying power. The addition of David Johnson, who is making a solid case for Fantasy MVP, looks to be the final piece of a dynastic puzzle that will keep him on top for years to come.
Then you have Sean, who won the title in 2014, but that was not his crowning achievement, not by any stretch. The pinnacle of Sean's fantasy career came in 2013, firing home a 4 game winning streak to go from 3-7 to 7-7, culminating in the greatest playoff upset of all time, defeating the villainous Kent by exactly 8.62 points.
8.62 8.62 8.62 8.62 8.62!
As for Kent, while he did win the title in 2010, he has more often than not been the victim of underdogs rising to the occasion. Although he does hope after his draft was universally put into the toilet this year, he could show that evil does in fact trump good.
How did the champ do? Crickets......Crickets........
As I mentioned last week, JP winning would be like a tree falling in the forest when nobody is around. Well he in fact won, and unless he were to do something other-worldly like run off 7 more in a row, he will continue to be irrelevant for the remainder of the season. About the only thing this win does is make next week's matchup with Sean a pillow fight between 1-win teams instead of no-win teams. So the pillows have a few more feathers in them than they otherwise would have. In all honesty though this was a good match, doubling this as our Game of the Week!. Victimized was Zach, who blew a golden opportunity to stay in the lead pack. The match came down to Monday night as both managers owned Broncos: JP had Demaryius Thomas and Zach had Emmanuel Sanders. Basically whichever wideout had the better night would win. Demaryius did, JP won, 117-112 and he does not have to share the inglorious mantle of winless with his beloved Buccaneers.
Game of the Week Other than JP's game, not a whole lot of candidates for this one actually as many of the games were not really close. This week our GOTW runner up would have to be Jeff conceding to his protege Patrick, who put up quite an impressive effort in victory 148-117. Jeff was felled by the fumble-plagued Matt Jones, who put it on the turf 3 times, but was only charged with losing one, but it was in the end zone so it should've counted double. He ended with only one of two negative scored recorded on the day. Patrick countered with multiple high scores from a resurgent Aaron Rogers, Julio Jones (another Fantasy MVP candidate), Legarrette Punch Me in the Face Blount. Patrick is in the top tier at 5-2 and in first place in the AFC thanks to his win over Kent in Week 1.
Blowout of the Week The commish kicked the dirt off after last week's debacle, and somebody had to be the recipient of his pent-up frustration. Dewey happened to catch the commish at the wrong time, the very wrong time. The Herban Cowboy was covered in fungus, but he did manage to recover a modicum of respect with just a 166-108 thumping thanks to respectable scores from Matt Forte and none other than Jameis Winston. Neither of those were enough though to overcome the -1 from the Buffalo defense, which is why you should never trust a Buffalo defense in fantasy football. The commish vaults to first place in the NFC behind Fantasy MVP front-runner David Johnson, who still scored 23 points in what might have been the worst 75 minutes of football ever played at the professional level.
The Futility Bowl While the TRUE Futility Bowl this week was between the Seahawks and Cardinals (I mean a 6-6 tie, really?), this week's fantasy Futility Bowl goes to Kent's 112-70 win over Sean. I guess you can call this a revenge match? Kinda sorta maybe? Not sure if Kent still holds a grudge from 3 years ago, he probably does, but 8.62 will still forever be etched in MIISFFL lore no matter how many more times he defeats Sean in the future. Kent was the proud owner of the only 20-point performer in this match with DeMarco Murray as Sean's team simply could not get out of its own way.
Next week I might as well just declare Sean and JP's matchup the Futility Bowl to end all Futility Bowls next week. Am I being presumptuous? Nah.
This week's other results:
Eddie defeated Nate 127-95 (Eddie humbly is in the mix at 5-2)
Tom defeated Chris 114-80 (Tom pulls Chris back into the middle group at 4-3)
Weekly Pot Winner: Nick (166 points)
The season is half-over, and it's time to start thinking about this year's League Meeting, which will be the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Stay tuned.
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