Week 5 Wrap-up

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This week in the league was not very pretty. In fact, it was straight-up fugly. That's right, I said it. Fugly. It's the week that lives in the bathroom in your basement, the week you never let out in sunlight for fear that your neighbors will think the end is finally here. Granted, it wasn't ugly for all of the match-ups. My pick for Match-up of the Week turned out to be a close, down-to-the-wire match (totally called it). The Shittysauruses/Shenanihads match-up came all the way down to Monday night in a RB vs. RB/WR battle. But everywhere else in the league, things were just brutal. In the other four games, the winners beat the losers by a combined 183 points (or an average of 45.75 point differential per game). The ugliest of the bunch was the Roommate Bowl, where Juan's Nerf Herders put the beatdown on Martin's Atoms, winning by 73.6 points, scoring 2.26 times more points. In the Keep Changing Your Name Bowl, Andrew's Boomers spanked Chris' Bergers by 52.2 points. Cox's Annexation gave Giant Octopus a nice big push down the hill as OCTO slides to 3-2. In my own match-up, my (on a roll champion) Pumaskulls scored a measly 75.3 points, ugly in its own right but still enough to beat Brett's Fluffy Bunnies by over 20 points. The combined score for the game (127.1) was still under what Juan alone scored for the week. Fugly.

Standings-wise, things are still pretty tight all around the league. We have two teams leading their divisions with 4-1 records (both of which are new to fantasy football, go figure). Below them are five teams with 3-2, including a few of the early season power-houses. The good thing is that everyone is still in the mix, even the 0-5 HerpDerp Bergers can turn it all around with a streak. There's still a lot of games left to be played so anything can happen. One interesting note is the differences in the two divisions. Every team in the West has scored over 500 points on the year so far, which averages out to at least 100 points per week (otherwise known as not-too-shabby). Out East, only one team has managed to top 500. However, out West each team has given up almost as many points as they've scored. It'll be interesting to see if this trend continues. While the West seems to dominate offensively, only half the teams are currently over .500, while in the East 4 of the 6 have winning records.

Cirque de Bowe

It was another weird and crazy week in the NFL. The "Don't Call us the Dream-Team" Eagles lost to the freaking Bills, who are rolling behind Fred Jackson. Jackson, as you will see below, leads the leagues RBs in points through five weeks, racking up three 20 point plus games. Elsewhere in the league, Adrian Peterson was determined to not be forgotten, scoring 3 TDs and leading the week in scoring overall. As I mentioned last week, we have yet to have a RB lead the week in scoring, so it only makes sense that AP would break through. There are a few other oddities around the NFL standings. Aside from the Bills being tied in first place with the Pats in the AFC East, we have the Redskins leading the NFC East, the 49ers sitting at 4-1 and the Lions still undefeated at 5-0. Armed with a new starting QB, the Colts looked poised to win their first game of the year, only to lose to the Chiefs on a bizarre circus catch by Dwayne Bowe (if you haven't seen it, go YouTube it).

A few hundred miles away, Victor Cruz's spider sense started tingling, notifying him that Bowe had just make a crazy catch, to which Cruz replied "That ain't nothin'." Cruz bobbled a long bomb from Eli Manning over two defenders before catching it with one hand and running it in for the score (if you haven't seen it, again, YouTube it). The Giants still ended up losing to the Seahawks (my boys), even though I played the Giants D/ST and was rooting against them. Cruz had another monster game, putting him back in the spotlight after seemingly fading from memory last week.

Onto the points leaders...

Top 10 Players In-play for Week 5

1. Adrian Peterson[RB] (TGIF) - 30.2
2. BenJarvis Green-Ellis[RB] (SLNF) - 26.9
3. Fred Jackson[RB] (NWA) - 25.6
4. Dwayne Bowe[WR] (COX) - 24.8
5. Pierre Garcon[WR] (PHSH) - 24.5
6. Aaron Rodgers[QB] (PHSH) - 23.7
6. Cam Newton[QB] (SLNF) - 23.7
8. Jahvid Best[RB] (SHSR) - 23.2
9. Michael Vick[QB] (DMPS) - 21.6
10. 49ers D/ST (NWA) - 21

Season Points Leaders by Position

QB:
1. Aaron Rodgers (PHSH) - 138
2. Cam Newton (SLNF) - 128.4
3. Tom Brady (NWA) - 120.3
4. Drew Brees (TGIF) - 114.2
5. Matthew Stafford (FLUF) - 101.4

RBs:
1. Fred Jackson (NWA) - 101.2
2. LeSean McCoy (MEGA) - 97.3
3. Adrian Peterson (TGIF) - 90.7
4. Matt Forte (PHSH) - 90.5
5. Darren McFadden (FLUF) - 88.8

WRs:
1. Wes Welker (MEGA) - 105.9
2. Calvin Johnson (SHSR) - 99.1
3. Steve Smith (NYAN) - 76.9
4. Mike Wallace (OCTO) - 72.4
5. Greg Jennings (TGIF) - 68.8

TEs:
1. Jimmy Graham (COX) - 67.6
2. Rob Gronkowski (SHSR) - 62.7
3. Tony Gonzales (ATOM) - 52.9
4. Jermichael Finley (TGIF) - 48.1
5. Owen Daniels (PHSH) - 45.1

D/STs:
1. Ravens (SLNF) - 72
2. 49ers (NWA) - 61
3. Jets (ATOM) - 57
4. Lions (FLUF) - 50
5. Texans (TGIF) - 48

Ks:
1. Jason Hanson (FLUF) - 58
2. Sebastian Janikowski (SLNF) - 57
3. John Kasay (COX) - 52
4. Neil Rackers (TGIF) - 51
5. Mason Crosby (PHSH) - 49


Match-up of the Week: The Annexation of Puerto Rico vs. Scruffy Looking Nerf Herders

No question about this one. The two 4-1 teams face off in a battle of division leaders/FFB newbs. One will walk away with the top record in the entire league, the other will go down in a glorious fireball of disgrace. Should be interesting, everyone rooting against their division leaders. Let's see if we can get some bets going (but leave the beards out of it!)

That's all for this week. Make those waiver pick-ups. Good luck to everyone this week (especially Ash, who's gonna need it to beat me! MUAHAHAHAHA!)

SEACREST OUT!