Week 10 Wrap-up

Admission: I once again watched zero football this weekend, so forgive the lack of pictures and highlights from the games. I spent all Sunday/Monday playing video games and didn't bother turning the TV on. I was fairly certain I was going to get my ass beat by Mega Shark after VJax once again put up a stinker of a game on Thursday. Going into the afternoon game I was down by almost twenty points with only the Bears D/ST to play, meanwhile Matt had Frank Gore and Wes Welker left. It was one of those "I'm gonna need a freaking miracle to pull this off" moments, and seeing how I've been like 1-8 on miracles this season, I pretty much threw in the mental towel and was ready for the loss.

Not so fast! It seems the god of fantasy football heard my plight and decided the throw the dog a bone and somehow I managed to win by 10 points. The Bears D/ST went crazy scoring a league-high 34 points. And I missed the whole thing. In my defense, I was playing the Star Wars: The Old Republic beta, which was awesome, but who cares about that. This is about fantasy football.

We are now three weeks away from the start of the playoffs and it continues to be a strange race to the finish. The East continues to just blow like no division has ever blown before. Evidence of that is that, despite my horrible season, I am now tied for first in the division with 4 out of 5 other East teams. We not only all have losing records but we are all at least two games under .500. And it's not going to get any better. For the remaining three games the East matched-up against the West (not sure how that happened, I thought we were supposed to play the teams in our division twice but I guess not). It's a double-edged sword for us Easties trying to get that playoff spot. On one hand, all our division rivals will surely be underdogs against their Western counterparts. On the other, that includes our own match-ups.

It ain't no picnic out West either. Since none of the East teams are competing, that means most of the West is doing pretty good. Five out of six teams are above .500 and only two games back of league-leader Cox. However, there's only three spots available for the taking, and it's going to be a pretty intense battle to see who gets them.

Aside from Cox, who is almost sure to make the playoffs at this point, Eric's TGIF has been on a sweet streak, winning the last 4 weeks. During those four games TGIF has scored an average of 125 points per week and now leads the entire league in points scored overall. This week TGIF plays my Pee-eww-maskulls, so the streak is likely to continue. Also making a strong push for the final playoff spot is Ash's Shittysauruses, who have come back from a 0-3 start to take third place overall in the league. Ash gets to play the bottom three East teams for the final games (Atoms, Pumaskulls and Bergers), giving her a pretty good shot at wrapping up that last spot. As of now, Justin and Matt are the odd men out, both being 2 games ahead of anyone in the East but not having enough points scored to secure a spot. Should be pretty intriguing going forward, especially if the battle for the last spot is between husband and wife, or brother against brother (or brother-in-law against sister-in-law, it's like a freaking soap opera!).

Top 10 Players In-play

1. Bears D/ST (DMPS) - 34
2. Arian Foster[RB] (COX) - 30.6
3. Aaron Rodgers[QB] (PHSH) - 28.1
4. Larry Fitzgerald[WR] (HURR) - 26.6
5. Tom Brady[QB] (34) - 25.4
6. Denarius Moore[WR] (TGIF) - 24.3
7. Chris Johnson[RB] (FLUF) - 23.4
8. Rob Gronkowski[TE] (SHSR) - 23.3
9. DeMarco Murray[RB] (OCTO) - 23.1
10. Tony Romo[QB] (MEGA) - 22.8

Season Points Leaders by Position

QB:
1. Aaron Rodgers (PHSH) - 247.6
2. Drew Brees (TGIF) - 212.4
3. Cam Newton (SLNF) - 205.6
4. Tom Brady (34) - 195
5. Matthew Stafford (FLUF) - 167.4

RB:
1. LeSean McCoy (MEGA) - 182.2
2. Arian Foster (COX) - 166.5
3. Adrian Peterson (TGIF) - 163.4
4. Fred Jackson (34) - 162.9
5. Ray Rice (34) - 152.9

WR:
1. Calvin Johnson (SHSR) - 152.5
2. Wes Welker (MEGA) - 139.8
3. Mike Wallace (OCTO) - 130.1
4. Steve Smith (HURR) - 118.9
5. Greg Jennings (TGIF) - 117.5

TE:
1. Jimmy Graham (COX) - 123.3
2. Rob Gronkowski (SHSR) - 118.9
3. Tony Gonzales (ATOM) - 84.7
4. Jason Witten (HURR) - 82.5
5. Jermichael Finley (TGIF) - 74.5

D/ST:
1. Texans (TGIF) - 108
2. Ravens (SLNF) - 105
3. Bears (DMPS) - 104
4. Bengals (COX) - 95
4. 49ers (34) - 95

K:
1. John Kasay (COX) - 102
2. David Akers (34) - 100
2. Dan Bailey (MEGA) - 100
4. Robbie Gould (FA) - 94
5. Jason Hanson (FLUF) - 93


Match-up of the Week:
It's pretty hard to pick a good match-up since all the East teams are pretty bad and all the West teams are kicking butt. I think in terms of the best game it's gotta go to Fluffy Bunnies vs. Annexation of Puerto Rico. Brett is just a few points behind Drew for the division lead, and after a strong start to the season has hit a wall. He needs a big win here against the top team in the league. Should be a good one.

Good luck everyone (especially me, I'm gonna need it). Remember to keep it horizontal.