2011 Power Rank - Week 8

Week: 1 |  2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (7)	Stickboy	4-3	Did the impossible by knocking off the the self proclaimed 'best team ever'.
	2 (2)	Buckwheat	5-2	Had an off week, or it was the large amount of players on their BYE week. Megatron still leading the way.
	3 (1)	Crippled Monkeys	6-1	This team is starting to roll and will crush you if you don't get out of it's way. I would have ranked this team higher, but 1 point from the kicking team was the dagger.
	4 (5)	Pimp Juice	4-3	Peterson, Sproles, Colston, oh my....made Grease's head spin Sunday night. High score of the week and it had it's best player, Wes Welker on the BYE week.
	5 (4)	Dragons	4-3	Busy this season with trades, will they help or hurt in the long run. Brees, Bradshaw, Graham is all this team needs.
	6 (3)	Dynasty	4-3	Two wins in a row and back in the thick of it and won this week with Brady, Fred Jackson, Nicks, Julio and Hernandez all on the BYE....nice.
	7 (7)	Rutting Bucks	4-3	Has Team Stickboy hot on his heels for the division lead, a lot of RB injuries and this team is looking a bit uneasy.
	8 (6)	Hustla	4-3	Two loses in a row and a Beanie Wells injury, but Matt Forte is still keeping this team afloat.
	9 (9)	One Angry Gook	4-3	Say it with me....this team sustained yet another injury to the running back position....it's like a broken record. Is there anyone left to pick up to help this team?
	10 (10)	Thunder Choads	2-5	Lost Tim Hightower for the season, surprisingly he wasn't on OAG's team, not too much depth and I fear for this team.
	11 (12)	Grease Slappers	0-7	Why the hell did this team pickup DeMarco Murry in Week 1 of the season? Too bad the rest of the season wasn't that lucky!
	12 (11)	Short Bus All-Starts	1-6	I believe this team has conceded to playing for next season....welcome to the Beer Bowl my friend.

Week 7 Weekend Recap

Commish's Corner....

You think you know your Running Backs? Can you name the Top 5 backs for each year, 1990-2009? My score was 52/100: http://www.sporcle.com/games/WickyWachyJoo/top5rb9009

My oh my, the injury bug bites and bites hard this week.  Good luck to those scrounging the waivers for replacements.

Tim Hightower - Knee injury
Ovie Mughelli - Knee injury
Santana Moss - Hand injury
Marshawn Lynch - Back injury ( pregame warmups)
Mohamed Massaquoi - Head injury
Ben Watson - Head injury
Matt Stafford - Ankle and knee injuries
Matt Ryan - Ankle injury
Percy Harvin - Re-aggravated ribs injury
Hines Ward - Ankle injury
Beanie Wells - Knee injury
Darren McFadden - Ankle injury
Willis McGahee - Fractured hand
Joseph Addai - Re-aggravated hamstring
Kevin Boss - Concussion
Earnest Graham - Ankle injury
Damian Williams - Headache
Mark Ingram - Ankle injury
Alex Green - Knee injury

The Good, The Bad, And The Funky….

Free Agent Lineup		Team	PTS	Starting Tragedy Lineup		Team	PTS
QB	John Beck	WAS	24.95	QB	Colt McCoy	CLE	12.00
RB	LaRod Stephens-Howlings	ARI	15.50	RB	Darren McFadden	OAK	0.88
RB	Marion Barber	CHI	10.38	RB	Earnest Graham	TBB	1.38
WR	Michael Jenkins	MIN	19.88	WR	Greg Olsen	CAR	0.50
WR	Dezmon Briscoe	TBB	15.13	WR	Denarius Moore	OAK	0.50
WR	Heath Miller	PIT	14.13	WR	Nate Washington	TEN	1.25
KT	Olindo Mare	CAR	19.00	KT	Nick Novak	SDC	3.00
DT	Kansas City Chiefs	KCC	33.44	DT	Washington Redskins	WAS	5.57
Fantasy Points = 152.41				Fantasy Points = 25.08

Fantasy Game Recaps….

Buckwheat (5-1) West 89.64	vs	Stickboy (3-3) East 105.42
RB Ray Rice	MNF	none
Wow, a very meaningful game here, for both teams. Team Buckwheat needs the win to stay atop the West, however a loss wouldn't hurt too bad as the other teams in the West that can catch up appear to have lost for the week. Team Stickboy, tied for division lead in the East, needs the win to stay on pace with Rutting Bucks who appear like they also will win. The current lead is 15.78 points for Team Stickboy and is done for the week. Team Buckwheat needs Ray Rice to have a normal game for a top running back and the victory will be his.

Short Bus (1-5) West 64.66	vs	Rutting Bucks (3-3) East 80.39
RB Maurice Jones-Drew	MNF	DT Baltimore Ravens
About the same lead as the first game, 15.73 points in favor of Rutting Bucks who has the Ravens D, while Short Bus has an RB yet to play. You never know what you'll get from a defense each week, and will the Jaguars be playing catch up all night an abandon the run? I'm leaning for a victory for Bucks because of the current lead. Though, this one could be a Short Bus victory if MJD has a big game.

One Angry Gook (4-2) West 53.33	vs	Dragons (3-3) Central 114.51
QB Joe Flacco	MNF	none
It's a landslide victory for Team Dragons who has around a 60 point lead. OAG still has Flacco, but we can put this one to bed and mark Team Dragons to 4-3 in the Central. OAG falls to 4-3 in the West.

Hustla (4-2) West 86.01	vs	Crippled Monkeys (5-1) Central 128.43
WR Anquan Boldin	MNF	PK Billy Cundiff
With a current lead of 42.24, it appears to be a Crippled Monkeys victory. Team Hustla still has Boldin yet to play, but it's going to take an awful lot of yardage and scoring to grab the victory. Monkeys 6-1, Hustla 4-3

Pimp Juice (3-3) Central 117.30	vs	Grease Slappers (0-6) East 112.65
WR Torry Smith	MNF	none
Pimp Juice moves to 4-3 in the central and stays with the pack trying to catch Crippled Monkeys. Grease's losing streak extends to 7 games now despite the good showing. Peterson, Sproles, Colston had monster games, was quite impressive.

Dynasty (3-3) Central 78.83	vs	Thunder Choads (2-4) East 76.98
none	MNF	none
This one is over, Team Dynasty, despite having Mike Williams on their roster will squeak a victory by scoring 78.83 points and moves to 4-3 in the Central. Yep, 78.83 was all that was needed. The Choads fall to 2-5, but just missed out on the win by less than two points.

2011 Power Rank - Week 7

Week: 1 |  2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (5)	Crippled Monkeys	5-1	Let's just overlook that this team has the least amount of points scored against them. This team is scoring points, in fact, the third most points overall. After three dominating wins in a row, this team most to the top rung of the ladder. (Thanks, I received your power rankings payment)
	2 (1)	Buckwheat	5-1	After scoring 2 TD's in his first four games, Calvin Johnson has only scored 1 TD in his last two. He is officially washed up and should be cut from all rosters.
	3 (3)	Dynasty	3-3	Back on the winning track with the high score of the week, thanks in part to Mendenhall's return.
	4 (2)	Dragons	3-3	Had a great win with Ahmad Bradshaw looking like a stud for the week. We'll see how the big trade fairs for this team.
	5 (9)	Pimp Juice	3-3	Romo and Welker are the strength of this team. Will it get Adrian Peterson into the top 5 RB's by season end with Ponder behind center?
	6 (4)	Hustla	4-2	Ugly, ugly, ugly week with Gronk leading the way in Receivers.
	7 (6)	Rutting Bucks	3-3	Two loses in a row and leaving the door open for the bottom dwellers in the division to catch up. Best looks to be out and Miles Austin is back now right, plus it still has the Aaron Rodgers BYE week coming up.
	8 (7)	Stickboy	3-3	Had a good enough week for the win despite the low scoring around the league.
	9 (8)	One Angry Gook	4-2	Running back injuries and BYE weeks is making life tough for OAG, yet they are still scoring points from what's left of their roster.
	10 (10)	Thunder Choads	2-4	Had a slightly uglier week than Hustler this week after second high score the previous week. If this team gets consistent, it will make the playoffs.
	11 (11)	Short Bus All-Stars	1-5	Just needed one player to have a great week and it would have faired better. However, this team is ranked 12th in points scored, while second in points scored against. Not a winning combination by any means.
	12 (12)	Grease Slappers	0-6	Oddly enough, this team has the most points scored against. Add the 10th most points scored after six weeks and combine that with bad luck and terrible player management and you have an 0-6 team.

Week 6 Weekend Recap

Commish's Corner....

Da Bears....I'll let Rutting Bucks fill in the rest since his Packers won yet again....us Vikings fans, it's going to be a few more years, or so before we get to cheer. Enjoy some of my favorite videos for the week.

Troy Polamalu at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MBkDhsaUnU

Calvin Johnson - “The Catch”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXRqyjzyBRg

Adrian Peterson - “The Run”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftVLoFWZA7s

Adrian Peterson lays out Al Harris....this never gets old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MozIVCW9Vo0

Best NFL Fight ever???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQO7NV-ZGS4

The Good, The Bad, And The Funky….

Free Agent Lineup		Team	PTS	Starting Tragedy Lineup		Team	PTS
QB	Andy Dalton	CIN	17.20	QB	Jason Campbell	OAK	4.20
RB	Donald Brown	IND	12.38	RB	Peyton Hillis	CLE	1.75
RB	Marion Barber	CHI	10.38	RB	Ryan Torain	WAS	2.75
WR	Devin Hester	CHI	17.38	WR	Chad Ochocinco	NEP	0.00
WR	Arrelious Benn	TBB	15.75	WR	Denarius Moore	OAK	0.75
WR	Naaman Roosevelt	BUF	13.50	WR	Victor Cruz	NYG	1.50
KT	Connor Barth	TBB	19.00	KT	Neil Rackers	HOU	2.00
DT	Oakland Raiders	OAK	14.63	DT	New Orleans Saints	NOS	1.29
Fantasy Points = 120.22				Fantasy Points = 14.24

Fantasy Game Recaps….

Crippled Monkeys (4-1) Central 97.53	vs	One Angry Gook (4-1) West 93.42
none	MNF	none
Two 4-1 teams head to head....yawn, boring results! Neither 4-1 team can muster 100 points. Monkeys shamelessly take this one from OAG and move to 5-1. OAG dropps out of the three way tie division lead at 4-2.

Dragons (2-3) Central 97.84	vs	Hustler (4-1) East 49.59
none	MNF	RB Daniel Thomas
With a nearly 40 point lead, Dragons will claim victory by the end of the Monday night game. Hustler, another 4-1 team currently is struggling to get over the 50 point mark, let alone 100 points like Crippled Monkeys and OAG failed to do. Hustler  need .41 points to get over 50 points, but will still fall short of Dragons 97.84 points. Dragons moving on to .500 and one game out of first place in the Central.

Rutting Bucks (3-2) East 91.71	vs	Buckwheat (4-1) West 121.30
none	MNF	none
Two division leaders face off, finally one of our 4-1 teams that scored over 100 points. Buckwheat continues the winning ways and stays atop the division lead in the West by scoring over 100 points, congrats. Division leading Rutting Bucks also failed to top the 100 point mark and drops to .500

Stickboy (2-3) East 69.58	vs	Short Bus (1-4) West 63.94
RB Shonn Green DT New York Jets	MNF	WR Dustin Keller PK Nick Folk
In the only game that matters on Monday Night, STickboy holds the narrowest of leads by around five points. Each team has two players still in play, but Stickboy holds the edge by having a running back and a defense, Short Bus has a Receiver and a kicker. If all holds true to form, neither team will score over 100 points for the week, but someone must win.

Thunder Choads (2-3) East 54.57	vs	Pimp Juice (2-3) Central 101.72
none	MNF	none
After having a monster week in week 5, the Choads get blanked by Pimp Juice, who does score over 100 points by the way, one of three teams to do so. The Juice moves to .500 on the season, while the Choads fall to 2-4 in the East, but only 1 game out of first.

Grease Slappers (0-5) East 98.03	vs	Dynasty (2-3) Central 126.15
none	MNF	none
Grease is currently the 4th high score of the week, yet failed to score over 100 points, a common trend for the week will fall to 0-6. Thanks in part to Dynasty's high score of the week and will also improve to .500 on the season at 3-3.

2011 Power Rank - Week 6

Week: 1 |  2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (1)	Buckwheat	4-1	How does he do it? Another win despite having Michael Crabtree in the lineup.
	2 (2)	Dragons	2-3	You've got to love the schedule, currently is number one with most points scored against.
	3 (3)	Dynasty	2-3	Nearly had two wins in a row, but the pass happy Lions ran out the last 6 minutes of the game by keeping it on the ground.
	4 (4)	Hustla	4-1	Rolling to their fourth win of the season with the help of Gronkowski's 3.88 points.
	5 (6)	Crippled Monkeys	4-1	Leapfrogged up to number 5 this week with a win over number 12 ranked Grease Slappers.
	6 (5)	Rutting Bucks	3-2	May get Miles Austin back this week, but this team is rolling along just fine.
	7 (9)	Stickboy	2-3	Six points from all receivers and kicker this past week. Didn't put up great numbers, but still kicking butt in bench points.
	8 (8)	One Angry Gook	4-1	May be losing Blount for a week or two, not what this team needs right now.
	9 (7)	Pimp Juice	2-3	Crushed by Kyle Orton departure, any other QB and this team would have taken down Team Buckwheat.
	10 (10)	Thunder Choads	2-3	Two wins in a row and is now one of five teams at 2-3.
	11 (14)	Short Bus All-Stars	1-4	Survives the week with a win, but got it by the skin of his teeth. Warrants a move out of the cellar.
	12 (13)	Grease Slappers	0-5	Nothing to see here....move along.

Week 5 Weekend Recap

Commish's Corner....

Humbling....

I highlighted the incredible pace the scoring has been on last week, including five teams scoring over 135 points. Currently we have four teams that have scored over 100 points, with the chance of 3 or 4 more just making over the barrier. Welcome to the BYE weeks.

Good news, the Dream Team, Philadelphia Eagles and the Minnesota Vikings now share the same record at 1-4. Good thing they paid their QB 100 Million based on a half season of play from last year, traded away Kevin Kolb and ran McNabb out of town.

The Good, The Bad, And The Funky….

Free Agent Lineup		Team	PTS	Starting Tragedy Lineup		Team	PTS
QB	Matt Cassel	KCC	30.05	QB	Kyle Orton	DEN	1.70
RB	Jonathan Dwyer	PIT	14.13	RB	Stevan Ridley	NEP	1.63
RB	Bernard Scott	CIN	8.38	RB	Joseph Addai	IND	3.13
WR	James Jones	GBP	23.50	WR	Eric Decker	DEN	0.00
WR	Doug Baldwin	SEA	23.00	WR	Denarius Moore	OAK	0.00
WR	Jason Hill	JAC	20.75	WR	Dustin Keller	NYJ	0.88
PK	Steve Hauschka	SEA	13.40	PK	Matt Bryant	ATL	2.00
DT	Seattle Seahawks	SEA	21.32	DT	Indianapolis Colts	IND	2.93
Fantasy Points = 154.53				Fantasy Points = 12.27

Fantasy Game Recaps....

2011 Power Rank - Week 5

Week: 1 |  2 | 3 | 4 | 5

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (1)	Buckwheat	3-1	Mr. Glass did dislocate a finger in his week 4 game, but he was able to play the remainder of the game. Three out of four weeks scoring in the 140's....this team is rolling now with only Mr. Glass to derail it.
	2 (3)	Dynasty	2-2	Firing on all but one cylinder, this team has fought back to 2-2 in the standings. Second overall in points scored and pretty well distributed between QB, RB, WR.
	3 (2)	Dragons	2-2	Dragons are currently at 81% efficiency in their starting line up. Only one team is worse at starting the wrong lineup each week.
	4 (9)	Hustla	3-1	All this team does is score points from Forte and 1.88 from newly traded Gronkowski! On the right week, this team is unstoppable, but there are vulnerabilities.
	5 (6)	Rutting Bucks	3-1	Aaron Rodgers and Ravens Defense accounted for 90 of it's 145 points....um, really? Two players scored more than the entire starting lineup of Grease Slappers.
	6 (7)	Crippled Monkeys	3-1	Slowly creeping up in the rankings, if only it could get it's good players going, the secret ranking formula would give this team better numbers.
	7 (8)	Pimp Juice	2-2	The Juice has a lot going for it right now, Welker, Peterson, Sproles, Romo....this team is close to being a power house.
	8 (4)	One Angry Gook	3-1	Thankfully it sounds like Andre Johnson will only be out three weeks, but another injury to this team that it cannot afford, plus we start the BYE weeks and this team could be in for a rough stretch.
	9 (5)	Stickboy	2-2	Potentially this team has the third most points scored, but as I mentioned one team had a worser efficiency rating than Dragons, that would be this team at 76.4% efficient. We just may have to change the team name to Player Roulette.
	10 (11)	Thunder Choads	1-3	A great week for the Choads who earned their first win of the season. After a couple of weekend pickups, this team may be trend upwards.
	13 (10)	Grease Slappers	0-4	Takes over the 13 spot from the All-Stars, well deserved.
	14 (13)	Short Bus All-Stars	0-4	All-Stars can't catch a break after facing Team Buckwheat, they must play Team Dynasty, Team Stickboy, Rutting Bucks, then finally an easy match up against Grease.

Commish Notes for Week 5

First of all, I present: Vick In A Box

Second, newly created league polls: Please go vote

Has anyone else noticed league scoring appears to be a bit higher than normal? It actually is, by a lot!! After four weeks of scoring, we have a collective total of 442 points. In 2010 after four weeks we were at 382. In 2009, it was 392 points. So a 60 point gain after the first four weeks of play. This year we currently have nine teams scoring more than 400 points. In 2010 in the same time frame we had only four teams. Last weeks games saw five teams score 135 points or more, with 135.84 being the fifth highest score of the week! Insane! The lamest part about those five high scoring teams was not one of them played each other. Boring! I want the guy who scores 145 points to lose to the guy scoring 149 points. I got that several times last year, now it's someone else's turn.

Our Top Five QBs are: Rodgers, Brady, Newton, Brees, Stafford
Our Top Five RBs are: McFadden, McCoy, Rice, Forte, Fred Jackson
Our Top Five WRs are: Welker, Megatron, Steve Smith CAR, Wallace, Gronkowski

Around the NFL....This is our first bye week and the Ravens, Cowboys, Browns, Dolphins, Rams and Redskins will be out. Make your lineup moves to cover any players out. And this is going to be interesting too since six teams are out and more significant injuries are happening and will continue. That could really shift the fortunes of fantasy teams in the coming weeks. Bye weeks and injuries can really change the standings.

There are now only four teams without a win. The Rams, the Vikings, the Dolphins and the Colts. The Vikings are a mild surprise but lost receivers and quarterbacks and are installing a new system. The Colts have no changes other than losing Peyton Manning. The Rams are actually better personnel wise but apparently unable to get the new offense installed and running. The Dolphins are trying out a new offense with younger players. Hard to believe one of these will get the first overall pick in the draft but so far nothing is looking up for any of the three. And do Steve Spagnuolo, Leslie Frazier, Tony Sparano and Jim Caldwell all keep their jobs? Can you really blame all of IND's woes on Manning? Or was he just the one covering up everything else? Who will be the first coach fired? I am going with Sparano for now. Just a hunch.

ESPN yanks Hank Williams, opening number pulled: Wait a minute, a weed smoking, whisky and cocaine snorting, womanizing, hotel room destroying, bar-fighting, party hardy, tobacco chompin' redneck hillbilly that got drunk and fell off a cliff, makes a great ambassador for your product for 20 years off a song that was originally about getting drunk and partying. But when his brain cells (damaged so from all the drinking, weed smoking, fighting, and falling off cliffs) cause him to utter the "H" word in describing his so very deep and consequential political views I shouldn't hear his song no more? Whew! At least I know where ESPN draws the line. I should have been shielded from this dangerous man long ago. You irresponsible bastards.

Can't wait to see what Week 5 games and BYE weeks bring us....