Fantasy Rankings - Week 1

A weekly Fantasy Team Power Rankings.

There is nothing scientific about how I will rank the teams each week. I’ll use a mix of records, performance, bench depth, injuries, my personal knowledge and any humorous findings I can come up with, will determine how your team will be ranked each week. If there is good feedback for this article, I’ll continue it through the regular season with updates Wednesday morning. Once the playoffs start, winning speaks for itself.

Enjoy….

1. Buckwheat [1-0] - The 2008 League Champions continue this season as the top ranked fantasy team. Powered by a well balanced rushing and receiving core, plus tons of depth at the RB spot will do wonders for this team.

2. Thunder Choads [1-0] - All Day Peterson, oh man this team is going to roll with this stud on the roster. As long as the receiving core scores consistently, I see good things this year.

3. The Stud Stable [0-1] - Despite the Week 1 loss, Drew Brees and a solid receiving core  will carry this team into the playoffs. Time will tell if the RBs pick their game up to make this a well balanced team.

4. Grease Slappers [1-0] - True, high score of the week normally would rank this team higher, but an injury to McNabb and very little depth will make this team an all or nothing team. If the rookies start to get the carries, this team could be good. If any more injuries happen to the starters, this team will drop off the radar.

5. Crippled Monkeys [1-0] - Once the receiving core picks their game up to help score points with the tough RB core of MJD and Cadillac , you should see it rise in the rankings.

6. Pimp Juice [0-1] - Brady, Gore, LT, Holmes, Driver and even Fred Jackson looked good [lets revisit Fred once Marshawn Lynch returns]. A very good nucleus of players and props to keeping Brady injured for an entire year. After one week, 378 yards passing on 52 passing attempts, it appears to have paid off.

7. Dynasty [0-1] - A new year, a new team, like the monkeys, the receivers got off to a bad start. While the RBs are decent, some of the backups may do very little, but after one week, it may take a few more weeks to get them going.

8. Stickboy [1-0] - Despite the poor showing from it's top receivers, I do believe this team will rise, how far is my only concern. I can't see the Steelers being a passing team each week and Cutler throwing for 4 interceptions each will, I'm scared for your QBs. Now the RBs are yet another concern with no studs on the roster, although, McFadden could be a surprise bright spot of the Raiders continue to play like they did on Monday night and that may be enough to save your season.

9. Rutting Bucks [0-1] - I really like this team, despite it's poor showing in week 1. Getting Marshawn Lynch back will be a huge plus to get this team back on track. Thomas Jones picked up where he left off last year. I would have certainly kept him on my roster if the rules would have allowed. A. Rodgers will have better weeks and will rank this team higher in a few weeks.

10. Dragons [0-1] - The team with the most veterans on it's roster. Hopefully they're just off to a slow start and will help this team to win starting in week 2. If not, Fitz cannot carry this team alone, more points will have to come from somewhere.

11. Big Daddy [0-1] - Has to be a disappointing start to the season. P. Manning will have better weeks. Injuries to a couple of the core players will give this team a slow start. Perhaps the waiver wire will be the key to this teams survival or Big Daddy may be chasing Grease Slappers record setting year in 2008.

12. One Angry Gook [1-0] - This team has a lot of concerns after the first week. The studs did not perform, but they will, have no fear. Donald Brown will be a key player in a few weeks. There is a lot of upside and a lot of talent on this team, but it needs to get on track early and stay injury free.

Sunday Salutes - Week 1

Free Agent Lineup		Team	PTS	Starting Tragedy Lineup		Team	PTS
QB	Byron Leftwich	TBB	18.10	QB	Matt Schaub	HOU	8.90
RB	Mike Bell	NOS	17.88	RB	Larry Johnson	KCC	3.25
RB	Rickey Williams	MIA	13.25	RB	Willie Parker	PIT	3.00
WR	John Carlson	SEA	23.88	WR	Laveranues Coles	CIN	1.38
WR	Devery Henderson	NOS	18.88	WR	Santana Moss	WAS	0.75
WR	Brandon Stokley	DEN	16.88	WR	Anthony Gonzales	IND	0.00
KT	Jason Hanson	DET	10.70	KT	Kris Brown	HOU	1.00
DT	Atlanta Falcons	ATL	16.83	DT	Dallas Cowboys	DAL	3.63
Fantasy Points = 136.40				Fantasy Points = 21.91

Game Recaps - Week 1

Week 1 is almost completed. Two more games left to play on Monday night, an early one and a late one. I do wish the NFL would do this format each week instead of only Week 1.

Some enjoyable games in the NFL this week. The Vikings are still the Vikings, high powered running game, strong Defense and a minor passing game. The Saints are still the Saints. Drew Brees throws for 6 freakin touchdowns!! That equals as many touchdowns scored by the Tennessee, Pittsburgh, Miami, Carolina, Cincinnati, Houston, and St Louis combined this week!

As for the Sunday Night game between Chicago and Green Bay....I'm sure someone I know will be paying out a lot of lost bets this week.

Just a quick, boring recap this week. I'm still figuring out the format of this website and spent too much time messing around with it.

Final	Thur	Early	Late	Night	Mon	Total
Thunder Choads [1-0]	0	85.01	16.80	0	0	101.81
Dynasty [0-1]	0	87.30	0	0	0	87.30
MNF Thunder Choads: none MNF Dynasty: none

In Progress	Thur	Early	Late	Night	Mon	Total
Dragons [0-0]	8.50	39.98	30.03	0	-	78.51
Stickboy [0-0]	5.50	15.00	23.35	40.70	-	84.55
MNF Dragons: Terrell Owens MNF Stickboy: Darren McFadden

In Progress	Thur	Early	Late	Night	Mon	Total
Buckwheat [0-0]	14.48	26.10	18.40	31.63	0	90.61
Rutting Bucks [0-0]	0	46.10	0	26.00	-	72.10
MNF Buckwheat: none MNF Rutting Bucks: Laurence Maroney

In Progress	Thur	Early	Late	Night	Mon	Total
Crippled Monkeys [0-0]	0	81.54	0	0	-	81.54
Pimp Juice [0-0]	29.88	6.88	18.00	4.88	-	59.64
MNF Crippled Monkeys: Vincent Jackson, Chargers Defense MNF Pimp Juice: Tom Brady, LaDainian Tomlinson

In Progress	Thur	Early	Late	Night	Mon	Total
Grease Slappers [0-0]	0	120.85	15.13	0	0	135.98
The Stud Stable [0-0]	12.67	65.28	21.33	0	-	99.28
MNF Grease Slappers: none MNF The Stud Stable: Randy Moss

In Progress	Thur	Early	Late	Night	Mon	Total
Big Daddy [0-0]	0	49.93	0	18.72	-	68.85
One Angry Gook [0-0]	0	15.13	26.54	0	-	41.67
MNF Big Daddy: Nate Kaeding MNF One Angry Gook: Philip Rivers, Wes Welker, Stephen Gastkowski

SEARS Blue Crew - Brett Favre

To make fun of yourself like this....very funny!

2009 Draft Night Recap

The fourth draft of The League To Be Named Later....has come and gone. As expected, everyone drafted a top notch, winning team this year that will take them to the championship game. Who will come out on top in sixteen weeks is another story.

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Rutting Bucks unveils the new drafting gear."][/caption]The event started out with Rutting Bucks unveiling his new drafting gear. It was a Christmas gift he received from his daughter. The hat was made using foam from the same artist that makes many of the Packers foam cheese items. [BigGuyHats.com]. In creating the design a photo of his team logo was used. I am quite impressed with the overall looks and painting. What amazed me the most was seeing Carl wear the hat for the entire duration of the draft.

Shortly after Rutting Bucks arrived, the rest of the owners started filing into the drafting room. The much improved drafting room. If you recall in 2008, the lighting was very poor and I made a few trips into my house to bring out additional lighting. For 2009, I had installed three florescent light fixtures. I had them sitting in my home, tucked away in an unused corner of my utility room. They sat for 11 years, collecting dust. Though the brighter lights did attract a few more mosquitoes.

The other improvement to the garage was the installation of television. With the addition of Brett Favre to the Minnesota Vikings, I had been asked by a few people if they would be able to view the game during the draft. To be honest, I too had an interest in seeing Favre perform. The LCD TV will return for next year. It will be come a permanent fixture in my garage. I'll see what the cost is to have Comcast run cable out to the garage as it would be ideal for me.

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I believe we had every owner at the draft by 6:30 and started shortly after. A big thank you goes to Curtis for being our auctioneer for the big event. Curtis kept the draft moving at a very acceptable pace. Heck, we even had restroom breaks every couple of rounds and we still finished 90 minutes earlier than last year. Though, we may have started an hour later in 2008, than this year. It was by far, our earliest finish to a draft. I will put in a request for 2010 to have Curtis once again be the auctioneer.

As this was the first year players had to return to the general pool, I was really unsure what the values of the players would go for this year. The highest valued player in this years draft was Maurice Jones-Drew at $89 dollars. Crippled Monkeys and surprisingly, Grease Slappers got into a bidding war for the coveted player. In the end, Monkeys drew last blood as the Slappers vowed to not purchase any player at $90 or higher. There was a couple of great values, or at least I thought their values should have been higher than what they actually sold for. Nate Burleson $1, Steve Breaston $3, Tory Holt $6, Felix Jones $7, Kyle Orton $1, scratch that, you over paid for Kyle Orton. Who got the best deal, we wont know seasons end.

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I'm not sure how much of the Vikings game everyone caught, but I did manage to catch a glimpse or two every now and then. Though, the NFL Network did replay the game later that evening where I watched the final drive of the game by the Kansas City Chiefs. The Vikings Defense stopped them on the goal line. I was surprised to see the close finish to the football game as I totally missed it during our draft.

So another draft has come and gone. I believe I heard seven people say their team will win in the Championship game this year. On the flip side, I heard no one say the team they drafted was terrible. But, I believe as of Sunday, there has been nine or ten roster moves made.  Perhaps there wasn't complete satisfaction, or was it to correct a drafting error? We'll see who was right come Week 16. Only 17 more days until Week 1 kick off!

Keep in mind the Peoples Choice Awards and the categories that you will vote on at the end of the season. The categories are the same as in 2008, plus your best win, worst loss or most memorable game of the season.

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Good luck gentleman....you're going to need it.

Cory sleeping

thank you to curtis

draft recalls

vikings game

aftermath

group photo

2009 Selected Keepers

Teams		2009	Value
Big Daddy	RB	Matt Forte	$22.00
Big Daddy	RB	Pierre Thomas	$1.00
Buckwheat	RB	Ryan Grant	$1.00
Buckwheat	WR	Calvin Johnson	$31.00
Crippled Monkeys	WR	Vincent Jackson	$3.00
Crippled Monkeys	WR	Roddy White	$1.00
Dragons	RB	Chris Johnson	$12.00
Dragons	WR	Larry Fitzgerald	$60.00
Dynasty	RB	Lendale White	$3.00
Dynasty	RB	DeAngelo Williams	$7.00
Grease Slappers	RB	Cedric Benson	$1.00
Grease Slappers	WR	Antonio Bryant	$1.00
One Angry Gook	RB	Michael Turner	$2.00
One Angry Gook	WR	Wes Welker	$3.00
Pimp Juice	QB	Tom Brady	$25.00
Pimp Juice	QB	Kurt Warner	$1.00
Rutting Bucks	QB	Brett Favre	$11.00
Rutting Bucks	WR	Anthony Gonzalez	$8.00
Stickboy	WR	Anquan Boldin	$38.00
Stickboy	WR	Greg Jennings	$25.00
The Stud Stable	RB	Ronnie Brown	$28.00
The Stud Stable	WR	Randy Moss	$33.00
Thunder Choads	RB	Adrian Peterson	$35.00
Thunder Choads	RB	Steve Slaton	$8.00

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