2012 Power Rank - Week 4

Week: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (2)	One Angry Gook	3-1	Deservingly ranked in the one spot after scoring an all time league record, 181 points. Yet, now this team also sports Arian Foster after the big trade with the Monkeys.
	2 (1)	Buckwheat	3-1	Had just enough to defeat the last undefeated team this season.
	3 (4)	Hustla	3-1	So many Bears, so many points....so far it's working out.
	4 (3)	Crippled Monkeys	3-1	Let the Frank Gore era begin!!
	5 (5)	Dynasty	2-2	Very tough match up last week, but still scoring well enough most weeks.
	6 (6)	Top Notch	2-2	Another decent week, just not enough for a victory.
	7 (8)	Thunder Choads	1-3	Finally a win for a pretty decent team that should make the playoffs.
	8 (7)	Stickboy	2-2	The starters just didn't produce, but how can you sit most of them?
	9 (11)	Dragons	2-2	Cruising along to victory, but can this team keep it going week to week?
	10 (12)	Short Bus All-Stars	1-3	Pulls out the first victory of the season with the third highest score of the week. You still had two others that you could have faced, yet the schedule maker gave you a break this week.
	11 (9)	Rutting Bucks	1-3	Andre Brown, second week as starter, not so good Al.
	12 (10)	Grease Slappers	1-3	Well, Aaron Rodgers showed you why you spent your draft dollars on him, too bad the rest of the team was on vacation.

2012 Power Rank - Week 3

Week: 1 | 2 | 3

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (1)	Buckwheat	2-1	After three weeks, most points scored by QB and WR, plus leading the league in total points overall by about 60 points. Look out, here comes the non-division match ups.
	2 (1)	One Angry Gook	2-1	I still think this team is cursed with Mike Williams on the roster, but they earned their second win of the season.
	3 (3)	Crippled Monkeys	3-0	Got the win and didn't top 100 points. Can this team get back to the Week 2 dominance?
	4 (6)	Hustla	2-1	Currently the second highest scoring team in the league and is one of two teams to score 120 points or more each week.
	5 (7)	Dynasty	2-1	Two good weeks in a row, but now they've lost CJ Spiller and will have to rely on Donald Brown?
	6 (4)	Top Notch	2-1	Had another decent week, but drew the tough match up against Team Buckwheat.
	7 (5)	Stickboy	2-1	There is a rumor Alex Smith will be the starter next week....oh what joy!
	8 (11)	Thunder Choads	1-2	Leading in bench point scoring, so there is plenty of points there to be inserted.
	9 (10)	Rutting Bucks	1-2	$100 dollars well spent on Andre Brown, but how many weeks will it last?
	10 (8)	Grease Slappers	1-2	How's that Aaron Rodgers top dollar pick working out for you after three weeks now?
	11 (9)	Dragons	1-2	Brutal week, but will get Eli back on track for Week 4, if you start your studs.
	12 (12)	Short Bus All-Stars	0-3	May have gone from bad to worser with Hillis injured and Collie out for the season.

2012 Power Rank - Week 2

Week: 1 | 2

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (7)	One Angry Gook	1-1	All eight starters in Week 2 scored 15 points or more. On top of that, you're making trade offers to improve on your team....
	2 (2)	Buckwheat	1-1	If McFadden gets going, you'll have quite the duo with Reggie Bush. And there is Matt Ryan, Megatron and AJ Green.
	3 (5)	Crippled Monkeys	2-0	At some point in the season, Adrian Peterson will be back to stud form each week, plus Arian Foster, Cam, this could be another deadly combination.
	4 (4)	Top Notch	2-0	Pretty nice win, despite having two players score zero points. Now next week could be rough in the receivers department with injuries.
	5 (1)	Stickboy	1-1	Secretly, we all loved your Randall Cobb pickup and we are all glad that you started him too!
	6 (3)	Hustla	1-1	Loses Forte, gets Ryan Mathews....will that be enough to offset the points?
	7 (11)	Dynasty	1-1	Loses Fred Jackson, inserts CJ Spiller and all is right with the world.
	8 (8)	Grease Slappers	1-1	How are those top two picks of yours doing so far? There was one improvement from last week, you only have four players with zero points instead of five!!
	9 (10)	Dragons	1-1	Has an appointment with Over Thinkers Anonymous on Wednesday. I heard Eli Manning is the keynote speaker.
	10 (12)	Rutting Bucks	1-1	A much better week than the first week, if we can keep it going, the ranking can only get better.
	11 (6)	Thunder Choads	0-2	An awful Week 2 will make next weeks starters tough to decide on.
	12 (10)	Short Bus All-Stars	0-2	Here we go again....

Weekend Recap - Week 2

Commish's Corner....

We lose three so far this week in the Survivor Pool. Team Buckwheat and Team Dragons both picking Dallas and Crippled Monkeys selecting the Patriots. Dynasty and Grease advance to Week 3 with the All-Stars revealing their team in the Monday night game.

Hopefully I have finally set the Blind Bid Waiver and the First Come, First Server waivers correctly now. I've had my struggles with setting this up in the past, and when I compare last years setup to this years [before my changes], they were identical. I made an adjustment to the calendar now, so with any luck, I won't have to adjust this going forward. We shall see as the week progresses.

The Good, The Bad, And The Funky….

Free Agent Lineup		Team	PTS	Starting Tragedy Lineup		Team	PTS
QB	Sam Bradford	STL	28.50	QB	Aaron Rodgers	GBP	14.95
RB	Jackie Battle	SDC	20.63	RB	Ahmad Bradshaw	NYG	2.00
RB	Andre Brown	NYG	20.25	RB	Jamal Charles	KCC	4.25
WR	Dente Rosario	SDC	26.00	WR	Aaron Hernandez	NEP	0.00
WR	Brent Celek	PHI	23.63	WR	Larry Fitzgerald	ARI	1.00
WR	Donnie Avery	IND	19.25	WR	Dez Bryant	DAL	3.63
KT	Justin Tucker	BAL	17.50	KT	Dan Bailey	DAL	1.00
DT	Seattle Seahawks	SEA	19.01	DT	Dallas Cowboys	DAL	6.60
Fantasy Points = 174.77				Fantasy Points = 33.43

Fantasy Game Recaps….

Rutting Bucks (0-1) East 122.49	vs	Stickboy (1-0) East 89.64
none	MNF	WR Julio Jones
After a disappointing first week, Rutting Bucks struts his team and is currently at a 33 or so point lead over Team Stickboy. I wouldn't call this one over, but 33 points is a lot to make up from one Receiver. So I'll give them a 98% chance of winning this week. Overall they had a decent week, Philip Rivers and Danny Amendola were the key players, plus the bench players did fairly weel, at least the ones who played. Stickboy was Randall Cobbed this week. Had more bench points than starting points, so there is lots of points being wasted. Eight receivers on this team and you can only start three, good luck with that. Also, Kevin Smith didn't get hurt this week, so that's a positive.

Dynasty (0-1) East 121.56	vs	Grease Slappers (1-0) East 113.11
QB Peyton Manning	MNF	none
Team Dynasty saw it live in person, the Vikings lose another one. The one saving grace is, they have claimed their first win of the season. They have proved that you can win with stud running backs. Though, on draft night, you wouldn't have thought CJ Spiller would be tops in the league. Grease, or Grease....Aaron Rodgers has let you down again. Isn't this about the week when you panic and start trading or dropping your players?

Short Bus All-Stars (0-1) Central 72.76	vs	Dragons (0-1) Central 93.20
RB Michael Turner	MNF	RB Willis McGahee PK Matt Prater
After counting themselves out on Thursday after the Packers put up 25 points, the All Stars could have won this week with a decent performance. But no, they had an awful, awful week. If you don't mind, I'll reuse an early bit, this team was Ogletreed. You picked him up, but yeash! Dragons, it could have been so much better....510 yards, 3 TD's by Eli Manning and he's on your bench in place of Andrew Luck. You've read it over and over and over....Always Start Your Studs!! Baring another nightmare, Dragon's still should win this week.

Hustla (1-0) Central 120.35	vs	Crippled Monkeys (1-0) Central 154.50
none	MNF	none
Battle of the unbeaten's in the Central with Monkeys coming out on top. They currently have the high score of the week and rightfully so with three players nearly scoring 30 points or more. Just an impressive looking team with AP still looking for his normal self. Hustla takes a the loss and will worry for the next 6 weeks with Matt Forte sidelined one a high ankle sprain. At the very least, I believe this team found it's starting weekly QB with RGIII.

Top Notch (1-0) West 109.79	vs	Thunder Choads (0-1) West 84.33
none	MNF	PK Matt Bryant
Despite having two goose eggs from Greg Jennings and with Aaron Hernandez getting injured, Top Notch had another great week. Rice and Sproles each producing 22. They should move to 2-0 in the West. The Choads got Victor Cruz going this week with 34, but the rest of the team looked terrible.

Buckwheat (1-0) West 111.13	vs	One Angry Gook (1-0) West 111.07
QB Matt Ryan	MNF	WR Demaryius Thomas WR Roddy White
Is this close or what? .06 separates the teams, each have players in Monday Night's game. I'm excited to see this one play out as it should be close, right? The winner will be tied in the West at 2-0 with Top Notch.

2012 Power Rankings - Week 1

Week: 1 |

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (-)	Stickboy	1-0	Rolls to the high score of the week to start the season. Note to self, don't mess with the 2011 Super Bowl champs. They are on their way for the third title. :)
	2 (-)	Buckwheat	1-0	If Matt Ryan can produce more scores like Week 1, can you say "Michael Vick who?
	3 (-)	Hustla	1-0	Yes, you kicked it in Week 1 thanks to the Bears, but can they keep it going for you? RGIII was looking great, just like his college days.
	4 (-)	Top Notch	1-0	Great starting core and a win in Week 1 silenced the nay sayers from draft night.
	5 (-)	Crippled Monkeys	1-0	Gambled with AP in the starting line up and was rewarded, and this team has some depth.
	6 (-)	Thunder Chaods	0-1	Had a really great first week, but just didn't have enough for the win.
	7 (-)	One Angry Gook	0-1	This team is now in angry mode with a loss in Week 1. I still think this is a team to look out for as the season goes on. Although, I believe it currently has the Grease Slappers curse of having Mike Williams on his team.
	8 (-)	Grease Slappers	1-0	We knew this team had starters, but reserve players, yeash! Five back up players with zero points!! Are you kidding me?
	9 (-)	Short Bus All-Stars	0-1	Is needing some RB help to get their first win next week. The remainder of the team should be decent enough.
	10 (-)	Dragons	0-1	Mixed reviews after this past week. Should get it going soon....right?
	11 (-)	Dynasty	0-1	Losing Fred Jackons right out of the gate....rough start, yet, drafted his handcuff, CJ Spiller. Great insite and I would expect this teams ranking to increase with a W.
	12 (-)	Rutting Bucks	0-1	Looking for s stronger showing in Week 2 after a good week of practice from his team.

Keepers 2012

Year		Player	Value	Teams
2	RB	Matt Forte	$27.00	Hustla
2	WR	Rob Gronkowski	$2.00	Hustla
2	WR	Calvin Johnson	$60.00	Buckwheat
2	WR	AJ Green	$11.00	Buckwheat
3	RB	Arian Foster	$10.00	Crippled Monkeys
2	WR	Jordy Nelson	$1.00	Crippled Monkeys
2	RB	Willis McGahee	$7.00	Dragons
2	WR	Jimmy Graham	$1.00	Dragons
3	RB	Fred Jackson	$1.00	Dynasty
2	RB	Donald Brown	$2.00	Dynasty
2	QB	Carson Palmer	$1.00	Grease Slappers
2	RB	Demarco Murray	$1.00	Grease Slappers
2	RB	Marshawn Lynch	$17.00	One Angry Gook
3	WR	Mike Wallace	$11.00	One Angry Gook
2	RB	Darren Sproles	$1.00	Top Notch
2	RB	Ben Tate	$3.00	Top Notch
2	RB	Mark Ingram	$40.00	Rutting Bucks
2	WR	Jerome Simpson	$1.00	Rutting Bucks
2	QB	Matthew Stafford	$6.00	Stickboy
2	WR	Julio Jones	$16.00	Stickboy
3	RB	Peyton Hillis	$1.00	Short Bus All-Stars
2	WR	Pierre Garcon	$11.00	Short Bus All-Stars
2	QB	Andy Dalton	$1.00	Thunder Choads
2	WR	Victor Cruz	$1.00	Thunder Choads

Peoples Choice Awards - Results

Robert Conrad Award: Crippled Monkeys - [Manager of the Year - 6]
Pick Em Award: Crippled Monkeys - [Most afraid of on draft night - 4]
Heartbroken Award: Short Bus/Choads/Hustla - [Least afraid of on draft night - 3 each]
EMT Award: Stickboy - [Best recovery from a poor draft night - 3]
Cloud 9 Award: Hustla/Pimp Juice - [Best comeback from the previous season - 3 each]
CPR Award: Grease Slappers - [Best comeback from a poor start to the season - 9]
Golden Horseshoe: Stickboy - [The best luck of the season - 4]
Non Irish Award: Short Bus All-Stars - [The worst luck of the season - 3]
Life Support Award: One Angry Gook - [The most injured team of the season - 6]
Urinal Cake Award: Short Bus All-Stars - [The worst team of the season - 12]

NFL Rookie Of The Year [1^st year players only]:
11 - Cam Newton, 1 - Torrey Smith

NFL Player Of The Year [non-rookie]:
6 - Aaron Rodgers, 2 - Drew Brees, 2 - LeSean McCoy, 1 - Victor Cruz, 1 - Arian Foster

What NFL player do you wish you would have drafted:
5 - Cam Newton, 3 - DeMarco Murray, Ray Rice, 2 - Wes Welker, LeSean McCoy, Arian Foster, Calvin Johnson, 1 - Michael Turner, Matt Forte, Mike Wallace, AJ Green, Marshawn Lynch, Maurce JonesDrew, Greg Jennings, Percy Harvin

What NFL player are you thankful for not drafting:
4 - Peyton Manning, 2 - Reggie Wayne, DeSean Jackson, Andre Johnson, Darren McFadden, Anyone from the Colts, 1 - Anyone from the Vikings, Mark Sanchez, Michael Crabtree, Javid Best, Miles Austin, Donnavan McNabb, Michael Vick, Ryan Grant, Kyle Orton, Hakeem Nicks, Jamal Charles, Knowshow Moreno, Matt Schabb, Mark Ingram, Joe Flacco, Adrian Peterson

Season In Review

Hustla	Taking my name out of the WORST Career Loss Title! :)
Buckwheat	I believe this is the best team I ever put together. I will remember that Buckwheat ruled and won the playoffs.
Crippled Monkeys	Beating Dragons for the division title. Arian Foster coming back from injury and not trading him to Khang for Larry Fitzgerald while he was still injured. Paying $100.00 for Cam Newton and having him go on to dominate the league.
Dragons	I'll remember that 2 divisions waited until the last week and each team played each other. both good and bad for those teams.
Dynasty	Ummm, STARTING Stafford over Brady while playing short bus..thus leading to his only WIN of the season...I wanted Staff to shove it in SHORT Bus' face for not trading for him but only to come up short while Brady would have gotten the victory done....F'n aye....
Grease Slappers	Looking at my team after draft night, thinking did I really draft this team? After the first week, my suspicions were correct that this would be an incredible long season. 0-7 after the first seven weeks, then going on a mini run of 5 wins in a row. Hopefully I made a couple of you worried I would sneak in the playoffs. To my surprise, I was very close and could have made it on tie breakers, but had a terrible Week 13. Bring on the 2012 season!
One Angry Gook
Pimp Juice	When we beat Crippled Monkeys in the 1st rd...being the #8 seed and beating the #1 seed is sweet. Even though he beat us twice in the regular season you never know what happens in the playoffs. That is our most memorial moment (so far).
Rutting Bucks	Playing a week with all my RB's out via injury or bye, and half my WR\'s out via injury or bye. Then having to make a last minute trade just to field a team, only to find out the RB I traded for the team decided at game time would not play (actually got 4 carries). But on a bright note the WR I traded, got hurt that day, again. So it all worked out.
Stickboy
Short Bus All-Stars	Getting Jacked by Forga out of Steven Jackson who would have brought me 4-5 more wins (still no playoffs)
Thunder Choads