Congrats to Top Scorer...DNF
WINNER’S CIRCLE -
So nice to be among a winning group, with winning ways, winning teams, winning players! You make DFFL a shining example for all those who yearn to understand the makeup of a platinum dynasty fantasy league in these trying fantasy production times! Congratulations to:
(DNF⭐⭐⭐🦶), (TIU⭐⭐🦶🛡️), (UGG⭐⭐⭐🦶🛡️🛡️), (DMM⭐), (JWW), and (KED⭐⭐⭐🦶🛡️) in order of points scored. Nice squeaker, KED!
DANTE’S CIRCLE -
Time to spend a week in the Fantasy Nine Circles of Hell. Get a chance to second guess all your transactions, your crappy starting lineups, your faulty strategy. Scream in agony so that perhaps the Fantasy Gods will show some modicum of mercy for a comeback. This can’t be how it ends, for me! Tell me I have a chance!?! Better make the right moves and pray for some redemption…next week! #loo-oo-oo-sers:
(NUT⭐🛡️), (CAB⭐), (TMW⭐⭐🦶), (MTT⭐), (PTS) and (RAF⭐) in order of losing points scored in sad, sad losses.
** Not a lot of changes in Top 5 Owners; no desire to list who gained and lost **
(KEY: 🛡️-Top 5 Defense/ST, 🦶-Top 5 Kicker, ⭐-Top 5 Player Q/R/W/T)
AWARDS -
Tyson Award. Nite, Nite! Thleep Tight!
- DNF (2) earns a TYSON this week after crushing the soul of RAF in a 195.14 to 95.34 point, Round1 knockout. "Not a thurprithe; RAF wath dethtined for dethruction!"...essentially a BYE week for DNF. RAF had no chance after the morning games. Got close to a 100 point rout, but ijust barely fell short at 99.8 points…sheesh!
2022: RAF (1), UGG (1), , TIU (2), TMW (1), KED (1), DMM (1), NUT (1),DNF (2)
Historical: JWW 139.88
Cliffhanger Award. By the skin of your teeth and newly discovered hairloss!
- KED (1) beat MTT this week...By. The. Skin. of. His. Teeth! Just 2.64. Wow! Going into Monday Night Football it appeared to be all but over for the team that lost two of his big dogs to injury early in their games. The score ended up 122.26 to 119.62…a nail biter by any metric. Unusually, AJ Brown (A Top 20 Player) did not come through for MTT, managing a mere 2.20 points towards a 21.84 point projection.
2022: NUT (1), DMM (1), JWW (1), UGG (3), TMW (1), RAF (2), KED (1)
Historical: “The Tie”’19 (CAB vs RAF); “Halloween Howler.84”’22 (TMW vs NUT)
Maguire Award. Show me the Money!
- DNF (1) wins a MAGUIRE this week, amazingly for the first time this season! He had a score of 195.14, getting very close to 200. Remember, this is the team that brought back 2021 juggernauts JT, King Henry, and Justin Jefferson. Well, DNF did it in style this week, earning the two best awards a fantasy owner could hope for. Happy 50 bucks richer day, DNF!
DFFL scored 1667.86 points in Week 10; not a good trend the past 4 weeks (Week 9: 1704).
2022: PTS (1), TIU (1), UGG (3), TMW (3), RAF (1), DNF (1)
Historical: DNF 246.5
Meme Award. When your best isn’t good enough, but makes for great jokes!
- RAF (1) earned a MEME this week with a score of just 95.34. Yes, RAF came back to an award that once brandished his namesake. It’s not good to be back for RAF; he’d hoped to avoid this type of embarrassment in 2022. However, Week 10 was always going to be a dumpster fire for RAF. You can't stack shite on top of shite in your lineup and expect anything but, well, shite. Of note, RAF had an approximate 100 point swing from Week 9 to Week 10 - going from Maguire to Meme. Welcome to NFL Fantasy Football!
2022: TMW (1), JWW (1), MTT (1), NUT (1), DMM (1), CAB (1), PTS (3), RAF (1)
Historical: OIE (MTT) 66.04.
Shamrock Award. I found me 4-leaf clover, and though small, I be a winner!
- KED (2) gets this award twice this year…better lucky than the alternative…so this is a good thing to get twice, right?!? Scoring 122.26 points, KED would have lost to every team this week, except PTS and RAF! Talk about, “whew, that’s close!”. Given the unfortunate injuries this late in the season, I think KED deserves to eek this out..right? Maybe.
2022: UGG (1), RAF (1), DMM (1), NUT (2), TMW (1), MTT (2), KED (2)
Historical: CAB 102.7
“Red Shirt” Award. Starfleet security officer taking one for CAPT Kirk.
- NUT (2) earns a RED SHIRT for drawing the short straw and being the only one to accompany Kirk and Spock to Planet UGGLife. NUT scored a very respectable 141.90 points, and actually came within 20 points of winning.. Close, but no cigar! It’s only fitting that UGG should claim the unlucky A-Team member, as it was he last week that grabbed death from the jaws of life in a similar scenario. At least NUT gets his redshirt hung from Starship Enterprise Ring of Honor...
He would have beat 90% of DFFL this week had he just had a chance.
2022: CAB (1), PTS (1), DMM (1), TIU (1), RAF (2), DNF (1), UGG (1), NUT (2)
Historical: NUT 205.10 (Halloween Howler, Oct22)
Mojo Award. “Yeah, Baby!” Best pickup or start/sit decisions.
- DMM (1) nabs the Mojo Award in Week 10! Do I make you get points?!? Yeah, Baby!! DMM waivered the Commanders Kicker, Slye, off Monday morning waivers, and not more than a few hours later the Kicker would notch his best performance of the year! Pulling in a whopping 19 points! Had DMM not been tracking on the talent left to waivers, he would have lost to CAB by a mere 0.08 points! Slye, by the way, did better than any other player at that position in Week 10, a full 3 points better.
2022: NUT (1), JWW (3), UGG (3), DNF (1), CAB (1), DMM (1)
Historical: EJT (KAK) 58.25 “FitzMagic”
Noonan Award. “Best Ball Award”...na-na-na-na-naaaa!.
- MTT (2) gets honors this week for a big fat NOONAN. His game against KED was close and WINNABLE! All KED had to do was recognize that Antonio Gibson was running away with points in the Commander’s new running committee. Gibson has got over 20+ points in the past three weeks. This week he beat projections AGAIN, scoring 16.70, granted against a really good defense, Philly. However, he should have known that divisional games can be traps, right? Maybe, not. Had MTT played Gibson or even DeAndre Carter in a WR-less Chargers offense (19.40), he would have "soundly" beat KED. Sitting injury prone Swift and time-share Montgomery would have been a better move…..after the fact! Nanananaaaa!
2022: TMW (1), PTS (1), UGG (1), DMM (2), NUT (2), JWW & TIU (2), MTT (2)
Deck Chairs Award. First Class or Steerage? All equally suck on Titanic!
- RAF (4). A floundering RAF, riding with the nautical day shapes for Not Under Command, was trapped in a All Ahead Flank, rudderless course - headed straight for a DNF berg. With disaster all but inevitable, but with a Captain not willing to accept circumstances, RAF decided to exchange Deck Chairs with the oft endangered PTS. Certainly, Amon Ra St Brown deserves a chance at survival! The exchange made, RAF, now steaming along the same path with CEH, noticed nothing had changed. CEH, as he had done for PTS, did nothing to deflect disaster! As RAF smashed to smithereens in Week 10, he noticed behind him PTS (Amon R St Brown, and all) fade into the sea; a JWWberg towering above the scene. As the RAF floundered, he could be heard screaming...."Why, Oh, Why Can't I Beat DNFFFFffff Glub…Glub…Glub…"
2022: PTS (1), CAB (3), JWW & TIU (1), RAF (4)
Scoring was low overall, but the high score got close to 200 points. With Week 10 in the rear view mirror, it's on to the last Week for making trades! Good Luck!
~Rudolf “the Red Nose Reindeer” (RAF)
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