Congrats to Top Scorer...UGG
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:
(UGG⭐⭐⭐🦶🛡️🛡️), (DMM⭐), (NUT⭐🦶🛡️), (JWW⭐⭐), (TMW⭐⭐🛡️), and (TIU⭐⭐🛡️) in order of points scored.
DANTE’S LAYER -
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:
(DNF⭐⭐⭐🦶🦶), (PTS🦶), (RAF⭐⭐), (CAB⭐⭐), (MTT⭐), and (KED⭐) in order of losing points scored.
(KEY: 🛡️-Top 5 Defense/ST, 🦶-Top 5 Kicker, ⭐-Top 5 Player Q/R/W/T)
TOP 5 Notes: Only the Winner’s Circle teams had Top 5 Defenses (Defense wins games??). KED lost the most TOP 5ers; down to only one dude…
AWARDS -
Tyson Award. Nite, Nite! Thleep Tight!
- UGG (2) gets a TYSON this week with a clobbering of MTT in a 173.3 to 82.98 scoreboard fiasco. 90.32 points was the difference! Honorable mention goes to DMM, who beat KED by 89.64. This was just under a point from taking a TYSON. Nice work to UGG and DMM this week.
2022: RAF (1), TIU (2), TMW (1), KED (1), DMM (1), NUT (1), DNF (2), UGG (2)
Historical: JWW 139.88
Cliffhanger Award. By the skin of your teeth and newly discovered hair loss!
- TIU (1) earns a CLIFFHANGER this week with his 3.08 point victory over PTS. Going into MNF it appeared PTS might get only his 2nd win of the 2022 DFFL Season. NOT TO BE!! Two touchdowns by Aiyuk and a decent run game from Conner could not take away TIU’s Sunday Night leads. MNF was played in Mexico City; a whopping 7000+ feet in altitude! By early in the 4th quarter, both teams were out of breath and ready to be done with the game…which was a walk-away beating by San Fran anyway. All this to say, the environment plays a HUUUUGE factor in fantasy players’ success or failure.
2022: NUT (1), DMM (1), JWW (1), UGG (3), TMW (1), RAF (2), KED (1), TIU (1)
Historical: “The Tie”’19 (CAB vs RAF); “Halloween Howler.84”’22 (TMW vs NUT)
Maguire Award. Show me the Money!
- UGG (4) wins his 4th MAGUIRE, in combined earning of $200 since Week 1!! Nicely done. UGG wins with the second lowest high score of the Season, just 173.3. In week 5, UGG had the highest score at just 168. Between UGG and TMW, they have accounted for 7 out of 11 Maguire Awards. The top Maguire stock owners, for sure. UGG can thank Joe Cool Burrow, Davante Adams, and NE Defense/ST for the $50 this week. OKAY, you can throw Josh Jacobs into the mix as well…once again, running it up against the Broncos.
DFFL scored 1625.42 points in Week 11, continuing a downward trend in point production…..(Week 10: 1667.86).
2022: PTS (1), TIU (1), TMW (3), RAF (1), DNF (1), UGG (4)
Historical: DNF 246.5
Meme Award. When your best isn’t good enough, but makes for great jokes!
- KED (1) gets his first MEME of the season. Scoring just 81.06 points, KED came just 15 points from OIE (MTT)’s historical DFFL low! This was a very rough week for the KED franchise, coming just 2 weeks after the Kupp and Smith-Shuster injury. KED really had no chance to win, and only minimal chances to break the Century Mark; neither came close. The autopsy is complicated, but LaJax achieving just 50% of projected points, Gano’s goose egg, and Barkley’s bizarre utter and completely disgraceful performance against Detroit are some of the more obvious disappointments. The other players streaming KED out to dry were expected disasters: Skowmoronic, McKenzie, and R. Moore (Spoiler Alert: Deck Chair). In even worse news, KED must now face down one of the toughest stretches of opponents. Good LUCK!
2022: TMW (1), JWW (1), MTT (1), NUT (1), DMM (1), CAB (1), PTS (3), RAF (1), KED (1)
Historical: OIE (MTT) 66.04.
Shamrock Award. I found me 4-leaf clover, and though small, I be a winner!
- TIU (1) gets a SHAMROCK this week with a close win and lowest winning score of 137.98. His 4-Leaf Clover allowed him to sit Jamaal Williams, a player who has scored double digit points every game of the year except 1 (Week 5 game against #1 Defense, New England). TIU faced adversity all weekend with Kadarius Toney injured after only .5 points and Josh Allen surviving his lowest point total of the season. Headed into MNF, it looked terrible, but he stayed the TIU course, and now leads the Malt division! Congrats to TIU!
2022: UGG (1), RAF (1), DMM (1), NUT (2), TMW (1), MTT (2), KED (2), TIU (1)
Historical: CAB 102.7
“Red Shirt” Award. Starfleet security officer taking one for CAPT Kirk.
- DNF (2) joins RAF and NUT in gaining the most RED SHIRT awards this season thus far; 2 each. This is an unfortunate award that really doesn’t feel like one at all. It is a postmortem congratulatory kudos for being on a respectable team, but having to jump on that grenade in spite of a decent showing. DNF scored a nicely done 137.74 points, and while this doesn’t seem like a lot, it was less than 50 points from the high score. DNF’s only regret is that he had to wear a Red Shirt down to Planet DubbaDub, and whilst fending off a Prescott Dragon and Patterson Rex he was taken out by a “Top 10” Rookie, a Wooky Pierce stabbed DNF in the back just as he arrived at the space lander. DNF has a long path to travel in getting to the Playoffs…PLAYOFFS?!? Yes, but he has to fend off the toughest division in DFFL…Good LUCK!
2022: CAB (1), PTS (1), DMM (1), TIU (1), RAF (2), UGG (1), NUT (2), DNF (2)
Historical: NUT 205.10 (Halloween Howler, Oct22)
Mojo Award. “Yeah, Baby!” Best pickup or start/sit decisions.
- DMM (2) earns this award two weeks in a row! Honestly, no other owner has come close to DMM the past two weeks in making trades, blocking offers, and racking up points, making him a tough matchup to face in the latter weeks of the DFFL Season…(I don’t want to play him!). The MOJO was won when DMM started, who I’m officially calling “League Winner” Tony Pollard, who scored 40.9 points this week. Pollard blew away the competition within RB performances with King Henry a distant second. I can only suspect DFFL Owners have offered first borns for a shot at the Pollard Points and $1 contract!!!! I know I have! Yet, DMM knows a good thing when he sees it, and good things are on the horizon. DMM started Josh Palmer (the WR1/2 among the oft injured Charger WR core) who looks to be the WR to own in LA going into the playoffs. DMM has issues with many of his interior flexors (injuries, etc.), but given what we’ve seen the last few weeks I’m sure he’ll sort them out.
2022: NUT (1), JWW (3), UGG (3), DNF (1), CAB (1), DMM (2)
Historical: EJT (KAK) 58.25 “FitzMagic”
Noonan Award. “Best Ball Award”...na-na-na-na-naaaa!.
- RAF (1) earns his first NOONAN this week having left sooo many points off the board. Now, one could say, “Who coulda known Mixon won so quickly crap the bed after achieving over 63 points in Week 9.” Or, “Surely McKinnon would be used more in the passing game with injuries to WRs and RBs for the Chiefs.” Yes, these are solid rhetorical questions that 9 times out of 10 would end with the starting lineup RAF put up in Week 11. However, the Noonan Award is, at its heart, about sit/start decisions that could have meant the difference in winning or losing. And for this, RAF earns the award by sitting Perine, who scored 30.2 points (3rd amongst all RBs in Week 11), gaining 3 passing TDs versus the Steelers. RAF shoulda sat McKinnon (1.9) and started Perine. Additionally, had RAF started Taysom Hill in the TE spot (10.56) instead of NY Jets TE Conklin (2.5), this would have been just enough to beat TMW 1.8 points!! The unfortunate thing about this speculation is that no mulligans are allowed in Fantasy Football. #SadFace
2022: TMW (1), PTS (1), UGG (1), DMM (2), NUT (2), JWW & TIU (2), MTT (2), RAF (1)
Deck Chairs Award. First Class or Steerage? All equally suck on Titanic!
- KED (1) earns his first DECK CHAIR award for once again going to the CAB Sea for moral support and coming up largely empty-handed. First, it was giving away, pennies on the dollar, Justin Fields, who provided the Fantasy World with 4 of the best weeks any Fantasy Owner could hope for in a QB. KED did this for a dude named Rondale Moore, who busted his groin early in MNF, earning KED -0.6 points in a WR slot.…I digress. This week KED traded away his breadwinner for so many games, Cooper Kupp, for a 3rd Round Pick and a COSTCO hot dog…er..Godwin; which in Week 11 was less than a hot dog. Godwin was on BYE, and thus useless in Week 11. Of course KED did this as a result of injuries that put him in a bind going into the playoff run period. At issue was the fact that Godwin was essentially a Deck Chair in a week where he’d play no part in attempting to push back the prowess of a DMM Owner, who had just won a Mojo in Week 10, and had a dude named Pollard in his starting lineup. As KED rounded the Cape of Fantasy Relevancy, he struck multiple icebergs (Moore, etc., etc., etc.) and just as he slid beneath the icy November waters, he caught glimpse of USS TIU taking his place in the divisional lead……Glub…Glub…Glub…
2022: PTS (1), CAB (3), JWW & TIU (1), RAF (4), KED (1)
Scoring overall is getting lower for DFFL, and no team got close to 200 points…again..
~Rudolf
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