Play enough fantasy football and you'll come to realize that the journey is all about the ups and downs. One week you're breaking scoring records, the next you're on the short end of the Survivor Challenge. That TE that scored 27 points in week 5 will post a 0 in week 6. And somehow, when your luck is up, you'll win even when both of your RBs are held scoreless. But that's why we play the games.
One team that has captured the up-and-down essence of fantasy frustration this season is Los Perros Locos. This may have turned out to be one of those "up" weeks for them, but it almost wasn't.
Heading into the Monday Night Football game, they held a 44-point lead over Baby Got Dak. With only Derrick Henry left, and playing against a stout Buffalo defense, things looked bleak for Dak.
But as the game progressed, Henry continued to rack up the yards and TDs to put the pressure on the Perros. Fortunately for the Perros, holding onto a 3-point lead, the Bills opted to go for it on 4th and one instead of kicking the FG to send the game into overtime. We'll never know if Henry would have scored enough in OT to give Dak one of the greatest upset victories in league history.
And while that game was full of ups and downs for both Perros and Dak, a look at the Perros season results shows that that's all it has been for them. Up, then down. Then up again. Then down again. No, really. They alternate between highs and lows in scoring each week. It's like watching a heart monitor for a team clinging to their playoff hopes.
Here are they're weekly scores, in order, since the season started: 58, 133, 95, 138, 80, and 127. In odd numbered weeks, they're averaging just 77.7 pts/gm. In even numbered weeks, they're averaging 132.7 pts/gm. They're scoring graph looks like a topographical map for the Sierra Nevada mountains.
One team that has been up far more than they've been down this year is the Golden Tate Warriors. The Warriors grabbed another victory this week putting them atop the entire league with a 5-1 record.
Finding themselves down in a 42-point hole against Jergoff Passout after Sunday's play, it didn't take much more than the first half of the Monday Night game for Allen, Diggs, and Sanders to catch Passout sleeping and pull off the come-from-behind win.
For Passout, that loss marked their second in a row and third on the season. It's a bit strange to me that they're only 3-3 considering they have the highest low-score on the season, 108 pts. Like me, I'm sure you're wondering how a team that hasn't scored less than that all season isn't, at least, 4-2.
With the third lowest score in the league this week, Badazz Bri finally found their first win of the season. But there's a downside for Bri in that victory that I'll get to later.
Bri's victim, Chief Sticky Balls, sure fell off that high they were riding. Having barely scored half of what they scored in week 5, the Balls looked a bit droopy to me. It seems the only player that showed up was Jonathan Taylor. Nearly every other player on their roster scored below their projected total. And if they weren't feeling down already, wait until they get a look at their roster for this week. It's decimated by the bye week and injuries.
And lastly, after being down and out to start the season, things are starting to look up for Pork Chop Express who've won two straight. What's more impressive is the sudden increase in their scoring output. Through the first 4 weeks, the Chops were 1-3 and averaging just 93.5 pts/gm. Over the last two weeks, they're scoring has jumped up to 137 pts/gm. Watch out for this team.
DEFEAT THE COMMISH
We're going to fire up this contest for another round. But this time, it's just going to be for fun...if that's what you want to call losing to me. Are you up for it?
I've opened up the roster submission form again so you can make your selections and we'll start up on week 8. You can submit your roster whenever you want and, like last time, you can revise it once. I will unveil whatever rosters I've received on Tuesday, Oct 26th.
My suggestion for you all is to get a roster submitted by then, see what everyone has taken and then make revisions. I'll remind you all that while you're trying to outlast each other, you still want to take enough talent off the board so that I don't crush each of you in a short amount of time.
You can CLICK HERE to submit your roster.
SURVIVOR CHALLENGE
Even when they win, they lose. Badazz Bri was eliminated in week 6 with the low score of 91 pts. Immunity for week 7 belongs to Pork Chop Express who scored 136 points in week 6.
PIGSKIN PICK'EM
This contest certainly became more interesting. With only eight wins this week, Who Is You saw their lead shrink to just one game. Christian McMingle also had a down week, with nine wins, but climbed one game closer to You. But, the big winners this week were Los Perros Locos and Pork Chop Express who won 11 and 12, respectively, to close the gap and throw their names into contention. I also wouldn't sleep on Chief Sticky Balls or Badazz Bri who are each sitting at five games off the lead. One big week for either of them could be all it takes.
COMMISH'S PICKS
On the upside, I had my fourth consecutive week at .500 or better with a 4-2 record in week 6. On the downside, I lost the Matchup Of The Week pick...again. I haven't picked a MOTW winner since correctly picking the Golden Tate Warriors in week 1. That's five incorrect picks in a row. Talk about a downer.
And speaking of the Golden Tate Warriors, they're definitely on my good side. I have correctly picked their matchups 100% of the time. When I say they'll win, they win. And when I tell them to lose, they lose. Why can't the rest of you be more like them?
Good luck in week 7!
-- Commish
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