What About Bob?

I come back home after a nice relaxing vacation where I enjoyed temps in the 80's to a complete monsoon outside, 4-6 inches of rain and wind is expected on top of the 2 inches we already got and just for kicks we sat through an 8 hour tornado watch on Tuesday. But it's great to be back .....   And happy birthday to me, I turned 21 again!

Funny thing about writing this, I don't look ahead of time and plot out what I will write, not a ton of research is done leading up to this and this should be obvious to anyone who reads this that 99% of the time is is just pointless dribble.  Generally I'll  look over the weekly and season standings, see if anyone really tanked this week (you know, focus on the bad) then look over the Survivor pool, jot down some notes then start typing away.  When I finish I do a quick Google spellcheck, one proof-read and post the blog, sure I have typos everywhere but I don't call them typos or improper grammar I call them creative writing. In total it takes me about 30 minutes to put together this masterpiece, Picasso I am not. 

Today I thought for sure I'd look at the Survivor Pool and see double digit people with losses on SD, I was shocked to see only player (Pickle) pick them. SD, at home vs. the rebuilding Seahawks I would have thought we'd see more action there but nope, most pinned their hopes on the overrated Redskins, 7 players took a loss with them.  But that is not as bad as the 5 losers who failed to make a pick! Really, into week 4 of the season you still could not get your pick in! My fellow Survivors and and I thank you for your service and wish you all the best.   20 players are now gone from the Survivor Pool in the first 4 weeks, they along with (SPOILER ALERT -- Jimmy Johnson)  can now head home, shave and get some food in them. 


Onto the original pool, "Bob w" took it this week, he jumped out to a 7-2 start in the early games then coasted to the finish.  Bringing up the rear was "Kris10" who  after winning week one with a 13-3 mark decided to taste last place this week going 2-14.  I'll have to do research and see if a player has ever won a week only to finish last so quick. (truthfully I won't do any research I'll just say this was a first).   The overall season leader is last week's winner "Rotten 1" with 31 wins which if you are an avid reader of this you would know that I told you a few weeks ago all you need to do is average 8.5 wins a week and you will make the top 10 at the end of the season, with 31 wins through 4 weeks "Rotten 1" is averaging 7.75 wins so at this pace and with the bye weeks coming up we are looking at a slightly below average season in terms of overall wins.   This week two games really helped out players, Chicago and St. Louis, too bad not many people picked these two games.  26 players (20%) took St. Louis to cover and they did and 28 players (22%) took Chicago to cover (@home) and they did, those players saw a huge jump in the standing and the 12 players who took BOTH Chicago and St. Louis really climbed in the standing - of course I was one of those 12 players.  

Looking at the basement of the season standings if the bottom players HighSteppnSeafood 33 losses, mustang 32 losses, PATSAGAIN 31 losses and DK 31 losses all picked the exact opposite teams this season they would make up the top 4 players this season....   and don't sleep on "Vamp" (with  30 losses already), I have been told by him (if he existed) that he always starts slow and he finishes strong maybe if the games were played at midnight he would do better.

And that's a wrap.. now I need to go find my rubbers before going out into the rain....

Nomar Fact of the Week
"Nomar finished second in MVP voting in 1998"