Not Your Average Joe as Week 4 Goes to the Dogs!

Week 4 was the week the dogs were let out early, the first 8 games the underdogs were 7-1 ATS, that vaulted "JoeR" to a lead that he never looked back from.  It also launched him up 13 spots in the season standings to 2nd place overall.  In case you are wonder if you have heard the name 'JoeR" before here you have, he is the genius that could not figure out the Survivor Pool rules and picked SD in week one (loss) and again in week two thus he was eliminated for being stupid.  Yet some how he amassed enough brain power to win week 4, I am at a loss to explain it.  But congrats.

The week of the underdogs allowed many players to move up and many more to move down but the biggest jump up was "Sagamore Squad" who rose 69 spots in the standings ( I really couldn't wait to type 69)  yes I am 5.   The underdogs won 9 of the 14 games played and another NE was an underdog by the time the game started, that is usually a indication that most players will be around the .500 mark and many were between 7-9 and 9-7 but more than  handful, 13 total had double digit win for the week which tells me those players came to play this season, they are not the weekend warriors who just go with the favorites, nope - they do research and leave no stone unturned in their goal to finish in second place this season (behind me).    And yes, that is a picture of my dog.

Over in Survivor land we said bye to 11 players, all but one (Pickle) actually made a pick, I guess "Pickle" just wanted out and gave up. Of course "Pickle" got burned by SD last week so he may well have still been in shock. He could have still followed  the lead of "JoeR" and picked SD again this week.  The biggest assassinas this week were IND, Ten and Cin which helped knock out the other 10 players and leave many others with their first loss.  GB and NO tried so very hard to cause chaos in the Survivor pool but both pulled their head out of their asses in time.

Onto week Cinco -- 5 -- NOMAR!

Nomar Fact of the week
"The other player the Red Sox traded to the Cubs with Nomar in 2004, Matt Murton broke the Japansees record for most hits in a single season last week."