Peace and LOVE .. Peace and LOVE

A pretty boring week 9 in the pool, the week was clinched on Sunday by "Sonnylove III" so Monday's game meant nothing in the small scale.  But congrats to "Sonnylove III" for taking home the bacon with an 11-2 record.  Over all the top two season standing remained the same with "Clay Davis" and "Bob W" holding the 1-2 spots.  The biggest jump of the week was from the aforementioned "Sonnylove III" who jumped 28 spots.  The biggest loser this week, "Baker1919" down 34 spots.  

Put this into the category as being blinded by your favorite team, only 16 players (13%) took Cleveland to cover vs. the Patriots and cover they did,  they covered the shit out of the Patriots on defence, offense, special teams, coaching, water-boarding, the Buffet line..... The line for that game looked surprisingly low but that is why Vegas does what it does. This week Cleveland plays the Jets and once again it is a low point spread (Jets -3)  something tells me we will see more than 16 players picking Cleveland this week.  The half-a-point bug bit again this week with Indy +2.5 losing 26-24. I had Indy and as one of those Patriots fans this was a perfect result, Indy lost but covered. 

This week also starts the Thursday night games which for some, like me sucks because my cable provider doesn't offer the NFL Network so my options are go to a bar or watch the online-nfl.com Red Zone coverage which is awful. They cut in and out of the game with 3 studio hosts who are just terrible. 

Random fact, in total counting regular season and playoffs there are 267 NFL games (256 regular season games, 11 playoff games) 130 games have been played this season, we are just about at the mid-way point.  If you are one of the players at or near the bottom 20 or so spots now is the time to get hot,  it is not an easy task this late into the season to jump many spots. Just look at this week only 10 players out of 124 jumped more than 15 spots.  For some, like 6 that have occupied the bottom spots most of the season:  "who dey", "Johnny Law", "mustang", "tammy", "ruby eiseman" and "tabaccy" you are as good stuck in a Chilean mine, hope is lost, loved ones have given up, there is no capsule on the way with help, just keep losing and hope you can be the biggest loser of the season. 

Mirroring the regular pool the Survivor Pool was equaly boring this week. Sure two players were knocked out but one was for stupidity "Frenchy" picking Minn for the second time this season and "ONEMORBET" who is one of the few players I know so I'll go easy on him but he did not even bother to make a pick O those plumbers. ...  I was a bit surprised to see that no one took New England this week, I figured someone would have jumped all over them but as I said last week there are no dominate teams this season and looks like most people agree. Picking teams in the Survivor pool this season is just like being at a brothel, you pick and you pray you survive.  29 are left, 9 with no losses. This week if I was one of the 9 with no losses I really would consider taking Buffalo at home vs. Detroit.  It is such a risky pick for a player with 1 loss but if those 9 players are looking for a high risk that could have a huge payoff look at Buffalo.   The scary part about this pool, if Buf could have won two-weeks ago at Bal and last week @ KC (they lost both in OT) and Det could have held onto that 10 point 4th quarter lead this week at the NYJ (Det lost in OT)  20 of the 29 remaining players would be gone including 7 of the 9 players who currently have no losses.  That could be the difference this season between this pool going into the playoffs or ending weeks before.


Nomar Fact of the Week
Nomar has the highest single season batting average for a right-handed Batter, in the Post WW II Era (minimum 400 at-bats) with a .372 average in 2000.