Bridge To Victory

Congrats to “Sagamore Squad” for not just winning the week but nailing the tie breaker score on the button.  “Tony C” tied him in wins but was 4 points off on the total. The win vaulted “Sagamore Squad” up 5 spots into sole passion of 1^st place.  Poor “Tony C” with the same 12 win total he did jump 25 spots moving him all the way up to 79^th place. What does that tell us?  Well it tells me that “Sagaomore Squad”   has had a pretty good season ( in the season top 15 since week 4) and that “Tony C”    (First time out of triple digits since week one) has sucked all season.  But he did come within a FG of winning the week so he can hang his hat on that but he still sucks.

It was a unusual week, we are in the midst of the “bye” weeks   but for some reason no team had a bye this past week.  In weeks 5,6,7,8,9 teams had byes, no byes in week 10 then this weekend teams have the bye again.  I wonder why? Actually I really don’t care.  But .. This number may shock you but there are only 120 games left this NFL season! That counts playoffs (but not the all-star game err Probowl) One Hundred -Twenty-One games left… seems like yester … you get the pun … ! I have no research on this but I’d bet that  if anyone in the top 5 right now goes at worst 60-60 the rest of the way would finish in a top 15 money spot!

In my lifetime I have had the pleasure doing a shitload of travel. I’ve been all over the country and visited many cities. The one city I have never liked is Philly ..  we all know where this is gong but stay with me and let me vent on behalf of the 18 other people who hate Philly this week as well.  Every time I have to  Philly I dread it, when I am there I hate it, the only time I smile is when I  get to leave.  The people are rude, the chicks are ugly, the city is disgusting and the sports teams all suck. Their biggest claim to sports fame is Rocky who isn’t  even a real person but everyone in Philly thinks he is.  The fans talk about how great their teams are and shit yet in the last 28 season they have won ONE title, which is one less than the Florida Marlins!  Their “dream team” football team employees a convicted dog killer and  all the fans cheer for him and not that their season is going down the crapper they are all making excuses.   So as I am watching the game Sunday and seeing my Survivor dreams come crashing down along with 18 other players I took solace in knowing the entire city of Philly was also suffering the loss.   Really, never in the history of the Survivor has a team single handily committed genocide in one week like what we saw Sunday.  How bad was it, there are just 5 players left last season at the time there were 23 players left.  If Philly would have won Sunday guess how many players would still be alive? Yup, 23! That is how much Philly screwed up the normal set of events. So fuck Philly, Fuck Vick, Fuck Andy Reid and Fuck the Liberty Bell!

The Thursday night games are always an odd thing. Each week since the Thursday games started the number of players who have the favorite is always above 70%. I don’t have any data to back up my theory but I’d bet eh reason is people forget to get their picks in by Wednesday so they get stuck with the favorite.  Last night %78 took the JETS despite the face they played Sunday night I NY, had only a days  in a half of practice, had to fly across the country, play in high-altitude and were giving 4.5 points. It is easy to say now but I was very happy taking the points and climbing up a few spots higher in the top 15.

Right now is about as good as a time as ever to take a look at how the top end-of-season top 15 players from last year are doing this season (as of Wednesday)…  here is a hint, all but one player sucks this season. “Ed O” (7^th last season, 2^nd tight now) is the only top 15 player from last season ranked higher than 29^th.  “dflogue” who finished 12^th last season is 2^nd to last this season.

(*through November 16)

2010	Name	*2011
1st	Ghastly	44th
2nd	EdO	7th
3rd	The Dirty 712	88th
4th	The Highlanders	95th
5th	Clay Davis	63rd
6th	WVU PETE	43rd
7th	Drew	46th
8th	Emmado	Not Playing
9th	Bob W	81st
10th	Mike S	39th
11th	Gravy Train	29th
12th	dflogue	125th
13th	gigi	57th
14th	Bolt Fever	93rd
15th	Darby	66th

Other Tidbits

“frenchy”  currently has a dubious honor, he is the worst player at picking the Monday Night winner (3-8) and also last place to the tiebreaker average (13.30).     

Like past seasons the magic number each week for wins to achieve is 8, if you average 8 wins a week you are guaranteed a money spot.  The current season leader, “Sagamore Squad” is averaging 8.09 wins a week.  The current 15^th player, “Kasmire” is averaging 7.27 wins per week. The point, if you only half-suck each week you will win money!

In week 8, just 2-weeks ago we did not lose one player from the Survivor pool. The number of players alive stood at 36. Today that number is 5.

Can someone explain what the “Pool Experts”  page is?  I have no idea what the fuck it even means.  It says at the bottom the pool experts are 28-98 for the season, 22% ?? Experts? In what? I’m on the list and I have no idea why.

Today’s random fact of the week

Tim Tebow’s game winning TD run Thursday was the longest game winning TD run by a QB in the last minute of  the 4^th quarter in NFL history.

HE BE HUSTLIN'

Congrats to "I.B.HUSTLIN" for a solid 12 win week which is hard to pull off  when we are in the bye week of the season.  He jumped 27th spots into 15th place.  That was not the biggest jump of th week though, "Mustang" jumped 35 spots but he went from really shitty 86th place to just shitty 51st place.  Three other places jumped up into the top ten, "wtrman","Thadalicious", "EdO".  "Rayfab" leaped 5 spots to take over the top spot. The last place spot still belongs to "G.O" who at 50-80 has a lock on the basement.  It is beating a dead horse but if "G.O" took the exact opposite of his picks this season he would be in first-place.

One of the best things about writing this is I can make fun of people without an worry of getting beat up.  I mean, I know who knows who i am in the pool so the people who where I live I will go easy on  the rest I don't care about.  But The tough part is I also play in the pool, two spots in fact "05"and "-fenway617" so when I make fun of you idiots for fucking up I have to worry that I may also fuck up the same way throughout the season.  For example, I like to make fun of those people who fail to make ether picks either in the Survivor pool or Regular Pool.  Really, who is that stupid to pay for the season and not have the time to submit your picks. I also like to make fun of the idiots who do really-really bad each week. Like the dope "Dai-ma"   who pulled the first ever O-fer. This takes us to Sunday, 4:30pm . As I am tallying up my record for the early games I pull out my "-Fenway617"sheet and start to circle the games I won -  and I circled exactly 0 games. 7 games 7 losses. Panic! Fortunately I did get a few wins in the later games but it was a few hours of me trying to decided how I like my crow.

In the land of Survivor 11 people took their final bows this week. KC, OAK, PIT and PHI screwed those poor soles.  We are down to 26 players, 4 with no losses.  Last year at this time we had 29 players left, 9 with no losses so we are in the same area.  This week we will see more people go away, with just two games that have more than a 7pt spread the total number of players should drop into the teens.  Around this time, the mid-way point you can start to forecast playoff teams. Not this year. Look at the AFC alone, the East 3 teams with 5-3 records, the JETS who has a horrible offence, the PATRIOTS who couldn't stop a running nose and the BILLS who are as unstable as a Kardashian marriage.  The North, Cincy, BAl and PIT al with 6 wins, The west, thee teams at 4-4 and Denver a game back at 3-5.  Go ahead, pick the 4 AFC division winners and 2 wild card teams right now? I bet you ask 20 people you get 20 different answers. 

My picks -

EAST (NE, after Sunday they have an easy schedule and should finish 13-3 or 12-4)

NORTH (BAL, tough but they have the head to head on Pit and Cincy can't keep this going -can they)

SOUTH (HOU. by default)

WEST (SD, flip a coin but of the 4 teams they are prob the best of the worst)

WILDCARDS (PIT, NYJ)

Speaking of Survivor, I went 9 days without power - NINE DAYS! I knew it was a bad sign on day 6 when Governor Deval Patrick was walking wround my neighborhood with National Grid people.  Being without power, TV, internet for 9 days has to be harder than being on Survivor? Right?

Random NFL fact of the day … IF an NFL game every has to be forfeited the official score will be 2-0? Why 2? A Safety (2 points) is the only type of score that doesn’t get credited to any player.

Limited Resources, Not So Lucky!

Sorry folks but this one will be quick with no pictures. I live in Western, Mass and have not had power since Saturday night.  No one in the area had power until mid-week, homes or buisness (aka bars) so I spent football Sunday watching the scores on my Blackberry. I am in Panera catching up on things and have a little bit of time to get this post up.  

Congrats to "luckyone", getting the win outright - he didn't need no stinking tiebreaker score. I followed up my dynasty building weekly win with a shitty 5 win week this week. That dropped me 6 spots overall. "Luckyone" jumped 19 spots into 8th place with his big week.

This week was the old 1/2 point screw job. Ya know. When you win (or lose) a game by a mere half a point. Four games were decided ATS by a 1/2 point this week.  Only four players were on the winning side of all four games: "Boom Roasted",  "Roy", "Sleeve of Wizard", and "tabaccy" all were loving the 1/2 point screw job everyone else got.

In Survivor land we have now gone three weeks I a row with everyone making a pick - serious stuff.  Two players suffered their first loss and we said good bye to no one.

Random fact of the week I uncovered - in 2009 Indy was 14-0 going into week 16. They did not need to win either of the last two games, their spot was secure as the top seed. So they didn't try to win either game and lost both.  Since that 14-0 start they have gone 10-16 in the regular season.

Om Twitter @fenway617 if I ever get power I'll be there too,