Congrats

I know it's late, but here's a hearty congratulations to the playoffs winner. It's too bad the regular season winner and the playoffs winner don't get to face off for the overall championship. ;)

Way 2 Go, Buc-ees Boys!

That was a heck of a week from Peyton Manning to win the championship. He carried you even though most of your other players took the week off! Of course Berger was sunk by a pathetic performance from McNabb, but that's par for the course for the Eagles...

And what the heck happened to our regular season champ? I haven't seen a fold like that since the World Poker Championships.

Round 2 done

So round 2 is done.

In the winners bracket, Ben goes nuts with 6 players over 13 points. And Westbrook isn't even one of them. With another 30 points from Westbrook he would have had the high score of the year. Jake has a down week with almost everyone underperforming, and Ben is through to the superbowl.

On the other side, 8 seed Sooners puts up another ok score, but they're not playing my stumbling team this weekend and it's not enough. Kevin has a great week, with Andre Johnson going nuts. Sooners have Dominic Rhodes with a great day, but too many miserable performances thrown in there.

I've done amazing with the lowest 2 scores of my season and of all the people in the playoffs. I guess I built a team for the regular season only. Postseasons are for chumps. Uncle Chris can at least say he played someone in the superbowl. Kate squeaks by Mike on quarterback play, mostly. Steve Smith and Turner are both great but balance each other out.

First Round Underway

So the bottom 6 are done and the top 8 play on. There was a clear cut divide, with the 6-7 teams making it in and the 5-8 teams out.

The first round is pretty interesting. The top seeded teams all fell behind at first, at least when I looked they didn't have a good start. Jake and Ben pile on points late though, while Uncle C isn't looking too good against Kevin and Shonda/Ray and I are neck and neck. I'm up by 19 but if projections hold tonight, Shonda's DeAngelo Williams and her Defender will put her ahead by about 3. It does seems like defenders are often overrated by a few points, and that projection is on the high side for Williams unless he gets 2 TDs. Uncle Chris can still win it with about 16 from his kicker. It doesn't happen often, but I'm hoping it does because it will mean Tampa and Williams didn't score many Touchdowns!

The other two matchups are over, with Jake laying a pasting on Mike. Mike has to be the unluckiest team this year. Interesting because he was the most lucky last year - the pattern repeats from what Brandon/Jim have suffered. Brandon/Jim were luckier and have been paying for 2 years. Mike was less lucky last year, so maybe only has to pay for one year?
Ben has gotten 60 points from Westbrook the last 2 weeks. Wow. He beats up on Kate who doesn't get a very good score, I actually thought she would be pretty well off this week.

Boo Deangelo Williams tonight. Boo!

Week 12: Miah (%$#&$, 119.33) over Joan (Rockhoppers, 99.76)

Seeing as how Frank X. has become disgruntled, leading him to abdicate his blogging duties, I'll take a shot at writing up a randomly-chosen contest. I'll leave it to others to sing the praises of my own breathtaking performance this week.

Miah has sunk to a new low this week, even though he won his contest. I speak, of course, of his ever-changing team name, which continues its trajectory toward the lewd and obnoxious end of the taste scale. I, for one, think this trend really sucks.

Anyway, Miah beat up on his friend's poor defenseless mother, defeating her by posting the second-highest score of the week. This was made possible by a blowout performance from Randy Moss, and good performances by Tom Jones (What's new, pussycat?), Rian Lindell, and the Tampa Bay D. The rest of his roster was unremarkable, but didn't stink too bad. I'll bet he's indifferent about the plight of the whales, too.

Joan (aka "Sis", "Mom", and "Mistress Olivia") carded a decent score, but it was only good enough for 7th place this week. Philip Rivers, Kevin Walter, Chester Taylor, and the Dallas D (BOO! HISS!) did a pretty good job for her, but her #1 and #2 RBs (Gore and Lewis) stunk the joint out. Still, Joan would have needed solid performances from both of them to overcome the 20-point deficit. She only left about 5 points on the bench, so starting Eli wouldn't have helped either. (Oh - Eli's coming. You'd better, better hide your heart. Or start him all the way to the Super Bowl.)

Well, that about exhausts my supply of gratuitous insults, bad puns, and obscure song references. Feel free to try to do better!

Anyone else?

Anyone else want to do a write up this week? Maybe even just do one of the matchups and let others do the rest?
I'm going to have trouble getting to it this week. I have a lot of video games to play and tv to watch.

State of the WOHS Week 10

*1. Juicers 9-1-0 .900 967.82
2. Miracle Workers 8-2-0 .800 1091.15
3. thehousebergerbuilt 8-2-0 .800 1006.59
4. Space Cadets 6-4-0 .600 924.34
5. Buc-ees' Boys 6-4-0 .600 892.84
6. Zingers 5-5-0 .500 942.51
7. teen girl squad 5-5-0 .500 894.31
8. Rust Belt 5-5-0 .500 892.80
9. RockHoppers 5-5-0 .500 883.84
10. Sooners 4-6-0 .400 843.18
11. Chunder Blunders 3-7-0 .300 841.12
12. Desparados! 2-8-0 .200 878.00
13. Browns Jr. 2-8-0 .200 815.80
14. Aspire mi toro 2-8-0 .200 717.71

Stitch (Rust Belt-93.40) over Kate (teen girl squad-71.46)

Kate loses again to bring her down to the middle of the pack again. Stitch wins to bring himself up the 5-5 middle and the last playoff spot at the moment. Poor Kate leaves McGahee on the bench who drops a 20 point bomb after doing nothing for so long. Poor, poor Kate. Stitch leaves Tony Romo on the bench who was on a bye and scored 0 but would have been better than the awful Mark Bulger. Who got benched at half after putting up a nice negative fantasy day.
Stitch again leave his D on the bench instead of playing them. We've talked about hitting the 'Submit' button but I don't think his education is doing him any favors. Kent read, Kent write, Kent hit the submit button.
Meldewe Moore has one last good game? Cribbs and Gates come through and Steve Breaston looks like a real option as the #3 in Arizona. Kate doesn't get much of anything from anyone, though no one is especially awful either. Just poor or mediocre across the board, except for Will Blackmon running back a kick return TD. Kate you need to hold a team meeting and build some team unity for the stretch run here. And trade me Jason Witten, he's a locker room cancer.

Me (Juicers-89.68) over the Winklers (Sooners-85.79)

I get the luckstick award this week with the lowest winning score. Although I could have beaten 5 of the 13 other teams, and took two injuries on the starting lineup. But still pretty lucky all the same. Lance Moore continues to shine as a late season pickup, but only because of a junk-time score in the Saint's debacle. Barber was on the bench DeAngelo Williams was the best RB in the matchup, which is kinda strange to say. I had a huge comeback from down 35 Monday night, wich Warner and Fitzgerald making the spread against Hightower. Warner continues as the best fantasy QB, which is a big saving grace for me. The Winklers have better even numbers, but Gus Frerotte looks poor. Kevin Boss is actually a good tight end, too, which is pretty hard to find this year. But they lack the big score to overcome the QB bad score, and that gives me the opening to win.

Brandon/Jim (Chunder Blunders-127.20) over Jeremiah (Browns Jr 110.51)

The Chunders put up their best score of the season with good timing. Also the top score this week. They take down Jere who posts the highest losing score this week. Jere beats 9 other teams this week, but plays one of the 4 he can't handle. Maybe with a defender? Nah...
Brandon gets awesome RB1 and RB2 points, but the flex does still stink. Faulk doesn't show up strangely after being such a big part of the offense for a few weeks. Peterson and Jacobs more than make up for it though. Colston really comes back and Carolina's D must have been great to win with Delhomme playing like a wet blanket.
Miah's Moss and Edwards continue to stink, but he gets good scores from a lot of other players. And the Jets D does even better than Carolina's. Thomas Jones also goes nuts in that game against St. Louis.
This matchup was the rookie QB stand-off, but both guys play well. The top scoring matchup this week is the battle of the 2-7s. Further proving how much of a crapshoot this is.

Dad (Desperados!-115.62) over Jacob (Miracle Workers-82.55)

Ben wasn't the only 8-1 team to fall. Jake also puts up a bad score, his first, really, but somehow it doesn't turn out so low as you would expect knowing his roster. Addai, Cotchery, Chris Johnson, Drew Brees, Calvin Johnson... we didn't hear from these guys this week. But Calvin did get some yards even though he had 2 catches. And Brees scored a ton of points despite playing a terrible game. Jake drops below 100 two straight weeks, which is remarkable in that it hasn't happened until now. Dad puts up an excellent score. Favre actually takes care of the ball but only gets one TD out of the 1000 against St. Louis. But Eddie Royal, Scaife, and Reggie Wayne all do well. Many other players with decent points or so as well. If you looked at just the scores you would think the other team was the 1-8 team. But that's the fantasy football.

Mike (Zingers-111.34) over Ben (thehousebergerbuilt-50.70)

Non-game of the week #2.
Mike gets 45 points from Jay Cutler destroying his beloved Browns. Brandon Marshall scores a bunch of points as well. Even Mercedes Lewis scores a few points. But really the story here is Cutler. Ben barely scores more points than Cutler alone, and when Ricky Williams who you just picked up off the Free Agent list is your best player, you are hosed. Although Ricky does have a pretty good week, strangely. It seemed as if Ronnie Brown was getting all the touches, but now maybe Williams is back in the mix.

Kevin (Buc-ee's Boys-113.92) over Rowan (Aspire mi Toro-42.82)

Non-game of the week #1.
Rowan takes 2 0s. One his own fault (Steven Jackson isn't playing dude) and one from Chancey Stuckey, who has actually done some nice stuff for Row. But Stuckey didn't score any of the Jet's 1000 TDs against the Rams and didn't catch a pass, either. Meanwhile Winslow rots on the bench scoring TDs and kicking ass. Kevin has nice numbers from Ronnie Brown and Matt Forte, which has to be some of the nicest numbers from two low pick RBs. Peyton Manning continues his comeback. And Ray Lewis goes nuts buy manages not to kill anyone outside any clubs. That we heard of, yet.
Rowan is the low scorer of the week, and falls to last place.

Mom (Rockhoppers-103.25) over Uncle Chris (Space Cadets-102.02)

Game of the week! Mom could have been on the outside looking in at the playoffs, but is now a mere 9 tiebreaker points away. Uncle Chris comes storming back from way down on Monday night, but Boldin doesn't quite do it and Mom stays on top with an uneven performance from Frank Gore. Unfortunately Uncle Chris had the fatal early QB injury... oh wait... Delhomme didn't get injured? And Carolina still won the game? Only the Raiders patheticness outdoes Delhomme's. Uncle Chris gets a total of 81 points from Baltimore's D/ST, MoJo Drew, Boldin, and Ginn. And not much else. Mom's Chris Chamber's hardly plays and doesn't catch a pass, but still gets nice even large numbers elsewhere to pull it out.

Playoffs

Playoffs?!
Yeah I'm in the playoffs already. Clinched. Hopefully 7 of you can join me up here.

State of the WOHS

1. Miracle Workers 7-1-0 .875 913.61
2. thehousebergerbuilt 7-1-0 .875 854.21
3. Juicers 7-1-0 .875 785.05
4. Space Cadets 6-2-0 .750 737.07
5. teen girl squad 5-3-0 .625 755.57
6. Zingers 4-4-0 .500 760.21
7. Rust Belt 4-4-0 .500 722.55
8. Buc-ees' Boys 4-4-0 .500 685.12
9. RockHoppers 3-5-0 .375 696.34
10. Sooners 3-5-0 .375 664.31
11. Browns Jr. 2-6-0 .250 637.74
12. Aspire mi toro 2-6-0 .250 622.66
13. ChumpBeaters 1-7-0 .125 692.05
14. Chunder Blunders 1-7-0 .125 633.82

Highest losing score - Dad - 96.39. Beats 8 other teams including all other losers this week.
Luckstick - Uncle Chris with 70.94. Only beats 3 scores but manages to play one of them.
High score - Kate - 119.86
Low score - Rowan - 42.05
Jake is tied (with Uncle C) for the easiest strength of schedule with opponents only putting up an average of 85 points, despite my 147 bomb against him.
Dad's opponents are scoring an average of 96.
Jake is averaging 5.75 TD per week.
The first 4 weeks I got 16.5 points from my kicker.
The last 4 weeks I got 43 points from my kicker.
Tight Ends suck this year - no one is averaging in double digits per week. The top 10 include such draft luminaries as Visanthe Shiancoe and Anthony Fasano. The 10th best Tight End is averaging less than 5 points per game.

Kate (teen girl squad-119.86) over Winklers (Sooners-66.07)

Kate lives in Pittsburgh and now roots for big Ben.
But her Giants put him on the ground again and then again.
I don't know how she wins when she plays Pennington,
especially with injuries to stud TE Witten.
Chad Pennington, Witten and Vincent Jackson.
The whole team rhymes with Tomlinson, even Will Blackmon.
The Winklers had the Pittsburgh D but they do nothing good,
and no one makes the endzone, not even its neighborhood.

Miah (Browns Jr-89.77) over Stitch (Rust Belt-78.75)

Two Brown's fans square off who's Karma has been lost.
One doesn't start Edwards last week, and at his matchup's cost.
The other has three Steelers, who fall to the GMen.
And his kicker's name that sorta rhymes is Jason Elam.
Miah gets the edge, though not because of Edge.
Braylon's consistent drops must be pushing him to the ledge.
Stitch has Mildew Moore, for maybe the last week.
Once Parker has come back you won't hear another squeak.
At least he still has Gates, and... Marc Bulger? Damn.

Ben (thehousebergerbuilt-112.19) over Kevin (Buc-ee's Boys-87.88)

Ben manages to win despite three guys that suck.
If you get more than a point from Harrison you're in luck.
Kevin plays both Dolphins backs and that's not too great.
Now he's dropped Williams but it's already too late.
My goodness Ben gets points from Westbrook the Philly Machine.
Santana Moss must have synthetic oil to keep that old engine clean.
Of course no ones knows if Westbrook will really play,
It's only a matter of time before half this team's N/A.

Mom (Rockhoppers-106.75) over Mike (Zingers-82.04)

After 5 weeks, Mom stops the fall.
Even fumble Gore manages to hold on to the ball.
Philip Rivers flows again, and Kevin Walter scores.
Meanwhile Mike's Mike Turner gets nothing but snores.
He's only good once every other week,
At least Marshawn Lynch still looks a whole lot like a freak.
Seriously he runs, he zigs and he has great handle,
but in looks the Incredible Hulk doesn't hold a candle.
Mom's rising again, back to the attack.
Mike is falling now and is back to pack.