Hey Everyone, Your Editor in Chief is back this week but we had some printing delays causing our latest issue of the weekly recap to be late. I blame the newest of interns who hasn’t learned how to work the copier yet. This is a different intern then our star pupil who stepped up to the perilous challenge of attempting to rank teams after week 2. There were a few mistakes but he earned a week off. Hopefully, you all enjoyed his post because you will see him again. If not, well sorry, then maybe skip reading that week. We still like your views so at least open the website. We don’t work for free so we need all the views we can get. By we I mean the CEO and myself. The interns definitely work for free. We have a few trades that really didn’t have an impact on 3 of the 4 teams involve. However, we can analysis them in more depth later this year except for the one fail this past week, which I will discuss in detail below. So don’t you worry. **Also we have another trade with Indian Outlaws and Podunk City Slickers. We’ll have to see how this pans out for Podunk in the near future but the real impact will come to light later this year. So more to come, don’t you worry. Okay, before it gets any later, lets get started on this recap!! Week 3 RecapRiver Gypsies over Troll Hunters This matchup was one by two players and two players only. The real kicker is that it was the kicker (Tucker), DP, and the Seahawks DST. Get it, the real kicker and it was the kicker (this is why I’m the boss). I mean you can say Murray was similar to Gurely and Freeman was similar to Marvin… Other than that the wild card players earned RGs a well-deserved win. He consistently put up above 100 points so going 0-3 with that would be tough to swallow. Who I really want to talk about was Marvin Jones and Devonta Freeman. Marvin Jones is a legit WR and in the right offense to produce high fantasy value. Without a running game, Stafford is having fun in Det and Marvin Jones is replacing Megatron on Troll Hunters line-up. Impressive show these first 3 weeks and I would be surprise if it didn’t continue. WR 1 in a throwing offense, can’t get any better than that. Now Freeman finally produced, yeah!!! But this guy continues to scare me. He was playing a generous DST but going forward can he repeat. RGs will sure hope so. RGs had a average performance from his remaining squad while THs had sub par. We’ll see if this continues but putting up 140 points is tough to beat. So congrats to RGs this week. Indian Outlaws over Vicious Veg-Heads This was a similar situation as noted above. Jeremy Hill and Zek, Mike Evans and Christine Michael and Gordon/Beckham and Jordy… oh wait he traded him. Ouch, that would’ve been a 20 point swing if VV would’ve started Jordy instead of trading him for an injured RB… If that was the case, we would be making fun of IOS for trading Eli and Lacy and having confidence in Cooks only putting up 3 points when Breezy was on fire with 26… That would’ve been a cause for concern indeed. But with IOS finally putting up the courage to start Melvin Gordon, he earned his first win (even though it was kinda a gift from VV). Let’s see you earn a game like your Wife and maybe we’ll give you some Fantasy Football creditability this year. Michael was impress the first 5 minutes of the game but kinda slowed down later on. 24 points though is nothing to complain about so this was a much needed we for IOS. I think you didn’t really earn it though because you could’ve easily lost if Jordy was in the mix. However, a win is a win and its always good to avoid being 0-3. 90* Putters over Twin City Tree Cats First thing first, did 90* putters play a team with their lowest scoring of the year… “Yes”,. Nuff said, next game!! No 90* did put up the 5th best points I believe so he did kinda earn it this week. But this was earned but Baldwin, which is expected but Hyde was a surprise. In 2015, Hyde only had 1 game over 20 points was week 1, similar to this year. However, he actually had another one when 90* Putters needed him most. If he simply stays Fantasy relevant around top 15 in RBs I would be happy if I was 90* Putters. Sanders and Shepard on the bench did outperform his WR2 which is promising but he needs big weeks like this and his typically voo doo magic to stay above or around 500. On the other hand, TC2 was consistently bad, especially Kelvin. Then again they were at the Bank and we had their Benjamin’s number!! Honestly, going 2-1 without Le’veon is a win in its own right. Now that you have him back at least you have a consistent RB1. I would assume his scores increase by a decent margin starting week 4 and on. Overall, the standard 90* story winning with his opponents poor performance. NorthSide Angels over Podunk City Slickers (newly named) NSA had almost everything go right outside of Gronk getting zero and Ware at 6. So like NSA had 120 points, 130, 140 or even 150… Nah I’ll pass on my TE position and still get 155 points. This team was hot and didn’t want to slow down. If only he had a TE, he could’ve challenged Mullynation to the top score of the week. He had a good “Steal” of Jordy Nelson but it really wasn’t needed. Even if Spencer Ware wasn’t a starter, this team was ready to play and dominated a 0-2 team. This is like rubbing salt in the wound. A top tier team in the pre-season rankings is sitting solo at 0-3. The only thing that is going well for Podunk Slickers is the QB and Min DST (who were rocking the bench). Honestly, against Carolina I wasn’t surprised with this play but we sure love hating on these slickers for this call. At least he had the Dolphins average DST compared to the horrendous Pittsburg Steelers on their lunch break. Some hopefully production from the bench but honestly was no match for the NorthSide Holy Angels in week 3. The Mullynation over D-Rock, Suzy’s Jock (newly named) – TITLE FIGHT Honestly, this is the same story as above. One team was hot and one team was not. Except this “hot” team was a volcano and the other has since fallen out of favor with Suzy. She may have used up all her magic against the Sorcerer (90* Putters) but she definitely took the week off if that was the case. Her two champion system as ended with DeAngelo only pulling together a below average 6 points. Sir Brown performed admirably but Palmer performance was inexcusable. Negative points from a QB who started the entire game, unheard of and very humorous indeed. It’s not like they would beat Mullynation anyway so the point is moot. We got some funny names this week and were fairly boring when looking at each game individually. Good work, Mullynation on putting up 177 points for the top score to beat. Let’s see if anyone can beat that in the up coming weeks!! Week 4 Power Rankings1. The Mullynation: 2-1 (+6) Everyone on Mullynations team performed this week and the weaknesses we talked about last week are all in the past. Ingram, Robinson and Fleener all decided the show up for the first time this year. As such, she put up some monster points this past week. Her worst performer outside of DP and kicker was Andrew Luck… no surprise there but 13 points wasn’t that bad for QBs week 3… At least he isn’t as bad as Palmer or Big Ben this past week (as noted above). She only has one loss and it was by less than 1 point. We can knock her for that. She could easily lose this spot though with any lackluster performance from her top guys again. Overall, she has solid RB depth unlike most teams and her week 3 performance shows she is a top tier team. 2. The Troll Hunters: 2-1 (-1) Once again Troll Hunters biggest weakness is his DST and I guess DP which earned him -4 points last week… that’d be a huge swing in ending points if he was just below average (not the worst). He owns 3 RB1s or high RB2 who need to be more consistent but have shown each one can be a top RB each week. He also has 3 WR1/2 to cover injuries/bye weeks/poor performance. Outside of the emergence of Marvin Jones, he also needs a little more consistency in WR performance on a weekly basis. With this type of depth and possibly performance, one loss isn’t enough to knock him out of the top tier. Still has depth in RB even behind his top 3 with Ivory and Matt Jones. Some teams below would gladly accept these guys as starter out of simple desperation due to RB injuries. QB is an issue but based on the performances last week, it’s still a wild card accept for a select few. However, another bad week, against his rival at that, and he definitely will fall plenty of spots. 3. NorthSide Angels: 2-1 (+3) Only reason why I think NSA is above RGs is that, in Kansas City, it is still the Spencer Ware show. With David Johnson and Drew Breezy consistently producing the pas three weeks top performances and hopefully Gronk looking to be back this week. This edges out RG on top of RGs having a few difficult player match ups this and in coming weeks. I mean he has decent depth at RB with Crowell, McKinnon, and Dixon (in a few weeks) his RB2/flex situation for now at least. However, it is still too early to tell if this team can make a playoff run. This RB2 and flex spot could get a little dicey later in the season. With the addition of Jordy last week, he has a lock for WR1 and WR2 most weeks. If he can hold it together most weeks, I can see this team staying comfortably above average and earn a spot in the playoffs. 4. River Gypsies: 1-2 (-) Congrats to RGs for getting his first win!! We were all hoping you would say 0 and whatever for a while but your team finally pulled it all together. However, did you waste all your big plays this past week? I see consist play from two players, Murray and Fitz. Now I still only trusy Fitz staying top 10. I’m still riding the Derrick Henry train, its just going to take a little longer than I thought (and maybe an injury would help… I wouldn’t be surprised if he was next). With Russel and Dez hurt this doesn’t help me move you up the ladder against NSA. Also I am not confident in Atlanta going forward. They have some tough matchups these next few weeks, and this doesn’t help my confidence in RGs depth in weeks to come. We found out he can put up above average points to beat a team. Just do it again and again and maybe we can move you up the list. Indian Outlaws is also showing he can produce so you are going to have to beat him if you want to move up this list. If not, I wouldn’t be surprised if IOS leap frogs you next week. Just have a repeat performance like last week and you’ll be just fine. However, that is a little easier said then done, am I right? 5. Indian Outlaws: 1-2 (+4) Only your wife deserved to jump up 5+ spots. Having close to the bottom (if not the worst) score in our league the first two weeks, you haven’t earned the right to move up above RGs or better. Like I noted for him though, you put him in his place, points wise, as well as the rest of the league you will move back up to the top teams in no time. However, don’t forget what it feels like to be at the bottom because you show us another sub 100 point game (excluding that DST/DP crap) you will join the bottom feeders once again. Solid top 4 RB/WR with a solid wild card flex. Future depth looks better than current depth with Doug Martin trade. However, will he be ready to go in week 7? Hamstring issues are huge ??? especially at RB. If he comes back strong then that’s a win, if not it really wasn’t much of a loss. As mentioned for RGs, Atlanta has a tough schedule these upcoming weeks making him tough play over Christine Michael (even at his worst). This will be solid trade bait around the deadline to boast his team for the playoffs (if he can get and say above 500). More QB issues but a solid pick up over the waivers. You put up 120-130 points and me and my interns will consider moving you up a few ranks. 6. Twin City Tree Cats: 2-1 (+2) – Only reason why he moved up the ranking is that two players in his line-up got 0 points this week… except only one was suspended. On top of only putting up 83 points, should cause you fall right? Nah, not when you have Le’veon Bell coming off the bench!! Not to say this team is ready to join the elites… but Bell will have a huge impact on the point production for this team. And he needs it!! Latavius Murray has been losing touches each of his last 5 games… with only 40% of the work load last week. If this gets any smaller, he loses his RB2 pretty quick. WR1 and WR2 are solid if Kelvin can avoid the goose eggs. Honestly, I am uncertain about this team but it is only getting better with the addition of Bell who is a must start. He really has a wildcard pick for flex with Cruz, John Brown, and Cole Beasley (he’ll just have to guess each week who he thinks will be the best… not an ideal situation to be in but it could be worse I guess) 7. D-Rock, Suzy’s Jock: 2-1 (-5) (previously known as: Suzy’s Pancakes) Suzy’s Jock is now stuck with TC2 scraps and are they even fantasy relevant? Probably not, but we’ll see how his team shakes out. Antonio Brown, always a solid win each week and Olsen has been great this year as well. Soooooo now we get to the question marks and could make or break this team. Who else would have confidence in a QB who lost you points last week. Not like you had a chance against Mullynations showing off, but you had no good performance (outside of brown obviously). Can Theo hold the RB1 spot at Detroit or stay fantasy relevant. Maybe at Chicago but how about against everyone else? Edelman will turn it around but you still have to wait another week until Brady gets back. Terrell Pryor was a solid pick up but 1 week doesn’t make him a consistent option. It’s Cleveland and if you have faith in the Browns for Fantasy Football relevance than you are strong than us all. We’ll see if that works out in your favor. If not, we’ll see your stock fall just as far as last week to join the bottom feeders. I had faith in your squad but that was under Suzy. She has disowned you this past week and you were forced to submit to someone else’s banner. You are facing part two of the wheeler back to back matches. It’ll be tough to get the W but if you put up a solid score you can avoid dropping any further down this list for now at least. 8. 90* Putters: 2-1 (+2) What What, 90* putter is out of last place, oh wait his opponent put up one of the worst scores again. Surprise Surprise… But he actually put up a decent score this week. Hyde is his saving grace and good performance from his WR core. One of his top WR (Decker) could be seeing the bench with an injury these next few weeks… and with no RB depth any small setback could cause him to trade Cobb, Baldwin or Brady (who his been beggin to come back for 4 weeks). Maybe Brady will be a saving grace as well and if I were to bet on any QB it would probably be Brady. I am still extremely nervous about this RB situation and he can only hope for Foster to possibly come back from the grave to dominate like he once did. Highly unlikely, but we’ll have to weight and see. Forrest is somewhat serviceable but if Kenneth Dixon comes back strong he will be in a world of hurt. Knowing him though THs will see his worst week of the year and 90* will win with his voo doo magic once again. TH is just hoping there isn’t an injury along the way. 9. Vicious Veg-Heads: 1-2 (-4) I am nervous about this RB situation. This will turn around if Charles comes back and doesn’t lose reps from the top performing Ware… if we are back to where we are right now. Forte might have had two great weeks but has a few tough match ups these 3 weeks. Seattle, Pit, and Arizona ouch and one solid week out of Jeremy Hill doesn’t mean he will be a consistent RB2 with Gio stealing all the passes and what not. We’ll see if he can steal a lot of touches and scores against a favorable Mia DST. Will Sammy Wats be ready this week… and can Mike Evans produce at Denver, or Tamme and Carolina… he has some tough match ups and questionable consistency. You should’ve waited one more week to trade Jordy… you would’ve been 2-1 and IOS would be joining Podunk City Slickers at 0-3. You gave a gift to IOS, typically Veg Heads Franchise giving away players and wins like they are no big deal. Just like week one when you didn’t start Cammie Newton, another tough decision cost you a win this week. Ouch, hopefully this doesn’t continue to sting in weeks 5 and on… 10. Podunk City Slickers: 0-3 (-7) (previously known as: Big Cities Hillbillies) All I can say is ouch, 80 points this week… that has to hurt entering week four 0-3. However, you haven’t had much help outside of your QB Rodgers and the Minnie DST typically on your bench. Not that they would’ve helped you last week though… You did gain a “starting” RB with Tevin Coleman. You really needed to turn this around and this week you are going all in on Atlanta against a very angry Carolina Defense and Team… You are either going to survive this week or die this week at the hands of Carolina. Unsure if I like putting more faith in a team that is going to have 3 tough matches (as noted above) these next three weeks with Julio and Tevin for weeks 5-6 and adding Ryan week 4 as well. Gio is a acceptable flex or RB2 in our half PPR but not a RB1 to rely on. Hopkins is solid but julio’s matchups has me scared… he needs huge performances from Diggs and his WR core to be a match for most teams. Doug Martin was honestly holding him down and with a hamstring issue this will last 4 weeks minimum and if sims performance decent it might give him more rest time (which limits his upside). This does help the Podunk City Slickers in the immediate future but only marginally against these tough DSTs. Projected Picks (Week 4)Troll Hunters over 90* Putters
Indian Outlaws over D-Rock, Suzy’s Jock River Gypsies over Podunk City Slickers Vicious Veg-Heads over Twin City Tree Cats Mullynation Over NorthSide Angels – TITLE FIGHT
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