Author IntroRecently Promoted Michael Tibstra (Staff Author) will be your solo author for this weeks blog post recap. You might remember a few of his high quality works as an intern so please enjoy his new piece as a full fledge member of the team. With Michael's new promotion we are now looking for an intern to get us coffee, find obscure stats upon request (i.e. what is Troll Hunters average Flex position for WR vs RBs the past 2.5 years for only games played outside and on Thursday). You will love the team and allow Michael to someday earn another promotion to Senior Author. Anyway's back to it and please enjoy his first post of the year!! Hot TakesWelcome, welcome to the Tibstra Analysis Center. Here we will take a look at the season from the proletariat viewpoints of those in the bottom half of the power rankings. I know there may be some pushback as the TAC represents a former high-placing team last year, but know that I am one of you, not one of the bourgeois in the top half. Let us first take a look at my favorite (even going back to last year) subject: injuries. This year’s All-IR Fantasy team is looking pretty strong. This first few weeks of 2017 have been brutal for injuries in terms of fantasy relevant studs. We will use last year’s average PPG just to ensure we get a full sample size of being non-IR, unless they are a rookie. Then we will use their average for this year. I’m picking based off those who were drafted (except for where someone paid more for a player, which is my discretion, which ESPN makes pretty easy. I’m also picking the Texans D/ST as it got hit with the boomstick with Watt and Mercilus. Not too bad of a team at all. It’d be the top scoring team in the league if you managed to assemble all onto one team. It just passes up the TH at 119.5 who is our top scorer this year. So yeah, on top of a bit of an already fluky season in terms of scoring we have seen a great team already assembled out of year ending injuries. All praise to the fantasy football gods! Game Breakdown NSA (132) beats TH (121.1) The trends continue for NSA (now going by the Northside Reapers). The real question is what trend it is. Either it’s an odd week trend or a >100 point trend. Either way NSA pulled out a big win over the second-best team in the league after a sort of trying start watching Cooper put up almost 40 points on the bench. Hopefully that’s a sign of resurgence itself as NSA will need Cooper for the homestretch. Troll Hunters put up a super respectable week that only fell short as they faced the second highest scorer. A troubling trend may be appearing with Jeffrey and Anderson however as their fantasy relevance is falling over time. Wentz is looking to spread it around quite a bit and Anderson and the Broncos offense in general are anemic at best. But the depth of the Hunters are where it’s strength lies so I am certain they will continue their dominance of the league and division. After the rebrand, NSA came up with its second highest scoring game of the season, giving NSA a brief taste of what it remembered week in and week out last year (sobs). The pickup of Wentz and Agholar were brilliant in hindsight, even after the aforementioned benching of Cooper. Reed finally came up with a big game that NSA drafted him for after a disappointing year so far. Odds are that the upswing will turn downwards next week as NSA is the definition of boom or bust. 90° (122.8) beats IO (95.1) Basically 90° had an excellent week and IO had the bye week hit them on top of a mediocre week. Nothing would have changed if their bye players were back, but it surely didn’t make it easier. IO had 4 of his players on bye this past week and the rest of his bench scored zero points. So what he put on the board was all there was to be had. There wasn’t anything special on the IO in terms of big weeks or low lows. Taylor put up his best week but it wasn’t anything special. The rest of the squad most likely met their projected scores or close to them. IO needed that boom player this week to draw this closer but even then it most likely not been enough. 90° had a pretty darn good week. Carr started it big on Thursday with 30 points. The rest of the team (barring Bryant) followed it up with big weeks themselves. Julio finally, finally found the endzone that we’ve all been waiting for in the fog (frankly it’s a miracle that 90° is above .500 with him lacking in that department). Baldwin had another of his big weeks on the back of Wilson’s craziness. Thompson is looking like an excellent pickup as well. Nice work on the FAAB there. Much better than Carson, Cohen, or Gordon! 302 (110.4) triumphs over TCTC (96.2) (Showcase Mon Night Match until the NSA upset) In the game we were all really watching Monday night we say the upset happen. TCTC just needed Blount to have a decent game and outscore Elliot and Ertz. But alas, it was not to be. 302 claimed their second victory of the year. Blount and Thomas really let down TCTC who had a good game besides that. High single or double digits from every other position. Thielen was a bit of a let down but that’s mainly from the Vikings game plan and extreme use of field goals. May be something to watch however in the future. Mark Ingram is looking like a good trade now that he can run by himself and not have AP over his shoulder. I think TCTC is gonna do better here in the home stretch. 302 demonstrated why others on the blog commitee like him. He keeps on getting good point totals. He is consistent there. The only problem is their opponents getting even more points 5 out of the 7 times. Lev Bell is finally getting the rock a lot more which helps the team maintain the highs and lows of boom or bust players. Dak is looking good still so the trend should continue for points scored at least. RG (147.6) destroys BCH (93.4) In this week’s name-change game, RG came in swinging hard and laid out BCH hard. The only missed haymaker was Jordy Nelson as RG shows they have a team of absolute monsters if they all play well. BCH experienced a mediocre to poor game from their RBs and WRs. None of them broke 10 points so it wasn’t going to be pretty against a team with only 2 players being below 10 points. Justin Tucker balled out (though not as much as Kobra Kai). A bit of a glimmer of hope is BCH’s TE in Engram who appears to be the new target of choice in New Jersey. This is their second name change on the season so the PF-PA split (655 to 803) is none too surprising. The Gypsies decided this week would be the one they put up the numbers. 2 players (Jordy and Rudy) were the only ones below 10 points. Just knowing that is enough to say they probably won. But then comes along the Legal-Enigma Zeke. Apparently wanting to get in a season’s worth of fantasy production before he is suspended for the playoffs, Zeke dropped 40 points on the board consisting of 200+ yards and 3 TDs. And that run down the sideline was a thing of beauty. Here’s to hoping he keeps it up for at least one more week! VV (99.7) drops the champ MN (73) All must come falling down. The Veg Heads have done it. They beat the former champs where no one else could and have ended a 11 game winning streak (counting the post-season last year)! Well done! MN had it’s second down week this year, but this time they didn’t go up against their punching bag and close-game nemesis NSA. Just a down day across the board with the only highlights being AJ Green getting some passes early on in the Bengals game. And when your highpoint is 12.6 points, it’s gonna be a rough day, All MN needs is for Gordon to keep having decent games to keep the engine rolling, but it becomes evident when he doesn’t as both times it happened MN was sub-100 points. I’m sure it’s just a temporary downswing as MN looks to clinch a playoff spot next week. The VV didn’t have a spectacular game but they did have a good game, and that’s all that appears to be needed this year to grab wins.Alex Smith continues to be a good QB, both in fantasy and on the gridiron. Shady came up with the big win after a bit of a slump from what we’d expect from the Shade-meister. I’m really liking Sefarian-Jenkins this year. Dude is a touchdown machine. Power Rankings
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