Week 7: Wash-up

I'll begin this week's wash-up with a most interesting observation. In my Week 7: Match-ups column I noted that Breesus did not have an active QB, the team's namesake was on his bye week. Breesus, ever observant, streamlined in Jay Cutler, a QB having no poor season. Ironically for us, Breesus would have been better off starting Drew Brees as Jay Cutler posted -0.88 points. That's right, negative points. In the final summation it made no difference to the fate of the team as the Lighties were unable to take advantage and Breesus won the game comfortably. This means The Gardener award is still up for grabs in Week 8.

I'm going to label Week 7 as Injury Round. Quite a few players went down injured this week including Jay Cutler. Other notables include Nick Foles, Doug Martin and Sam Bradford. Be careful when picking up players off waiver or free agency this week.

It is a common sight across all match-ups that 60-70% of players are not performing, a team wins based solely on the backs of 1-2 players. It is good fortune if you have those players, poor if you do not.

Breesus was favourable this week despite Cutler's score, Decker, Jackson and Hauscka being the difference makers. Despite Lynch's good game for the Seahawks it did not translate into a great game for the Lighties.

Endlessnessism bucked the trend this week posting 3-4 good scoring players and defeating the Farnsworth's quite comfortably. Forte made up for Cutler's absence on the field with a good running game (28pts), Rodgers had another good game at QB and the 49ers also posted good numbers for the defense. On the other side, Peyton Manning scored well in the broncos first loss of the season, the rest of the Farnsworth's were simply there, being quite unobtrusive - the lazy jerks.

Wooli put up three good scores to comfortably defeat the Maidens. The Maidens were led by week-leader Andrew Luck (30pts) but the Maidens also posted two donuts, which will not get the job done. This win lifts Wooli from 10th on the ladder into 8th place, jumping over Farnsworth and leaving the Maidens wallowing in last place.

Zim's frustration at the QB spot continued with her starting QB again sucking while benched QB posting ok numbers. The collusion between Smith and Brady needs to stop now! Running Back Jacquizz Rodgers posted his best numbers for the season for Zim, while the Broncos defense sucked hard with 0 points. The Forces, meanwhile, had 3-4 solid performers in Bullock, the Patriots def, Dez Bryant and Steve Smith. Not great numbers, but enough to get by and get the win.

In the final game of the round Doof edged out Agent P by a measly 6 points - Agent P's second close loss in a row. Gore led the way for Doof, posting 22 points and Kicker Gostkowski scored well. The rest was junk. For Agent P, two solid performers and 5 junk and 6 points short.

The top of the league table is now jammed with three teams sitting at 5-2, Agent P, Forces and Breesus. Agent P and Forces face off in Week 8 and Breesus takes on serial heartbreaker Farnsworth.

Award Ceremony

Hypnotoad Award

Congratulations to Endlessnessism for taking home the Hypno this week. Endless posted 116 points in a good win over Farnsworths.

Mission Accomplished Award

Ingoldstadt left a whopping 82 points on the bench this week and lost to Breesus King of the Drews. That is 16 more points on the bench that the active players. I recommend seeing Zim about holidaying some of those guys to Blorch.

Black Flag Award

Endlessnessism picks up the Black Flag award for outscoring the projection by 21 points - great coaching job!

Most Satisfying Player Award

The Maidens take home the Most Satisfying Player award for starting Andrew Luck who was the League highest scorer. Too bad the Luck didnt rub off on any other players. Week 8 for sure!