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As George Costanza famously said, “I’m back in business, baby!” James is now making that same claim after a dominating Week 10 performance and posting the highest score of the season, 138 points!! Sofa King Back Baby got great performances from Marshawn Lynch and Dez Bryant who combined for 70 points, along with 19 points from Jimmy Graham. Not bad when you can get 89 points from just three players. The victory moves James to a 5-5 record and right in the thick of the playoff hunt. More on that below. Awesome job, MAJOR!!
Last week it was Brusselsprouts who put on the big show and pulled down a Weekly high Score Prize with a solid 122-point performance. Jens did it on the back of Ryan Tannehill (27 pts) and Alfred Morris (22 pts) along with a pair of 18-point performances from Odell Beckham Jr. and Andre Ellington. Jens’ victory came against sprouts who had the 2nd highest total of the week, which is the second time this season that that has happened to sprouts. Ouch for Russ, but nice job Jensy!!
Since Jens won a High Score Prize last week, and James won one this week, that makes 7 different teams that have won a prize this season. Now with only 3 weeks left of the regular season, it is time to start prepping for the playoffs! Below is a first look at what it will take for each team to get in.
But first, some quick observations…
BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA
-Marshawn Lynch, RB – Sofa King Back Baby – 40 pts – That’s why they call him “Beast Mode”! Lynch was on fire, rattling off 140 yards and 4!!! touchdowns! Lynch's performance tied for the 5th best fantasy performance by a runningback in Sacred Sundays history.
-Aaron Rodgers, QB – American BadAss – 36 pts – When you throw for 315 yards and 6 touchdowns, people will say you had a great game. When you throw for 315 yards and 6 touchdowns in the first half of a game, people will start to wonder if you were playing against a high school defense. Hard to imagine just how many TD’s Rodgers would have thrown had he played the full game...
-Philadelphia, DEF – American BadAss – 32 pts – The Eagles actually gave up 21 points, but added an astounding 9 sacks, 3 interceptions, 2 fumble recoveries and 2! touchdowns (1 pick six and 1 punt return). That really is bad ass!
-Jordy Nelson, WR – Starck Industries – 30 pts – Well someone had to catch all those balls that Rodgers was throwing… Nelson helped himself to two of the touchdowns.
-Dez Bryant, WR – Sofa King Back Baby – 30 pts – Dez would not be stopped on his two touchdown catches! He basically caught those passes and then willed his was to the endzone. Nice!
-Peyton Manning, QB – sprouts – 29 pts – Check it out...how crazy is it to have a quarterback throw for 340 yards and 5 touchdowns (which Peyton did), and have that not be the top QB performance for the week? I mean...what?
COME ON, MAN
-A.J. Green, WR – Channel 4 News Team – 2 pts – This one really wasn’t A.J.’s fault as Andy Dalton threw the football with the accuracy of a drunk frat-boy. Seriously, what was wrong with that guy?
-Steve Smith Sr., WR – Scottish Rebels – 1 pt – After a great start to the season and averaging 12.8 points per game through the first 6 games, Senior Steve is averaging 3.25 per his last four games.
-Lamar Miller, RB – American BadAss – 1 pt – Miller only carried the ball five times, but the Dolphins are insisting that he’s not injured… um, okay…
-Travis Kelce, TE – Channel 4 News Team – 1 pt – Good news...Kelce caught every pass thrown his way. Bad news...That was only 2 passes for 19 yards.
-Terrance Williams, WR – Vandelay Industries – 0 pts – Williams’ response to a 1-point game last week, was a zero point game this week. Going in the wrong direction there T.
-Montee Ball, RB – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 0 pts – Tough to score points when they are declared inactive before the game. Check your roster!!!
PLAYOFFS?! DON’T TALK ABOUT PLAYOFFS!!
Quick refresher - The top 2 teams in each division automatically qualify for the playoffs and two more teams get in with wildcards. The top team for each division will receive a first round bye. The wildcard spots are not division-dependent meaning that both wildcards could come from the same division. Here are the tie-breakers that we will use for determining playoff spots:
Division standings -
1) Overall record
2) Division record
3) Head-to-Head record
4) Points scored
5) Coin flip
Wild Card standings -
1) Overall record
2) Head-to-Head record
3) Points scored
4) Coin flip
If the playoffs started this week these teams would be in:
American BadAss
Vandelay Industries
Scottish Rebels
Joe’s Pats
Starck Industries
Sofa King Back Baby
Teams that are right on the bubble:
Coors Light Drunk Guys
Midnight Maulers
With just a scosche of help, Shawn and Jamie should be able to make it in.
Teams that need some help:
sprouts
Channel 4 News Team
There are several scenarios to get sprout in the playoffs, and I even found one scenario where Channel 4 News Team gets in (with some tie-breaker help). It's slim, but it exists. So no one has been mathematically eliminated. Next week I will have the full playoff scenarios for every team.
BEST BENCH
The Midnight Maulers hold the record for the lowest Best Bench Award all-time, when in Week 7-2011, they captured the award with a minuscule 16-point improvement possibility. This week’s winner was only two points off of that, as there were not many bench points to be had. So, with an 18-point improvement possibility the Week 10 award for Best Bench goes to…sprouts! This is Russ’ third Best Bench this season, and this time he only needed swap out his runningbacks to do it: S. Jackson for R. Hillman (+14) and B. Tate for T. Mason (+4).
Alright, get those waiver claims in and make the final push to the playoffs!!
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