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Here you go! Hope it’s enjoyed by all.Week 10 RecapHowdy, fellow FF guys/gals! My name is Melissa Ratley (aka ImBetteratMadden), and Senor Ceiling Cats (aka Matt) has asked me to guest-write the recap for Week 10! As some of you know, I’m a full-time Country singer-songwriter from Denton, but since that career path is virtually (pun intended?) non-existent at this time, and for the foreseeable future, I’m currently a 1st grade teacher to my adorable, intelligent, and certainly NOT patience-testing 6-year-old twin godchildren, Alexa and Claire. I guided them through the last three months of Kindergarden back in March of this year when this madness began, and have been called into action once again this past week when one of Claire’s classmates tested positive, forcing her class (and by familial association, her sister) into virtual learning until December 1st at the minimum. All is well among us, no symptoms of any sort (it’s likely they were exposed at least back in March by me and as recent as August by their Jiu Jitsu coach), but it’s a constant barrage all day of assignments, class meetings, and generally trying to keep both of them engaged/occupied enough to have just five GODDAMN minutes of peace an hour. You can imagine those segments of solitude are rarely achieved. 😊But enough about MY current shitshow, and a little about my time in the Fantasy sports world. I think I started playing Yahoo! Fantasy sports around 6th grade; I remember signing up for just about every sport, not having a clue of what I was doing, but basically doing so just because as long as I looked ‘busy’ on the computer during Library time, I didn’t have to get off. I do have three older brothers, who all cut out NCAA brackets, Fantasy sports clippings, and such from the Dallas Morning News when they showed up in the paper, so my knowledge of all things that had to do with sports was impressed upon me throughout my entire life. Did I get my ass kicked in just about every sports video game? You bet. Did one of them get grounded for doing so at least once? Absolutely. But I did learn to look closely at stats and such through these games, so I suppose there was one positive that came out of it. (Also I routinely kick their asses in front of their children when challenged these days…muahahahaha)As yall are aware, I joined this league on the same day the NFL season started, mainly because I didn’t think a season was going to happen. I happened to spot Matt, Courtney, and Felix at Eastside that night, who said they needed another warm body to manage a VERY mediocre auto-draft team, and I accepted. This season has certainly had its ups and downs (and positives and negatives…bad dum TISKKKK) but between not having much to do in the music world, and herding two godchildren after school most days, it’s been nice to have something else to distract me, at least! Also this is my first year using ESPN, as I’ve always used Yahoo! Fantasy Sports, but I have to say, it’s a pretty friendly app.I’ll be totally honest, I still don’t understand how the traditions work in this league, but as the resident ‘roster churner’ of the league, IM STILL IN THE HUNT BITCHES. I don’t intend to slow down any time soon. Being a ‘waiver wire wench’ is not something for the faint of heart, and yes, it’s VERY much risk/reward, but as our friend Matty Ice has stated, ‘Improvise, adapt, overcome.’If you’ve made it this far…Congrats! Lets talk Week 10 Recap:My auto-drafted, roster churned shit show of a team (ImBetteratMadden) faced off again Team Bizness, who is apparently a fellow musician, but was certainly out of tune with his roster choices, as he left Jordan Howard (apparently no longer a Dolphin) who had a BYE week on his starting roster, had a severe underperformance from Michael Thomas (I sympathize here as I have him in my Yahoo league, ugh) and had the Denver D turn in a -4 with a final score of 82-39 in favor of yours truly. Ya girl is sittin at .500 with a record of 5-5 and Team Biz firmly holding on to last place at 1-9…for good.Next up, Dysfunctionally United and TBIAC locked horns, and while TBIAC had a solid performance from Matt Prater, essentially their most reliable Fantasy player, the absence of the Rams D and Juju from the starting roster, who could have possibly made this a closer game with a combined 26 bench points, resulted in a 103-74 game. Dysfun continues the winning streak with 4 games in a row, and a record of 8-2, while TBIAC drops to .500 at 5-5.The aforementioned Senor Ceiling Cats, and purveyor of this blog (and domain name lol) faced off against The New Tanner…and it was just sad on the Tanner part. It seems he faced what all of us have at least once a Fantasy season, ‘Bye Week Hell’, as Zeke, Julio Jones, Butker, and Matt Ryan were ALL forced to the bench, and despite a strong showing from RJII in the Tampa game, the Ceiling Cats were dancing on the ceiling, floor, walls, etc. in this one with a final score of 134-59. The Cats had all but TWO players score in double digits. Someone send good vibes (or possibly a drink) to Tanner’s team, as they fall to 3-7, while the Cats improve to 6-4.I suppose there has to be one BOOOOORRRING game a week, and as it appears I’ve been the target for the most BOOOOORRRING team/game in this league SEVERAL times, that particular title in Week 10 goes to the matchup between All About da Chiefs Dawg, who took on Team Pigg. A couple of goose eggs on the Chiefs, along with an awful performance by Drew Lock, and possibly an overconfident hope that DeeJay Dallas would do something (it’s okay, I got burned by him last week) led to a total of 54 points, while Team Pigg didn’t have much to write home about either, with the Tennessee D turning in a -3, but hey, a win is a win.Finally, Big Diesel III faced off against Team Grider – and it wasn’t close OR pretty for Mr. Grider. And honestly, I’m not sure how you can justify starting the Giants D AND Duke Johnson and expect a win. A fat goose egg from Jimmy Graham and a poor week from the Seahawks top WR’s (Hotty Toddy to DK!) meant that Team Grider could only scrape up a whopping 65 points, while Big Diesel III had solid showings from Mr. Discount-Double-Check, the rookie Aiyuk from San Fran, and a solid kicking performance from Tampa Brady’s team by Ryan Succop added up to 98 points. The Diesel team improved to 6-4 while the Grider group takes its second loss of the year, falling to 8-2. Hey Nathan, it’s a Lonely View at the top…I would know, that’s the title of my first album. 😊Well I suppose that’s all she wrote (3rd pun) for this week! Thanks to Matt for having me write this, as its been a welcome distraction from the hellish world of 1st grade virtual learning this week, and I promise next time I won’t write so much! Now I’m off to enjoy the solitude of the remainder of the evening, with the promise of some FIFA 21 and my own personal stash of candy that remains hidden for obvious reasons. Adios!