This is Serious Business FFL

It was a tough week for some (Cats) glorious for some (Pigg, Laces Out, TBIAC) and a recurring nightmare for others (DFUN, AintReba). It’s still early so a reemergence can happen, injuries will come into play and the waiver wire will be important. But, early on, Laces Out and Pigg are dominating at 2-0 with 244 and 238 points scored. On the bottom is 0-2 DFUN and Cats at 151 and 161. The rest are ready to pounce into the upper echelon if any team falters. Week 2 rap-up begins….

In the first faaaammmmmiiillly fffffuueed of the season Pigg takes on the Commish. 116-54. Pigg reaches 2 wins for the first time in league history (not accurate). DFUN falls to 0-2 for the 28th season in a row (not true). Burrow and Rrrraawwddgggeeerrs were close 14-16. Nixon and Akers were close 8-6. Sanders and Taylor 8-6. J Jefferson 4 Ceedee 8. Shultz 0 Kelce 5. What went wrong for DFUN? A lil something called K and DEF. This is becoming a thing if you haven’t noticed. McPherson 13, and Dfun’s Gay 7 at K. TB Def 34 ( 34 freaking points) and the Commish’s D, MIA….. -4. 38 point swing on the DEF alone. Are the DEF numbers artificially inflated,?you’ll have to ask the Commish and no one else, especially not the Cats who had nothing to do with scoring changes. NOTHING (not accurate).

Laces Out v Big Diesel 138-93. Laces Out is on fire! Herbert 23, Tyreek 31, Waddle 29 ( in an absolutely insane game, too bad she didn’t have Tua too) Bass at K with 12 and 13 from her D, NE. The California Kid countered with 17 from Mahomie, 4 from the soon to be cut Zeke, 10 from UNT’s own Jeff Wilson, 1 from apparent bust JuJu and 11 from CEH (about time he did something). K Succop 10 and another monster Defensive effort from the 9’ers 22. But when Laces Out gets 60 from her teammate Wr’s, your in for a long week.

Yes, it happened. We aren’t even going to act like no one noticed “the shot heard around the world”! In a “Rudy” like underdog story, a real rags to riches fable, a Cinderella story if you will. The FFL story we’ve all been buzzing about….. Cats win again. Or was it LO lost again? Nobody was surprised Vina Mites lost or Nizzle02 won. Ooooohhh yeah, I see it now….DFUN WINS DFUN WINS DFUN WINS!!! The epic losing streak is over at 274 straight losses. Fireworks ensued, tears were shed and somewhere far far away, a little angel got it’s wings.

Week 7 is over, week 8 is coming quickly. More of the same…injuries, waiver pickups, terrible TE’s and the dreaded bye weeks. Rumor has it that there may be a trade going down (doubt it). Sit back, relax and enjoy a quick (it’s Sunday night and I’m half in the bag) recap of “This is Serious Business”.

Yup, it happened. And it happened to LO, who had gotten real comfortable sitting on her high horse near the top of the standings (her feet still didn’t touch the floor). But in FFL there is no given, no easy W. As it has been all season, K and Def made an impact. LO’s totaled 5, DFUN’s 31pts. Herbert beat Raaaaaawwwwdddggggeeeerrrrss by 2, Ekeler outscored Drake by 23. On the flip side Foreman was up 6 on Waddle, the rest was a wash. Offensive players were 72-63 in Laces Out’s favor. But it’s a team game and this week it payed off for the Commish and his first win of the campaign, 94-77.

102-86. Nizzle02 remains on fire while TBIAC continues searching for consistency. The Capt got 2 zero’s and a 4 from London, Andrews (hurt) and Cooks. Nizz is still riding his stallion Jacobs (bound to be injured soon), 33 and Jones 19. 31 from the TEN Def was wasted by TBIAC, while Nizzle02 had a respectable 19 from his special teams. These two teams have been fighting for the title of “King/Queen of Oaklawn” for years. Grider has always been the peoples champ (of the Oaklawn crowd) but TBIAC isn’t just going to lie down and take this like a man! This could be a rematch to look forward to!

The lil d Ceiling Cats snuck into the Grand Ol Opry, navigated the tunnels and paths, avoided the security and the lost hopes and dreams, and snuck into the basement dwelling of AintReba. Before the diminutive diva could move, the Cats were all over her. The Dallas Def was really looking for revenge, having been dropped by red dirt artist a few weeks ago. 131-77. What’s that joke about playing a country song backwards? Get your dog back, your truck back……. but not the W.

Brother on brother violence like this has not been since the Civil War or maybe backstage at a Jonas Brothers concert (ask Nizzle02 about that). The two West Coasters met up and one came out swinging…and didn’t stop till it was alllllll over. Big Diesel 104 over Vina-Mites 70. Mahomie 26, Zeke 17, wasn’t worthless for a change, JuJu 18, wasn’t worthless for a change and Kittle back to his norm, 15. For VM, Amon St Brown 0, Schultz 4, Goodwin 4. In a rare occurrence, BD’s special teams combined for a -1 but was still enough for a W.

And here we go. When we changed platforms (forced by the Commish) we knew there would be some changes, some issues, some problems. The tenths of points were one of them. But really, how many time will it matter? And seriously, a half point is 5 yards rushing or receiving. It will literally never matter. And then it did. Pigg was watching Monday Night Football, staring intently at his phone and the tv. His arch rival, LGB sat at 90.38 pts. Pigg had one player left, David Montgomery, RB for da Bears. He had 62 yards and a TD and now the team was running out the clock. Pigg was down by .24 of a point. One hand off, 1 yard, run out the clock, game over and FFL W in the bag. All that was left was the snap, the handoff, the carry, times runs out, game over. Exactly as planned! Except it was the Bears 3rd string RB, don’t know his name, no one knows his name. His coach said “Hey you, running guy, go run” or something like that. He got the carry. FFL loss… by .25 points. LGB steals the election, ummm, I mean game!

Week 8 coming soon, always remember to bookmark mattstinypenis.com on all your and your families devices!!

Week 6 was a big week here in “this is serious business”! Big dawgs went down, lil kittens roared and the Commish continued on the path to 0-16. Bye weeks are here and have to be navigated. Scores will generally drop from here on due to attrition, injury and playing your second QB, if you have one. Keep your head up, and sleep well knowing Nizzle02 wasn’t talking about you….or was he?

Pigg welcomed the CaliTexan Diesel to the bitter North for a showdown of mid level teams. Both need a win, but only one will walk off the frozen tundra with a victory, unless it’s a tie, then neither will/won’t. Let’s hope it’s not a tie! Mahomie versus Geno…19-12. CEH v Mixon… 3-12. Coop and JJeff tied, Kamara and Pittman tied, almost. Kittle bested Everett by 6, but MVS caught zero while Kirk nabbed 6. This is gonna be a close one fantasy football fans!! Down to the special teams as we have seen so many times this year. SF Def 6, TB Def 6. Holy Cow!!! It’s time for the K to shine! Diesels foot soldier Succop booted 14 while Piggs only got 8. It’s all over!! Or is it? We have one more score from the RB position. UNT’s own JWilsonJr ran for 0.5 while Montgomery stumbled for 8. Now it’s all over! Pigg wins 81-74. What a rollercoaster ride (unless you happened to look at the weekly scores anytime before now).

In a game closer than anyone thought, DFUN still went down 117-62 at the hands of LGB. Gordon and White ran for a combined 2, 11 at WR which actually equaled what Kelce did by himself, and 2 at flex. You’re not winning many games with that stat line… and DFUN didn’t. CMC 15 and Diggs 20, Gesicki (with one of his 4 good games this year) 18 and suddenly relevant RB Walker III 17. Big game for LGB. Pobably could have rested some guys this week… just sayin

AintReba and some surfer guy in board shorts and a Mission style burrito went head to head on the west coast for the chance to be mediocre. QB throw down put JAllen against JHurts…26-16. Benjamin and Big Len combined for 22 at RB countered by Saquon and Dalvin 29. WR Metcalf and Devonta 13 vs Godwin and Big Mike W 10. Both TE’s were terrible (if you don’t have Kelce or Andrew’s this is your weekly curse). Flex went to AintReba’s Henderson with 11 versus Sutton 1. 17-12 at special team wrapped up the unlikely W for the tiny Texan! Side note- I bet he puts shrimp in his burrito…

In what would have been the game of the week….4 years ago, the Ceiling Cats went south to the Big D to take on their hated rival and good friend TBIAC. 144-88 Cats start their winning streak! Waiver wire and late round picks (Stevenson 21, Hall 18 and K Butker 19) joined up with superstar Chase 25 to seal the deal! Chubb and Dobbins sunk the Captains ship early with only 8 between them and zero from the K. Is this the start of a sea change? Or just an off week for TBIAC and the Cats? We have 10 more weeks to find out!

Nizz v LO for the top spot in the league. Two absolute powerhouses squaring off, both looking to make a statement! That statement was “meh“ 85-73 Nizz gets another cheap win. Kyler continued to be a disappointment while Herbert was even worse. AJones and JRob couldn’t break double digits added together. Ekeler was good but Huntley wasn’t. Kupp was a normal human being this week only scoring 9 while Tyreek exploded for 17 for LO. The difference was the flex position. Laces Out got 1 from Locket while Nizzle02 snagged 18 from some dude named D Jackson. Pretty sad day for both teams, but a W is a W. Nizzle02 all alone on top of the leaderboard.

Week 6 is in the books! More injuries, more bye weeks and one monster trade went down (CMC to the Niners). On the FFL level we are still waiting on the first trade of the year. Soooo, say your prayers, take your vitamins and get ready for week 7! It’s gonna be a fun one!

Week 5 started with Nizz, TBIAC and Laces Out on top. VM, Diesel and Pigg in the middle and the rest of the teams just suck and shouldn’t be mentioned here. So as the good teams (not DFUN) fight and claw for playoff positioning, the middle teams competing for a spot in the post season and the rest were planning where to put their new Sacko trophy and accompanying art work (see below). Week 5 looked like a good week for a scrap! Lets see who was ready for one and who got sucker punched!

Nizz v DFUN. After the shellacking last week by the Cats, DFUN’s head coach had a closed door meeting. Shouting was heard, then loud crashing noises and finally soft, infant like crying. Nizzle02 was not available to be interviewed but we can assume his assistant coaches were in contact with the NFL, FantasyPros, NASA and anyone else that could keep them at the top of the standings. Sooooooo, it almost feels like a trap game. One team relaxed and over confident (hopefully), the other angry, hungry, and…. terrible at FFL. Sucker Punch or Scrap….. Neither. Ass-Whooping. Nizz 121-69. The Commish goes to 0-5 behind his combined 3 pts at RB (Akers 3 and Taylor 0 because he was OUT again with an injury). Nizz got 24 from Adams and only 18 from Kupp which was more than enough to get the easy W.

In a big, big battle we move to the Highland Park area where TBIAC hosted the West Coast V Mites. The Capt has been looking to reclaim the top spot for years while VM walked into Texas and started screwing things up for everyone else there (Cali joke). Hurts 27, Saquon 16 and Dalvin Cook 24 for the Mites. TBIAC countered with 25 from Chubb, 25 by King Henry and 14 caught by Andrews. Looks like another contest coming down to K and Def! Joseph kicked 3, Elliot 0. Okay, that was pathetic, so maybe it’ll come down to Def. Philly 4 and the mighty Jax Jags…..11 and the victory. Definitely a scrap!

AintReba took on Team Pigg in the usual “No One Cares” Bowl, but this time it’s different! Pigg is right in the hunt for the Playoffs and AintReba is, hmmmm, terrible, as usual. The final score was exactly what the Vegas sports books thought when they put the over/under at 12 points.😂. But the Country Crooner came for a fight! Josh Allen 35, Fournette 25 and Metcalf 12. (We won’t mention 1 from Harris, Waller with 0 and Gibson 3). Pigg forgot to tell his team that they had a game this week and it showed. Joe Cool 17 and JJfferson 18 and nothing else. Pigg was so bad this week that AintReba’s Def got a -2 and she still took home the victory! Next week Pigg will look to right the ship and Reba will go for her first win streak… ever. Sucker Punch for sure

In the Battle for Lil d, the Cats, fresh off a huge slump busting win over DFUN, hosted LO at “Tidy Cats” Stadium and Grooming Center. Ekeler started and almost ended the week with 173 yards rushing and a pair of TDS (31 points). Then Lockett dog piled the poor Cats with 2TDs and a 100 yards receiving. The final nail in the kitten’s coffin was the Dallas Def running over the Rams for 25 points. Dallas was on the Cats team, on the bench, watching another loss. Not a scrap, bit could have been with better coaching. LO remains on top of the FFL hill for another week.

In the Sunday Night game we had a battle for the Top Gun! These two Aviator extraordinaire’s went head to head and ego to ego in this dogfight! LGB started off the night with Carr being mediocre as usual, CMC and Diggs good, as usual. Tucker 16 and BUF Def, 14, as usual. Unfortunately for LGB, the usual also happened for Gesicki 3, Dillon 3 and Higgins 0 (not really usual, but I needed a third name). 96 points. Big Diesel countered with 30 from Mahomie, 13 by Coop and UNT’s own JWilsonJr rumbled for 19. Kamara finally showed up, going for 100 yds rushing and 90 receiving for 17 points. Diesel’s beloved SF Def got missile lock on LGB and sent him spiraling to a fiery, horrible, crushing defeat with 22 pts. Final 126-96. I’d call it a scrap, just not a good one😅

Another week in the books. The hated and feared bye weeks are among us as are the mounting injuries. Some pre season picks aren’t panning out (most of Cats players) and some unknowns are getting known quickly. We are a third of the way through the FFL marathon so stay hydrated, be ready to zig and/or zag and if anyone wants Zeke, Diesel would like to talk to you!!

Another week complete, 5 wins 5 losses. For some, 5 teams, you are 3-1 and looking like you’ve done this before. Diesel and LGB at 2-2 fighting to stay relevant. Then the bottom dwellers…. Still circling the roundabout for the 4th week in a row, just trying to exit right, but just can’t seem to get over… AintReba and the Commish at 0-4. With AintReba’s history, no one is shocked at her start, but with DFUN, we are even less surprised. They are both terrible at FFL but you’ve got to love their tenacity😂. And then, the peoples Champ, the Lil d Ceiling Cats….1-3. Slump-buster complete, winning streak to begin (probably not). So as week 5 begins, go set those lineups, make some moves, and let’s FFL the sh$t out of this pig!!

Big Diesel took the week 4 off when he played AintReba at his Oakmont Country Club Polo and American Football field and Estates (sooo pretty). 120-91. Josh Allen and DK couldn’t beat Diesel all by themselves. Mahomie 23, Jeff Wilson Jr (UNT’s own) 13 and the resurgent, soon to be benched, CEH 21. Again K and DEF played a big part with Reba totaling 17 from her special teams and BD 41 led by 33 from the Niners D. Easy W for Diesel, and at least AintReba got to enjoy Prime Rib night at the CC. (She ordered it well done😩).

Nizzle02 hosted LGB a the Grider Pay-Day Loan and Pawn Stadium and Govt Housing Arena. Two heavyweights. Two owners who have never met but still HATE the other. One loves guns, the other has body guards! Lets GET IT ONNNNN! 141-102. It’s over. Nizzle02 looks unstoppable as his highly paid team of FFL GMs and scouts have finally put together a winning team (bout damn time). LGB wasn’t bad, just a bad matchup this week. Deebo was brilliant. Tee Higgins keeps stealing points from Jamar Chase and CMC still isn’t injured?? But, Nizz got 29 from JJacobs (resurgence??) and a shock-the-world 31 from TJ Hockenson and solid games from the rest. It was to much to overcome this week, but word on the street is Nizzle02’s weakness (if there is one) is his bench. Let’s all hope….

The Ceiling Cats (kittens of late) were out late, on the mean streets of lil d looking for a fight, an easy fight. And there, across a crowded bar, eyes locked…. DFUN, aka the Commish. He was drunk on anime, smelled of cabbage, and wore long pants. The Cats stood tall, as much as he could, lean, as much as possible in a jumpsuit, and ready to rumble. Ready to teach a slump-buster what a slump-busters job is. The GOAT finally played well 25 (divorce talk to come), Evans 22 and 24 from Koo and GB Def. For the Commish, Raaaawwwwdddjjjjjaaaas was ok, J Taylor got hurt, Kelce and Ceedee snagged 15 each and Penny had the game of his career (sell high) with 27. But a slump-buster is what it is and this week was no exception. Cats 112-93. First win for the Cats (hopefully not last) and 4th loss for the DFUN ( absolutely not his last).

LO vs the west coast plague, Vita-Mites. Laces Out dropped 118 points on her state income tax paying opponent. 21 from Herbert, 28 from Ekeler (sell high), 15 from Tyreek before they carted Tua off the field, mostly dead. And 26 from the K and Def!! But prices are inflated on both our coasts. California being a particular problem. Gas $6.69 a gallon. Loaf of bread $17.99. Homeless sleeping on every corner… free. But it also inflates the FFL scores. Barkley 16, JWilliams 22 and Big Mike Williams 12. 10 for K Carlson and 20 from the Philly Def made it a 124-118 game. If played in Florida or Texas, LO would have won by 3, but it wasn’t. Thanks Biden, inflation is a bitch!

And in the Monday Night Game, Pigg takes on TBIAC in a must win, big dawg, head to head matchup. Pigg is a newcomer to the “winning record” part of our FFL game while TBIAC has always been on the periphery, sometimes looking in, sometimes looking out. This week these two behemoths came out swinging…. softly with an open hand. Lamar Jackson 13, Joe Cool 20. Chubb and King Henry combined for 38, with Pigg scrambling for 20 at his RBs. WR was where this 7 yo girl tickle fight ended, 27 for Pigg (JJeff 21) and only 10 for the Capt. A teacher’s aide was called soon to break up the hair pulling and slapping that was this week 4 throw-down!!!!! (of girls pulling hair and slapping) . 94-87 Pigg

Soooo, week 5 up next. JTaylor out again, JWilliams out for the season, Corderelle P done for weeks, Stafford broken, Baker… well… Baker. We are all fighting our own FFL demons right now. Just remember that there is a long season ahead, wins and losses, crying (LGB), screaming (AintReba), redemption (all of us). Can’t be that bad though, at least we aren’t doing roundabouts……

Some are 3-0, some 0-3, everyone else in the middle. Good starts, bad starts….it’s a long season of ups and downs, injuries and breakouts, handcuffs and waiver wire saviors….and busts. Some big wins this week (LO) some teams may have fallen back to earth (Pigg) and some are right where the belong (DFUN). Some believe it’s bad luck or good luck or great coaching or some weird FFL curse (Cats). But the season goes on and always remember, if you believe in dinosaurs then they will believe in you. And if they believe in you, anything is possible!

TBIAC is off to a scorching 3-0 record with the most points scored (more below). He hosted the Big Diesel in a battle of heavyweights. Mahomie v Lamar 15-39. Jeff Wilson Jr (UNT’s own) 8- King Henry 20. Njoku 14- Andrew’s 20. K and Def were even, but 40 points from the QB is hard to overcome. TBIAC 148-97. The undisputed Champ (after 3 weeks) is TBIAC. Is it a mirage or can he keep this streak going? Week 4 will tell us more….

Vina-Mites hosted the Commish in his California stadium (surrounded by homeless and crime, but great weather!). Another great game by the West Coast newbie, 112 pts. Hurts 27, Cook 13, Barkley 18 and 23 from the Philly D. DFUN countered with 16 at QB, 19 at RB, 24 from the pass catchers and the usual 13 from Kelce at TE. But only 5 from da’ Bears D was just not enough to compete with Vita-Mites. A good game for both, but as usual the Commish takes the L.

In the weekly beat down, Nizzle02 helicoptered into Denton to take on the Cats. And left with the at least 2 of the Cats lives. 104-69. Murray and Brady were meh, RBs meh, Nizzles WR’s snagged 21, Cats caught 12. JRob rumbled for 17 while the hometown hero, Etienne only 7. Then we go to K and Def. 32 for Nizzle02 and 14 for the Kittens. Another win for the Corporation known as Nizz and another terrible loss for the Ceiling Cats.

LGB v AintReba. A battle between the last 9 seasons of the SackoBowl! They were at it again, but surprisingly with winning records. It was a tight one, with neither team wanting to win. But someone has too! Unless it’s a tie, then no one wins, but other than that, someone has to win!! Allen came out throwing with 26, Fournette stumbled for 7 and Henderson tripped for 1. LGB countered with 18 from Geno Smith (?) and 14 total from CMC and Dillon. Metcalf had 12 while Diggs 7, then D Moore got 1 and R Moore 0 (trying not to win). LGB won the TE battle 8-2 and the Flex 14-10. K and Def were a wash. Final 77-82. LGB wins, if you can call it that. AintReba is sure to start churning her roster this week after this weeks sad gridiron slap-fight.

Undefeated Laces Out takes on the one Yankee in the League, undefeated Pigg. this should have been the Sunday night game! Two monster teams going head to head for the chance to be second behind TBIAC. All the pregame hype was there, the fans were there, unfortunately both teams stayed home. 73-59. Stafford and Wentz were Stafford and Wentz. Mixon and Ekeler were terrible. Sanders and Williams were just slightly better than that. JJefferson (in a freak game) 1 and Tyreek (in a freak game) 3. Kirk and Waddle showed up to play with 13 and 11. Pittman only had 7 coming off an injury but Cordarelle Patterson, who did not get the memo on failing miserably this week, busted out with 21. Pigg won the special teams battle 17-9 but it was not enough to win…. or to even score 60. LO goes undefeated after 3 games.

Soooo, after 3 weeks we have TBIAC and LO undefeated. VM, Pigg, Nizz, and LGB AT 2-1. Big Diesel 1-2 and AintReba, the Commish, and Cats at a zero on the campaign. Injuries are starting to take effect, waiver wire adds are more important and trades need to be assessed. Is the GOAT over the hill? Is Barkley back? Josh Allen looks like an MVP but can Hurts stay in the hunt? Will King Henry reclaim his throne or will Mixon finally go to jail (with Tyreek)? Is Cooper Rush the future of the NFL? (No). Week 4 will give us the answers… and many more questions. Play on!

Welcome back to year 11 (I’m guessing) of “This is Serious Business” FFL extravaganza! Another year of drafting, managing and for some (Melissa) roster churning. We all made it through the new “Fantrax” draft, so congratulations! Always send ALLLLLLL questions to the Commish because he is the asshat that changed us to this platform😂. Welcome to the new guy, some Cali surfer dude, and I’ll just guess he won’t win a game this season (spoiler coming). To the rest of us, thank you for competing and donating your hard earned dollars to the Ceiling Cats, they appreciate it since there is now a third Cat in the mix and kitty litter isn’t cheap. It’s time to play some FFL and good luck to all of you, except DSVP aka Let’s Go Brandon, our returning champion (contested). Let’s play some FFL!!!!

Week 1, finding your lineup, waiting for the injuries, praying your auto draft worked, hoping this is the year you don’t win the “Sacko” (Steph). Always remember it’s a marathon and not a sprint, except for Grider aka Nizzle02, then it’s a sprint, go all out! Will Saquon be a FFL God, or go down with an injury, is Josh Allen Superman (most likely), will CMC play more than 4 games? Is the GOAT finally going to answer to Father Time, despite his magnificent jawline and perfect hair? Or is your whole team made of spare parts? All the questions will be answered over the next 17 GLORIOUS weeks! Let’s get to week 1….

In our first girl on girl cat fight of the season, AintReba went to Denton to take on lil Steph and her LacesOut squad. Nothing better than two Sacko contestants flailing away at the foosball! Both have heavyweight QBs, J Allen 31 pts and J Herbert 23 pts. Fournette and Gibson went for 13 apiece while Metcalf had 1 and Knox a giant 0.5 for AintReba. LacesOut countered with 15 from Ekeler and Williams combined but the Miami connection of Waddle and Tyreek had 26. The difference in week one came down to the flex position. LacesOut actually used a good player, Patterson 19, instead of a SECOND TE, Waller 7. (Who plays two TE in the FFL world?) The gamble lost and AintReba went out like “the night the lights went out in Georgia” 105-88

DFUN, the Commish, hosts the other Cali Surfer boy, Big Diesel. Again, two big time QBs, Mahomie and Raaaawwwdddggeerrs, a showdown for history! Mahomie, despite not having any WRs goes for 34 while the Packer Captain, without any WRs went for….. 3. Game over. Or is it? Diesel got 14 total from his starting backfield, Zeke and Kamara and WR JuJu. Michael Thomas exploded for 17 but TE had 0. For the Commish, Cam Akers ran for zero points (Commish was warned about this pick), but J Taylor rumbled for 23. Cedee disappointed, as all the ‘Boys did and caught 2 pts but Scary Terry grabbed 11 and Kelce 18. Sooo here we go, it’s down to the special teams…..MIA came up huge with 24 points for the Commish to take the lead but Deisel’s R Succop booted in 15 to squeak outa 97-96 victory! Great game between two mediocre teams!

Team Pigg welcomed Nizzle02 to his Yankee-land stadium. There is no love lost between these two, who have never met or spoken too, but still soooooo much bad blood! Guess what, 2 great QBs, Kyler v Joe Cool. Pretty even, Murray 18, Burrow 16. Nizzle02 backfield only ran for 14 while Pigg’s had 19. The matchup here was all about the WRs. Grider had Davatae 20 and Kupp, before his season ending injury happens, 18. Trey had J Jefferson 30 and Pittman 18. Huuuuge numbers for each team! TE and Flex both were terrible with a combined 9 and 11. But as stated earlier, K and DEF matter this year! Nizzle02 got 9 from Carlson and 8 from the Titans. Pigg kicked 8 from McPherson but ran away with the TB Def sacking the ‘Boys for 18 points and the week 1 victory 121-99!

Not much to talk about here. The Ceiling Cats welcomed the new guy, or girl, not real sure since we don’t have pronouns on the new platform (thanks Commish). As a welcome gift to our league, the Cats laid down like… cats. And got run over by the Vina-Mites (whatever the hell that is😂). Brady flailed around for 10, Najee got hurt, H Henry was terrible as expected . The Mites got 24 from Hurts, 23 and 10 from Swift and Cook ( before both of their upcoming injuries). WR was the only bright spot for the Cats with Chase and Evans going for 31 while the new guy’s WR had 8. But the day was won or lost on the flex position. Etienne 6 for the all time wins leader Cats, and 27 for the Vina-mites Saquon ( before his upcoming injury). 114-83. The new guy may be someone to worry about if his/her team stays healthy. Congrats on the first win!

Tom Brady is a Cheater aka the Captain takes on the serial Sacko winner DSVP now named Let’s go Brandon. LGB was a 30 point fave to start the day. Buts it’s FFL and you’ve got to play the game! Lamar v Dak. 20 to 4. CMC and Dillon rushed for 26 for LGB while TBIAC got 18 from his backfield. Diggs and Higgins combined for 20 while the Captains WRs caught 29 (told you the G Davis was a good pick!) Both TE were meh. And both flex were fantastic, A Brown 15, Diggs 18. Soooooo again we are back to K and DEF (seeing a pattern yet?) Prater 1, Tucker 6. IND 9, BUF 23. But this time it wasn’t enough (got ya), TBIAC takes the week 1 W 92-89. Fans at the stadium were heard saying the LGB team wasn’t able to to score enough to keep up with inflation (poor political joke, more to come).

Congrats to Todd (champion) and Melissa (sacko)

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!

Another one in the books! Every game is a must win from here on out and some actually did, others not so much. We are almost finished with the dreaded bye weeks, but there is no telling what ‘Rona has in store for us. Trade deadline is also creeping up so take a good look at your team and make some tough decisions. Week 14 is the end of the regular season, and as a reminder…. division winners are top two seeds, then the next two best records regardless of division. Tie breaker is “points for”. Other 6 teams (losers) will enter the Sacko Bowl Tournament of pain and anguish. The 4 highest rated teams will play week one with a chance to win and exit the Sacko Bowl. The worst 2 teams will be on bye week one. The losers of week one play the bye week teams in week 2, again, for the chance to exit the tourney with a W. Week 17, the two losers face off for the most coveted title since the “Mustard Yellow Belt”….. the SACKO TROPHY!!!

Grider at #1 is a +149 (“points for” added to “points against”) and is 8-1 while DFUN is only a +67 but somehow is 7-2. 4 teams at 5-4, Cats +174, Big D +32, DSVP +18 and TBIAC +54. Our bottom four (there is still time for some of you) are IamB at -84, New Tanner with -47, Pigg -125 and Biz -140. 965 by the Cats is still the high while Biz is on the opposite end with 624 (and a win over the Cats). New Tanner continues to lead in “points against” at 905, while the low is 791, again, the Cats. Soooooo, all these numbers prove, without a shadow of doubt…..nothing. Good weeks, bad weeks, luck, Shiva, injuries, byes, they are all there to test our FFL fortitude. But the FFL gods can be vengeful at times and lenient at others. They will do what they do and as FFLers we will continue on until someone is hoisting the Sacko.

Current projected Playoff seating….

Quick pictorial recap of this weeks games…..

Week 10 next. Good luck and Godspeed.