Good day my HardCorps managers. This is my 2nd attempt at writing the Week 4 rollup. I was finished with it, and only had to tally up the points before posting. I stepped away from my desk and came back to an empty text box. About 1.5hrs of writing up in smoke. So I apologize if the 2nd version seems lack luster. Anyway on to the recap. We ended the week with a Monday Night Barn Burner. Seattle and Detroit combined for 10 Touchdowns in a fantasy a managers scoring wet dream. Detroit was able to finally buck the Seahawk monkey off their back. After losing to them 4 straight years. Our least unbeaten is down, and didn’t even really put up a fight. So we are looking at 5 managers all with 3-1 records now. Crazy!
Let's do some game breakdowns:
Brown Eye v Motown Marauders
The WHS goes to Brown Eye with a thumper coming in at 141 points. Adequately named because he’s an asshole for beating up on Larry who is currently dealing with all the flooding in Western NC. Kickin an old man when he’s down. Cruel man. And, for the 2nd week in a row, the weekly high score beat the 2nd highest score. Few things in fantasy suck worse than doing better than everyone in the league…except the one your playing (unless of course it’s losing your first round pick for what’s likely to be most of the season when it was only supposed to be 4 games). With Rashee Rice out Xavier Worthy picked up some slack, and Derek Henry put up 34 points, Motown even got some help from Stroud and Reed with 20+ performances. But Bennet couldn’t be stopped, Jordan Love crushed it in his return from injury and dropped 35 points on the board and nearly everyone on his roster put up double digits. When you hit 140 its just not likely you’re going to lose to anyone in a given week.
Captain Checkdown v Chubbers Out
Let’s get brutal for the next game we’re covering. Jason and JJ. It’s like deaf musician vs a blind painter (and all of you talking about Beethoven was deaf….just shut up). This match up saw Jason entering after securing his first win and JJ still with no checks in that column. The projections had JJ winning by 11, but Jason really wanted JJ to get a win…what a kind soul he is. With Rashee Rice getting hurt, and his Bills getting utterly destroyed and giving him -1 point Jason had a deep hole to dig out of. But why go up when you can continue to dig. Derek Carr turned an already crappy projection of 14 into an even worse actual of 9! James Cook got half of what he was projected to. David Montgomery was the only player save him from embarrassment by outperforming projections…just kidding!!! 56 points is still pretty damn embarrassing. But I can’t let JJ off the hook either. While not quite as smelly as Captain Checkdown, the Chubbers were pretty sad too. He wanted to be inclusive so he had a position put up negative points also, and much like Jason he only had 1 player outperform projections. It’s just his players were slighter less bad than Jason’s. Even Mahomes couldn’t perform for JJ. At least Zack Moss had a good game, and provides a glimmer of hope for the future. Congrats on getting out of the winless category Chubber, even if you did it with only 74 points. You better hope that fantasy horseshoe or rabbits foot stays firmly planted up your backside!
OP McFury v Maximum Effort
Well it’s odd, I swear I don’t have a man crush, but it seems Steve has found himself in the writeups every week! First for the high score, then for administering the biggest blowout, then because it was a battle of the unbeatens, but today. Well today he’s the one being posterized, OP McFury is on the wrong side of this weeks biggest blowout snagging his first L and leaving HardCorps Dynasty bereft of any undefeated managers. Geoff was a beneficiary of the aforementioned fantasy wet dream with Kenneth Walker having a great night and putting up 32 points (despite that total, Detroit was still better Geoff!!! har har har). Other team members giving their maximum effort were, Chubba Hubbard and Mike Evans who both doubled their forecasted outputs. With those performances, it didn’t much matter that both Achane and Singletary kind of sucked.
In what seems to be rapidly emerging as this years theme, Lance sucks. But so does his brother (that would be me). Berserkers still haven’t found their way into the win column, but at least they have scored more points than me. Jason finally put a do not enter sign on his B-hole so he is no longer the PA leader! Lance is the new PA leader. However, Bennet is just 10 points behind and still managed to go 3-1. Travis has quickly turned his season around by starting a 2 win streak to mirror his slow opening of a 2 loss streak. Which has him at 2-2. And Motown Marauders did the opposite and turned his 2 win streak into a 2 loss streak. Meanwhile Dave is putting together a quietly serviceable season by hanging with the big boys at 3-1 and never making it into the recaps. Perhaps he’s done so by having the least amount of points scored against him.
ODIN: ODIN TAKES THE LEAD (no thanks to Dane)!! Total-1685.94
THOR: Thor falls to 2nd, mainly on the efforts of Jason’s 56 points. Total-1660.1
FREYA: Despite Motown and Maximum grabbing 120+ performances, Freya realized they still have Chubber and Jeudy. Good for last place. Total-1647.74
Final thoughts: Heading into bye week schedules make sure your hookin and jabbin to give yourself the best shot at winning. And on a serious note, Both pops and my brother are in the mountains of NC, and it’s bad. My sister hasn’t been home since Friday she’s stuck at work, and a father and baby went missing somewhere up creek on the road my family lives on. Larry reports everyone is helping everyone for the most part and supplies aren’t a problem yet, but if the roads don’t get cleaned up soon, I fear it will start to be an issue. Comms are spotty, no cell service at their homes so only communication is when they are at work, but even the drive in is shady. We’ll see how it goes from here. There are plenty of agencies headed that way to help out so if you feel so inclined donate a few ducats to the one of your choice. It’s gonna be a long time before the Asheville area is unfucked.