| Fantasy Football Week 1 League results |
| By Jason Behr Sept. 11, 2012 I am Jason Behr and this is my first installment of my weekly fantasy football wrap up for the 2 leagues I am in. I am in 2 different leagues this year with one based in North Carolina called “More Than Bragging Rights” (MTBR) and the other based in California called “The Most Amazing League Ever” (TMALE), while I reside in metro Detroit. I started my year off by going 1-1 pulling off a close 89-84 game in my TMALE league and getting beat by the wide margin of 131-96 in my MTBR league. I also had the dilemma of having Ray Rice and Hakeem Nicks playing for me and against me, but they are each on separate teams for me. I hope this situation is an anomaly and not a common occurrence as the season goes on. Fortunately Hakeem Nicks didn’t really help anyone with his performance and Ray Rice got me my 1 win and was not responsible for my blow out loss in the other game. Oddly enough both of my opponents had Eli Manning as their starting quarterbacks. I thought his under performance of 10 points in my MTBR league, and 12 points in my TMALE league gave me an early edge going into Sunday’s slate of games. However, Michael Vick on my MTBR team got off to a horrible start throwing 4 interceptions and one pick six for a total of -12 points in our scoring system -2 /interception and -4/pick six. This gave him just 12 points for the week. I knew he was a high risk/high reward pick being the final starting quarterback selected in the league, and I can only hope some high reward games are on the horizon. Jay Cutler on the other hand, who also happened to be the last starting QB selected in the TMALE league did much better, netting me 19 points overall for a 7 point match up advantage over Eli. My win in TMALE came down to me getting one big 20 point game from Ray Rice while LeSean McCoy had a pedestrian 11 points for my opponent. We each had clunkers at the other running back (RB) position with Michael Turner only getting 3 points for me and Trent Richardson doing the same for my opponent. I had the combined RB point’s edge but he had the combined wide receiver (WR) edge with Demaryius Thomas and his 17 points being mainly responsible for this. This resulted in my opponent having a close 4 point edge at the RB/WR slots, but was negated by my 7 point edge at the QB spot. This meant the game would come down to those starting slots a little further down the list like Tight End (TE) Flex Position (any TE, WR, or RB), Defense/Special Teams, and Kicker. I ended up with 2 very nice games in my TE and Flex spots that gave me a crucial 14 point advantage over my opponent. I used my 3rd round pick to take elite TE Jimmy Graham and a late 9th round pick for Jeremy Maclin who I used in the flex position. I certainly needed this big 14 point cushion since my opponent won the def/st head to head match up by a whopping 17 points. Then low and behold my hometown Detroit Lions Kicker, Jason Hanson provided me the final margin of victory by winning his match up by 5 points for a 89-84 win. My MTBR game on the other hand was an ugly 35 point blow out that doesn’t take to much digging to see why. When a Kicker (K) out performs 4 other starters on your team like Robbie Gould did this week for me with 11 points, you are in trouble. I didn’t have a single RB,WR, or TE go over 14 points and 4 of them were in the single digit area. My most disappointing player was 1st round pick Chris Johnson who only got me a paltry 5 points on the day. He was also not helped by his team falling behind 21-3 early and saw his team abandon the run early. My only 2 stand out players were WR Percy Harvin with 14 points and TE Rob Gronkowski with 12 points. In case anyone notices I fully bought into the elite TE head to head match up theory this year, and made it a point to land either Graham or Gronkowski on my teams. However unlike the match up advantage Graham gave me, Gronkowski only gave me a draw at a position I was counting on to win big each week. Percy Harvin also saw his performance be negated by the other team. My opponent on the other hand saw 5 of his 8 offensive starters get double digit points with 2 of his players getting over 20 points apiece. He had WR Julio Jones get him 23 points and the aforementioned RB Ray Rice gets him 21 points. Those combined 44 points out scored all 5 of my RB/WR slots and the route was on. It was so lopsided that his def/st posted a higher point total than any of my starters did. |
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