Week 9 and 10
Passionate Playback
Awww Shit! Just when you thought you were going to get rid of us, the Passionate Playback Staff (of just me) just keeps showing up like that strangely colored and odorous bit of open sores precariously close to your man parts, squarely on the ole’ taint. Yeah, you might want to get that looked at. I think KP knows a guy… But enough about that. We’ve nearly traversed the entire 2021 regular season at this point, and it was another hectic couple of past weeks yet again with balls to the wall, top-notch Fantasy Action. As we continue our collision course toward the playoffs, with only two weeks left on the slate, the intensity just keeps ramping up as an all-out blood bath for the final few spots will undoubtedly ensue. Alex, Dan, and yours truly have all officially clinched, and Jared has about sealed up his spot as well. However, we still find Carl and Tyler white knuckling their grip of the number five and six seed like Gollum trying to frantically keep his “precious” away from some meddling hobbits. Riding their ass in the rear-view mirror is the man that won’t die and infamous late season miracle worker, Kevin, trying to snatch away a spot and dashing one their playoff hopes by conjuring up some of that 2019-esque James White magic. On top of all that, lurking still are Grant and Kyle, who technically aren’t out of it yet, but will need at least two of the teams ahead of them to choke harder than a past her prime adult film star on three 9-inch schlongs at once, while trying to stay relevant by doing extremely hardcore niche gangbang videos. A pretty big ask, but always a possibility. Anyway, as we try and sort out who will duke it out in our league’s first ever six team playoff for the belt, it’s anyone’s guess as to how it all unfolds. Five dudes. Two slots. You have to love a nice, juicy, tight finish to the season! So, with that we kindly invite you slip off those work shoes, grab the extra buttered popcorn freshly popped for you, find a seat, and just sit back, relax, and enjoy another thrilling finish to an amazing season of Fantasy while our main girl, T Sizzle, brings the smoke yet again vocalizing the powerful feelings of excitement and anticipation like only she can. Here. We. Go.
Headlines:
The staff brings shame to our journalistic integrity by failing to recognize one of the rarest moments in league history took place in Week 8; KP achieves the third ever "Double Double with Cheese"
In a league full of such excitement and top shelf Fantasy Play, for the main headline to be about our media team covering the league, brings us nothing but feelings of shame and disappointment. Listen, I know we all make mistakes in life. The staff of forty plus people in my head, while at times difficult to manage, is supposed to be comprised of the best and brightest statisticians and journalists this world has to offer. So it is with utter disgrace and sadness that we must admit we made one of the gravest errors ever made in the history of covering a league, real or Fantasy. Thus, there is no excuse for this complete dereliction of duty and outright lack of journalistic integrity shown by Yours Truly. We hope you all humbly accept our apology as we attempt to make it right by finally acknowledging it, but we realize that it now diminishes the accomplishment by KP and its historical significance within the league. However, as you often see in Hollywood with a movie that hit it big, they try to keep running back sequel after sequel in an attempt to recapture that success. Is the second or third iteration of the franchise as good as the first usually? Not really. That is kind of how KP’s “Double Double With Cheese” went down being that it had no bearing on the playoff race, and was part of a pretty abysmal game. So, the third rendition of the trilogy wasn’t all that exciting, but since it did occur, we will be writing a piece about it in the League History tab under greatest games on the main site, in what we are dubbing “The Double Double With Cheese Game Part 3: The Butt Kick”. So, you can look forward to that at some point.
Daniel falls to Jared 197.2 – 169.95; comes up one game short of tying league record 10 game win streak
Well… I can’t sit here and tell you that I am not beyond relieved that my record winning streak still stands. Just as the members of the ’72 Dolphins have now been famously known to do once the final undefeated team loses their first game each season, I popped a nice bottle of the bubbly and quietly sipped from my glass in a pure glee that my streak still has yet to be topped by anyone in the league. Admittedly the feat isn’t quite as impressive as what those Dolphins accomplished, and yes, it didn’t result in a title. But goddamnit, it’s all I got! Don’t judge me! Daniel didn’t even put up that bad of a point total either, carding nearly 170. However, Jared, who’s team seems to be catching fire at the perfect time, threw up the league’s second highest scoring total of the season so far with a blistering 197.2 points. Johnathan Taylor and Austin Ekeler put up a mind bottling 94.9 points between just the two of them alone. Still, the fact he got a performance like that from his two RBs and failed to break 200 is almost impossible to fathom. If some of his other starters even performed half decent, Jared would have been flirting with the league record for highest point total in any game ever. Dak, who was a top five quarterback to that point, could only muster 3.8 points and Jared was goosed by not one, but two of his starters (Dan Arnold and Randy Bullock). Talk about a top-heavy performance. None the less, the number one complainer in the league can finally say he caught a break and is now looking more dangerous than ever with the playoffs right on the horizon. I can’t explain it at all why the Fantasy Gods are treating him so well. Why are they acting like an uninformed parent giving in to their child throwing a temper tantrum in the supermarket because they want the Fruit Loops instead of the Raisin Bran? Ugh, maybe my strategy of showing reverence is not the right move? I don’t know anymore… Fantasy is stupid.
Battle for the byes heats up; Daniel, Alex, and I separated by one game
With most of our attention turned to who will claim the final two playoff spots, at the top of the standings we also have an intense race to capture the leagues first ever playoff byes. Even with his Week 11 loss to Jared, Daniel-san still sits in the best position, holding a one game lead with two games left to play. However, between the three of us, his point total is the lowest, and thus could be in a bit of trouble if he falters over these last couple weeks. It would be a shame too, considering he has been the clear front runner of the standings for the vast majority of this season. Still, just one more win should do the trick as one of me or Alex will for sure lose a game as we are pitted against each other in a massive Week 13 matchup with a playoff bye likely on the line. That’s right, in a beautiful bit of scheduling irony, Yours Truly and the Commish will be facing off in the last week of the season, most likely playing to secure a top two seed and the aforementioned highly coveted bye. With the expansion of the playoffs this season, most of us likely focused on how it would intensify the race for those trying to snag one of the final spots, which is exactly what happened. However, it was the second order effect of making the fight atop of the standings crucially important, which created added intrigue to a typically meaningless endeavor of being a top regular season team. I have to admit, I wasn’t necessarily fully on board with the decision of increasing the pool of playoff teams, but you couldn’t have drew it up any better than the outcome we got. Ohhhh boyyy! It’s going to be a fun finish!
The race for the last spots in the playoffs windles down to the wire; Carl, Tyler, and Kevin still dueling it out
While we did give a nod to Grant and Kyle for having a puncher’s chance in the column open, honestly, we really only have three teams that legitimately can seize a seat at the Playoff Table when it’s all said and done. Those being Carl, Tyler, and Kev. It’s going to be a wild finish, so cue up the NFL Prime Time music, and lets go through them, Boomer style. Even though Carl and Tyler seem to be in the best position to lock down those spots on paper, in my best Berman voice, “That’s why they play the games!”
Carl
First up we have the Newbie himself, Carl the Golden Car, whose been hitting speed bump after speed bump over the mid part of the season, rumbling, bumbling, stumbling out to a 5-6 record. But this Car’s engine hasn’t over heated quite yet, as he somehow found some gas left in the ole’ tank. After he zoomed on by Tyler in Week 10, he set himself up nicely to hopefully qualify for the Playoff Grand Prix in just his first season in the league. He still has to fine tune that engine, but he gets a prime chance to rev that bad boy up on full blast in Week 12, as he takes on KP’s slug a bug bug of a roster. A single win there gets the job done, but if he blows a piston, he still has time to make a pit stop, refuel, recalibrate, and go head-to-head on the final lap with the man hot on his trail, Kevin in Week 13. Therefore, the Golden Car clearly controls his own destiny, being that he owns the point tie breaker with Tyler by nose. So it looks like this speeding car just might make it across this finish line without crashing and burning. Nevertheless, he needs to go “Whoooop!” and push that pedal to the medal in one of his last two games to avoid a brutal photo finish all the way to the consolation circuit.
Tyler
Now, we head on down to Number Six Town to visit the feisty Ty Dog, who has been all bark and no bite this season. Buried away in middle of the standings like a bone in the backyard, Tyler’s struggled to find a home so far being left as a stray on the edge of the playoff hunt. However, there was still some fight left in this old dog, after capturing a howling Week 11 win over a chihuahua sized opponent in KP. While he showed his fangs last week, he has two of the big dogs in Moi and Alex left on the slate, with both of us licking our chops seeing Tyler incoming. His legendary pre-sleeper 2018 run to a championship, long forgotten and aging faster than dog years, has Tyler saying “Don’t sa-sa-sleep on me now, baby!” One win and the Ty Dog gets to be a good boy and all the treats he wants in the playoffs. However, two tiny slip ups and he’s going to get taken out back with the consolation bracket and be put down like Old Yeller.
Kevin
Lastly, way out in land of the playoffless, where it’s at is Kevin “love baby, the love” Ashak. In this little old place where you can get together, there really hasn’t been much to love about his roster. At 4-7 and still one game back, the only sign he’s seen says: 15 miles to Consolationville. With a loss to his brother in Week 12, Carl and Tyler will be moovin’ and groovin’ in the playoffs without him. However, he’s been hot as an oven, wearin’ next to nothin’ as a roster, winning two of his last three to keep his playoff hopes a shimmying around and around and around. He gets Carl in the last week as the timer on his season goes tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. A win in that one too might be enough to get that funky little Ashak into the playoffs. We aren’t going to bet that this year will be a love getaway for Big Kev though, as he might just have too much to overcome. Our prediction is that he will bang, bang, bang, on the playoff door baby, but come up just short.
Awards:
Dominic Toretto Ballsiest Call of Week 10 and 11 – Tyler playing Cam Newton in Week 11
In it’s purest definition, this call by Tyler was the exact reason this award was created. Here we had an underwhelming QB who hadn’t been a worthy fantasy starter in a few years, and hadn’t stepped on a football field to take a snap as a starter in almost a full calendar year. What does Tyler do, needing a win to keep his dreams of making the playoffs alive no less, he casually shows his enormous, massive, colossal sized balls to the entire league and starts Cam Newton. Yes, Cam Freaking Newton. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it either. But you know what? It actually worked. Cam performed beautifully to the tune of 32.05 points, and lead Tyler to his big time victory over KP. I’m actually in utter awe of the balls on this man to pull something like that off, and for that he deserves a salute. You can have any brew you want… As long as it’s Corona.
Power Rankings:
1. AlexAshak 8-3; Power Score: 8.4
Fun Fact #1: Since being the top scoring team three weeks in a row from Weeks 6-8 and averaging over 181 points per game, in his last three weeks, from Weeks 9-11, he is averaging just barely over 128 points per game.
Fun Fact #2: In that same time span, from Weeks 9-11, Alex is 3-0.
Fun Fact #3: The teams averaging less than Alex over the last three weeks are Tyler, Grant, Kyle, Carl, and KP… they went a combined 2-14.
2. DanielWest 9-2; Power Score: 8.3
Fun Fact #1: Daniel has not been the highest scoring team in any week this season.
Fun Fact #2: Daniel was 9-0 in games in which he scored more than 123, until last week in which he scored 169.95 and lost.
Fun Fact #3: The entire league is now 18-4 when scoring more than 165.
Fun Fact #4: And, Up until last week, Daniel was 8-1 in games where he scored less than 165.
3. Jweverstad 6-5; Power Score: 7.85
Fun Fact #1: Jared is one of only two teams in the league to not win a game when scoring less than 150 points.
Fun Fact #2: In his six wins he has an average score of 174.84 points per game.
Fun Fact #3: In his five losses he has an average score of 139.68.
Fun Fact #4: The rest of the league has won nine games when scoring less than 139.
Fun Fact #5: Increase that to 150 points, the rest of the league has won 16 such games when not scoring that high.
4. jressa 8-3; Power Score: 7.25
Fun Fact #1: I’ve only scored less than 140 points in a game three times all season… I am 1-2 in those games.
Fun Fact #2: When scoring more than 140 points, I am 7-1 in those contests.
Fun Fact #3: I have left over 324 points on the bench this season.
Fun Fact #4: Only three teams have left over 200 points on the bench.
Fun Fact #5: I have left over 87 more points on the bench over the second worst team, Daniel.
Fun Fact #6: 87 points is the same difference between Daniel, at second worst in points left on the bench, and Jared, who has left the third least (6 teams all within that range).
5. Cholgerson34 5-6; Power Score: 5.4
Fun Fact #1: Since starting 3-0, Carl has gone 2-6 over the next eight weeks.
Fun Fact #2: In that eight week span, Carl is averaging 129.5 points per game.
Fun Fact #3: Only Kyle and Grant have averaged a lower amount of points than Carl over the last eight weeks.
Fun Fact #4: His 2-6 record over the last eight weeks is tied for worst in the league with KP and Kyle.
6. Kshak 4-7; Power Score: 5.35
Fun Fact #1: Kev is the only other team besides Jared to not win a game when scoring over 150 points.
Fun Fact #2: However, Big Kev has only broke 150 points 4 times this season, going 3-1 in those games.
Fun Fact #3: Still, he is tied with me and Daniel for least amount of games scoring less than 140, only doing it three times.
Fun Fact #4: Kevin has had the second most points scored against him in the league with 1663.05 Points Against.
Fun Fact #5: He is the only team with a below .500 record but an above .500 League Record at 51-48.
7. tborgs 5-6; Power Score: 5.05
Fun Fact #1: Tyler is tied with Grant for most amount of times being the worst scoring team, doing it three times.
Fun Fact #2: Tyler is also one of only three managers to be the highest scoring team multiple times on the season.
Fun Fact #3: Tyler is one of only three teams to have more than 200 points left on his bench this season.
8. KenUdigit 4-7; Power Score: 3.55
Fun Fact #1: His three game winning streak from Weeks 5-7 is tied for the third longest of the season.
Fun Fact #2: In all other games outside of his 3-game winning streak, Grant is averaging 115.6 points per game, worst in the league over those weeks.
Fun Fact #3: In all weeks other than Weeks 5-7, Grant is a combined 1-7, tied with KP for worst record over those games.
9. KartierKyle 4-7; Power Score: 3.1
Fun Fact #1: Kyle is tied with Alex and Daniel for most games won scoring less than 135.8 points, which he’s done twice.
Fun Fact #2: Since starting 3-1, Kyle has gone 1-7 over the last eight weeks.
Fun Fact #3: In the last eight weeks, Kyle is averaging just over 121 points per game.
Fun Fact #4: Those 121 points per game over the last eight weeks is dead last in the league over that span.
Fun Fact #5: Kyle has only eclipsed 150 points three times, which is tied with Grant and KP for least amount of games doing so.
10. BigPapaPump92 2-9; Power Score: 3.0
Fun Fact #1: KP has by far the most Points Against in the league at 1769.05.
Fun Fact #2: The team with the next most Points Against is Kevin with 1663.05, over 100 points less Points Against.
Fun Fact #3: If there was a team that scored 1769.05 Points For, it would be the highest scoring team in the league.
Fun Fact #4: On average, KP is getting 160.8 points per game scored against him.
Fun Fact #5: Teams scoring 160 or more points have a combined record of 28-5.
Fun Fact #6: KP has played one of the three highest scoring teams of the week 7 times this season, including the highest scoring team four times.
Fun Fact #7: If you take the opponent KP played each week and made it a team in our league (pretending there was a team that scored exactly the same each week), that fictional team’s League Record would be 72-27, best in our league.
Awww Shit! Just when you thought you were going to get rid of us, the Passionate Playback Staff (of just me) just keeps showing up like that strangely colored and odorous bit of open sores precariously close to your man parts, squarely on the ole’ taint. Yeah, you might want to get that looked at. I think KP knows a guy… But enough about that. We’ve nearly traversed the entire 2021 regular season at this point, and it was another hectic couple of past weeks yet again with balls to the wall, top-notch Fantasy Action. As we continue our collision course toward the playoffs, with only two weeks left on the slate, the intensity just keeps ramping up as an all-out blood bath for the final few spots will undoubtedly ensue. Alex, Dan, and yours truly have all officially clinched, and Jared has about sealed up his spot as well. However, we still find Carl and Tyler white knuckling their grip of the number five and six seed like Gollum trying to frantically keep his “precious” away from some meddling hobbits. Riding their ass in the rear-view mirror is the man that won’t die and infamous late season miracle worker, Kevin, trying to snatch away a spot and dashing one their playoff hopes by conjuring up some of that 2019-esque James White magic. On top of all that, lurking still are Grant and Kyle, who technically aren’t out of it yet, but will need at least two of the teams ahead of them to choke harder than a past her prime adult film star on three 9-inch schlongs at once, while trying to stay relevant by doing extremely hardcore niche gangbang videos. A pretty big ask, but always a possibility. Anyway, as we try and sort out who will duke it out in our league’s first ever six team playoff for the belt, it’s anyone’s guess as to how it all unfolds. Five dudes. Two slots. You have to love a nice, juicy, tight finish to the season! So, with that we kindly invite you slip off those work shoes, grab the extra buttered popcorn freshly popped for you, find a seat, and just sit back, relax, and enjoy another thrilling finish to an amazing season of Fantasy while our main girl, T Sizzle, brings the smoke yet again vocalizing the powerful feelings of excitement and anticipation like only she can. Here. We. Go.
Headlines:
The staff brings shame to our journalistic integrity by failing to recognize one of the rarest moments in league history took place in Week 8; KP achieves the third ever "Double Double with Cheese"
In a league full of such excitement and top shelf Fantasy Play, for the main headline to be about our media team covering the league, brings us nothing but feelings of shame and disappointment. Listen, I know we all make mistakes in life. The staff of forty plus people in my head, while at times difficult to manage, is supposed to be comprised of the best and brightest statisticians and journalists this world has to offer. So it is with utter disgrace and sadness that we must admit we made one of the gravest errors ever made in the history of covering a league, real or Fantasy. Thus, there is no excuse for this complete dereliction of duty and outright lack of journalistic integrity shown by Yours Truly. We hope you all humbly accept our apology as we attempt to make it right by finally acknowledging it, but we realize that it now diminishes the accomplishment by KP and its historical significance within the league. However, as you often see in Hollywood with a movie that hit it big, they try to keep running back sequel after sequel in an attempt to recapture that success. Is the second or third iteration of the franchise as good as the first usually? Not really. That is kind of how KP’s “Double Double With Cheese” went down being that it had no bearing on the playoff race, and was part of a pretty abysmal game. So, the third rendition of the trilogy wasn’t all that exciting, but since it did occur, we will be writing a piece about it in the League History tab under greatest games on the main site, in what we are dubbing “The Double Double With Cheese Game Part 3: The Butt Kick”. So, you can look forward to that at some point.
Daniel falls to Jared 197.2 – 169.95; comes up one game short of tying league record 10 game win streak
Well… I can’t sit here and tell you that I am not beyond relieved that my record winning streak still stands. Just as the members of the ’72 Dolphins have now been famously known to do once the final undefeated team loses their first game each season, I popped a nice bottle of the bubbly and quietly sipped from my glass in a pure glee that my streak still has yet to be topped by anyone in the league. Admittedly the feat isn’t quite as impressive as what those Dolphins accomplished, and yes, it didn’t result in a title. But goddamnit, it’s all I got! Don’t judge me! Daniel didn’t even put up that bad of a point total either, carding nearly 170. However, Jared, who’s team seems to be catching fire at the perfect time, threw up the league’s second highest scoring total of the season so far with a blistering 197.2 points. Johnathan Taylor and Austin Ekeler put up a mind bottling 94.9 points between just the two of them alone. Still, the fact he got a performance like that from his two RBs and failed to break 200 is almost impossible to fathom. If some of his other starters even performed half decent, Jared would have been flirting with the league record for highest point total in any game ever. Dak, who was a top five quarterback to that point, could only muster 3.8 points and Jared was goosed by not one, but two of his starters (Dan Arnold and Randy Bullock). Talk about a top-heavy performance. None the less, the number one complainer in the league can finally say he caught a break and is now looking more dangerous than ever with the playoffs right on the horizon. I can’t explain it at all why the Fantasy Gods are treating him so well. Why are they acting like an uninformed parent giving in to their child throwing a temper tantrum in the supermarket because they want the Fruit Loops instead of the Raisin Bran? Ugh, maybe my strategy of showing reverence is not the right move? I don’t know anymore… Fantasy is stupid.
Battle for the byes heats up; Daniel, Alex, and I separated by one game
With most of our attention turned to who will claim the final two playoff spots, at the top of the standings we also have an intense race to capture the leagues first ever playoff byes. Even with his Week 11 loss to Jared, Daniel-san still sits in the best position, holding a one game lead with two games left to play. However, between the three of us, his point total is the lowest, and thus could be in a bit of trouble if he falters over these last couple weeks. It would be a shame too, considering he has been the clear front runner of the standings for the vast majority of this season. Still, just one more win should do the trick as one of me or Alex will for sure lose a game as we are pitted against each other in a massive Week 13 matchup with a playoff bye likely on the line. That’s right, in a beautiful bit of scheduling irony, Yours Truly and the Commish will be facing off in the last week of the season, most likely playing to secure a top two seed and the aforementioned highly coveted bye. With the expansion of the playoffs this season, most of us likely focused on how it would intensify the race for those trying to snag one of the final spots, which is exactly what happened. However, it was the second order effect of making the fight atop of the standings crucially important, which created added intrigue to a typically meaningless endeavor of being a top regular season team. I have to admit, I wasn’t necessarily fully on board with the decision of increasing the pool of playoff teams, but you couldn’t have drew it up any better than the outcome we got. Ohhhh boyyy! It’s going to be a fun finish!
The race for the last spots in the playoffs windles down to the wire; Carl, Tyler, and Kevin still dueling it out
While we did give a nod to Grant and Kyle for having a puncher’s chance in the column open, honestly, we really only have three teams that legitimately can seize a seat at the Playoff Table when it’s all said and done. Those being Carl, Tyler, and Kev. It’s going to be a wild finish, so cue up the NFL Prime Time music, and lets go through them, Boomer style. Even though Carl and Tyler seem to be in the best position to lock down those spots on paper, in my best Berman voice, “That’s why they play the games!”
Carl
First up we have the Newbie himself, Carl the Golden Car, whose been hitting speed bump after speed bump over the mid part of the season, rumbling, bumbling, stumbling out to a 5-6 record. But this Car’s engine hasn’t over heated quite yet, as he somehow found some gas left in the ole’ tank. After he zoomed on by Tyler in Week 10, he set himself up nicely to hopefully qualify for the Playoff Grand Prix in just his first season in the league. He still has to fine tune that engine, but he gets a prime chance to rev that bad boy up on full blast in Week 12, as he takes on KP’s slug a bug bug of a roster. A single win there gets the job done, but if he blows a piston, he still has time to make a pit stop, refuel, recalibrate, and go head-to-head on the final lap with the man hot on his trail, Kevin in Week 13. Therefore, the Golden Car clearly controls his own destiny, being that he owns the point tie breaker with Tyler by nose. So it looks like this speeding car just might make it across this finish line without crashing and burning. Nevertheless, he needs to go “Whoooop!” and push that pedal to the medal in one of his last two games to avoid a brutal photo finish all the way to the consolation circuit.
Tyler
Now, we head on down to Number Six Town to visit the feisty Ty Dog, who has been all bark and no bite this season. Buried away in middle of the standings like a bone in the backyard, Tyler’s struggled to find a home so far being left as a stray on the edge of the playoff hunt. However, there was still some fight left in this old dog, after capturing a howling Week 11 win over a chihuahua sized opponent in KP. While he showed his fangs last week, he has two of the big dogs in Moi and Alex left on the slate, with both of us licking our chops seeing Tyler incoming. His legendary pre-sleeper 2018 run to a championship, long forgotten and aging faster than dog years, has Tyler saying “Don’t sa-sa-sleep on me now, baby!” One win and the Ty Dog gets to be a good boy and all the treats he wants in the playoffs. However, two tiny slip ups and he’s going to get taken out back with the consolation bracket and be put down like Old Yeller.
Kevin
Lastly, way out in land of the playoffless, where it’s at is Kevin “love baby, the love” Ashak. In this little old place where you can get together, there really hasn’t been much to love about his roster. At 4-7 and still one game back, the only sign he’s seen says: 15 miles to Consolationville. With a loss to his brother in Week 12, Carl and Tyler will be moovin’ and groovin’ in the playoffs without him. However, he’s been hot as an oven, wearin’ next to nothin’ as a roster, winning two of his last three to keep his playoff hopes a shimmying around and around and around. He gets Carl in the last week as the timer on his season goes tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. A win in that one too might be enough to get that funky little Ashak into the playoffs. We aren’t going to bet that this year will be a love getaway for Big Kev though, as he might just have too much to overcome. Our prediction is that he will bang, bang, bang, on the playoff door baby, but come up just short.
Awards:
Dominic Toretto Ballsiest Call of Week 10 and 11 – Tyler playing Cam Newton in Week 11
In it’s purest definition, this call by Tyler was the exact reason this award was created. Here we had an underwhelming QB who hadn’t been a worthy fantasy starter in a few years, and hadn’t stepped on a football field to take a snap as a starter in almost a full calendar year. What does Tyler do, needing a win to keep his dreams of making the playoffs alive no less, he casually shows his enormous, massive, colossal sized balls to the entire league and starts Cam Newton. Yes, Cam Freaking Newton. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it either. But you know what? It actually worked. Cam performed beautifully to the tune of 32.05 points, and lead Tyler to his big time victory over KP. I’m actually in utter awe of the balls on this man to pull something like that off, and for that he deserves a salute. You can have any brew you want… As long as it’s Corona.
Power Rankings:
1. AlexAshak 8-3; Power Score: 8.4
Fun Fact #1: Since being the top scoring team three weeks in a row from Weeks 6-8 and averaging over 181 points per game, in his last three weeks, from Weeks 9-11, he is averaging just barely over 128 points per game.
Fun Fact #2: In that same time span, from Weeks 9-11, Alex is 3-0.
Fun Fact #3: The teams averaging less than Alex over the last three weeks are Tyler, Grant, Kyle, Carl, and KP… they went a combined 2-14.
2. DanielWest 9-2; Power Score: 8.3
Fun Fact #1: Daniel has not been the highest scoring team in any week this season.
Fun Fact #2: Daniel was 9-0 in games in which he scored more than 123, until last week in which he scored 169.95 and lost.
Fun Fact #3: The entire league is now 18-4 when scoring more than 165.
Fun Fact #4: And, Up until last week, Daniel was 8-1 in games where he scored less than 165.
3. Jweverstad 6-5; Power Score: 7.85
Fun Fact #1: Jared is one of only two teams in the league to not win a game when scoring less than 150 points.
Fun Fact #2: In his six wins he has an average score of 174.84 points per game.
Fun Fact #3: In his five losses he has an average score of 139.68.
Fun Fact #4: The rest of the league has won nine games when scoring less than 139.
Fun Fact #5: Increase that to 150 points, the rest of the league has won 16 such games when not scoring that high.
4. jressa 8-3; Power Score: 7.25
Fun Fact #1: I’ve only scored less than 140 points in a game three times all season… I am 1-2 in those games.
Fun Fact #2: When scoring more than 140 points, I am 7-1 in those contests.
Fun Fact #3: I have left over 324 points on the bench this season.
Fun Fact #4: Only three teams have left over 200 points on the bench.
Fun Fact #5: I have left over 87 more points on the bench over the second worst team, Daniel.
Fun Fact #6: 87 points is the same difference between Daniel, at second worst in points left on the bench, and Jared, who has left the third least (6 teams all within that range).
5. Cholgerson34 5-6; Power Score: 5.4
Fun Fact #1: Since starting 3-0, Carl has gone 2-6 over the next eight weeks.
Fun Fact #2: In that eight week span, Carl is averaging 129.5 points per game.
Fun Fact #3: Only Kyle and Grant have averaged a lower amount of points than Carl over the last eight weeks.
Fun Fact #4: His 2-6 record over the last eight weeks is tied for worst in the league with KP and Kyle.
6. Kshak 4-7; Power Score: 5.35
Fun Fact #1: Kev is the only other team besides Jared to not win a game when scoring over 150 points.
Fun Fact #2: However, Big Kev has only broke 150 points 4 times this season, going 3-1 in those games.
Fun Fact #3: Still, he is tied with me and Daniel for least amount of games scoring less than 140, only doing it three times.
Fun Fact #4: Kevin has had the second most points scored against him in the league with 1663.05 Points Against.
Fun Fact #5: He is the only team with a below .500 record but an above .500 League Record at 51-48.
7. tborgs 5-6; Power Score: 5.05
Fun Fact #1: Tyler is tied with Grant for most amount of times being the worst scoring team, doing it three times.
Fun Fact #2: Tyler is also one of only three managers to be the highest scoring team multiple times on the season.
Fun Fact #3: Tyler is one of only three teams to have more than 200 points left on his bench this season.
8. KenUdigit 4-7; Power Score: 3.55
Fun Fact #1: His three game winning streak from Weeks 5-7 is tied for the third longest of the season.
Fun Fact #2: In all other games outside of his 3-game winning streak, Grant is averaging 115.6 points per game, worst in the league over those weeks.
Fun Fact #3: In all weeks other than Weeks 5-7, Grant is a combined 1-7, tied with KP for worst record over those games.
9. KartierKyle 4-7; Power Score: 3.1
Fun Fact #1: Kyle is tied with Alex and Daniel for most games won scoring less than 135.8 points, which he’s done twice.
Fun Fact #2: Since starting 3-1, Kyle has gone 1-7 over the last eight weeks.
Fun Fact #3: In the last eight weeks, Kyle is averaging just over 121 points per game.
Fun Fact #4: Those 121 points per game over the last eight weeks is dead last in the league over that span.
Fun Fact #5: Kyle has only eclipsed 150 points three times, which is tied with Grant and KP for least amount of games doing so.
10. BigPapaPump92 2-9; Power Score: 3.0
Fun Fact #1: KP has by far the most Points Against in the league at 1769.05.
Fun Fact #2: The team with the next most Points Against is Kevin with 1663.05, over 100 points less Points Against.
Fun Fact #3: If there was a team that scored 1769.05 Points For, it would be the highest scoring team in the league.
Fun Fact #4: On average, KP is getting 160.8 points per game scored against him.
Fun Fact #5: Teams scoring 160 or more points have a combined record of 28-5.
Fun Fact #6: KP has played one of the three highest scoring teams of the week 7 times this season, including the highest scoring team four times.
Fun Fact #8/Kind of an opinion #1: KP got fucked this year.
Well, my friends, that is going to be wrap on this edition of the Passionate Playback. It felt good to be back after the prospects of returning were in serious jeopardy. Again, it brings us great sorrow to admit the travesty that occurred by outright missing KP’s “Double Double With Cheese” win against Jared in Week 8. The research we do takes hours each week, often times to the detriment of the staff’s employee morale, and at times seems like a pointless endeavor with an audience of about 6 and half people. Further, the late games don’t start until after 1 am local time here in the U.K., so it makes it that much more difficult to get a full understanding of how the Fantasy matchup unfolded in real time, being that I don’t watch them. Therefore, moving forward, we humbly invite you all to DM us on the app with any tid bits you notice or think should be included if you feel so compelled to do so. Tyler has already done this and his research was credited properly. If you don’t care, that’s fine too. Anyway, good luck to everyone in Week 12. This is the Passionate Playback Staff (of just me) signing off again. Peace out, motha fuckas!
