Mid Year Update

A big win last night has propelled me to a 4-3 record and tied for 3rd record wise, but 5th out of 10 teams in the league points wise. The last couple of weeks I've made some key moves to secure wins. Two weeks ago I made a ballsy start of Chad Pennington having to drop Trent Edwards after a concussion. Pennington came through with 21 points. Then this week I put all my chips in on New England dismantling the terrible Denver Broncos DEF by dropping Pennington for Cassel to complement Randy Moss and also picked up Sammy Morris after Laurence Maroney hit the IR. I went into the Monday night game down 41 points but I had 4 players playing in the game Matt Cassel QB, Randy Moss WR, Sammy Morris RB, and Brandon Marshall WR. So I certainly felt good about my chances. My team put up an astounding 69 points including a combined 5 touchdowns between my Patriots players.

I certainly think that Cassel's success was largely due to the fact that DEN's DEF is very weak and with that being said I dropped Cassel in favor of Edwards who had a strong comeback week off a concussion two weeks ago and buy week after that. Edwards won't ever really give me huge weeks but he won't ever give me bad weeks either I think he is good for 14 a week, something I'll certainly take considering I traded away my top tier QB Ben Roethlisberger in favor of a couple of WRs Braylon Edwards and Randy Moss.

The upcoming week should be interesting as I play Pat's Creeping Bentgrass. We both have a lot of players on bye I have my two best WRs on bye Marshall and Jennings and he has his 2nd and 3rd best RBs on bye in addition to QB issues as Romo might not play or at the very best will play with an injury and then his 2nd QB Orton is on bye and his 3rd QB Brad Johnson stinks anymore. So I certainly like my chances in the coming week. So we'll see...

NCFFL is Back!

We're going with Yahoo this year, trying to get it so that we can play two teams each week which seems to be pretty difficult for some reason as it isn't an option w/ Yahoo! Kind of disappointing, so now the question is whether we want to use an inferior site and have that option or if we want to better site with the nicer option... Decisions, decisions... I'm indifferent because I love using Yahoo over every other site out there as it is much more user friendly, however that option would have likely sent me to the playoff in the previous year as I scored the fourth most points and had the 2nd most point scored on me. Anyhow I have to start reading up on who I like and dislike and develop a draft strategy, I stole Tony Romo last year and although he was a pleasant surprise for me my running backs were a huge let down as neither Willie Parker or Laurence Maroney scored man toughdowns despite racking up tons of yards... I think last year was enlightening either way and expect a big year out of Gambler's Anonymous!

Season Recap

Well in the NCFLL at least I managed to edge out Chad's squad in the last week of the season as Colston had a big Monday night. I finished the season .500 at 7-7, which may seem very average, but what really hurt is that I scored the 5th most points, but had the most points scored against me. So overall a good solid year where I had a couple of moves really work out like Romo and others like my RBs not workout too well.

As for the Neshannock Ballers League I managed to score the 4th most points out of 10 teams and not only did I not make the playoffs I couldn't even win any games as I went 4-10.

So I think both of my situations in each league is evidence enough for the fact that a change needs to be implemented in the form of at least playing more than one opponent each week. I don't think merely having a point system makes the games quite as exciting, whereas playing a couple of people a week would make each week twice as exciting because if you get blown out by one opponent you still might have a chance to watch against the other for example. Either way I can't wait for next year!

Good luck to the playoff teams!

Till Next Year...

The Gambler's Anonymous have officially been eliminated from both the NCFFL League and the Yahoo League. A crushing loss to the Average Joe's sealed the deal for the NCFFL. I had some RB issues this year as Willie Parker couldn't find the end zone all year and that trend continued last night. Additionally, Maroney was sidelined with injuries and watching Brady throw for 500 yards and 8 TDs a game. I think I had a pretty nice receiver core although Colston started out slow and Driver has seemed to become the second option in Green Bay behind Jennings. Romo was unbelievable all year and kept me in games, but I had 0 production from the TE spot all year. As for the Yahoo League although I think I am going to beat Joe this week, my issues pretty much arose from a beat up RB core which included Ronnie Brown who had a season ending injury, Shaun Alexander being out for about half the year, and rookie Marshawn Lynch who was putting up big numbers has been sidelined for a few weeks due to an ankle injury.

I definitely think first of all next year the NCFFL should move to Yahoo as it has much superior software. Additionally, I wouldn't mind the league to play on a point system where the top four points scorers in the league make the playoffs, and then the top two points scorers will meet in the championship. Yet, realistically this isn't too exciting week to week. So, at the very least I feel it is imperative to at least play two opponents each week in order lessen the luck involved.

Go Willie!!!

Well my team is so bad in the Neshannock Ballers Yahoo League that I actually lost to a team that didn't even put in a QB or even update their team in the past four weeks. Yet Frank Gore and Antonio Gates conveniently had their best games of the year against me and besides Favre's 31 pts., the rest of my time laid an egg. Oh well I had no shot at the playoffs anyhow, but I hate losing in anything.

As for the NCFFL, Thanksgiving Day football was pretty good to me, besides Romo who had one of his worst games of the year only putting up 17 pts., Driver, Wayne, and the Colts DEF each put up 10+ pts. I managed to have Brady have his worst game of the year against me, unfortunately Kolby Smith and Larry Fitzgerald had their biggest games of the year each putting up 27 pts against me. Anyhow, I have Willie Parker left tonight and although I think he'll have a big game tonight, but I need 21 pts. to tie and 22 pts. to win and I just don't foresee that happening with his lack of TDs this year. I think he'll realistically have 12 pts. - 18 pts. tonight and I think the yards will be there, but I just can't imagine him getting more than 2 TDs tonight. At least I'll be at the game to cheer him on, so may be that will enable him to have his game of the year tonight against the league's worst rushing DEF. I basically need it to keep my playoff hopes alive! GO GAMBLERS!!!!! GOOOOO WILLIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Phew...

You never root for someone to get hurt, and I am not suggesting that I did, but if he hadn't I was going to lose against Pat's Creeping Bentgrass and likely have no shot at making the playoffs. So we are still alive and have a big game next weekend against Team Bulldog, who thanks to Brady keep putting up some monster numbers. So I am going to need some more production out of my RBs if I am going to have a chance in week 12.

Ouch....

I had a great output in my Yahoo Neshannock Baller's League scoring 116 good for 3rd high in the league. However, that wasn't good enough for a win against High Gravity who put up 124 thanks to 36 points from Moss and 23 points from Hasselbeck. I had some pretty solid numbers overall as noone really laid an egg for me and considering I had to use Maurice Morris and Ron Dayne as my RBs due to a season ending injury to Ronnie Brown and a couple of more injuries to Shaun Alexander and Marshawn Lynch I was pretty pleased with their combined 25 points. This in combination w/ all of 26 points from Favre, 14 from Housh, 11 from Holt, 8 from Porter, 10 from Watson, and 18 from the NE DEF. Oh well, things are now looking very bleak for me in this league, but hopefully I can at least mess up someone's playoff chances!

As for the CBS league I currently have scored the 3rd most points in this league, however the only person who has a shot to pass me likely will, as Pat's Creeping Bentgrass sits only 8 points behind me with Selvin Young to run tomorrow. Young is going up against a stingy TEN DEF, so if they can keep him out of the end zone I think I will have a shot at winning. So definitely a must watch tomorrow night for me and a must win, as it three of the four 6-4 teams will win, and if Pat wins that will make four 7-4 teams and Joe 8-3, and with a 5-6 record that would probably be too much to overcome. I managed to do well and put up 106 points thanks to continued Tony Romo production, the Colts DEF doing well for me. Even despite poor RB performance from Willie Parker who only put up 5 points. This mirrored the terrible performance from the Steelers in general who lost to the 1-8 Jets. So this has the potential to be one terrible weekend in football!!! Boo Selvin Young!!! Go Gambler's Anonymous!!!