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!