They say ties are like kissing your sister, but for Andy, an even split of week six picks just helped maintain a solid lead in the overall standings. Tony’s going to have to start narrowing the gap one of these days if he wants to regain bragging rights.
Week six
Tie 7-7
Season
Andy 52-38-1
This week’s slate is filled with a couple of compelling games and a bunch that, frankly, nobody outside of the family members of players should care about. Seriously, the NFC East match-ups we’re being treated to this week used to be must-watch football. Nowadays, it’s possible that seven weeks in, a two-win team could lead this division come Monday morning. Pathetic.
In fact, this season’s NFC East is why I am A) Against the obvious money-grab that this year’s playoff expansion is and B) A proponent that in order to make the playoffs, teams should be required to finish at least .500. That is to say, if the NFC East is won with a 6-10 record, that division forfeits its playoff team for the year and the non-playoff team with the best record takes the bottom seed in the conference. Everyone else slots up one.
Anyway, I digress. … Here are our alternative picks for the week. (more…)
Andy has established a potentially dominating lead in the alternative picks in the early going, as he picked up another four games in the chaos of week five.
Tony’s closer in the straight-up picks, but this segment has the potential to turn in to a runaway.
Andy & Tony joined a startup, 50 player IDP dynasty league this offseason that starts 11 on offense, 11 on defense. Both came out of the draft thinking they had a good chance to win it…neither are doing well. However, comparing the two teams, Tony has almost 100 more potential points than Andy…but Andy has the better record, nearly 110 more Points For. Our reason for bring this up? Tony appears to be really, really bad at picking the actual starting lineups.
Andy didn’t just eke it out, either–he doubled up Tony in Week 5, highlighted by his Flex play of Chase Claypool for 44.6 points.
Week 5
Season
Total points
Andy
208.18
4-1
749.24
Tony
103.58
1-4
624.98
Tony
QB – Matt Stafford @ Jac – $6,400 – Back to slightly cheaper QB because…why the hell not.
RB – Ezekiel Elliott vs Ari – $8,600 – Injury to Dak means the Cowboys rely heavily on Elliott.
Another week, another hunk of budget down the crapper for Andy. He’s doing fine with regular picks, but when the pointspreads start coming into play, blech. Tony split his bets, getting to a couple hundred dollars in the black.
W/L Week 4
Week 4 $
Season W/L
Season $
Bankroll
Tony
2-2
+$1,500
7-8-1
+$261
$10,261
Andy
1-3
-$1,391
5-11
-$5,143
$4,857
Andy – Well, this sucks pretty bad. Nothing to do but keep throwing bad hypothetical money after bad hypothetical money.
$1,000 – Carolina (+2, -110) at Atlanta – The Falcons are beat up on a short week. And the Panthers actually don’t look half bad so far. They win outright.
$1,000 – Cleveland (+1.5, -110) vs Indianapolis – Don’t look now, but I think the Browns are actually pretty decent this year. The Colts have looked okay too, but Cleveland has a chance to keep proving that this year it’s actually for real.
$1,000 – Seattle (-7, -110) vs Minnesota – The Vikings have looked alright the last couple weeks, but it’s been against a Houston team that had pretty much given up on Bill O’Brien and a Tennessee team that might have already been festering with COVID. The Seahawks are a bit of a different monster. Could have gone the over here too, but 57 is a high number, even against this junior high set of cornerbacks.
$300 – Cincinnati (+650) at Baltimore – I don’t really see this happening, but I don’t like many of the money lines for bets this week. Lamar Jackson has missed a couple practices. Joe Burrow looks good. What the hell.
Tony – Getting a really late start on this week’s games…
$1,000 – Kansas City (-10.5. -105) vs Las Vegas – Mahomes at home against the Raiders, who are reeling a bit.
$1,000 – Pittsburgh (-7.5, +100) vs Philadelphia – A Steelers team that is looking like it wants one more shot for Big Ben, vs a team that is already fighting off fans calling to bench Wentz in favor of Jalen Hurts…or trading to get Nick Foles back.
$1,000 – Seattle (-7, +100) vs Minnesota – How has the line moved down on this one? The LetRussCook movement is going to be even hotter after today…only thing that might stop Russ is sitting out the second half with too big of a lead to justify playing him more.
$500 – Washington (+310) vs LA Rams – Washington took a step forward this week in benching Dwayne Haskins, and is now just one minor injury from having their best QB back on the field. The Rams should win this game–but they’re on the road, traveling east, and it’s not like the Football Team doesn’t have a potentially dangerous defense…
Tony got his win during Week 3, then managed to shut himself out Week 4 — somehow in editing his lineup, he managed to not technically file a lineup … but the contest moved forward, so he lost his wager. However, we figured out his point total from Week 4 manually and … he would have lost anyway — albeit close, 123.08-120.18. Another 30 yards would have given him a win.
Andy’s still got the lead for the season, but the gap tightened considerably.
Week 4
Season
Total points
Andy
123.08
0-1
541.06
Tony
120.18
1-3
521.40
Tony
QB – Russell Wilson vs Min – $8,300 – I have a sneaky suspicion that we may have some overlap in our lineups this week …
RB – James Robinson @ Hou – $6,900 – Sacrificing a little bit at RB this week … (more…)
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