Update cuz I"m bored

Hey guys.  Got to work super early and am bored, so I'm filling time with a small update on what happened last week. 

Survivor & Losers Pools

The survivor pool tie breaker for 11th and 12th place was settled when Munez lost.  This means he'll be getting the 1 point and John will be getting 2 points.  Noone else got a strike, so that still leaves us with 5 people with no strikes and 5 people with one strike.

11. John
12. Munez

The losers pool had a little more action. The Steelers ass kicking of the chargers gave Joe his first strike of the season, leaving Shawn as the only person in the loser's pool not to get a strike.  More importantly, Hale got his 2nd strike on the backs of the Steelers dropping him out in 10th place in the losers pool. 

10. Hale
11. Alex
12. Folden

Obviously the benefit for the people out in each pool is that they're doing fine in the other one. 

Fantasy Football

Fantasy went the way of parody in about the best it could last week.  3 of the 4-1 teams lost, leaving just one person at 5-1 (Joe).  2nd-11th place now is differentiated between a bunch of 4-2, 3-3, and 2-4 teams.  Meaning that noone is out of this yet.  Alex even got his first win this past week, and even though it's an uphill battle, two wins in a row would have him at 3-4 and possibly able to make a move.  Here are your week 7 matchups:

Adam 3-3 vs Eplin 3-3
Joe 5-1 vs John 3-3
Hale 4-2 vs Folden 2-4
Jim 2-4 vs Alex 1-5
Munez 4-2 vs Shawn 4-2
Rob 3-3 vs Gary 2-4

Most notably in this is going to be the plight of the three 2-4 teams. A win by Gary, Jim, and Folden this week would push us into a further wide open field. 

College Predictions

I figured I could do a short update on the state of things.  It's really to early in the conference schedules to discount much.  But there are a couple of things.  It's looking like everyone that had Nebraska in the conference championship game are likely to lose out.  The same could be said for people who picked Houston and Iowa, but again it's still to early to be sure.

The College Football Playoff has a little bit more variance though.  It's safe to say that my and Gary's pick of Texas and Alex's pick of Washington are done for.  Obviously everyone's Clemson and Alabama pics are safe, so that's not really a gain for anyone (except for Eplin who left Alabama out of the playoff.)

Most people had some sort of combination of Michigan, Georgia, or some other wild card team in the playoff that already has 1 loss. 

Because of that everyone's already in danger.  The biggest person in danger is Eplin who, although all 4 of his teams are still available (Oregon, Michigan, Clemson, and Georgia), 3 of them are one loss away from being for sure eliminated.

Also, congrats to Rob on having the first correct prediction of the year in college, with Chris Ash from Rutgers already getting his ass fired.

Not much to be said in the pro predictions yet, it's still a few weeks too early. 

Lastly, our week 6 bonus goes to Alex for his combined predictions.  Our bonus for most points goes to Rob and our bonus for most points for a losing team goes to Jim.

First Update of the Season

So, I realize we're like 6 weeks into the season and you've hardly heard jack shit from me all year.  I apologize.  Life gets lifey every once in awhile. That being said, I'm going to go through essentially where stand in the pick'ems, pools, bonus points, and fantasy sports.  I'll leave the Predictions for another post.

FANTASY FOOTBALL

Big surprise, we're 5 games into the season and we have a pretty big difference in the have's and have not's.  This seems to happen with us every year.  

We have 4 teams tied at 4-1 at the top.  

Joe

Munez

Hale

Shawn

After that I am the sole person at 3-2

After this we have 5 teams at 2-3

Gary at 1-4, and Alex at 0-5.  Alex's opponents are averaging 160 points against him a week.  Poor bastard.  This was butt fucked home by Joe putting up 240 points on him this past week.

So, obviously with Rob being in the six spot at 2-3 for the playoffs, no one is eliminated yet.  With 4 teams at 4-1, it does shrink the likely amount of spots.  

Let's look at the Week 6 Schedule

Hale 4-1 vs Joe 4-1

Munez 4-1 vs Eplin 2-3

Shawn 4-1 vs Rob 2-3

Jim 2-3 vs Gary 1-4

Adam 3-2 vs John 2-3

Folden 2-3 vs Alex 0-5

So there's a little bit of hope for the underlings here.  Either Joe or Hale will be 4-2 and with some tough matchups we may have Shawn and Munez lose as well.  That would tighten things up in a fun way.  

On a fun note,  Joe's team scored 243 pts last week and Gary's team has scored 460 points all season.  

Fun Note Part 2:  We've had 3 trades this year in fantasy, and 2 of them I had nothing to do with.  So, keep it up.  This shit is fun.  

Survivor Pool

We've had our first casualties of the year.  Munez and John each took the Chiefs, eliminating them from the Pool.  They will now play a sudden death to see who gets the 1 point and who gets the 2.  Next loss loses. 

The rest of us are playing for the 12 points for the winner.  10 remain and at this point, Me, Alex, Rob, Gary, and Hale still have no strikes.  Eplin, Folden, Joe, Jim, and Shawn all have one strike. 

Losers Pool 

Our losers pool has 2 casualties as well, but those are more set in stone.  Folden went out in week 4, giving him the nice fat first 1 point of the year.  Alex went out in week 5 with Indi, so he'll have 2 points going to his final score at the end of the year.  

Aside from that, Joe and Shawn are the only two who don't have a strike in loseres pool.  Everyone else is already clinging on with one strike. 

Pick'ems  

We wont' get too far into these, because these are as fluid as they come, but we'll go over the top of the pops.  

Munez and Folden are on top of college with 73 points a piece.  Joe and Jim are 2 back and Alex is 3.  Only 5 points separate the 1st place from 8th place, so let's move on.  

Pro Pick'em has a little more separation.  10 points separate 1st through 8th on this one. Alex is 1st with 48, me 2nd with 45.  Folden and Hale at 43.  Eplin is already 16 points back, with Joe and John barely in front of him.  

But, since that's fluid we'll use this a chance to segway into our bonus points.  

I'll type this for Alex as a first time player more then for anyone else, but we do have a change this year.  

Each week, bonus points are passed out for season long, time invasive things like fantasy football and pick'ems.  This is done for two reasons, 1 to give us an extra category for the end of the year for our ROTO scoring, but also to add extra importance to things that are more time consuming or are more difficult to accomplish.  

This is why there are no bonus points for Survivor or Losers pool anymore, because although it is strategic and difficult to win, it's not nearly as difficult as the other categories.  

So, the way our pick'em bonus works, is that whoever has the most predictions correct out of the cooresponding week on yahoo gets a point.  So, even though week 1 of college and pros were played a week apart, whoever has the most correct predictions in those week 1 tabs on yahoo gets the bonus point.  This is different then how we used to do it, and is simply been changed to make my life easier counting this shit up.  

So your bonus points in the pick'ems have gone as follows

Week 1:  Munez & Folden

Week 2:  Hale & Rob

Week 3: Alex

Week 4: Alex

Week 5 Folden

If you tie with someone, you don't split the bonus point, everyone who ties gets a full bonus point. 

There are also two bonus points in Fantsasy,  One for the person with the highest weekly score, and 2nd for the person with the highest score that lost.  

Your Fantasy bonus points this year have so far gone to

Week 1: Shawn and Alex

Week 2: Rob and Alex

Week 3: Hale and Rob

Week 4: Rob and John

Week 5: Joe and Folden

I think that covers all of the important stuff for this week.  Other then Jon Gruden getting fired has gotten almost everyone a correct pro prediction already.  

So, I'll try to update again next week and hit up the college and pro predictions.