Week 8 - 9 Recap

Standings

9 Weeks in, and things are starting to tighten up. 5 weeks to go, still plenty to play for!

Team of the Week

Older Butt Wiser. Our inaugural champion has only made it to the Big Dance once since winning it all. He is the first team to clinch a spot in the playoffs. For those of you who don’t remember, the last time Jon was in the finals, it was against Blythe (a rematch we might see again).

It didn’t really go so well for Jon.

Will this be the year of our second repeat champion? Or will we see him pull a Harbaugh and fall apart when a ranked team shows up?

Player of the Week

Michael Carter, owned by Team Ship Show. Wait, this guy?

Yup. J-E-T-S, J-E-T-S. In Week 8 he racked up 23.2 points and nearly led New York to an upset over Cincy. If you skipped that game and have no idea what I’m talking about, don’t worry you aren’t alone.

If you are wondering if this is some kind of league-winning sleeper - not quite. He barely cleared 9 points in previous weeks. And the following week….8 points.

This was Aladdin-level find.

Matchup of the Week

Week 8: The Bizness vs. The EBDB. At the top end of the box, this started as a close matchup - Henderson vs Godwin was basically a wash. Then The Bizness dropped the Denver D/ST with 19.5 points, countered by EBDB’s Elijah Mitchell at 19.7.

Then, like a WWE championship wrestler, out came the The Bizness’ signature move: Robert Woods and Deebo Samuel hit for 18 points each and it was game over. Piling on with 12 points from the two first-name kicker Greg Joseph gave me a reason to break this out.

With that loss, the EBDB is now on the verge of the Sacko bracket.

Bench En Fuego

Warning - these scores will hurt your eyeballs. In Week 9, we saw the lowest batch of scores of the season, and potentially ever.

5 under 50ish is something you see on a Doctor’s office magazine cover, so I am hereby declaring the entire week a dumpster fire.