Week 7 Alpha League results
Fluxion and Wewo wrangled each other for the league's top year-to-date score in week 6. Unfortunately for them, Week 7 was a bit rougher on both teams. Wewo started off the week on an optimistic note - his opponent, Q-Tip, started Stevan Ridley on Thursday night even after he was put on IR. However, Tip's well-known man-crush, Peyton Manning, bailed him out of that mistake. Along with a solid performance from his Pittsburgh players (including a TD pass from a WR), it was enough to dominate Wewo's underperforming squad.
Fluxion's week did not start as well as Wewo's did. His opponent (lil' old Mavwreck ) got a solid Thursday-night performance from Shane Vereen. Flux was forced to start Gronk's backup at TE, who wasn't even targeted once. While that choice was forced by a bye week, his WR problems weren't. He left 4 WRs on the bench, and all of them beat his two starting receivers. The most painful pine-rider was Golden Tate; if he'd been started, his 38 points would have turned this into a squeaker of a win for Fluxion. Instead, Mav's Indy pair and Roddy White's 100-yard game cancelled out Flux's solid RB performance and a good Sunday from Tony Romo. Mav didn't wreck 'em, but his squad came out out of the week's closest game with a comfortable win.
BeeF didn't have any crushing disappointments; although Julian Edelman and Alfred Morris had off weeks, Pierre Garcon & Ronnie Hillman made up for them. Unfortunately, LeSean McCoy's bye week had this manager asking "Where's the BeeF?" - and with two empty bench spots there wasn't any way to cook up a replacement. BeeF also had the bad luck to run into the Demaryius Thomas buzzsaw. His monster game - plus some impressive Green Bay performances - gave Skippy the top score of the week and an easy win.
In the rest of the league:
- Nuckin's fourth win in a row put him above .500 for the first time this season. An impressive showing from Sammy Watkins put him over (IO) SA, whose only serious disappointment was Jay Cutler's sub-par game.
- BaCkStAb's Swag Team got a superb fantasy performance from Russell Wilson (even though he lost in real-life). It helped them beat Terror's Team, who saw Matt Ryan continue his disappointing season.
- Byes and injuries hit Bay Area like an earthquake this week. Four of his six bench players were either off or didn't dress. The injury bug shook up his starters, too...Reggie Wayne was injured early, and Vernon Davis wasn't anywhere close to 100%. These all combined to give the Dr. Comptonites a breather; even though they underperformed they tore through Bay's AutoPick Team like a hungry raptor.
We'll have to wait for Grand Commissioner Skippy to get the joint standings for the week. However, the playoffs are still wide open. The division leads are especially tight - one is a one-game gap, one is a tie settled by a one-game division-record gap, and the last is a tie settled by total points.