
Every year it seems like the NFL season comes and goes faster and faster.
This year’s Freshtoid fantasy football league has been no exception.
With so much exciting action going on, let’s get right to it.
How have our 4 Freshtoid fans faired against our stat-stacked staff?
Here are the league standings after 9 weeks:
Kiss the Baby (Adam) 7-2
El Slango (Tim) 7-2
Pat Willis (Mat) 5-4
Cosmo (Andy) 5-4
Real Adrian Peterson (Nick) 4-5
Mean Machines (Billy) 3-6
Get Some (Ryan) 3-6
Dirty Birds (Michael) 2-7
In Week 1 we saw Mean Machines Brees his way to an easy victory, Real Adrian Peterson used the real AP to bulldoze his way to victory. El Slango and Pat Willis also drew first blood with wins this week.
Week 2 was explosive with a league high score coming from Pat Willis as he hung a whooping 251.50 points with 4 players nabbing him nearly 40 points or more! After struggling in week 1, Kiss the Baby gets his first win against Get Some and Dirty Birds gets on the board with a win against El Slango.
From a season high to a personal low, Week 3 sees Mat not able to compete against Adam’s team as he builds momentum early in the season. Andy and Nick also kept their opponents to less then 100 points. Billy saw his hopes rise and fall with his number 1 pick’s inability to put it in the end zone.
Our first trade took place in Week 4 With Kiss the Baby trading league leading WR DeSean Jackson and RB Thomas Jones for Calvin Johnson to Dirty Birds. Being matched up against each other next week, we will see if this is a season changing trade for these two teams. Unfortunately for Michael, it didn’t help him this week as he drops to 1 and 3. Elsewhere in the league Cosmo, perhaps misinformed, has 2 players on his roster sitting with a bye as he puts up a league low of 73.
Week 5 has Real AP looking for his 4th win in a row but Peyton Manning does it again on Monday Night Football to get a win for El Slango. As for the big match-up coming out of that trade last week, in a surprising move, Dirty Birds doesn’t think Jackson is dirrty enough to play and lets Kiss the Baby move on to pick up another victory. Mat (Pat Willis) with a record of 3-2 puts up another huge game with over 200 fantasy points! Mean Machines takes care of Cosmo switching places in the standings.
After Nick’s heart-wrenching loss, Week 6 he is unable to rebound as Dirty Birds (Michael) gets his second win of the season. On the weekly match-up, Adam picks his opponent to win then unleashes Randy Moss in the snow against Tennessee to snatch up yet another win. Andy and Tim also pick up wins to go to 3-3 and 4-2, respectively.
Week 7 he Real Adrian Peterson has to do something to get a win, so he starts a fire under his team by smack talking Mean Machines. Here’s our Commish with his assessment of this week’s action,
“With one of the most anticipated fantasy match ups occurring this week, I wanted to get the league's thoughts on this epic battle.
In case you are unfamiliar with this rivalry, let me fill you in.
It all began last year as Billy's team was an unstoppable force. No one could beat him. No one. In fact, Billy ended up as the 2008-2009 champion of the 8 Oh! 5 league. After reports surfaced that Billy MIGHT have had insider info, Nick was very unhappy and believed Billy should not have made playoffs and should have his fantasy crown revoked. Nick made his points VERY clear by piling on the trash talk in the smack section, and on the fantasy boards.
As commissioner I had to look into this insider info scandal and I decided that Billy was innocent and could keep his title. Unhappy with the decision, Nick vowed to destroy Billy in every fantasy match up they are ever a part of. Their first, and maybe last, meeting occurs this week.
Nick has recently made a BLOCKBUSTER TRADE adding Matt Schaub to his roster along with picking up the tough Green Bay defense/special teams. In addition to roster changes, Nick has already started smack talking. He claims he will beat Billy and win the weekly award of Biggest Fantasy Blowout.
With all this hatred involved, who do you guys think will win this week?”
So with all that said, Real AP was indeed victorious in this week’s match up, although he failed to secure the weekly high score award. That award went to Kiss the Baby as he Doubled Cosmo’s score. Cosmo who must have been asleep at the wheel, had 4 players on bye this week. El Slango slips by a sea-sawing team in Pat Willis and Get Some, gets some!
Week 8 looks to be the most drama filled when rumors of cheating pop up on the message board. During the 49ers v. Colts game a fantasy league owner noticed a discrepancy in the scoring of the defense for the holder of the Colts defense. The fantasy team owner was very adamant about getting to the bottom of this. After careful review by the League Commissioner it was confirmed that no “shenanigans” had taken place and the correct score was indeed in place. Even after this declaration of fair play, others have voiced their concerns and are still calling for action. We’ll keep an eye on this story as it develops. In other parts of the league, El Slango is handed his second loss by Cosmo who doubles Slango’s effort. Get Some edges another win over Mean Machines while Adam hits Nick with another loss.
As Monday Night came to a close with the Super Bowl Champion Steelers beating the Denver Broncos at home, Week 9 had other strong performances by Cosmo, Pat Willis, Kiss the Baby and El Slango.
So now that you are all caught up, what will the rest of the season bring? Will Kiss the Baby and El Slango continue to hold dominance in the league? Will Mat or Andy or Nick make a late surge to get better position for the playoffs? Will a cheater be exposed for what he is in the league? Stay tuned Fresh heads as this thing is only going to heat up in the weeks to come.