The Bamfers only won five games last year and got bounced in the Toilet Bowl pretty quickly. This year, they’re one of the best teams in the league and are charging hard for a long awaited division title. Helped along by playing the softest schedule in the league — opponents are averaging only 63.7 ppg — Randy’s team is on a three game win streak and just put up 124.5 points in WK9. They’ve ridden the Chargers combo of Philip Rivers and Melvin Gordon (the top ranked RB this year) to much success and has the resurrected soul of Frank Gore playing fantastic football.
While dual first round picks Josh Doctson (lost to injury) and Michael Floyd have been mostly disappointments, Golden Tate has emerged from an early season slump to climb back up the receiver rankings. And it looks like Delanie Walker has edged Marcellus Bennett at tight end, or maybe Bamfers will go with a double TE set for the rest of the year. With only a month left in the regular season, Bamfers face a WK13 matchup with Pogiboys, possibly to determine the division leader. Either way, this team is headed to the playoffs!
Morrie’s Pogiboys (6-3)
Last year, the top ranked 11-2 Pogiboys were upset in the first round of the playoffs by eventual champs Another Bad Creation, so they’re looking for a revenge season. They got it, sort of, with a 116.5-112.5 victory over ABC in WK8, but they’re definitely looking for more than regular season success. Unfortunately, this team just isn’t quite as good as last year, as Eddie Lacy has been an injured and ineffective mess, and DeAndre Hopkins can’t quite find his WR1 footing. At least LeSean McCoy has been playing well, and should have a bye week to return to full health.
Blake Bortles has been Alvin’s go-to signal caller and he’s actually been not too bad. His receiving core is a bit inconsistent though, with the aforementioned Hopkins, John Brown, Quincy Enunwa, and taking turns going boom/bust. At least Travis Kelce and his new dating show proven to be a top five TE option. Moving forward, Pogiboys will have to hope McCoy comes back to health, Bortles keeps Bortles-ing, and maybe Theo Roddick emerges as a solid option. We foresee Alvin making the playoffs again, but in less dominating fashion than last year.
Our newest sixteen team basketball owner, over in SlamNation, proved his fantasy worth with a 10-3 season last year, before getting upset by ABC in the conference finals. As of now, they’re two games out of a playoff spot, and will really need to step it up to get into the postseason, otherwise it’ll be all NBA for Felipe soon! The good news is that a 1-4 start has led into a 3-1 past month, and the signs are there for a good last four weeks of the season for Cameltoe.
Julio Jones has been a fantasy monster, and Jordy Nelson returned from injury to post excellent numbers most of the time. This team has been led by Jones, Nelson, and CJ Anderson (now out for the season, with Doug Martin basically also on IR) in the scoring column, with a quarterback, Joe Flacco, not showing up until #4 for total points scored. Part of the reason for that is that Flacco has split starts with Russell Wilson and Alex Smith, and a clear leader will need to emerge soon. At least Jordan Howard and Cole Beasley have been nice finds this season, and they’ll need to be even better to help Julio Jones spark this team to a playoff berth.
Hungry Hungry Ouroboros (3-6)
After starting off 4-1 last season, Ouroboros collapsed with a five game losing streak and continued their ineptitude by starting off 1-4 this year. Part of the problem this year has been a slew of injuries, especially to the receiving corps, as Kevin White, Eric Decker, and rookie Corey Coleman have all missed significant time. Thus GM Jon has had to scramble to replace them with free agents (Cameron Meredith, Richard Matthews), one trade (Colby Fleener for Sterling Shepard), and a whole lot of lineup adjusting.
There have been some bright spots though, as Matt Ryan has been the top player in fantasy this year — and rookie Dak Prescott lurks on the bench as a top ten QB option. Running back Jay Ajayi has exploded the past three weeks, and he’s the new franchise back, taking over for the disappointing Todd Gurley. In theory Ajayi, Gurley, and Giovani Bernard are a decent running game, but it hasn't translated to the scoreboard as Ajayi was on the bench for both of his 200+ yard games. Also, mid-season highlight, rookie Hunter Henry is now injured, leaving a hole at TE. Hungry Hungry Ouroboros is clearly out of the postseason running, but maybe they can ride Ryan and Ajayi to make some noise in the Toilet Bowl. Maybe.
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