Week 5 Recap

5 down, 8 to go until the end of the regular season.  Are you where you hoped to be at this point?  I'm guessing the answer is no, especially now that we have 0 undefeated teams.  That's right, D Smith finally lost to my dad, G. Meyer, and on a week where Q Boldin outscored Antonio Brown.  That's a lot of fun to think about.  How I can imagine D Smith's reaction after losing because of one of his favorite players:

Oh well, it happens.

This was a strange week though, the highest scoring players were mostly names you don't hear often.  Hell just going through each teams highest scoring player gives me this:

A. Foster (20 pts)
G. Barnidge (27 pts)
A. Rodgers (18 pts)
D. Freeman (32 pts)
D. Murray (24 pts)
T. Brady (29 pts)
Derp Manning (34 pts)
D. Martin (36 pts)
J. Edelman (22 pts)
Q Boldin (24 pts)
Phil Rios (24 pts)
A. Dalton (30 pts)

Now the point isn't to say these guys are bad, but to ask the question: do they seem like the highest scoring guys around to you?  This year features a lot of new (not young, just new) faces making actual impacts.   Not a lot of the top scorers at this point were exactly what was expected.

So, going back to something I haven't done in a few weeks here are some divisional breakdowns (you know, like deathcore).

EAST: 
Total Points for: 2,541
Highest scorer: V. Shishkin w/ 797 pts (averaging nearly 160 ppg)
Lowest scorer: Yours truly w/ 532 pts
Total Points against: 2,511

WEST:
Total Points for: 2,559
Highest scorer: Alex Gomez w/ 747 pts (almost 150ppg average)
Lowest scorer: G. Meyer w/ 557 pts
Total Points against: 2,516

NORTH:
Total Points for: 2,408
Highest scorer: J. Yorke w/ 687 pts (Slightly under 140 ppg average)
Lowest scorer: Bag of Suck w/ 548 pts
Total Points against: 2,481

Interesting notes:

Jake, despite being the highest scorer in his division is 2 games back and tied with everyone besides D. Smith in his division. Meanwhile, Yuriy and D Smith in the same division have the two easiest schedules.

Matt is number 3 in scoring, and yet posts the leagues worst record with a 1-4.  He has the 3rd hardest schedule.  Bad luck?

Jared and Ory's teams are 31 points different in score, and there schedule is only 12 point difference.  They have almost the exact same output and input up to this point.

Once again, I don't have answers for these stats, but you know that feeling when you see a nice stat walk by

POWER RANKINGS:

MATCH-UP OF THE WEEK

Ory Yaslinskiy beats on Jared Grube.  Final score: 132 - 124

So, before I get too far into this, for archival purposes that we need to show how Ory's team came to be known as Katy Grube Fart Sniffers despite winning the game.  So everyone can see exactly what the bet was and how it went down:

The blue texts are Ory and the yellow is Jared.  Now the bet could have been about who won, in which case Ory would have got his fun.  Instead, Jared renamed the team after his sister who apparently has some noxious gas.



In this game in particular, it's hard to find someone that really stands out on Ory's team, the highest scoring player was Demarco Murray, but since he is soon to depart Ory's team I don't want to dwell on him.  Instead, I'll say the impressive part of Ory's team is the consistency.  From top to bottom they were double-digit players including the ones on his bench.  Hell if it weren't for his D/ST and kicker playing like butt this team could have really been special.  Even Dick Rod got in on the action, getting a solid 10 points.  Compare this to Jared's AlfMo (1pt) Jared Cook (1pt) and Delanie Walker (7pts) and its easy to see why even angry Brady couldn't throw his way out of it.  Ory won with a team that decided this was the week where every single player would actually do something, and because of that the KATY GRUBE FART SNIFFERS have made it to 3-2.  Now some happiness from the most elusive RB in the league Dion Lewis