NADS Fantasy Football League

(MyFantasyLeague.com Fantasy Times Sources - Nov 2, 2009) In a week 8 NADS Fantasy Football League classic, Blind Melon Chitlin' beat a strong 5280's team by a score of 71 to 61, behind the support of 68,595 faithful fans.  5280’s opened up as a 6.7 point favorite.  By the time the lineups were submitted, Blind Melon Chitlin’ were actually favored by 2.9 points over 5280’s.  Blind Melon Chitlin’ jumped out to and early 24 point lead after the morning games.  By the end of the afternoon games, 5280 closed that lead to only 6 points but he was done for the week as Blind Melon Chithead still had another player on Monday night.  Blind Baby was sick of losing and scored 4 more points on Monday to cruise past 5280’s by 10 points, 71-61, for his second win of the season for the GAME OF THE WEEK.

Frank Gore

Blind Melon Chitlin' were led to their 10 point victory by a 19 point effort from Frank Gore, who got by the Indianapolis Colts defense for 91 rushing yards and 1 rushing TD in addition to 43 receiving yards. They also got help from a 12 point effort from Patrick Crayton, who snuck past the Seattle Seahawks defense for 39 receiving yards.

"We're happy we could pull this one out at the end," Blind Melon Chitlin' coach Frank Escobedo said.

5280's were helped out in a losing cause by a 14 point effort from Rob Bironas, who snuck past the Jacksonville Jaguars defense for 3 field goals made and 3 extra points. With this performance, Bironas was the number 1 ranked place kicker for week 8. They also got help from a 12 point effort from Larry Fitzgerald, who snuck past the Carolina Panthers defense for 66 receiving yards.

"I take full responsibility for this loss," 5280's coach Jess Powell said.

Adding salt to the wound, 5280's could have scored 87 points and earned the win with their best lineup, but coach Jess Powell left key players like Percy Harvin and his corresponding 19 points on the bench.

Blind Melon Chitlin' took advantage of their schedule this week, as their point total would have gone for a loss against 10 out of 10 other potential opponents in week 8.

This brings the record for Blind Melon Chitlin' to 2-6, 4th palce in the UGLY division and drops 5280's to a record of 2-6, 3rd place in the BAD division.

Coming up in week 9, 5280's are at the 1-7 Los Cojones, where Los Cojones are an early 8-point favorite, while the 3-5 Cracker Boy are at Blind Melon Chitlin', where Blind Melon Chitlin' are an early 12.0-point underdog.

Joe Flacco

We are beginning the later part of the fantasy season and now is the time to pay attention to trends and predictions. Several match-ups are challenging this week and other players have internal competition that is limiting their play and production lately.

• acquired Maclin, Jeremy PHI WR
• dropped Williams, Roy DAL WR

• acquired Jones, Julius SEA RB
• dropped Collins, Kerry TEN QB

• acquired Floyd, Malcom SDC WR
• dropped Massaquoi, Mohamed CLE WR

• dropped Morgan, Josh SFO WR

• dropped Vinatieri, Adam IND PK

NADS NOTES WEEK 8

Week 8 has ended and the fantasy scores were not really close this week.  Most of the games were somewhat blowouts.  The scoring was much lower than last week as well.  The games were won by 10 points up to 40 points difference.  We only had 4 teams score over 100 points.  We had a high score of 117 and a low score of only 61 points.

Congratulations to the winners of Week 8, Home Brews, Dave’s Not Here, Tommyknockers, Instant Winners, Blind Melon Chitlin’ and Rumrunners.  Congratulations to Instant Winners for getting the High Score of the Week (HSOTW) with 117 points.  This is his second HSOTW this season.  Instant Winners will get 5 bones this week for HSOTW.  Honorable mention goes to Tommyknockers (105 points), Rumrunners (104 points) and Home Brews (100 points).  Low Score of the Week goes to 5280’s with only 61 points.

BYE WEEK:

Don’t forget that the byes for each team continue for week 9.  Once again there are 6 teams on a bye for week 9: Buffalo, Cleveland, Oakland, St. Louis, Minnesota and NY Jets.  Make sure none of your players are on a bye before you submit your lineup.  Also, make sure that you have enough players to field a team and you don’t have to pickup a player or two.

TRADE DEADLINE:

I know this league doesn’t make very many trade, but just an FYI, November 15^th is the last day trades are allowed.  If you are planning on submitting a trade request with another team, it has to be submitted in time so the league can vote on it, be approved and completed by the 15^th.

SURVIVOR POOL:

Two more players were eliminated in week 8 of the Survivor Pool.  Both Dave and Don forgot to make their picks this week; therefore they are done for segment 2.  Everybody else that was in who made a pick, got their pick correct.  We had 4 players take Chicago, 3 players take San Diego and one player who took New Orleans.  Remember, you can submit a survivor pick until the team you pick has kicked off.  If you forget to make a survivor pick after the early games, you can still make a pick for the afternoon, evening and Monday games.  If you forget to make a pick for the afternoon games, you can still make a pick for Sunday or Monday night games.  If you forget the Sunday night game, you still can make a pick for the Monday night game.

FANTASY RECAPS:

After 8 weeks of play, Home Brews are still the only undefeated team left.  In the league standings, there is one team that is 8-0, 1 team that is 6-2, 3 teams that are 5-3, 2 teams that are 4-4, 2 teams that are 3-5, 1 team that is 2-6 and 1 teams that is 1-7.

All of week 8 games were divisional games.  The GAME OF THE WEEK was Blind Melon Chitlin’ who got his second win of the season by beating 5280’s by only 10 points, 71-61.  The BLOWOUT OF THE WEEK game was Instant Winners who hammered Los Cojones by 40 points, 117-77.  Finally, the UPSET OF THE WEEK game was Dave’s Not Here who were 18.0 point underdog to Gonna Win Again, but beat him by 12 points, 94-82.  To read the full Week 8 Fantasy Recaps, please click on Fantasy Recaps.  (Hint: you may have to press CTRL and click at the same time).

WEEK 9 GAMES

All of week 8 games are divisional games.  The featured game is a battle for 1^st place in the UGLY division.  5-3, Got Kaya is at 5-3, place Dave’s Not Here where Dave’s Not Here opens as a slight 4.6 point favorite over Kaya.  In the GOOD division, 4-4, 4^th place Instant Winners are at undefeated, 1^st place Home Brews where Home Brews open as a 14.0 point favorite.  5-3, 2^nd place Tommyknockers are at 4-4, 3^rd place Gonna Win Again where Gonna Win Again opens as a 10.3 points favorite.  In the BAD division, 6-2, 1^st place Rumrunners who open as an 11.1 point favorite are at 4-4, 2^nd place Da Boyz.  In a battle for possibly last place, 2-6, 3^rd place 5280’s are at 1-7, 4^th place Los Cojones where Cojones opens as an 8.0 point favorite.  Finally back in the UGLY division again, 3-5, 3^rd place Cracker Boy, opens as a 12.0 point favorite over 2-6, 4^th place Blind Melon Chitlin’, in another battle of possible last place.

That’s all I have for now,

Good luck in Week 9.

I’ll talk to you next week with Nads Notes