2013 Super Bowl Shuffle Week 7

Hello all,

Believe it or not we’re half way through the 2013 Superbowl Shuffle regular season. It’s gone so fast Gronkowski has stopped clubbing and is playing football on an actual field. It’s gone so fast, Percy Harvin is practicing and is 1 week away from complaining about his quarterback. . It’s gone so fast, somebody two hand touched Demarco Murray and now he’s injured again. It’s gone so fast there’s a new iPhone AND an new iPad out. It’s gone so fast anything from 2010 is now considered retro (skinny jeans, Justin Bieber, Shake Weight, this blog)  It’s gone so fast, some sucker GM took a flyer on Josh Freeman.

Either I have whatever that guy had in the movie “Momento” or I’m getting old but I can’t even list out the major milestones in the NFL so far this season. Peyton Manning plays for team Papa Johns maybe? Has Miles Austin retired? I seriously don’t know. This has happened to me in more than just this league.

So while I was cleaning yesterday I found some of the stuff we’ve hidden away. Some of this stuff I haven’t looked at in 10-15 years. One of the things I broke out for my son Isaac was my card collection. I’m sure I started collecting these when I his age. I wasn’t a big collector but I was big into sports. I was a sports geek no doubt and collecting cards was an extension of this. 

I had the normal baseball cards but I also extensively collected football and basketball cards. My most valuable cards (Lawrence Taylor and Jerry Rice rookie) are football cards. This brought me back to buying the packs and never knowing what you’d get inside. Having to wipe of the residue of bubble gum since they still included bubblegum in them. I even tried to sell them at garage sales. 

This was a helpful way to jog my memory but it wasn’t enough. There was plenty I never remembered. Like for some reason I have golf cards. That’s right, nothing beats the excitement of opening the wrapper and discovering you are a proud owner of Paul Azinger, Fuzzy Zoeller, Fred Couples, and Tom Kite cards. No need to take out a loan kids, I’m just going to hand the financial counselor this Craig Stadler card and you’ll be set.

But that’s not all, I also discovered I have WWE wrestling cards. What possible stats would be on the back of these? Did you say none? How did you know?

And finally I have Yo! MTV Raps cards. That’s right I have cards for early 90’s rappers. I’ll trade you my 3rd Bass card for your Biz Markie card. Pop goes the weasel cause the weasel goes pop!

So here’s the standings as of this week:

Standings

Below is the Power rankings for this week. To note, the previous is from 2 weeks ago thanks due to my mid season siesta. I’ve also given a mid season breakdown for each team. Hope you like it. Let the BCS type debate begin!

Power Rankings

1 Savannah Pickles - A quarter of this league is brother’s in law. This one’s making a serious run for 2013 MVBIL (Most Valuable Brother In Law) with a strong showing the first 6 weeks with the resurgence of Matthew Stafford and LeSean McCoy. And watch out for Jordy Nelson now that injuries to the Green Bay receiver core have left him at the #1 spot. Watch out everybody.

2 Big Blows - Unlike the Baltimore Ravens, this defending champ picked up where he left off last year and has done so with a 3 wide receiver set, Ryan from the Office, and a guy whose parents actually named him Knowshon. Will he be able to survive the rest of the regular season with 3 teams hot on his trail.

3 Levanger's Bangers - These guys are like MN sports teams. Even in the down years MN sports teams are still competitive. Sometimes that means winning just enough to beat a desperate Redskins team when you had a chance at getting the 2nd pick in the draft which would have been RG# and then in the meantime seriously injuring your star player. Hey at least we won that meaningless game with Christian Ponder at the helm. I’m not bitter. This is not one of those years for the Bangers as Romo, Desean Jackson, and Arian Foster are for real. Question is can Roddy White make a comeback.

4 Mono Peligroso - This is the first controversial pick as there are 2 other teams with a better record ranked lower. But because he’s got a substantial “Points For” right now in comparison to those with a better record, he made #4. I vote we make this guy change his name to the New England Patriots. This is the first dynasty team of the SS league and, like Bill Belichek or that Bear Grylls guy, he makes due with what’s available to him. . (Coincidentally he dresses like both of them too). Currently He’s got 5 of his 9 players on his starting lineup picked off the waiver wire. That’s a “I have a volleyball that I talk to like a human being” type of survival mode.

5 Let's Get Physical - Another B-in law, I predict this team will go on a run. I have 5 reasons to think so. Rivers, Lacy, Bryant, Decker, Thomas. That’s either a shady injury law firm or a formula for fantasy success this year.

6 Spatula City Spatulas - Maybe getting bounced to middle of the pack with a 4-2 record will create a large divot on the shoulder of this owner. The “Points for” is lower and the “Points Against” is lower too. This basically means there’s a fork in the road here. Does this team start producing points or does this team start meeting up with teams who will produce against them. One thing I know is like tryptophan, from top to bottom it has sleeper picks written all over it. Also it wins the Longest Yard award for most suspensions in a starting lineup. Accepting the award for the team are Josh Gordon and Justin Blackmon. Congrats!

7 Team Boy's Club - This team started the season as a TD dependent team and in large part still is. They’ve navigated to a winning record even with a lower “Points For” so far thanks to Russell Wilson. Will they stay winning with key injuries to Randall Cobb and Steven Jackson. Let’s see if anyone else steps up.

8 Replacement Refs - This team had a strong start and when Brady and AP slowed down so did the team. With Gronk back and B-Marsh on top of his game this team has the star power to make the jump back to the top. This team won’t stay 3-3 for long.

9 Team Kent - This team is crazy. First this team is 1-5. So why is this guy # 9? Well, this team has the 2nd highest “Points For” in the league but also has the highest “Points Against” in the entire league by 33 points. Talk about bad matchups so far. If there’s anything I know about PA and PF is there is always a correction. I feel back for whatever team has to face him in the 2nd half of the season. Someone will have to pay for this. Glad it’s not me. Good luck with all that!

10 Rain Dancer - I will name this team the “I should have but didn’t pan out” All Stars. One team every year seems to harbor all the top underperforming players for the year so that other teams don’t have to keep them on their lineup. Rain Dancer is the warehouse for this right now. I think you all should pay a membership fee to this team for storing these guys for the year. Somebody will bounce back though.We’ll see.

11 Team Cantona - Tough “Luck” for this team. Am I right? Get it?.... see what I did there?.....I feel sick. Rookie of the year last year has fallen on hard times this season even with a strong start to 2013 for Jamaal Charles. Greg Jennings could be benefiting from a new QB. And Ruben Randle has the talent to get them back on track

12 Hernandez's Silver Bullets-  Can’t say this isn’t a familiar place for this team. However this year he’s got a solid PF and the second highest PA. This ratio can and will correct itself. It’s just a matter of how much. No team with Drew Brees and Wes Welker could possible stay in the basement all season right?.....Am I right?....Is this mic on?....

Hopefully you are enjoying the power rankings. Keep in mind they are designed to identify the strongest teams for the rest of the season. And if you had a problem with my rankings, you can do 2 things:

1. Use 1800-Collect to reach someone who cares (I’m kidding! (Not Kidding) no really I’m kidding)

2. Just see how ESPN decided to rank the teams based on their proprietary “formula.” A 1-5 team is number 2 in the power rankings and there are 4 teams with a 500 or better record in the bottom 6. ESPN may need find a different formula in Excel ASAP (vlookup maybe?).  See below: 

Well that wraps this weekHope everybody is having a good Sunday! Good luck to all!

Ryan

2013 Week 4

‘Ello Guvna!  

I seen on me mobile while I’m hangin in me flat there’s a wee bit o’ American footie on the Wembley pitch wit some clubs called the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Minnesota Vikings. Blimey! These dodgy blokes got plenty of bangers and mash in ‘em an’ they spen’ all they time in a ruck wit’ one anutha in tight knckers,  wit a ball that looks rubbish, mate. I mean these chaps only kick the ball a few times each match an they got scores wit double digit goals and when the clock runs out of time the game actually ends! Cheeky Monkeys!

Wha is a field goal anyway? In real football every bloddy goal is a field goal. Next thing ya know I’ll find out they don’t even have a spot of tea wit jam and bread between periods and don’t act like they just got shot in the leg every time a player is touched.

I’m absolutely sure they would never have long sections in the game where nothing really happens and everyone has lost a half an hour of their lives as a result like we do. And there’s no way their fans are so off one’s trolley they get knackered and fight with each other, and riot in the streets after a big win….Wait they do? Me and me mate may need to jump in a lorrey and pop in to this match to learn more bits n bobs about this game.

If Wayne Rooney was on one of these teams he would give all these blokes a good rogering and leave Ben Roethlisberger and Adrian Peterson snookered. Tossers! Maybe we can grab a pint and some fish and chips at the pub before we go and watch.  An’ then these American wankers can pack it in and sod off! An’ don’t even get me started on this fantasy football bullocks. Blimey!

God Save the Queen!

Here’s the power rankings for this week:

There were quite a few big jumps both in for good and for bad. Savannah Pickles has been dealing so far this year with a dominating performance last week in being 1 of 2 teams to outscore the rest of the league by 30 and by leading the “Points For” category in the league by 50. Stafford and McCoy are back to form and since I didn’t draft Jimmy Graham in any league this year, he’s back to being the number one tight end in the league. Team Kent and Levanger’s Banger’s have also made a jump this week as this Peyton Manning kid is showing some promise and Romo and Desean Jackson have clearly figured something out. Condolences to Let’s get physical and Rain Dancer who both have RB problems but ultimately have scoring points problems. And since they are my brothers in law, they have a whole host of other problems I won’t even get into. Let’s hope they can pick it up in Superbowl Shuffle as it may be all they have going for them right now.

See the standings and the Points info below:

Here’s to everyone putting another shrimp on the barbie today!

2013 Week 3

You guys were all around in the 90s right? I'm imagining nodding heads so I'm just going to go with it. You all remember the Matt Foley "Van Down By the River" sketch from the late Chris Farley on SNL? I remember at the time I actually didn't see the sketch when it first came out but there was a buzz around it that made me want so badly to see it. . If you can imagine, it would be about a month before I even got to see with my own eyes what the big deal was. Unless you set your VCR plus to the right code from your TV guide to record SNL every Saturday you were out of luck. 

What would have been considered "viral" back then was your friends, schoolmates, and coworkers. If you were a big fan and could stay up that late to watch every Saturday night it was exciting to be on the ground floor of latest comedy fad. Whether it was Adam Sandler's "Crazy Pickle Mustache" or "Celebrity Jeopardy" or "Bad Idea Jeans" or even "Colon Blow" you either were in the know or were part of the group who only heard about it and hoped you could get someone to record it so you could figure out what the big deal was. I still have a VCR tape of when Jim Carrey hosted SNL for the first time and I'm not erasing it. Even if he's been a bummer for the 15 years.

Matt Foley: http://www.hulu.com/watch/4183

Well I'm certain those times are long gone with the advent of the interlinks, with it's Googler and it's Utoob. It's just the dream of everyone who loved sketch comedy, or TV, or movies, or really any media that has or will ever happen to have instant and constant access to what everyone else is talking about. Not that they are even talking about it, just forwarding or posting it, which takes little imagination and even less time to do. 

Amid the deluge of media and the buzz saturated Internet I found something that has easily been the funniest thing since the days of tuning into SNL or In Living Colour in the 90s when they always seemed to catch lightning in a bottle. 

I've now watched this 15 times I bet and it still gets me to laugh out loud. Does anyone really do that much anymore when watching anything funny? I don't. The best you can get out of me is some kind of creepy chuckle if anything's funny. Check it out:

In the intro to the video, which is not on Youtube, Key and Peele talk about how they came up with the idea when they heard the name of New York Jets left tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson. His name sounds like what a mason would do to upgrade a bicycle cart and also exists in the Pantheon of "There's no way that's real" football player names which includes Atari Bigby, Barkevious Mingo, John David Booty, Baccari Rambo, and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila. 

I think I've said enough. Love this video, pure genius.

Let's take a look at the power rankings for this week:

Last week seemed to be the equalizer with 2 teams undefeated so far and 2 teams defeated (0-2) with the rest of the league 1-1. See the standings below:

And the scoring totals so far:

It's manifest destiny out there for playoff spots. Lots of season left to turn things around.  Good luck this week!

2013 Week 2

Hi all,

Didn't get time this week to dive into our league much. Here's the rankings for Week 2 without much explanation. Sorry for posting them so late. I promise nothing that happened in Week 2 influenced the rankings. I know you are all really worried about it, I'm sure. :)

Also here's the standings so far.

See you all next week

2013 Week 1

Hey all,

I'm rejuving the blog thing that I went away from last year. That being said I think my ability to write 5000 words each Sunday has been compromised by a lethal 3 child, housework, work work, husband schedule that continually reprioritizes my life but more importantly reprioritizes my brain. I'm shocked I've thought of this much to say so far. I do have some thoughts I'd like to get down. We'll see if it happens this year. I hope I don't disappoint.

Here's something that does not disappoint (ok maybe a little):

This year I'll set up some power rankings, not that they hold any weight but more just to provoke. Bulletin board material if you will. Here's the rankings this week:

1. Replacement Refs - AP, BMarsh, Cecil "Eat My" Shorts, TB (tuberculosis?). He had a great draft (or should I say the ESPN robot who drafted for him did?) This should pay off in some wins.
2. Team Boy's Club - This is a TD team through and through and there will be a lot of TD from each player in this lineup.
3. Team Kent- Peyton Manning all ready happened. Who knew his best performance this year wasn't going to be selling pizzas? Now I'm hungry... Calvin Johnson, MJD, Reggie Wayne...I rest my case.
4. Let's Get Physical - This is a high upside team with potential. Potential to dominant and then potential to fail. Lacy should be good...if they hand him the ball. Alfred Morris should continue from last season...if there is a passing game. Eli Manning could make the Eli face and gift wrap the football to the D or he may be brilliant. And Dez and Julio will have gigantic years if Miles Austin and Roddy White don't.
5. Rain Dancer - There is so much quality in RBs this team may have been #2 in this list but injuries could be an issue as RG3 is a huge question mark, AJ Green sat out the preseason, and Andre Johnson who has always looked 49 years old...actually is now
6. Savannah Pickles - The top 3 players (McCoy, Forte, and Graham) will be better this year than last year and Stafford will be solid and will have a running game now. Richardson, Wallace and Nelson are the weak spots and also are solid names for a partners in an Injury law firm.
7. Mono Peligroso - I can't deny how huge Kap, Beast Mode, and Bush will be this year. I love Tate but will he be any good without terrible refs who miss obvious end zone calls? Vereen and Sudfeld should be good this year but we're dealing with Belichek and he's grimy, sweatstained sweatshirt.
8.  Levangers Bangers - Romo shold have a big year. The rest of the team doesn't look like much of a guarantee. Foster will share carries but will be top 10. Gore has always been consistent but when will it end. Roddy White has been injured and shares the field with Jones. Smith just became an AARP member. We'll see.
9. Team Cantona - Charles is the leader here and Chris Johnson is on the comeback. Andrew Luck is supposed to be even better this year. The problem? Darren McFadden and Christian Pond...I mean Greg Jennings may put the "Can't" in Cantona
10. Big Blows  - Ryan from the Office will have a bounce back year and be the number one QB this year. Most likely because of the trash Greg Jennings is talking. Doug Martin will be great again and the WRs are very very solid. The glaring weakness is Ryan Mathews who heads up the Ryan Mathews all stars which includes him, Shonn Greene, Mark Ingram, and Darren McFadden. This honor goes to RBs who everyone eventually says "Why did I draft this guy again?"
11. Hernandez's Silver Bullets - Tie - I couldn't decide between these two teams. HSB has anchors in Brees and Ray Rice. Welker looked solid the first week but will he be the primary option every week? Then it gets dicey. Williams is all the Panthers have and Antonio Brown is all that the Steelers have but that doesn't mean much when you have to actually make plays. We'll see...
11. Spatula City Spatulas - Tie - Matt Ryan will pass a lot and Trent Richardson will run a lot. But everyone else has unrealized talent. In fact 3 of them don't even start which is an issue. This would be a great keeper league team but Week 1 there will be struggles. Maybe the rest of the year these teams will utilize this talent the way they should.

Let's have John come in here and give us some words of wisdom for this week:

Someone IS blowing a whistle, John

Have a good week everyone.

Ryan

Superbowl Shuffle Playoff Index

Hey y’all,

It could be the tryptophan, it could be the laziness of this weekend, it could be the sedatives but I’ve been staring at this screen for a while now. Combined with playing with the kids, eating more food, checking the news, checking my email, reorganizing my news reader, doing some christmas shopping, and generally wasting time. This should be the time that I get motivated. It’s an exciting time! 2 more games in the regular season! The playoff picture is almost solidifying both literally and figuratively! If you make the playoffs all you have to do is get hot and you have a shot! Peyton Hillis might play! Tebow!  Cam Newton! Caleb Hanie!? Ndmaknoaskng Suh should get Ndamakaonsfgakg sued! Twilight is killin it at the box office...Go Team Jacob!! The NBA went from break up to make up! Black Friday happened and despite every effort by fellow shoppers, no one died! I may actually take a shower today! (TMI)






So instead of regaling you on tales of the life and times of RJB, below is the Playoff Index for each team. Above is the projected playoff picture as of today. Check out your team and where you stand and then check below to find out what it takes to make the playoffs or improve your standing in the playoffs. It’s difficult given my current state, to make each playoff picture interesting to you so I thought I would illustrate each team with one of them moving pictures that the kids like so much. A picture is worth a thousand words so SLOW DOWN is what I say to these “movies” and stop being so dramatic. NEVER LIKED IT!!!!!!


Just to note: the tie breaker this year is not head to head wins but by who has the most “Points For” of the 2 teams.



Here are the scenarios:

Rain Dancer - #2 and #3 must win both games and Dancer must lose both games and must have most “Points For” in order to unseat Rain Dancer. Guaranteed to be in the playoffs. Everybody say way hoooooo: http://youtu.be/rLwskYZ74_E


Team Kent -  Needs 2 wins and a Boys Club loss in order to get 2nd place. A split and the most “Points For” wins. Guaranteed to make playoffs. If he can pull it off Chuck Norris would approve: http://blip.tv/play/hLEMgefHUgA

Team Boys Club - Needs 2 wins and a Kent loss in order to get 2nd place. A split and the most “Points For” wins. Guaranteed to make the playoffs.When I think of this team and it’s fall out of first play,  I first have a good cry and then I watch this video: http://youtu.be/KolfEhV-KiA


Big Ben’s Life Coaches - has a chance at #2 with a #2 or # 3 loss and 2 wins. Could also be 8th with 2 losses and a whole bunch of wins by the other teams. And anywhere in between. Guaranteed to make the playoffs. These playoff scenarios are about as confusing as this video: http://youtu.be/nECoe4eCp_o


Big Blows - Needs a #2 loss and 2 wins to make the #2 spot. But could also be the 8 seed with a 2 losses and the right teams winning. Guaranteed to make the playoffs.It’s like this: http://youtu.be/4d4rdat3HdA I’m not sure if I still don’t understand how this works because Bjork doesn’t know what she’s talking about or if I just don’t understand what she’s saying


Brookdale Mall - Needs a #2 loss and 2 wins to make the #2 spot. But could also be the 8 seed with a 2 losses and the right teams winning.  Time to shred!!!!: http://youtu.be/1JBzWZq4fXg

Mono Peligroso -  At this point it’s clear #2 is a possibility for almost anyone [insert joke here]. With 2 wins and 2 losses Mono could be 2nd place or they could be 8th. Either way they are in the playoffs. Please keep in mind that while we are doing this, 6th graders are doing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ehDAP1OQ9Zw. We will all be replaced soon with newer models. It’s called natural selection. I can only hope that my 5 year old will be programming the interlinks in 10 years and will be able to pay my mortgage.

Levanger’s Bangers - This is where missing the playoffs begins. Right now they will make the playoffs but could still miss with 2 losses  and Fumble Mumble pulling off 2 wins. Win and in! Win and in! Win and in! WWMBD: What would Michael Bolton do!:
http://blip.tv/found-footage-festival/michael-bolton-s-winning-softball-3132324

Fumble! Mumble! - You can win 2 games so far this season and still make it into the playoffs.The chance of this team making it looks like this: http://youtu.be/u6BX-bUoE5E
It will take a miracle. It will take some chutzpah and some serendipity. Ask yourself “Do you believe?”....and then go calm down because this is only fantasy football.

Kardiac Kidz - It’s over for the Kidz. This year was a lot like this: http://youtu.be/LEdYf4SGhuI They can’t make the playoffs but they can try to do some damage at the consolation. Or suffer the consequences of last place. Yikes....

GMs: The Best Never Rest

Good morning/afternoon all you Tebowlievers  and soon to be Tebow converts. As I’m sure you heard at the water cooler on Friday what happened at Thursday’s game because either you are like most of the US and don’t have the NFL network or could not sit through a game that stilted and ugly with a clear conscience. To say the game was boring would be like saying Prince is a little eccentric. That was until the last minute of the game where Tebow, like the the patron saint of one dimensional skill sets, was able to run 30 yards untouched into the end zone. Apparently “Revis Island” is much like the island in the show “Lost’ where at any given time through a metaphysical wormhole the island moves to a different less effective location. The hole he ran through was so wide that Rex Ryan could have jogged through it while simultaneously eating a KFC Famous Bowl.

ANYWAY, this is the kind of year that sports geeks love because they are forced into one of two dreams of theirs via fantasy football. The first is to be an ESPN Sportscenter broadcaster and the other is the be a GM. I never knew anyone who wanted to be a coach. All they wanted to do is evaluate players, do a little math about salaray,  pick players, and see how they do during the game to see if they could have been the Theo Epstein of fantasy football or David Kahn (but he landed Rubio!). No game plans, no massaging egos in the locker room, no gameday decisions as a GM. You do all the prep work and then you sit back and let others make the best out of your decisions...done and done.

There is however a reason it’s called fantasy. The Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks have been a part of the Northern League  which is an independent minor league baseball league called the American Association of Independent Professional baseball. One of the teams in this association is the St. Paul Saints. The Redhawks have boasted such stars as Chris Coste, Ruben Salazar, and Daryl Motley.. During the fall of my sophomore year of college, one of my buddies had tickets to a Redhawks game and invited me to go. His uncle just so happened to be the general manager of the team so we had tickets in the front row right behind the dugout. This game would decide whether the Redhawks would be league champions that year.

By the way, did you know that Jose Canseco has a twin brother? It’s true! In fact if you ever line up for an autograph for Jose be careful. Ask Jose something that only he would know, like what is it like to play a full season in the MLB or what is it like to hit a home run. Well the nice thing about being an independent baseball league is you can attract attention by signing a recognizable name. The Saints had Daryl Strawberry for a while. Remember when a minor  league team had Michael Jordan? 

Anyway, Ozzie Canseco was on the Redhawks and was batting in either 4 or 5 that night. In the 5th or 6th inning, Ozzie looked less like Canseco and more like Osbourne at bat and struck out looking. A consummate professional, he argued with the umpire on the call from the dugout and, thinking the ump might need a drink, tossed the entire cooler out on field. Ejected from the game, Ozzie was not seen again until the Redhawks won the game. The Redhawks celebrated by running around the field and  dowsing the crowd with some champagne. One of the infielders dumped a bunch of champagne on me from the top of the dugout and that is the closest to feeling like I won anything athletic in my life. During the party on the field Ozzie made an appearance, in a polo shirt and some 1980’s khaki shorts, with his hands in his pockets and emotionless, like he was waiting in line at the DMV( which he is used to by now). I found out later that immediately after the ejection Canseco came up to the GM’s office and demanded the team buy him a ticket to Central America right away because he was done with this team had to leave right now. Apparently he was like this all season. I imagine it was from the whey protein he took to keep in shape.  So it just goes to show that with general managers it isn’t all passive and analytical. That’s why we have video games and fantasy leagues.

So how are we all doing as GMs? To me it’s not always your record that shows how well you’ve done. Whether it’s injuries or over the hill players or Desean Jackson, they weren’t what you thought they were and you have to use the waiver wire to just to make it to .500. Sometimes it’s an achievement just to break even.

Well here are some illustrations on how a season can change and how we all have responded.

Below is the top 40 picks of the draft. You’ll see big names like Felix Jones, Miles Austin, and Peyton HIllis.


It’s easy to see the players that were picked and didn’t live up to their position. But what about the players that didn’t get picked the first 4 rounds. As of this week here is a link to how the draft should have went if we picked players based on total points this year.  2011 Scoring leaders. Lots of QBs right? I looked at my first 4 rounds and determined that I would have picked 4 QBs based on the leaderboard right now. Also, Fred Jackson is a man!!!! He’s 40!!!

Also Matt Hasselbeck is outscoring most of the top 10 running backs. The draft is all about strategy guys!!! I don’t know how many times I told you guys to make sure you draft an aging QB on a run first team with little WR depth. Come on, guys we need to step it up next year.

So how have we, as a league responded? Well here is a link to our current rosters and how many of each starting lineup is starters and how many are free agents. This isn’t a perfect analysis since it’s bye week but nonetheless it’s interesting: Rosters

Unofficially I think I counted that 55-60 % of our lineups are from Free Agency with the teams with the best records emulating that percentage. So the draft can’t kill your season necessarily, as long as you use the wavier wire.

So everyone put their fantasy GM thinking caps on this week as we all have until 11/23/11 to make a trade and transform the season. Remember last year Mono Peligroso traded for Michael Vick and he was a major contributor to Mono’s run through the playoffs. We have 8 out of 10 teams in the playoffs this year so anything can happen.

Get your GM on!

Here are the lines: