Schaumburg Stu won Week 6 with a record of 11-3-1. Mr. Fantasy and I finished a game behind at 10-4-1. Dan the Man had an 8-6-1 record and went from 1st overall on the season to last with a record of 53-37-1 for the year. Mr. Fantasy took over 1st place and has a record of 55-35-1. Mr. Fantasy has a 1 game lead over Schaumburg Stu and I. We have records of 54-36-1. Will see what Week 7 brings us.
While I’d have to say that picking games went well; if you are a fantasy football player it might not have been such a good week. Just to start off Week 6 in the NFL the top two wide receivers in the game Cincinnati Bengals A.J. Green and Detroit Lions Calvin Johnson where inactive. Johnson teammate running back Reggie Bush was also inactive for Week 6. Bush was added to a list with 5 other starting running backs that wouldn’t play in Week 6. Rashad Jennings of the New York Giants, Monte Ball of the Denver Broncos, DeAngelo Williams of the Carolina Panthers, Toby Gerhart of the Jacksonville Jaquars and Donald Brown of the San Diego Chargers. Brown was actually filling in for 2 other injured Chargers running backs; Ryan Matthews and Danny Woodhead. If you’re in a deeper league you may have had to work around injuries to Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jarrett Boykin and Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Harry Douglass. While Boykin and Douglass aren’t the main targets on their teams they both do see a lot of time on the field as the third receiver in three receiver sets that their teams use. All of these players where out going into the Week 6 games. During Week 6 fantasy owners lost a couple of running back and a top wide receiver. Victor Cruz of the New York Giants is done for the season with a torn patellar tendon during which he got the 3rd quarter of the Giants game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Stevan Ridley of the New England Patriots both his ACL and MCL against the Buffalo Bills and is done for the season. Knowson Moreno just came back from an elbow injury and Moreno on Tuesday as he was put on season-ending injured reserve with a knee injury. He has been bothered by injuries all season and played in just three games. We can also add Darren Sproles, Philadelphia Eagles running back. Sproles has a medial collateral ligament sprain and the timetable for his return is 1 to 3 weeks. As I’ve mentioned on Sports Time Radio and here a time or two we have two 20 team leagues where you start 2 running backs. So at a minimum 60 running backs were drafted and now if you own one of these players out for the season you have to try to fill that roster spot. you can add in suspend running backs Adrian Petersen and Ray Rice who were both drafted in our leagues.
Let’s jump from fantasy football to fantasy basketball since we have a draft coming up in about 10 days. How much would you pay for an injured Kevin Durant? Durant has been diagnosed with a Jones fracture in his right foot that could sideline the 2013-14 MVP for six-to-eight weeks. I also heard a report that this injury could keep Durant out 12 weeks. Durant is the #1 rated player in Yahoo’s pre-season rankings. We used an auction format for our league and you have to figure out what Durant would be worth to you if he doesn’t come back to play until the middle of February. I never thought I would say or write something like this, but I think it might be a good year to pass on Durant and save your auction money for other players. Even when Durant gets back he’ll have to get into game shape and back into the flow of the Oklahoma City Thunder offense. While I’ll be the first to admit that basketball isn’t my best fantasy sport and it may even be my worst, but I think I’ll stay away from Durant this season and that’s tough to say and or write.
Be honest; who had the Kansas City Royals up 3 games to 0 in their American League championship series against the Baltimore Orioles. A 2-1 win last night (Tuesday) gave the Royals their 3-0 lead in the series. Hopefully the game will start in about an hour depending on how the weather is in Kansas City. Miguel Gonzalez is the starting pitcher for the Orioles today with their season on the line. Jason Vargas takes the mound for the Royals looking to close out the Orioles. Even if Kansas City does sweep the Orioles out of the playoffs this has still been a very good series.
In the National League championship series the San Francisco Giants took a 2 games to 1 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals with a 5-4 win in 10 innings yesterday (Tuesday). The Giants won on a Randy Choate throwing error in the bottom of the 10th inning. I had never seen a playoff game end on a throwing error before. The Cardinals try to even up the series tonight with Shelby Miller as the starting pitcher. Miller is opposed on the Giants side by Ryan Vogelsong. While he’s only missed one game will have to see if the Yader Molina injury has a big effect on the series.
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