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When is halfway really not halfway? When you have to divide 13 in half. So after 6 games, we’re 46% done with the season. Seems like a good of time
as any to see what the future holds. But before we look forward, let’s look back at last week.
Nomads in the Deep 141.76 defeats Baltimore Tools 103.21
The Next Google 114.08 defeats Five Second Stare 157.29
BushMaroney'07 114.23 defeats Random Thoughts 93.38
Hungry Horses 91.28 defeats Brock's Bandits 123.35
New Jersey Jacobins 62.78 defeats Fighting Blue Crabs 91.26
anti-trust 73.97 defeats Nose 94.49
Shermtanks 137.67 defeats Born to Run My Mouth 105.08
So what does the future hold for all of us? Tough to tell, but we have some interesting stats… you know, if you’re interested…
Other interesting notes:
SHERMTANKS (3-3)
Upcoming Opponents 18 – 24 (0.429)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 2
Historically, they are 16 – 19 (.457) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 46% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Tanks clearly have a chance here to make a run for the playoffs. Especially if LT can keep it together.
ANTI-TRUST (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 18 – 24 (0.429)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 3
Historically, they are 16 – 19 (.457) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 57% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Nick is clearly a second half player. Never, EVER, count him out.
BALTIMORE TOOLS (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 19 – 23 (0.452)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 4
Historically, they are 17 – 18 (.490) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 52% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
It’s not over yet for the Tools, but they will need their running game to get moving if they want to stay alive.
NJJ (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 19 – 23 (0.452)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 4
Historically, they are 13 – 22 (.370) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 46% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
The numbers aren’t great for Dave. He is clearly a better team during the first half of the season. A course correction better come soon before the
season is lost.
HORSES (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 20 – 22 (0.476)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 3
Historically, they are 17 – 18 (.486) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 52% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Parker is almost at .500 for the second half. He’ll need to go better than 3-4 in the next 7 if he wants into the dance for the first time since 2003.
BORN (4-2)
Upcoming Opponents 21 – 21 (0.500)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 3
Historically, they are 16 – 19 (.457) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 44% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Rich hasn’t won more than 4 games since 2005. He’ll need to squeak out 2oto 3 more wins this season to guarantee him a return to the playoffs.
NOSE (3-3)
Upcoming Opponents 21 – 21 (0.500)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 3
Historically, they are 21 – 14 (.600) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 55% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Jarrett is clearly a second half team. Luckily for him, he faces four teams below .500. If he can take all four wins, he’ll be a cool 7-6 and that may be
enough to get in this year.
RANDOM THOUGHTS (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 21 – 21 (0.500)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 5
Historically, they are 17 – 18 (.486) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 53% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Brian has clearly cracked his team into shape. Since his Week 1, 74.51 point performance, he has had weeks of 141 and 131. But the upcoming
schedule looks hard – he’ll need to keep getting the big days in order to see the playoffs again.
FIVE SECOND STARE (3-3)
Upcoming Opponents 21 – 21 (0.500)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 5
Historically, they are 17 – 18 (.486) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 50% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Cantor is as good at the beginning as he his at the end. But he’s facing some stiff competition at the end. The good news: Cantor has never lost a
Week 9 game. The bad news: He plays Brock in Week 10.
NOMADS IN THE DEEP (4-2)
Upcoming Opponents 22 – 20 (0.524)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 4
Historically, they are 24 – 11 (.686) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 56% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
What a shock – Navid is great in the second half of the season. He clearly holds the record for the most wins AFTER Week 6. But he faces some of
the toughest opponents with Brock, BM and Stare on the horizon. Lucky for him he gets Cantor next week… and he’s a perfect 5-0 in Week 7 games.
MD FIGHTING BLUE CRABS (3-3)
Upcoming Opponents 23 – 19 (0.548)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 4
Historically, they are 19 – 16 (.543) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 50% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Gregg will need bigger days from Manning (whew! His bye is over!) to push him into the playoffs for the third year in a row.
BUSHMARONEY’07 (5-1)
Upcoming Opponents 23 – 19 (0.548)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 5
Historically, they are 21 – 14 (.600) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 48% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Josh is good all around (his 44 wins is tops in the league). He’ll need to keep up the momentum to beat his second half opponents.
THE NEXT GOOGLE (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 24 – 18 (0.571)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 5
Historically, they are 18 – 17 (.514) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 46% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Scott’s not used to being behind the 8-ball. But he is and he’s facing some stiff competition in the second half. Lifetime he’s been outscored by 75.89
points in the second half. He’ll need to turn that around quickly. Especially with Brock coming up in two weeks.
BROCK’S BANDITS (5-1)
Upcoming Opponents 24 – 18 (0.571)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 6
Historically, they are 13 – 22 (.371) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 36% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
This year’s big bad wolf has his toughest days ahead. He faces a team with a .500 or better record for six of the next seven weeks. And he is
statistically the worst team in the league in Week 7 thru 13. If he can barrel through this reputation – and these tough teams – and get into the
playoffs, then I don’t think anyone will get the chance to stop him.
It’s going to be a wild ending… and it’s going to be fun!
Best of luck to everyone this week.
Swami, 2-5 last week, will be have predictions entered by the Saturday night
as any to see what the future holds. But before we look forward, let’s look back at last week.
Nomads in the Deep 141.76 defeats Baltimore Tools 103.21
- Nomads now extend their win steak over the Tools to 3 (4-2 lifetime). In this 3-game winning streak, the Tools have scored 100+ in each game.
But the Nomads are averaging 130 points in that same time period - Special thanks to Cleo Lemon for coming in at the last second and saving me from the nightmare of having to listen to Kyle Bowler fill in for
Steve McNair.
The Next Google 114.08 defeats Five Second Stare 157.29
- In Watson’s four wins over Cantor, he has beaten him on average of 8.29 points. In Cantor’s two wins, he has beaten Watson by an average of
43.5 points. - Stare’s Adrian Peterson reminds me of Barry Sanders. Cantor is one lucky SOB.
- Google’s Wes Welker is a stud. Too bad Santana Moss isn’t.
BushMaroney'07 114.23 defeats Random Thoughts 93.38
- In six games against each other, Lukin has outscored Yeung by 116.99 points.
- Lukin got the Ravens bonus: He worked the game at home and saw a big 22-3 win over the Rams AND the BM’s got to watch Ferotte on his
back give them 28 - Hey B: River to Chambers could be the next Brady to Moss. Of course if LT does most of the passing, then you’ll be right where you already are.
With low numbers from Rivers
Hungry Horses 91.28 defeats Brock's Bandits 123.35
- Brock’s 5-1 start matches his best start. In 2005 he started 5-1, before losing the next two and ending the season 9-4. In those first six games
he scored 709 points (or 72 points less than he currently has this season). For more, see below. - Bandit’s Brady is clearly Peyton Manning from two years ago. Big plays and lots of passing TD’s. His 200.01 fantasy points (thanks to another
45 this past weekend) is the best in the league right now. In second place? Tony Romo with 159, or 40 points LESS. - Horses can hold their heads high: Westbrook and Williams are clearly a great one-two RB punch.
New Jersey Jacobins 62.78 defeats Fighting Blue Crabs 91.26
- Believe it or not, 62.78 wasn’t the least amount of points Dave has ever scored against Gregg. In 2003, he scored 58.31 and only lost to Gregg
by 3.57. - Todd Heap is such a cock tease. Sorry Dave, I thought he’d play, too
- Are Crab’s Owens\Johnson\Curtis the sickest WR core we have in this league? Especially when McNair is hitting Curtis?
anti-trust 73.97 defeats Nose 94.49
- In the six meetings between these two teams (where Blass leads it 4-2), only one team has ever scored over 100 points (Blass in 2006). That’s
right. - With Wayne on a bye and Tomlinson taking away the scores from Gates, Nick just couldn’t get it going this week. Only two players broke into
double digits, and one of them was the surprising KC defense against Cinncy - Nose is screaming “I suck” on the message board, but I think he could ride this Manning\Smith combo to the band. Especially if Lynch can get
his act together (Norwood looked good this week, so I wouldn’t put to much emPHasis on Dunn).
Shermtanks 137.67 defeats Born to Run My Mouth 105.08
- Tanks snapped Born by beating them for the third time in as many years. Interesting fact: From 2002 – 2004, Born beat the Tanks in all three
meetings by an average of 8.4 points. The Tanks have beat Born in all three meetings since then by an average of 10.9 points. Oh and in the
last two years, the Tanks have beat Rich in the week that they have had their season high (192 for the Tanks in ’06 and 137 this week) - Ah, THERE IS the LT we all know and love. Four TD’s. Maybe Norv Turner is getting it together in Diego-ville.
- Kiss, don’t sweat it. Housh was big in a losing effort (29) and it appears that even when Romo is bad he’ll get you 20. Now if only you could get
Shaun to pep up the way Sherman has done with LT.
So what does the future hold for all of us? Tough to tell, but we have some interesting stats… you know, if you’re interested…
- Shermtanks and anti-trust seem to have the easiest schedules coming up. This is great news for the Tanks (3-3) and anti (2-4) who could use
some more wins. - Meanwhile, the Bandits and Google have the toughest schedules coming up. It’s horrible news for Google (2-4) who will really need to put the
tools together to make a run here at the end. It’s bad news for Brock (5-1) too as he currently has the lowest win percentage in games played
between Weeks 7 and 13 (.371) - Only two teams currently have no players in the ROFF Top 25, the Horses (first player at 26) and the Tools (48). Of those 25 players, Born,
Nomads and Nose own 3. Stare owns the most with 4 players. And of those 25, only 15 have crossed the century mark. And Stare owns the
most of them, too, with three (don’t worry, Peterson will get there eventually).
Other interesting notes:
SHERMTANKS (3-3)
Upcoming Opponents 18 – 24 (0.429)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 2
Historically, they are 16 – 19 (.457) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 46% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Tanks clearly have a chance here to make a run for the playoffs. Especially if LT can keep it together.
ANTI-TRUST (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 18 – 24 (0.429)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 3
Historically, they are 16 – 19 (.457) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 57% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Nick is clearly a second half player. Never, EVER, count him out.
BALTIMORE TOOLS (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 19 – 23 (0.452)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 4
Historically, they are 17 – 18 (.490) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 52% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
It’s not over yet for the Tools, but they will need their running game to get moving if they want to stay alive.
NJJ (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 19 – 23 (0.452)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 4
Historically, they are 13 – 22 (.370) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 46% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
The numbers aren’t great for Dave. He is clearly a better team during the first half of the season. A course correction better come soon before the
season is lost.
HORSES (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 20 – 22 (0.476)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 3
Historically, they are 17 – 18 (.486) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 52% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Parker is almost at .500 for the second half. He’ll need to go better than 3-4 in the next 7 if he wants into the dance for the first time since 2003.
BORN (4-2)
Upcoming Opponents 21 – 21 (0.500)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 3
Historically, they are 16 – 19 (.457) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 44% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Rich hasn’t won more than 4 games since 2005. He’ll need to squeak out 2oto 3 more wins this season to guarantee him a return to the playoffs.
NOSE (3-3)
Upcoming Opponents 21 – 21 (0.500)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 3
Historically, they are 21 – 14 (.600) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 55% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Jarrett is clearly a second half team. Luckily for him, he faces four teams below .500. If he can take all four wins, he’ll be a cool 7-6 and that may be
enough to get in this year.
RANDOM THOUGHTS (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 21 – 21 (0.500)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 5
Historically, they are 17 – 18 (.486) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 53% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Brian has clearly cracked his team into shape. Since his Week 1, 74.51 point performance, he has had weeks of 141 and 131. But the upcoming
schedule looks hard – he’ll need to keep getting the big days in order to see the playoffs again.
FIVE SECOND STARE (3-3)
Upcoming Opponents 21 – 21 (0.500)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 5
Historically, they are 17 – 18 (.486) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 50% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Cantor is as good at the beginning as he his at the end. But he’s facing some stiff competition at the end. The good news: Cantor has never lost a
Week 9 game. The bad news: He plays Brock in Week 10.
NOMADS IN THE DEEP (4-2)
Upcoming Opponents 22 – 20 (0.524)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 4
Historically, they are 24 – 11 (.686) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 56% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
What a shock – Navid is great in the second half of the season. He clearly holds the record for the most wins AFTER Week 6. But he faces some of
the toughest opponents with Brock, BM and Stare on the horizon. Lucky for him he gets Cantor next week… and he’s a perfect 5-0 in Week 7 games.
MD FIGHTING BLUE CRABS (3-3)
Upcoming Opponents 23 – 19 (0.548)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 4
Historically, they are 19 – 16 (.543) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 50% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Gregg will need bigger days from Manning (whew! His bye is over!) to push him into the playoffs for the third year in a row.
BUSHMARONEY’07 (5-1)
Upcoming Opponents 23 – 19 (0.548)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 5
Historically, they are 21 – 14 (.600) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 48% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Josh is good all around (his 44 wins is tops in the league). He’ll need to keep up the momentum to beat his second half opponents.
THE NEXT GOOGLE (2-4)
Upcoming Opponents 24 – 18 (0.571)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 5
Historically, they are 18 – 17 (.514) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 46% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
Scott’s not used to being behind the 8-ball. But he is and he’s facing some stiff competition in the second half. Lifetime he’s been outscored by 75.89
points in the second half. He’ll need to turn that around quickly. Especially with Brock coming up in two weeks.
BROCK’S BANDITS (5-1)
Upcoming Opponents 24 – 18 (0.571)
Number of Opponents .500 or better: 6
Historically, they are 13 – 22 (.371) in the second half of the season
Of their total wins (lifetime), they have won 36% of their total games in Week’s 7 – 13.
This year’s big bad wolf has his toughest days ahead. He faces a team with a .500 or better record for six of the next seven weeks. And he is
statistically the worst team in the league in Week 7 thru 13. If he can barrel through this reputation – and these tough teams – and get into the
playoffs, then I don’t think anyone will get the chance to stop him.
It’s going to be a wild ending… and it’s going to be fun!
Best of luck to everyone this week.
Swami, 2-5 last week, will be have predictions entered by the Saturday night