Commish Recap - Week 6

I count the end of Week 6 as our halfway point (hey, it’s 13 weeks, gotta choose 6 or 7). So I thought I would take this time to lay out some ROFFL
facts (in bullet point form, of course):

Brockman’s has the most bipolar team in the league with a 27-15 record in Weeks 1-6 and a 18-24 record in the second half. That means that
62% of his losses have taken place in second half season.
Sunny days are head: Both Nick and Cantor seem to shine in the second half of the season where 58% of their wins are, um, won.

History Update:

With his third win of the season this week, Lukin becomes the second team in ROFFL history to win 50 games. He and Navid are now tied for the
most wins in ROFFL history.
With just seven more games to go, Watson (47), Brockman (45), Sherman (45), Kiss (44), Blass (44) and Rosenthall (43) all have a chance of
reaching the 50 point mark (based on franchise records)
Brock is just 45.83 points away from becoming the 6th ROFFL franchise to cross 8,000 points. He’ll join Navid, Sherman, Lukin and – as of this
past week – Kiss and Watson. The farthest away from 8k? Nick Serrano who will need 618.54 points. If Nick can average 88.36 points per game
through the rest of the season, he’ll do it this year.
Sherman needs just 910.49 points this season to reach Lukin’s 2004 point record of 1,634.86 points. He’ll have to average 130.07 points per
game to do that. In similar news, Nick – who has the fewest point’s scored this season with just 500 – will need to average 162 points per game to
reach Lukin’s 2004 point total.

And now, without further ado, here's a look at last week's games:

Maryland Tools 111.12 vs. Born To Run My Mouth 76.50

Rich continues to have rough Week 6’s: He is now 1-6 in Week 6 games and has been outscored by 156 points. But his worst week is coming up:
He’s 0-6 in Week 9 games and has been outscored by nearly 200 points!
A quick thank you to last minute Dolphin edition’s Greg Camarillo (who’s 7 points actually was better than starters Moss and Bruce combined) and
Chad Pennington (21.85 points, second on the team in scoring).
For the first time since I can remember, a team had TWO players score negative numbers: Rich’s had an off day with the Giants D (-2 thanks to
giving up a lot of points and doing nothing else) and the Ravens Le’Ron McClair (-1 thanks to a fumble that negated his one catch for two yards).
More bad news for Rich: After a huge day from Romo (30!), he loses him for a month. Four weeks in Fantasy Football is a lifetime and could put
Rich into a 3-7 hole he might be able to get out of. Warner should be a solid replacement, but is on a bye next week…
Some good news for Rich: HE GOT ENGAGED! Congrats buddy!

Five Second Stare 107.88 vs. Coffeeon3rd 133.39

Believe it or not, this is not Cantor’s franchises worst start. In the inaugural season, Scott Tilles lead the then Whiskey N’ Rye NY to a 0-8 record
before beating Brock in Week 9 44-36 (wow, scores were low that season). That was the only win for that team that season and to this day,
Whiskey’s 1-12 record is the worst in ROFFL history.
The longest losing streak by any team is a three-way tie with 8-in-a-row between Whiskey in 2002, Defending Champs (Brock) in 2002, Tools in
2003, and, most recently, the New Jersey Jacobins in 2007. With the exception of Brock’s team, all of those teams “won” the Toilet Bowl that
season.
SOME good news: The LAST team to start the season 0-5 was Nick Serrano’s labor power in 2006. They went on to win 4 games that season
and DID NOT “win” the Toilet Bowl. (Am I helping at all? Probably not…)
Sorry about the Dodgers dude - I was pulling for them
Congrats to Josh for finally getting the Indy D to punish an offense.

Double G 125.36 vs. B'Day 109.37

Only two teams are winless against two others: I have yet to beat Josh (a pattern that continued in Week 5 this year), and Brian has yet to beat
Scott. History repeated itself this week. Scott is now 7-0 against Brian, outscoring him by 151.78 points.
Scott is on a crazy 5-game winning streak and has outscored opponents by 126 during that run.
Portis and Jone-Drew combined for 46 points for the G’s this week. Since Week 1 (where they combined for just 12 points), they have combined
for 165 points total. That makes them the second most valuable pairing, just a point and a half behind Sherman’s Tomlinson\Forte
B’Day has yet to score less than 90 points in a game, but has only been able to pull off wins against basement teams (Crabs and Stare)

Nomads in the Deep 103.89 vs. Shermtanks 116.20

At this point in the season, Jason has never had better than a 4-2 record and his team has never finished better than 8-5 (although he’s done
that three times)
Navid’s 3-3 record breaks a three-year streak of starting the season 4-2. Not a big difference, but this is: None of those teams had this few points
at this point in the season.
Jason is 4-3 against Navid in regular season games but, as expected, the playoffs are where Navid shines. They have met twice – in 2006 Navid
beat Jason in the semi-final game to get into the playoffs; in 2004, he beat him to win the Championship
With the exception of Week 5 (when Cotchery was on a bye and Plax was suspended), Jason has never had a week where less than six players
have crossed into double digits.
Navid may see the biggest bump next week, thanks to the Roy Williams deal. Williams is currently #54 in WR fantasy points.

Colt .45 Bandits 65.00 vs. Nose 93.59

Leave it to Brock to have the most theatrical team – currently he is beating opponents 553.66 to 551.90, or roughly outscoring them by less than
2 points.
Yet another apology to Nose, whose team continues to impress thanks to Aaron Rodgers (averaging 24.5 points per game) and Ronnie Brown
(averaging 17.65 points per game in five games)
Guess that Steve Smith pick worked out: In just four games, Smith is averaging 13.23 points. It’s Chad Johnson that appears to be the problem,
crossing into double digits just once this season
What’s been worse for the Bandits this season? Losing Brady (which meant decreased touches by Moss), losing Boldin (who averaged 19.85
points per game in the four he played), or dropping Derek Anderson, who’s poor playing somehow went away last week against the Giants
(congrats to Lukin on the pickup)?

New Jersey Jacobins 111.20 vs. Soaring Pigs 109.21

Ladies and gentlemen: The demise of the Jacobins has been grossly exaggerated. Dave is currently on a three-game team, and this win over the
Pigs is the biggest yet.
The now 3-3 Pigs are staying alive thanks to McNabb and Westbrook\Buckhalter (depending on the week). It’ll get tricky when Westbrook is back
and splitting carries with Buck. Although putting them both in might work in the absence of Addai
Donovan McNabb, I’m sorry I passed on you buddy!
Let’s be clear here: Kyle Orton (real life) is no Tom Brady. Kyle Orton (fantasy) is a nice substitute for Brady: Dave found comfort in Russell and
Collins, but is finding a friend in Orton who has posted an average of 23.33 points in the two games he has played for the Jacobins.
Finally, congrats to Nick, who faces Parker when Philly is on a bye and Eli has a chest bruise (oh, and PS – let the trading for Eli begin)

fair trade 119.93 vs. Fighting Blue Crabs 66.59

While Cantor has suffered more losses, it’s VA Chris that is getting crushed. In six games, VA has been outscored by opponents by 161.74 points.
VA’s team is not looking to good, especially this week: Just two players crossed into double digits: Manning (who’s been lackluster to say the least
this year) and Sammy Morris (a backup who’s won’t post 15 points every week)
The Crabs have crossed the Century mark once this year… and that wasn’t the game they won
Nick’s only crossed it twice, and those were his only wins.
Seriously, you two should make a Commonwealth Cup. Seriously. I need the draft book to be longer.

Best of luck to everyone this week.
Swami, 6-1 last week, will be have predictions entered by the Saturday night