Week 2 has come and gone and needless to say, it was a lot more
entertaining than our opening week of blow-outs. While there were still two 60+ point wins,
there were also two games decided by only a few points and were won each by the
underdogs. One came down to the Sunday
night game and the other come down to the Monday night game.
But before we get on with the rankings, let’s check in on the Iowa
football team…
….aaaaaaand back to the Power Rankings.
1.
Fuck It Three – Nothing unusual here, South once
again dominated even though 2 of his main starters didn’t show up. He now has high points and is 2-0. FI3 is the clear favorite to win the league
as Benjamin is emerging as Cam’s go-to guy and he’ll also get Bell back in week
4. It’s a nice consolation prize to the rest of the league to only be
funneling money into his childless bank account during football season now
rather than every Wednesday night.
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| South just seems to keep rolling. |
2.
Off Suit 10s – I really wish we would’ve played
cards this week during SNF. Chris had a 22.82 lead going into the
Pack-Vikes game with Cobb still in play. All he had to worry about was an
undrafted sophomore WR whose best fantasy game of his career netted 23.7
points. But then Bradford came out throwing darts to Diggs and Cobb put
his 2015 jersey on. Usually just getting a win over Lansink would’ve made
Kyle happier than Abel at a NASCAR themed wedding, and he probably would’ve
just quit after that. But a 1.08 win when Lazer thought he had it all
wrapped up has to be one of the top entries in Kyle’s ‘Journal of Times That
I’ve Really Pissed Chris Off.’ Kyle now finds himself at 2-0 even though
he was a heavy underdog in each matchup and has to make a run of this expected
lost season. We’ll see if OS10s can sustain this as only 7 guys on his
entire roster scored in double digits this week. Getting Charles back is
going to help but losing Abdullah, Ertz and Foster could hurt worse than losing
to an FCS school.
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| Diggs digging Lansink's grave. |
3.
Smells Low – Riley gets the top spot of the
1-loss teams this week for knocking off the 2nd highest scorer of
Week 2, Seth. And since these rankings are really pretty arbitrary at
this point in the season, it seems fair since Riley’s team will eventually
crash harder than South coming off a
three-day Mountain Dew and Skittles bender.
A bunch of random guys had decent weeks and the Denver D shut
down Indy. Riley seemed headed for tragedy after the Sunday games were
completed after leaving the 2 highest scorers on his bench. But Ryan
Mathews came through on MNF with a last minute garbage TD to nose him into the
lead. He has another tough matchup against Kyle in the battle of
overachievers, and he’s still 2 weeks from getting Brady back. The good
news is that even living off the grid in Canada (or wherever he is), he’s still
managed to figure out how to use the waiver wire.
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| Von Miller will probably be Riley's MVP as well. |
4.
Ah It’s Early – Seth had to feel pretty good
going into MNF with a 12.26 lead (although not as good as Chris on Sunday) and
only the fragile Mathews to worry about. But he saw his lead disappear as
Cutler was generously donating fumbles and picks to the Iggles, and they padded
their score with a 2nd Mathews TD. It’s nice to know that Seth
could take solace not only in the tender touch of Chris’s sister, but also in
knowing that there weren’t really any roster moves he could’ve made that
would’ve given him the win. At least with South on the schedule next,
he’ll know long before Sunday night that his chances of winning are as thin as
his beard.
5.
If We’re Using Logic – We couldn’t put Chris
ahead of Seth because, well you all know.
Chris suffered the worst beat of the year so far and it didn’t have to
be so. If one of you selfish bastards
would’ve just traded him a ham sandwich for HOFer Doug Baldwin, he could’ve
avoided this mess. But instead he was
stuck having to play him instead of the 10 other guys that would’ve given him
the win. Literally only 5 guys on his
bench could not have taken Chris to victory.
And for that, Lazer is awarded the Casaer Award for worst manager of the
week. Next up for IWUL is a date with
0-2 R4D, who claimed the Week 1 Caesar Award.
Let’s see who can screw up the decision making the most this coming
week.
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| Doug Baldwin isn't a top WR? |
6.
I’m Out – Abel rebounded nicely after losing to
his fellow Winterset colleague by destroying Finken. His QBs went off and
he pretty much maximized his roster management, which is believed by the Power
Rankings to have been a complete accident. All-of-a-sudden-competent-Abel
now has a chance to go on a nice little run matching up against the worst team
in the league next followed by the unluckiest team in the league. And to
top it all off, he still has all of his FAB money left. He’s probably
waiting to see which star Kyle drops by week 4.
That’s just the kind of good management and forward thinking that will
keep him climbing these rankings.
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| Abel's got us all right where he wants us. |
7.
Rollin’ 4 Deep – Finken fields by far the most
disappointing team so far this season.
His starters have underperformed and he’s continually leaving
significant points on the bench. Seriously,
Finken’s roster decisions have been worse than a Ryan Knight 4-bid. Things won’t get any easier with Lansink and
Kyle coming to town the next few weeks and AP going on the shelf. A few more losses early in the season and
Finken’s only goal might be to go for the 1st pick 3 years running.
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| Again... |
8.
Play It Backwards – Mitch, you might want to get
comfortable here. Spruce the place up a
bit, decorate as you see fit as it looks like #8 will be yours for a
while. You might want to rename it the “Singles
Bar” due to the amount of single digits sprinkled across your roster. Losing Woodhead for the year is going to be
quite a blow and your time with Garoppolo looks to be ending sooner than
expected. We really tried to think of
something positive to say about your team to close out the rankings, but it’s
filled with more garbage than E! Network.
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| Mitch's team so far this season. |
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