A Caring Vulture

I'll never give away my secrets for free until today. Am I doing this because I care and to support my fellow competitors in the sexy panthers league? Never. But will I do it to prove my point and show how "caring" is how you give yourself the best chance to win fantasy leagues? Yes. 

Everyone who is/has been in multiple leagues knows A.) you have a limit of how many you can be in before one of your teams starts people on bye weeks in the starting lineup and B.) you also know by about week 3 you've dialed in on one league and the rest do not matter. So what I have done is made this league the only one I care about year after year and the results show:

- Last year I won my division at a record of 7-6 with the 3rd highest points for while having the most points against by 80 points.

- Going into week 11, I will have the most points for and a record of 7-3. 

I am not crowning myself champion or even trying to toot my own horn. But instead showing you that yes fantasy is luck, but you can combat that lucky element by caring.

Here is an example of how caring can combat luck:

For those who may not have known and or may not have seen, Lukas had 6+ players either on bye/injured along with a player on his IR that was coming off IR before Sunday. Leaving him either a choice of not playing a QB or a WR (basically intentionally losing) OR dropping players that he wished he could roster and should be rostered but couldn't. Below are our text messages this week: 

First off: Yes I am a psychopath when it comes to caring about fantasy. 

Secondly: Because I care so much I saw that if nobody else paid attention, Harris would be able to be picked up Monday at 10:35am because he didn't play this week due to a bye week. Ironically this was the exact same thing that happened to Kadarius Toney. Because I care I was able to turn two players I got off waivers that I never should have (because I am in 10th-12th in line every week) and turned it into a trade to hopefully better off my team. 

Was it a good trade or a bad one? I don't know. But caring gave me the opportunity to turn nothing into something. 

Power Rankings:

I know I didn't go into much depth about each team last week. So this week I will give a bit of insight into how I view everyone.

#1.) A Fierce Breeze - Kyle

Top scorer of the week, the top scorer in the league which is great. The bad news is Cpat may be part of a 3 man committee in the backfield, newcomer James Robinson is also in a committee backfield, but the good news is Cole Kmet (who was everyones sleeper TE going into this year) has turned up as of late. Along with that, the 3 headed monsters of WR's are doing what they should be going over 20 points each. For the scorekeepers out there: if I hadn't traded will I would have scored 18 more points this week @dumbass Doug.

Speaking of #2.) Hot Dug's - Doug

Even though the Raiders are literally crying, the whole offense has been basically run through Josh Jacobs. Opposite of Kyle he has a 3 headed RB monster that I don't think has hit their full potential until D. Swifty gets healthy. One thing to watch is how he juggles the 2nd WR spot. He's got 3 meh guys and will have to guess week-week on who to start.  

#3.) Scam Fakers - Matt

Not your best week scoring-wise ever, but Kyler was out. Along with that apparently, when San Fran mortgaged their future on trading for CMC they had him splitting time with Elijah Mitchell? The good news being is Lockett and Hockenson yet again prove to be solid starters but your flex position maybe the worst in the league. Renfrow isn't there to save you and I don't know if I buy Dotson being the guy to fill the role. 

#4.) Team Kamarica - Austin

You typically get my wraith from time to time by some of your questionable decisions. But as a man, I will own up to the fact I was wrong. Mostert even though splitting time is a must start. I do think you got lucky with the Paris Campbell performance this week and I think depending on how this Zeke problem shakes out is going to determine how far you go come playoff time. 

#5.) Thiccstooge - Brain

Even though you may lose this week, I still think people might have overlooked the trade you did. The pairing of Sun God and a Chase-free Higgins is now very scary. To go along that you have the Kwalk, Mixon, and possibly back Najee. The problem here is you also are going to have to juggle your flex spot (Smith, Davis, Najee) and I don't think I need to speak on the subject of Kyle Pitts. Please contact @BigWill for the Kyle Pitts experience therapy weekly meetings. 

#6.) Slay All Day - Chris

"I won't trade you because you don't need it" has officially ruined my Monday. I don't know how or why every week is a nail-biter that you always lose. People forget you are like 8th in points for but can't seem to win. But when I look at teams and see Justin Fields, Saquon, Chubb, Waddle, and Jimmy G's Kittle my dumb brain thinks that team should win. Hopefully, I've made your Monday even though you have the worst record in the league. 

#7.) Kamel64182930 - Will

Haters will see the name "D'onta Foreman/Panthers", what I see is the last 3/4 games having over 118 yards and going for 16+ points in those games. But but "He can't continue that", please tell that to RB 13 on the year Dameon Pierce who is arguably on the worst team in the NFL but still puts up points. JT appears to be back in stride but I do not know what has happened to Deebo which poses a problem. 

#8.) In Chase we Trust - Lukas

To be clear the real reason you are only down here is because of Andrews and Chase now being out for multiple weeks. Losing your best two players due to injury is something that's almost impossible to manage. Good news is they aren't literally dead and you just have to make the playoffs because I still think this team is a contender. 

------ Teams that have 0 chance at winning anything -------------

#9.) Joint Per Reception - Kirk

I mean this as nicely as I can, your team is a fucking mess. I look at it and I think your entire team is Josh Allen, Eckler, and then one big blur of random WR2/3's. I truly don't know how you salvage the season at this point. I do think Jeff Wilson is super fun but Fournette is now benched/not fun. 

#10.) My Goodies - Alan

At this point, I can confirm that the experiment of drafting the entire Broncos team is a failure. The good news is the Packers only took 10 weeks to figure out that if they give the ball to their best player they can win games in AJones. Bad news is that took 10 weeks. Juju is now dead and apparently, the Saints are still rolling with Dalton which makes not 1 bit of sense to me or probably to Olave. 

#11.) Sunday Cook Out - Dustin

You are the lowest-scoring team by a wide margin now at this point. I blame drafting and you tend to blame nobody trading you. But blame whatever you want you are still riding with Herbert when I counted 5 QB's ahead of him in scoring on the year that has been on the waivers at least 1 week this year. Along with that Toney/Harris were both on waivers before I grabbed them up. The slack I will give you is Dalvin has not been himself in scoring this year by any means.

#12.) Douglas DD, Dug- I am about to fuck you the fuck up next week jinx or no jinx. Your team died when Kupp died yesterday. Unfortunately, it happened right after the Bucs seem to be rounding into form which is half of your team who happen to be on bye week next week. Right now you need to pray that Brian/Devonta Smith scores over 13 points tonight because you are losing next week and I think Chris's team is on the up. The worst case is I expect a reenactment of Stefan's bachelor party where you are in tube top Hoola hooping that dump truck of an ass in picture form on a calendar. 

From,

My Brain