22 January 2024
Black & Brew
crew,
An exciting round of
football concludes with an entertaining Chiefs-Bills game to lock in the NFL's
final four for the 2023 season.
Results for the
Divisional round have been posted to the league's standings page.
Details for each
team from this week can be found here.
Teams placing in the
money this week:
|
Rank |
Team |
TOTAL |
|
1 |
Specter, Corey |
2144 |
|
2 |
LaFavor, Kaleb |
2078 |
|
3 |
Lammers, Casey |
2034 |
|
4 |
Laures, Jared |
1988 |
|
5 |
Wetz, Bennett |
1976 |
|
6 |
Wetz, Grant |
1956 |
|
7 |
Rutledge, Jeremy |
1938 |
|
8 |
Hubert, Mike |
1918 |
|
9 |
Materna, Justin |
1915 |
Very impressive
scores for the week considering the highest possible score was a mere 108 points more than the team that Corey Specter
submitted this week.
It was still
possible to crack the Top 9 without Christian McCaffrey and Mike Evans, but the majority of teams that landed in those payout spots were
on them.
|
Pos |
Week 2 |
Name |
POINTS |
|
QB |
|
580 |
|
|
RB |
|
390 |
|
|
WR |
|
370 |
|
|
TE |
|
280 |
|
|
PK |
|
180 |
|
|
RB |
|
296 |
|
|
D |
|
160 |
|
|
TOTAL |
2256 |
The most popular
picks of the week:
|
Popularity |
Pos |
Name |
Owned |
Points |
Pos Rank |
|
8th |
QB |
26.05% |
484 |
2nd |
|
|
2nd |
RB |
42.86% |
390 |
1st |
|
|
1st |
WR |
46.22% |
370 |
1st |
|
|
3rd |
TE |
37.82% |
280 |
1st |
|
|
T-12th |
PK |
21.01% |
180 |
1st |
|
|
7th |
DEF |
Baltimore (BAL) |
27.73% |
160 |
1st |
|
4th |
FLEX |
31.09% |
146 |
18th |
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
2010 |
|
I don't recall it
ever being the case where so many players that were expected to be the top
performers actually went out and produced as the top
performers on the field. With the exception of
Nico Collins, the participants overwhelmingly nailed it this week.
It starts to get nice and interesting now that everyone has to start
navigating around the players they've previously
selected. A lot of those teams you find on the leaderboard this week
consisted of rosters with players from winning teams.
- Ryan Bertul (52nd
overall) and Bennett Wetz (87th) have been particularly solid at selecting
winners, finding their roster builder this week is ten names short. Unfortunately just picking the winners doesn't pay anything
in this game.
- Overall leader
Grant Wetz and fellow top 10 competitors Dick Kennedy (4th) and Corey Specter
(6th) have seven players they need to avoid this week.
- Larry Ross (9th)
has a more manageable four players unavailable to him
- And you can never
forget those participants that neglected to submit a roster this week.
Both Jerry Theis (98th) and Justin (Koedam) have only a single player each that
they must avoid. There is a long history in this league of teams failing
to submit a roster one week followed by a podium finish the next week.
Overall top 16
through two weeks:
|
# |
|
Team |
WildCard |
Divisional |
Total |
|
1 |
↑1 |
Wetz, Grant |
2005 |
1956 |
3961 |
|
2 |
↓1 |
Erkel, Marcus |
2080 |
1760 |
3840 |
|
3 |
↑11 |
Laures, Jared |
1761 |
1988 |
3749 |
|
4 |
↔ |
Kennedy, Dick |
1941 |
1758 |
3699 |
|
5 |
↑35 |
LaFavor, Kaleb |
1589 |
2078 |
3667 |
|
6 |
↑45 |
Specter, Corey |
1512 |
2144 |
3656 |
|
7 |
↑30 |
Lammers, Casey |
1607 |
2034 |
3641 |
|
8 |
↑17 |
Rutledge, Jeremy |
1681 |
1938 |
3619 |
|
9 |
↓4 |
Ross, Larry |
1937 |
1681 |
3618 |
|
10 |
↑3 |
Comune, Pat |
1763 |
1812 |
3575 |
|
11 |
↓4 |
Heaton, Brett |
1811 |
1709 |
3520 |
|
12 |
↑5 |
Arndorfer, Mike |
1739 |
1771 |
3510 |
|
13 |
↑7 |
Fisher, Joey |
1719 |
1789 |
3508 |
|
14 |
↑30 |
McGuiure, John |
1559 |
1907 |
3466 |
|
15 |
↑5 |
Specter, Caroline |
1719 |
1729 |
3448 |
|
16 |
↑3 |
Laures, Chris |
1726 |
1706 |
3432 |
Rosters for the
Conference Playoff Round can now be assembled at the roster builder page.
Players previously
selected by you are automatically excluded from the list for selection but
please let me know if you see any issues.
No
guarantee is being made that injured players have been removed from the roster
builder.
I
have removed players that are on the longer term injured reserve list, but
not those that are marked as questionable by their teams. I encourage
everyone to check on the injury status of their desired player before selecting
them.
Rosters are
due before kickoff of the kickoff of the Kansas City
Chiefs at Baltimore Ravens game on Sunday 1/28 at 2:00PM CST. Neither
roster submissions nor changes will be allowed after that point.
PLEASE turn in your
roster before this time. If you are someone who tends to forget about
this sort of thing (pointing at myself), submit one right now here. You can change it as many times as you
want between now and that kickoff. Only the last submitted team before
the lock will be used.
When you submit your
roster, you should find your current balance. If this is a negative
number, please send your entry fee to either via Paypal or Venmo.
Once kickoff occurs,
live scoring will be available at blackandbrew.net.
Thanks and good luck this week!
Ben
Schroeder
"God bless fantasy football. There are many things a man can do with
his time...this is better than those things"