Week 7 Recap

Some games are still too close to call

That was Week 7, the mid-point of the season.  Wow.  I mean.  Wow.

What a crazy week.  Six teams are still holding their breath, waiting for that dreaded Tuesday-Thursday recalculation (just ask the AEthernauts what that's like) as three matches were decided by 3 pts or less.  As it stands now, it's still the undefeated Phat Girlz at top, who will all but clinch playoffs berth with one more win.  BDT, who took care of business against Trix, are right behind at 6-1 and have the first-round bye in sight, while Nauts, who closely lost to the Girlz in the most anticipated game of the year, and Dijon, who beat TigerMtn in what turned out to be the game of the year, are comfortably in the chase at 5-2.  Three teams are bunched at 4-3, and if things go accordingly, one of these teams (TTM, SFF, Bloodz) will be left out of the big dance.  Five teams below .500 mark, all with 5 losses or more, have the remotest of chances at this point, though no team can be ruled out just yet thanks to Pelican finally cracking the Win column.  One team did make the playoffs at 7-6 last year, and as a sixth seed that team went on to become the 2013 Champion.  So all bets are still on.

The market saw little activity, but injuries keep piling up, opening up fantasy opportunities for previously unheralded FA/waiver dwellers.  We'll likely see a heavy dose of transactions with mega bye-weeks starting at Week 9 just around the corner, but some teams' waiver budget well is starting to dry up. 

Yardiez

No one picked QBs that went over 300 ydz (we'll give benefit of doubt to Pelican that his comment wasn't a misspell of Luck who threw for league-leading 344 ydz in Week 7).  Matthew Stafford had the near-pin with 299 ydz while Kyle Orton, who honest to god was going to be my choice until I chickened out, had 283 ydz.  Refund candidate Peyton went over 300 and couldn't help us while Tony Romo helped the Boyz to a big pay-dirt.

Old Future: Philip Rivers 205 ydz

TTM: Jay Cutler: 190 ydz

Bloodz: Andy Dalton 126 ydz

Trix: Colin Kaepernick 263 ydz

Nauts: Tom Brady 261ydz

BDT: Tony Romo 279 ydz

BDT will collect pot, matching funds minus his bet, a nice +33.

Stock Market

I'm still hesitant to finalize this since I got the feeling outcomes may change.  But with waivers and rankingz and previewz coming up, we've got to move on so we got to start somewhere.  The curse of Celebrity Jeopardy continues, and we may never see this derivative make any money to anyone this year. 

Celebrity Jeopardy: Future and Trix both lost

Upsetters: Pelican won but Trix and Shock lost

ATTWN: Pelican won but Nauts lost

Recap

Future: +5

Bloodz (+3)

Dijon (+10)

Shock (-5)

Yardz (-3)

TTM: -8

Shock (-5)

Yardz (-3)

Trix: -3

Trix (-5)

Bloodz (+3)

Yardz (-3)

dividends (+2)

Bloodz: +1

Yardz (-3)

dividends (x2=+4)

BDT: +33

Yardz (-3+36)

Nauts: -3
Yardz (-3)

Shock: +4

dividends (x2)

Dijon: +2

dividends

Sing it Peyton: Market will come back next week

Public Funds Index:
+292+31=+323

Check your numbers, please