Power Rankings Week 7

Delicious Cupcakes

Massive blood-letting as we enter the meat of the season, two over  170, multiple starting RBs and WRs done for the year. We had a semi-contraction, down to one undefeated and one winless, two 5-1 and two 1-5, two 4-2 two 2-4 and two 3-3 - a flat bell curve.


1.  (1)  Phat Girlz - (6-0) - Can the Girlz be beat? It's an open question, they're walking all over the rest of the league, reminding the rest of us of 2010 when they went 10-3, regularly mashing opponents, only to lose to an auto-pilot team in the finals. Crazy inflated numbers this week from superior double titration from Luck/Hilton, and the best days of the year from ground game Tate and Forte.  Big. Bad. Girlz.

2.  (2) BuildingDwellingThinking  (5-1)- As the Cowboys go, so goes BDT, and how 'bout them Cowboys?  Romo & Co were the toast of highlight reels, upsetting the Seahawks. Luckily the Thinkers didn't need their big guns against a limping Polk squad as they put up a variety of lowballs outside of Romo and Ertz. They'll be limited as long as Ball misses games, but the German Philosophers should put up mid range numbers like this, even in an off week. 

3. (3) Aethernauts - (5-1) - Lucky trumps good every time and the Ether Breathers were very lucky to escape with a win in this one. Riding a long-shot bet one game too long, the Nauts took a bath on Eli's awful Sunday night.  Another ho-hum 20 point performance from Murray was the real driving force here. Flacco and Newton were top QB1 in fantasy on the bench.  No one's going to replace Cruz's production and his injury is a definite downgrade, but wideout is notoriously the easiest place to fish for big points.  The Nauts will try and hold the playoff course. 

4. (4) TakingTigerMountain  (4-2) -  Saints bye week was a low-likelihood for a win, but the Trichs put up a world-beating score anyway. The Tigers got back on the right side of triple digits, with a spot start for Tannehill and some good yardage numbers for the WR corps. With Graham likely taking a slow recovery, the Tigers will be counting on Brees to return to QB1 status to lead them. 

5. (7)  Dijonaise All Stars (4-2)   - It's hard to remember why the ratings were so down on the Mustard Men. Foster and Rodgers seemed like throw backs, but have been living in days of your the last couple weeks. With Lamar Miller the main beneficiary of Moreno's injury, they can potentially go to a three RB set.  It's taken a little while but the fantasy gods seem to have corrected the auto-draft handicap.  

6. (5)  SanFranciscoFerries (3-3)-  The Ferries sunk in week 6, getting lowballs from their top four skill positions. Lacy crashed back to earth after a few promising weeks. Bell continued his streak of six straight double digit games.  Deep at running back the Bay Area Boatmen are lacking in wide receiver production, although Cruz's injury sets the rookie Beckham up with a big role. 

T. 7.  (6) Old Future (2-4)  - The Futurists again got beat with a big number, they would have beat two thirds of the teams in the league with their 119. Starting both Buffalo's running backs was a bold move that backfired.  Still with Manning & Alshon, the Future is going to be in it week in week out.

T. 7. (8)  Homespun Neckbloodz (3-3) - The Cyclotron spun up a low-end win in week 6 and survived an injury scare to Nio-Gio.  Foles has been solid, excepting a week 4 hiccup, but has yet to approach the top end QB status he looked to threaten.  Humor points for a J-ville defense stint, not likely to be repeated this year.  Steve Smith Sr's graying renaissance has been a shot in the arm, he's #3 WR by points, drafted for the bargain price of $1.  

9. (11)  Trichs  (1-5) - Backs to the river the Trichs pulled a page out of Sun Tzu's book and burned bridges or boats or something. Whatever it was, it worked, only the Mighty Monique topped the Trichs 170 this week. The Hair-Pullers had no less than eight double digits including a rare 20 pt IDP from JJ Watt. Losing Ridley isn't as much of a downgrade since he was really backup in deep Shogunate backfield. The Keeper-nick had his best week of 2014, and not every one will be against the Rams, but he's quietly a QB2.

10. (12) Shock_Pix  (2-4) - After a massive line-up reset the Shock was flattened by the Girlz force majeur. Branden Oliver, as expected, is a big wire hit and has the potential to lead the ground game here.  With Cutler at QB1 and Demaryius finding his rhythm, the Primordial Ones could rise into playoff contention before the bye weeks are behind us.

11. (9)  Polk High Panthers (1-5) - Pity the Polks - their season already riddled with injuries the losses keep piling up. We knew from the beginning that they would be almost entirely dependent on blue chip keepers Megatron & Green, both injured this week. And with Charles & Pierre out on byes there was no real way to stop the bleeding this week.  With a five in the loss column the Panthers need to reach back and find a way to win without their stars, or risk a trip to the consolation tourney.

12. (11)  Pelican Brief (0-6)-  When misfortune leads us to questioning our core strategy, despair can provoke a kind of lassitude, which barely conceals a longing for the peace that only oblivion can provide.  After gambling heavily on Cousins to outplay Brady last week and coming up short, the Grishamites "let it ride" despite the fact that Flacco (a surprising #8 by points) and Brady, who regained his composure last week, both had superior match-ups to the Kirk. Even Seattle's defense sat the bench. It's too bad, because a Nauts lowball nearly gave the Brief a much-needed win.