Wednesday, December 16, 2015

WRBL Week 14 2015 (Playoffs Round 1)

The Wisconsin Rapids Bro League

Week 14

Our 2nd semi-official season of blaming Cole Walters for controversial rules.

Name Changes
Evan Moon = The Donald
Alec Swanson = Where's Cole? Not Here

Playoff Results
Round 1
Byes: The Donald (79 points) & Spider 2 Y Banana (80 points)
#4 Sneen Machine  118  #5 Thee Wisconsin Chowhounds  76
#6 Where's Cole? Not Here  148  #3 Cole Top, Moon Bottom  128
#8 John, Can I Use The Suburban?  120  #7 Your GF Likes Mike Ditka  118
#9 Bilbo Unable To Braggins  112  #10 Team Tiffany  88

Hero of the Week: WR Odell Beckham Jr. (John, Can I Use The Suburban?)
Heroes of the Week: WR Odell Beckham Jr. (Walters), WR Doug Baldwin (Zurawski), QB Russell Wilson (Silka)

Zeros of the Week: Owner Josh Tiffany (Tiffany), The Atlanta Falcons (NFL Team?), The Injury Gods (Mystical Force)

Aaron Doster - USA TODAY Sports
Zero of the Week: The Injury Gods (Mystical Force)
Upcoming Week 14 Match-ups & NFL Schedule (in CT)
Winner Bracket: #6 Where's Cole? Not Here v. #2 Spider 2 Y Banana
#4 Sneen Machine v. #1 The Donald
Loser Tickle Fights: #5 Thee Wisconsin Chowhounds v. #3 Cole Top, Moon Bottom
#9 Bilbo Unable To Braggins v. #8 John, Can I Use The Suburban?
#10 Team Tiffany v. #7 Your GF Likes Mike Ditka

Thursday Game: Tampa Bay @ St. Louis 7:25 PM
Saturday: NY Jets @ Dallas 7:25 PM
Sunday: Chicago @ Minnesota NOON
Atlanta @ Jacksonville NOON
Houston @ Indianapolis NOON
Carolina @ NY Giants NOON
Tennessee @ New England NOON
Buffalo @ Washington NOON
Kansas City @ Baltimore NOON
Cleveland @ Seattle 3:05 PM
Green Bay @ Oakland 3:05 PM
Denver @ Pittsburgh 3:25 PM
Miami @ San Diego 3:25 PM
Cincinnati @ San Francisco 3:25 PM
Arizona @ Philadelphia 7:30 PM
Monday: Detroit @ New Orleans 7:30 PM

Bro...
After a busy week of trash-talking, complaining and more injuries, only four teams remain in the hunt for the trophy that we are most likely naming "The Shelby". The first round of the playoffs were a doozy as the Sneen Machine pulverized Scott's dad in a match-up that was settled before 3:00 as the score was 118-46 with a few players left for Thee Wisconsin Chowhounds but, nobody that was accumulating 72 points. Thus ends a season that saw the highest of heights (6-0) and the deepest of depths (6-6) for Mr. Aschebrook Sr. Griffin III. The other playoff duel involved the two highest scoring teams in the league this week (because sometimes life isn't fair) as Alec's Where's Cole? Not Here team eliminated Nick Zurawski's Cole Top, Moon Bottom 148-128. In the loser's bracket, Scott destroyed virtual bye week Josh Tiffany 112-88 and will go on to face Cole in the battle for the highly prestigious 7th place (or something like that. It will all make sense once the season is over, I'm sure). Even though Cole and Alex were designated as "losers", they certainly did not play like it this week with whatever the fantasy version of an ESPNClassic "Instant Classic" is. John, Can I Use The Suburban? trailed Your GF Likes Mike Ditka by an improbable-to-recover-from 33 points. Odell Beckham Jr., being Cole's only player left, grabbed 7 passes for 166 yards and two touchdowns. A grand total of 35 points from ODB/OBJ gave Walters a two-point win and after all of Cole's complaints about playoff seeding, it appears he might have had a point with the way his team has performed. It's a good thing Moon and myself had bye weeks this week because both of our teams crapped the bed watching from the sidelines this week. Whatever, we're on to Cincinnati...

 This week in injuries: Thomas Rawls, LeGarrette Blount, Vincent Jackson, Tyler Eifert, Andy Dalton, Matt Hasselbeck, Cam Newton (temporarily), Greg Olsen, Jonathan Stewart, T.J. Yeldon, Spencer Ware, Charles Clay, Brian Hoyer and Oakland's Long Snapper. Despite losing yet another key part of his offense, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots continue to thrive at 11-2 and once again as the #1 seed in the AFC. How did they leap back up from third to first? Denver curled up in the fetal position when presented with the idea of blocking Khalil Mack and every single Bengal (not named A.J. Green) suffered an injury so, both teams lost. New England's fate returned to their hands and the Patriots defeated Houston in a sleepy Monday Night game 27-6. 

Actual photo of Tom Brady running away from injuries.
The playoff picture is really starting to shape itself out where the only LIKELY things to be intriguing are the winner of the AFC South (Indy? Houston? JACKSONVILLE?), the AFC Wildcard (Pittsburgh is still out at 8-5, KC and the Jets are in at 8-5) and the NFC East (Washington, Philly and the Giants are all 6-7 soooo yipee?). After only one team losing their playoff eligibility through 12 games (Cleveland), six teams dropped out of contention after this weekend (Tennessee, San Diego, San Francisco, Detroit, Baltimore and Miami). The Dolphins have the strongest record at 5-8 and yet, the AFC East is New England's and the three 8-5 teams did not help their chances. It was quite a tragic Monday Night for Nick Zurawski with Ryan Tannehill and Jarvis Landry not quite putting up enough points for an epic Monday night comeback and with his NFL team losing, who knows if Nick will even feel up to the task of setting a lineup this week? Hopefully he does because the thing that makes a fantasy league great is competitiveness. In other news, Eddie Lacy is back, the Packers appear to be back, the Bengals are in trouble and the Falcons are the worst.

Looking at the schedule, one might notice that OH CRAP! There's a game on Saturday night because the NFL totally needs to dominate another night of television ratings. Personally, I'll be watching the Camellia and New Orleans Bowl games because college football is the far superior entertainment product. The Bucs and Rams play Thursday Night Football as Alec's Doug Martin and my Todd Gurley face off to start our semifinal match-up. The Jets and Cowboys are the Saturday game as Ryan Fitzpatrick and his reliable targets look to end Dallas's season while extending their own. The early Sunday slate includes a still-undefeated Panther team taking on the confusing 6-7 Giants, an NFC North battle between Chicago and Minnesota and fantasy points galore (probably) between Atlanta and Jacksonville. Late afternoon, we get to see A.J. McCarron's first NFL start against San Francisco, Russell Wilson and Doug Baldwin look to keep their hot streaks hot without a real Running Back against Cleveland and Brock Lobster tries to keep his job against Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown. Sunday is wrapped up by a sneaky good game between Arizona and Philadelphia and Monday night wraps up the entire NFL week 15 with a sneaky terrible game between Detroit and New Orleans. In the Bro League, #1 seed Evan Moon takes on Sneen and his machine and I face Alec as the championship match-up will be decided Monday night (or sooner depending on lineups). ESPN has Moon listed as a -16.6 point favorite and lists Spider 2 Y Banana as a closer -5.8 favorite as of this post so, place your bets accordingly. It's down to a 3-10 Philip Rivers, a 5-8 Blake Bortles, a 5-8 Drew Brees and an 11-2 Tom Brady in the Bro League (as we all guessed in the preseason. -sarcasm detector begins beeping-) and the stakes have never been higher (We actually have a trophy this year!).

2015 Scoring Leaders

QB
Tom Brady 302 (TODD)
Russell Wilson 259 (SILKA)
Aaron Rodgers 257 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Drew Brees 207 (SNEEN)
Cam Newton 205 (TIFFANY)
Philip Rivers 185 (MOON)
Carson Palmer 184 (ASCHEBROOK)
Matt Ryan 138 (SWANSON)
Eli Manning 127 (WALTERS)
Andrew Luck 112 (ZURAWSKI)
Blake Bortles 102 (TODD/ASCHEBROOK SR./SWANSON)
Ben Roethlisberger 65 (WALTERS)
Tyrod Taylor 61 (ASCHEBROOK)
Peyton Manning 57 (TIFFANY)
Derek Carr 49 (ZURAWSKI/SWANSON)
Ryan Tannehill 42 (ASCHEBROOK/ZURAWSKI)
Sam Bradford 40 (MOON)
Andy Dalton 23 (WALTERS)
Tony Romo 19 (WALTERS/SNEEN)
Ryan Fitzpatrick 15 (WALTERS)
Brian Hoyer 14 (ZURAWSKI)
Colin Kaepernick 13 (SNEEN)
Alex Smith 13 (ZURAWSKI)

RB
Devonta Freeman 229 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Adrian Peterson 210 (MOON)
Mark Ingram 193 (ZURAWSKI)
Lamar Miller 192 (SWANSON/ASCHEBROOK)
Chris Ivory 170 (WALTERS)
LeSean McCoy 166 (WALTERS)
Danny Woodhead 162 (TIFFANY)
Doug Martin 155 (SWANSON)
Jonathan Stewart 155 (TIFFANY)
DeMarco Murray 149 (SNEEN)
Matt Forte 148 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
DeAngelo Williams 139 (SILKA)
Todd Gurley 122 (TODD)
Latavius Murray 120 (MOON)
Justin Forsett 114 (SNEEN)
Jamaal Charles 96 (ASCHEBROOK)
T.J. Yeldon 95 (SNEEN)

Darren McFadden 86 (ASCHEBROOK)
Eddie Lacy 85 (SILKA)
Marshawn Lynch 79 (SWANSON/ASCHEBROOK)
Arian Foster 73 (ASCHEBROOK/SWANSON)
Carlos Hyde 73 (TODD)
Jeremy Langford 73 (WALTERS)
Giovani Bernard 68 (ZURAWSKI)
Charcandrick West 68 (TODD)
Frank Gore 66 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Dion Lewis 58 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Theo Riddick 51 (WALTERS/SILKA)
Jeremy Hill 49 (MOON)
David Johson 42 (SILKA)
Duke Johnson Jr. 41 (TODD)
Thomas Rawls 37 (ASCHEBROOK)
Melvin Gordon 36 (WALTERS)
C.J. Anderson 34 (TIFFANY)
LeGarrette Blount 33 (ZURAWSKI)
Ameer Abdullah 26 (TODD)
Antonio Andrews 26 (SWANSON)
Isaiah Crowell 23 (SILKA)
James Starks 20 (TODD)
Shane Vereen 20 (SNEEN)
Spencer Ware 20 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Tevin Coleman 18 (ZURAWSKI/TODD)
Andre Ellington 18 (SILKA)
Chris Johnson 18 (ASCHEBROOK/SWANSON)
Javorius Allen 17 (WALTERS)
Karlos Williams 16 (ASCHEBROOK)
Alfred Morris 14 (SILKA)
Joseph Randle 13 (ASCHEBROOK)
Branden Oliver 12 (TODD)
Ryan Mathews 11 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Rashad Jennings 7 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)

Shaun Draughn 6 (SWANSON)
Darren Sproles 6 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Alfred Blue 5 (ZURAWSKI)
Lance Dunbar 5 (SWANSON)
Ronnie Hillman 5 (SWANSON)
Bishop Sankey 4 (WALTERS)
Matt Jones 1 (TODD)

WR
Julio Jones 286 (TODD)
Antonio Brown 284 (SNEEN)
Odell Beckham Jr. 283 (WALTERS)
DeAndre Hopkins 266 (ZURAWSKI)
A.J. Green 232 (ASCHEBROOK/SWANSON)
Jarvis Landry 221 (ZURAWSKI)
Calvin Johnson 202 (SILKA)
Brandon Marshall 199 (MOON)
Larry Fitzgerald 186 (SWANSON/ASCHEBROOK/WALTERS)
Demaryius Thomas 182 (ASCHEBROOK/SWANSON)
Allen Robinson 180 (MOON)
Julian Edelman 168 (SILKA)
Randall Cobb 160 (TODD)
Keenan Allen 157 (TIFFANY)
Alshon Jeffery 147 (SWANSON)
T.Y. Hilton 133 (WALTERS)
Emmanuel Sanders 131 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Mike Evans 128 (MOON)
Eric Decker 119 (SNEEN)
Brandin Cooks 90 (TODD)
Jordan Matthews 90 (SNEEN)
Donte Moncrief 90 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Steve Smith Sr. 77 (SNEEN)
Golden Tate 77 (ASCHEBROOK/ZURAWSKI)
Amari Cooper 75 (SWANSON)
Danny Amendola 72 (ASCHEBROOK SR./SILKA)
Martavis Bryant 70 (SNEEN)
Rishard Matthews 70 (ASCHEBROOK/TIFFANY)
Sammy Watkins 66 (ASCHEBROOK SR./ASCHEBROOK)
John Brown 60 (MOON)
Marvin Jones 57 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Stevie Johnson 54 (ASCHEBROOK/ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Dez Bryant 49 (ASCHEBROOK)
Pierre Garcon 48 (ZURAWSKI)
Vincent Jackson 46 (ASCHEBROOK/TODD)
Kendall Wright 41 (TODD)
Jeremy Maclin 35 (ASCHEBROOK)

Doug Baldwin 32 (ZURAWSKI)
Brandon LaFell 32 (ASCHEBROOK)
Tyler Lockett 31 (SILKA)
Stefon Diggs 29 (ASCHEBROOK)
Malcom Floyd 26 (WALTERS)
Rueben Randle 26 (WALTERS)
Kamar Aiken 24 (ZURAWSKI)
Travis Benjamin 18 (ASCHEBROOK/SWANSON)
Mike Wallace 18 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Davante Adams 17 (MOON)
James Jones 14 (TODD)
Andre Johnson 11 (ZURAWSKI)
Tavon Austin 10 (TIFFANY)
Torrey Smith 9 (SILKA)
Brandon Coleman 6 (ASCHEBROOK)
Marques Colston 6 (TIFFANY)
Willie Snead 5 (SWANSON)
DeSean Jackson 4 (ZURAWSKI)
Charles Johnson 4 (MOON)
Roddy White 3 (SILKA)

TE
Rob Gronkowski 217 (ZURAWSKI)
Delanie Walker 182 (TODD)
Tyler Eifert 172 (SWANSON)
Greg Olsen 156 (MOON)
Travis Kelce 134 (WALTERS)
Jason Witten 129 (TIFFANY)
Gary Barnidge 120 (TIFFANY)
Jimmy Graham 117 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Antonio Gates 106 (ASCHEBROOK)
Martellus Bennett 105 (SNEEN)
Jordan Cameron 60 (SILKA)
Julius Thomas 52 (SNEEN)
Benjamin Watson 37 (ASCHEBROOK/ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Zach Ertz 30 (MOON)
Jordan Reed 27 (WALTERS)
Charles Clay 25 (TODD/SWANSON)
Coby Fleener 19 (SILKA)
Scott Chandler 16 (ZURAWSKI)
Dwayne Allen 10 (ASCHEBROOK)
Jared Cook 9 (TODD)
Larry Donnell 8 (ZURAWSKI)

Richard Rodgers 7 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Eric Ebron 5 (ASCHEBROOK)
Kyle Rudolph 5 (ASCHEBROOK)
Austin Seferian-Jenkins 4 (ASCHEBROOK)
Vernon Davis 3 (ASCHEBROOK)
Zach Miller 1 (SWANSON)

K
Stephen Gostkowski 143 (ASCHEBROOK)
Justin Tucker 114 (SNEEN)
Steven Hauschka 111 (TIFFANY)
Mason Crosby 101 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)

Chandler Catanzaro 100 (TODD)
Brandon McManus 88 (SWANSON)
Blair Walsh 83 (MOON)
Robbie Gould 69 (SILKA)
Matt Bryant 68 (WALTERS)
Josh Brown 51 (ZURAWSKI)
Dan Bailey 37 (MOON)
Cairo Santos 27 (ZURAWSKI)
Nick Novak 24 (WALTERS)
Matt Prater 19 (ZURAWSKI)
Cody Parkey 16 (SILKA)
Andrew Franks 14 (TODD)
Caleb Sturgis 11 (SNEEN)
Josh Lambo 9 (SWANSON)
Dustin Hopkins 7 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Dan Carpenter 5 (ASCHEBROOK)
Kai Forbath 3 (TODD)
Adam Vinatieri -1 (SWANSON)

DF
Denver Broncos 164 (SILKA)
Carolina Panthers 135 (ZURAWSKI/SWANSON)
Seattle Seahawks 107 (ASCHEBROOK SR.)
St. Louis Rams 97 (SNEEN)
New England Patriots 89 (TIFFANY)
New York Jets 84 (MOON/ZURAWSKI)
Arizona Cardinals 63 (SWANSON/ASCHEBROOK)
Philadelphia Eagles 56 (TODD/ASCHEBROOK SR.)
Houston Texans 50 (ASCHEBROOK/WALTERS)
Buffalo Bills 47 (WALTERS/ASCHEBROOK)
Cincinnati Bengals 45 (WALTERS/TODD)
Kansas City Chiefs 43 (MOON)
Minnesota Vikings 30 (MOON)
Pittsburgh Steelers 29 (WALTERS)
Atlanta Falcons 22 (SWANSON/TODD)
Chicago Bears 8 (ZURAWSKI)
Miami Dolphins 7 (TODD)
Indianapolis Colts 1 (ZURAWSKI)
Green Bay Packers -1 (TIFFANY)
Cleveland Browns -3 (ZURAWSKI)
Baltimore Ravens -4 (SWANSON/ZURAWSKI/SNEEN)

Hypothetical Standings (If the 5 highest scoring teams were winners each week & No Playoffs)
Spider 2 Y Banana 9-5
Cole Top, Moon Bottom 9-5
Sneen Machine 9-5
Where's Cole? Not Here. 9-5
The Donald 8-6
Thee Wisconsin Chowhounds 8-6
John, Can I Use The Suburban? 7-7
Your GF Likes Mike Ditka 6-8
Bilbo Unable To Braggins 3-11

Team Tiffany 2-12

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