WRBL Week 7, 2020

 Wisconsin Rapids Bro League

Week Seven

Our Sixth Official Season of blaming Cole Walters for Killer Mike never going platinum.

Current Standings (with regular season won-loss streaks & [Seasonal Point Totals]) 

Steven Nett Division

Colieveland 96ers (Cole Walters) 5-2 W2 [923.88]

Team ChowHounds (Darrin Aschebrook) 4-3 L2 [988.62]

Rise From The Asch3s (Scott Aschebrook) 1-5-1 L5 [814.58]

Shooter McGavin Division

The Golladay Inn (Ryan Dougherty) 4-3 W1 [959.72]

Tax Paying Homeowner (Alec Swanson) 4-3 W2 [930.70]

Christy Fichtner All-Stars (Andy Todd) 4-3 L1 [895.76]

Tanner Glaza Division

Team Hoefs (Nathaniel Hoefs) 4-3 W3 [923.50]

Free Chiquita (Nick Zurawski) 4-3 W1 [907.76]

SNEEN MACHINE (Tyler Sneen) 2-5 L1 [842.24]

Week Seven Final Scores

COLE defeats DARRIN 161.4-159.2

ALEC defeats ANDY 147.52-123.8

NICK defeats SNEEN 126.76-116.92

RYAN defeats SCOTT 113.12-88.12

HOEFS defeats BYE 137.06-0

Heroes of the Week: WR Tyler Lockett (53.0), WR Davante Adams (44.6), QB Kyler Murray (37.1)

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Hero of the Week: WR Tyler Lockett (Tax Paying Homeowner)

Waiver Wonders: QB Justin Herbert (38.48), RB Jeff Wilson Jr. (32.0), QB Baker Mayfield (29.78)

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Waiver Wonder: QB Justin Herbert (347 yards & 3 TDs passing, 66 yards & 1 TD rushing)

What-if of the Week: If Alec would have started Joe Burrow (33.64) over Ben Roethlisberger (12.62), he would have finished with 168.54 and been the first owner in WRBL history to lead the league in scoring for a week with an incomplete lineup (Miles Sanders was inactive on Thursday night).

Upcoming Week 8 Match-ups

NOTE: NFL Schedule subject to change due to ongoing COVID-19 cases rising and possible postponements. Look it up on your own time.
Andy v. Nick

Alec v. Ryan

Hoefs v. Sneen

Scott v. Darrin

Cole v. BYE

Bro...

Of the many differences in rules and format for the 2020 WRBL season, the greatest addition so far has been the splicing of the league into three separate divisions. Now, I'm sure my referencing of the evenly balanced divisions and overall competitive fantasy football field of play has jinxed the remainder of the season to predictable outcomes and blowouts but, we're coming off the most highly competitive week of the 2020 season and those standings are more tightly knit than a sweater made by grandma. Sure, Scott and Sneen are falling out of favor fast and Scott is acting like the spoiled only child of wealthy parents that didn't get to wake up in a new Bugatti on his sweet 16 but, there's still plenty of season left and their rosters aren't vomit-inducing. It is becoming more and more difficult to gauge just how much a future draft pick is worth in this league when the future of literally everything is so uncertain and it's made me stick close to my current players and sticking to player-for-player deals for the time being. Of course, Scott's ready to move on to 2021 and is looking for picks, prospects and pity. I don't think anybody's going to bite on any of those three offers but hey, eight of nine of us didn't attend an Ivy League school so anything is fair game still.

Michael Conroy, AP

A trio of long-term injuries to QB Dak Prescott, RB Christian McCaffrey and now, WR Odell Beckham Jr. (Torn ACL, out for season) have put Scott in dire straits nearing midseason.

That's the bigger picture for the Bro League right now, Scott & Sneen playing victims, Nick vs. Hoefs in the Tanner Glaza Division, a complete free-for-all in the Shooter McGavin Division and the #1 rivalry in all of sports, Cole vs. Darrin for the Steven Nett Division. The smaller picture is week 7's wackiness that has set us up for an exciting second half. The Beckham injury combined with choosing the wrong 49er running back for a second time held Scott below triple digits (the only team to do so in week 7) as he now looks to get some type of rebound headed by emerging players in fantasy relevancy like RB Chase Edmonds, TE Robert Tonyan and the newest Tampa Bay Buccaneer, WR Antonio "former WRBL MVP" Brown. Ryan won despite scoring the second-fewest points this week and lost his lead in the ever-changing hypothetical standings at the bottom of the weekly WRBL post. Hypothetically speaking, I SHOULD be 2-4 but.... I don't know, I kind of like my Christy Fichtner All-Stars a lot right now. The problem is they're all just super hot-and-cold and the borderline starters I always make the wrong choice on at the very last moment (see: benching Joe Mixon his one good NFL game all season for not Joe Mixon and this week, benching Diontae Johnson because of his back when he went off for 29 points while only Mike Davis ended up underperforming but who in their right mind is benching Davis with the run he WAS on?). Also, a majority of fantasy football continues to be luck. Even though I was feeling optimistic about an inactive Miles Sanders being left in Alec's Thursday night lineup, it turns out the IRS isn't the only one Alec is paying as Russell Wilson only has eyes for two people, Ciara and Tyler Lockett. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he had a golden, heart-shaped locket that previously held a photo of his wife and children but now contains a photo of Tyler and him torching any one of the NFC West's defenses. Lockett went off for 53 points (a WRBL season-high) and the Chiefs defense showed Drew Lock the door pretty quickly in a 2-TD performance to help Alec complete a comeback win over my team that really just made the wrong choices for bye week kicker and defense (Koo & New England combined for 1 total point). 

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The Chiefs' defense held Denver QB Drew Lock to zero touchdowns as their own QB, Patrick Mahomes only scored one with the whole team performing at their strongest so far in the 2020 NFL season. 

This clearly isn't Nathaniel Hoefs' first fantasy football league (though we don't count any of his other leagues so, he's still a rookie in our books) as he took the bye week seriously with an easy W. His win gives Nate a 15.74-point tiebreaker advantage over Free Chiquita. Nick and the mighty fightin' Chiquitas went through a rough patch this week and still came out on top over Sneen and the lowly depressing Machines. The key difference in Z's ten-point (rounded up) victory was Nick claiming Carson Wentz off waivers while Tyler sat through another average Matt Ryan week. Wentz is a poor man's Jameis Winston this season with boatloads of turnovers that assist his fantasy performances with the need to always come from behind padding his stats. Unlike Alec, Nick set his lineup Thursday night and ultimately, both WRBL owners finished with the same week seven results proving that there's no one way to win in fantasy. Countering that theory, Cole giving enormous head-starts to Darrin's ChowHounds seems to work pretty damn well every time. Going into Sunday night's Seahawk-Cardinal game, Darrin led Cole 140.9-100.00 with two players remaining from each fantasy team. Darrin's two? DK Metcalf, who somehow scored just 4.3 points in a game that went five quarters in which Russell Wilson threw the ball 50 times AND Chris Carson left with an injury and the Rams defense who did their part with a solid 14 against Nick Foles and the sucky Bears offense. Cole? Needless to say he's enjoying the Kyler Murray-DeAndre Hopkins union as they combined to drop a 61.4 Sunday night hammer on our league's most-common event host. Murray should be garnering some sleeper WRBL MVP hype now with 7 RUSHING touchdowns over 7 NFL games and between the chaotic Cardinal and Cole's other QB Josh Allen, 189.78 points have been scored, second only to Ryan's 195.42 at the position.

Week 8 is officially the halfway point of our season, with the playoffs just about a month away. Next week's highlighted match should be between two desperate non-leaders in 4-3 Free Chiquita and 4-3 Christy Fichtner's All-Stars. With the Football Team, Cardinals, Jaguars and Texans on bye, that could spell trouble for Cole accumulating enough points for a bye week W as DeVante Parker and Josh Allen have played well but not quite Kyler-and-Hopkins well for a few weeks. All Scott feels like doing is causing chaos for the higher ups if his team can't gain enough momentum for a playoff push and one way to ruin an otherwise jam-packed top six in the standings is to knock the ChowHounds down a peg with an upset, sending the eldest Aschebrook tumbling to .500 and potentially giving Cole a two-game advantage in their division. It will also be interesting to see how Nathaniel does with QB DeShaun Watson on BYE against SNEEN MACHINE with Dalvin Cook possibly returning to cook the Green Bay defense like he always does. He certainly misses Nick Chubb too but, Dalvin Cook's injury put Sneen's team spiraling downward and he's just looking to piece together a respectable effort the rest of the way and make some other wildcard contenders sweat for a minute AT LEAST. The only guarantee for Week 8's final standings is that the Shooter McGavin division's deadlocked standings will not... stand. Ryan vs. Alec will bring at least one of us three owners down to the bottom of the McGavin barrel. If the Le'Veon Bell revenge game is just a push for content and not an actual result of things to come this Sunday, I'll likely fall to Nick and might leave the winner of Alec-Ryan alone at the top. At least we can agree on one thing (Nick and I), excitement is at an all-time high... FOR TUA TIME!

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The absence of breakout rookie RB James Robinson has me admittedly nervous for the week ahead.

2020 WRBL Scoring Leaders

QB

Russell Wilson 177.30 (Ryan)

Patrick Mahomes 170.46 (Andy)

DeShaun Watson 154.50 (Hoefs)

Matt Ryan 132.34 (Sneen)

Lamar Jackson 126.00 (Nick)

Kyler Murray 119.86 (Cole)

Tom Brady 99.60 (Darrin)

Dak Prescott 95.84 (Scott)

Joe Burrow 76.34 (Alec)

Josh Allen 69.92 (Cole)

Aaron Rodgers 50.32 (Scott)

Ben Roethlisberger 44.96 (Alec)

Matthew Stafford 30.72 (Darrin)

Carson Wentz 27.76 (Nick)

Gardner Minshew 18.12 (Ryan)

RB

Alvin Kamara 170.4 (Darrin)

Ezekiel Elliott 129.8 (Alec)

Derrick Henry 126.4 (Cole)

Aaron Jones 115.0 (Ryan)

Dalvin Cook 113.3 (Sneen)

Todd Gurley 111.2 (Darrin)

Chris Carson 105.0 (Ryan)

Clyde Edwards-Helaire 108.5 (Scott)

James Robinson 102.6 (Andy)

Josh Jacobs 97.6 (Scott)

James Conner 95.3 (Hoefs)

Ronald Jones 81.7 (Hoefs)

David Johnson 79.4 (Nick)

Melvin Gordon 77.6 (Darrin)

Mike Davis 72.1 (Andy)

Austin Ekeler 64.2 (Andy)

Myles Gaskin 60.4 (Cole)

Miles Sanders 60.4 (Alec)

Nick Chubb 60.2 (Sneen)

Kareem Hunt 59.6 (Nick)

Joe Mixon 57.5 (Andy/Ryan)

Jonathan Taylor 56.0 (Alec)

Christian McCaffrey 53.2 (Scott)

David Montgomery 44.5 (Sneen)

Jerick McKinnon 41.8 (Hoefs/Scott)

Kenyan Drake 38.4 (Nick)

Antonio Gibson 38.4 (Andy)

Darrell Henderson 31.0 (Darrin)

Raheem Mostert 24.5 (Nick)

Jamaal Williams 21.4 (Cole)

Giovani Bernard 20.6 (Ryan)

Saquon Barkley 15.4 (Nick)

J.D. McKissic 14.4 (Scott)

Adrian Peterson 12.8 (Darrin)

Malcolm Brown 10.6 (Cole)

Justin Jackson 10.5 (Nick)

Joshua Kelley 10.3 (Sneen)

James White 8.2 (Hoefs)

Boston Scott 7.4 (Cole)

J.K. Dobbins 7.1 (Cole)

Le'Veon Bell 6.6 (Andy)

Alexander Mattison 4.0 (Sneen)

Jeff Wilson Jr. 2.9 (Scott)

WR

DeAndre Hopkins 144.1 (Cole)

Tyler Lockett 141.2 (Alec)

Calvin Ridley 140.9 (Nick)

Adam Thielen 119.0 (Darrin)

Tyreek Hill 116.3 (Hoefs)

Allen Robinson 110.3 (Alec)

Amari Cooper 107.5 (Scott)

D.J. Moore 105.7 (Hoefs)

Davante Adams 104.9 (Darrin)

Keenan Allen 102.1 (Andy)

Stefon Diggs 97.0 (Sneen)

Julio Jones 87.7 (Sneen)

Mike Evans 85.6 (Ryan)

Robby Anderson 80.4 (Cole/Sneen)

Will Fuller 75.4 (Nick)

Robert Woods 74.3 (Nick)

Cooper Kupp 68.5 (Andy)

DK Metcalf 65.2 (Darrin)

Chris Godwin 64.9 (Cole)

Jamison Crowder 61.9 (Ryan)

JuJu Smith-Schuster 53.0 (Sneen)

DeVante Parker 52.4 (Cole)

A.J. Brown 49.9 (Andy)

Kenny Golladay 48.1 (Ryan)

Odell Beckham Jr. 45.42 (Scott)

Justin Jefferson 39.6 (Alec)

Terry McLaurin 38.7 (Alec)

Darius Slayton 35.0 (Ryan)

Diontae Johnson 34.6 (Ryan/Andy)

Marvin Jones 31.8 (Hoefs)

Allen Lazard 25.7 (Cole)

CeeDee Lamb 25.0 (Scott)

Tyler Boyd 24.6 (Scott)

Cole Beasley 23.5 (Cole)

Brandin Cooks 21.8 (Hoefs)

Tee Higgins 18.8 (Cole)

Marquise Brown 18.5 (Alec)

Travis Fulgham 12.3 (Hoefs)

Jerry Jeudy 10.5 (Ryan)

Tre'Quan Smith 9.4 (Ryan)

T.Y. Hilton 9.3 (Scott)

A.J. Green 5.9 (Andy)

Michael Thomas 4.7 (Ryan)

Julian Edelman 4.2 (Sneen)

Emmanuel Sanders 2.8 (Sneen)

Chase Claypool 0.8 (Scott)

TE

Travis Kelce 118.1 (Hoefs)

George Kittle 92.2 (Nick)

Darren Waller 90.5 (Ryan)

Mark Andrews 74.3 (Darrin)

Hayden Hurst 72.5 (Alec)

Jonnu Smith 60.7 (Andy)

Noah Fant 44.0 (Cole)

Zach Ertz 42.5 (Scott)

Tyler Higbee 36.4 (Nick)

Hunter Henry 33.5 (Sneen)

Evan Engram 29.9 (Sneen)

T.J. Hockenson 27.1 (Cole/Darrin)

Robert Tonyan 10.7 (Scott)

Greg Olsen 3.0 (Cole)

Eric Ebron 2.9 (Ryan)

Blake Jarwin 2.2 (Andy)

Chris Herndon 2.1 (Andy)

K

Justin Tucker 67 (Scott)

Rodrigo Blankenship 66 (Andy)

Harrison Butker 62 (Sneen)

Wil Lutz 60 (Hoefs)

Chris Boswell 49 (Nick/Alec)

Greg Zuerlein 47 (Darrin)

Mason Crosby 43 (Cole)

Jake Elliott 32 (Ryan)

Matt Prater 30 (Alec)

Randy Bullock 13 (Cole/Scott)

Graham Gano 11 (Ryan)

Daniel Carlson 9 (Nick)

Robbie Gould 7 (Nick)

Jason Sanders 6 (Nick)

Stephen Gostkowski 2 (Hoefs)

Younghoe Koo 2 (Andy)

Ka'imi Fairbairn 1 (Cole)

DF

Baltimore Ravens 65 (Alec)

Indianapolis Colts 54 (Andy/Ryan)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 48 (Andy/Ryan)

San Francisco 49ers 44 (Sneen)

Chicago Bears 42 (Scott)

Pittsburgh Steelers 40 (Hoefs)

Los Angeles Rams 39 (Hoefs/Nick/Darrin)

Arizona Cardinals 31 (Nick/Cole)

Buffalo Bills 30 (Darrin/Hoefs)

Kansas City Chiefs 20 (Cole/Alec)

New England Patriots 19 (Ryan/Andy)

Los Angeles Chargers 16 (Cole/Scott)

Philadelphia Eagles 14 (Nick)

Cleveland Browns 13 (Nick)

Miami Dolphins 12 (Nick)

New York Jets 8 (Nick)

Denver Broncos 6 (Cole)

Washington Football Team 6 (Hoefs)

New Orleans Saints 5 (Ryan/Darrin)

Atlanta Falcons 2 (Cole)

Dallas Cowboys 1 (Nick)

Hypothetical Standings (Top 4 scorers win, bottom 4 lose, 5th = BYE)

Team ChowHounds 5-2

The Golladay Inn 4-2

Free Chiquita 4-2

Tax Paying Homeowner 3-2

Colieveland 96ers 4-3

Team Hoefs 3-3

Christy Fichtner All-Stars 2-4

Rise From The Asch3s 2-4

SNEEN MACHINE 1-6

WRBL Week 6, 2020

 Wisconsin Rapids Bro League

Week Six

Our Sixth Official Season of blaming Cole Walters for cutting the cord costing as much as the cord itself these days.

Current Standings (with regular season won-loss streaks & [Seasonal Point Totals]) 

Steven Nett Division

Team ChowHounds (Darrin Aschebrook) 4-2 L1 [829.42]

Colieveland 96ers (Cole Walters) 4-2 W1 [762.48]

Rise From The Asch3s (Scott Aschebrook) 1-4-1 L4 [726.46]

Shooter McGavin Division

Christy Fichtner All-Stars (Andy Todd) 4-2 W2 [771.96]

The Golladay Inn (Ryan Dougherty) 3-3 L1 [846.60]

Tax Paying Homeowner (Alec Swanson) 3-3 W1 [783.18]

Tanner Glaza Division

Team Hoefs (Nathaniel Hoefs) 3-3 W2 [786.44]

Free Chiquita (Nick Zurawski) 3-3 L2 [781.00]

SNEEN MACHINE (Tyler Sneen) 2-4 W1 [725.32]

Week Six Final Scores

HOEFS defeats NICK 146.4-144.64

ANDY defeats RYAN 101.9-88.32

COLE defeats SCOTT 129.52-110.4

ALEC defeats DARRIN 124.48-76.32

SNEEN defeats BYE 129.34-0

Heroes of the Week: RB Derrick Henry (40.4), WR Justin Jefferson (39.6), WR Julio Jones (33.7)

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Hero of the Week: RB Derrick Henry (Colieveland 96ers)

Waiver Wonders: QB Carson Wentz (29.42), QB Ryan Tannehill (28.56), RB D'Andre Swift (27.3)

Derik Hamilton, AP

Waiver Wonder: QB Carson Wentz (213 Passing yards, 2 Passing TDs, 49 Rushing yards & TD)

What-if of the Week: If league commissioner Nick Zurawski scheduled himself to play LITERALLY anyone besides rookie Nathaniel Hoefs, Nick wins this week.

Upcoming Week 7 Match-ups

NOTE: NFL Schedule subject to change due to ongoing COVID-19 cases rising and possible postponements. Look it up on your own time.
Cole v. Darrin

Andy v. Alec

Nick v. Sneen

Scott v. Ryan

Hoefs v. BYE

Bro...

Doubleheader Monday Night Football might be all the rage as of late but, I have to say I'm surprised at just how into this MLB season I've been when I thought the entire thing was a spiritless cash-grab with lame rule changes (the runner on 2nd in extras wasn't atrocious but, I could still do without it), lame playoffs (the 16-team postseason has been AWESOME) and an illegitimate winner (the two best teams in their respective leagues have made the World Series). Granted, it took until the playoffs for me to fully get on board and I have to say, I did not miss the fans that they are now letting in (at limited capacity) to the Rangers' neutral ballpark but it's great to see baseball back. The Astros gave the sports world a villain, the Dodgers continue to give off the uneasy vibe of a team that could blow it for a third year in a row thus making Clayton Kershaw and Mookie Betts stars worth rooting for, the Braves showed us the future and the Rays seem to be playing the role of "Cinderella Story" even though they might have been the favorites all along. It's a shame the season got wrapped up so quickly but, we'll take what we can get in 2020.

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The Miami Marlins' playoff run was just one small sample of an otherwise noteworthy yet understated baseball season.

In other sports news that I've just neglected to cover because why even try when they're all taking place at the same time?... The Los Angeles Lakers are your 2019-20 NBA Champions. In an extraordinary three-month run of NBA basketball pretty much every night in and nowhere outside of Orlando, LeBron James has won his fourth ring and now sits at Le4-6 in NBA Finals' efforts. In the beginning of the bubble experiment and up until about the Finals, I was ALL about the NBA. With work and the kickoff of both the NFL and college football seasons and the beginning of the MLB playoffs, the Finals lost me with it's late starts. It wasn't just the conflict of poor scheduling though as the Miami Heat lost Goran Dragic and Bam Adebayo to injuries immediately and Kendrick Nunn seemed to have Covid fatigue until about Game 5. Incredibly, Jimmy Butler pulled a six-game series out of his ass (thanks to Duncan Robinson, Tyler Herro and Erik Spoelstra as well) and now, Miami are favorites to land every upcoming free agent again. The real BASKETBALL story of these finals was the emergence of Anthony Davis as someone clearly resembling a #1 option on a championship roster (even though he wasn't yet because duh... LeBron). It was surprising to see The Brow elevate his game from an empty calories player with injury issues immediately step into his first legitimately contending roster and immediately win a championship with only an inkling of doubt with his durability coming in the form of nightly ankle injuries as natural wear-and-tear during the Finals themselves. The ACTUAL story of all this was that the experiment worked. Nobody broke protocol after Lou Williams' unsanctioned Magic City chicken wings visit and as a result, nobody tested positive inside the bubble because they didn't leave areas they could trust and wore their masks outside their isolated hotel rooms. Take note of that as the number of Covid hospitalizations grow staggeringly around us during these winter months.

Scoring league-wide seems to be on a slight decline as the reality of injuries and nothing coming easy this year have now hit the Bro League. For example, nobody scored above 130 this week outside of Free Chiquita and Team Hoefs. Unfortunately for Free Chiquita, they were going against Team Hoefs and lost by a grand total of 1.76 points. As a totally healthy, completely normal way of coping with his most recent loss, Nick is now spending an entire week studying his lineup's individual matchups and scouting the waiver wire in a dark, windowless room while listening to The Michelle Obama Podcast for therapeutic purposes (I guess). SNEEN MACHINE shivers in terror at the idea of an overprepared Nick Zurawski with a thirst for vengeance... or maybe he just doesn't have a furnace in the cabin. Either way, Tyler Sneen enjoyed the lack of pressure associated with no opponents this week and was the third-highest scoring team for the Bye Week "W". Hopefully, the league rookie Nathaniel Hoefs is alert enough to realize that he still needs to set a lineup on his bye week in order to avoid a loss or tie with a top-four scoring finish this week. One team that missed the memo on scoring points all together this week was Darrin's Team ChowHounds. Granted, Melvin Gordon, Alvin Kamara, DK Metcalf and Jared Cook were all on their bye week but, 76.32 just will not get it done in this league anymore. Hell, it never really has at any point in WRBL history. No matter how much Alec beat Darrin by this week, nothing will ever erase the fact that Darrin is THE ORIGINAL Tax Paying Homeowner in this league. The newest Tax Paying Homeowner Cole Walters will look to take back the Steven Nett Division versus current leader Darrin this week. Darrin still won't be at full strength without WR Adam Thielen and TE Mark Andrews.

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Adam Thielen leads the NFL with 7 receiving touchdowns.

This week's bye week teams will have quite the impact on our WRBL matches as the Dolphins and Colts make small dents (Indy's defense, Myles Gaskin, DeVante Parker, Jonathan Taylor, Rodrigo Blankenship) in otherwise unaffected lineups and the Vikings and Ravens cost us a week of Thielen, Andrews, Nick's Lamar Jackson, Sneen's Dalvin Cook, Alec's Justin Jefferson and the #1 scoring kicker in Scott's Justin Tucker. Clearly, Scott is taking his kicker's bye week pretty hard as he is rumored to be hosting a firesale of any and all players on his roster. This isn't different from any other week though as Scott is constantly looking to trade with anybody willing to sell him another free championship for ten weeks of Amari Cooper. With Scott possibly tanking for Trevor, little bro Ryan looks to take advantage of a guy leaning on Randy Bullock for support (we here at the Weekly WRBL recaps take kicking very seriously) with The Golladay Inn regaining five of his nine starters coming back from a bye week (pending the health of #1 overall pick Michael Thomas's ankle). Outside of one championship run, sources tell me that Ryan has always looked up to Scott and now, he's trying to emulate his bro by son'ing him on route to a second shot with The Shelby trophy one week after my team just barely sucked less than Ryan's team. I'll take the pity win and look to maintain my lead in the Shooter McGavin division against Alec in our third matchup in seven weeks (Hey, who made this schedule anyways?!).

Does this look like an appropriate father/son relationship to you?

TRADE MADE PRIOR TO WEEK FIVE THAT I FAILED TO OFFICIALLY TAKE NOTE OF AT THE END OF LAST WEEK'S POST: Sneen sent WR JuJu Smith-Schuster to Scott for RBs David Montgomery & Joshua Kelley.

2020 WRBL Scoring Leaders

QB

Patrick Mahomes 158.46 (Andy)

Russell Wilson 147.38 (Ryan)

DeShaun Watson 130.34 (Hoefs)

Lamar Jackson 126.00 (Nick)

Matt Ryan 114.82 (Sneen)

Tom Brady 99.60 (Darrin)

Dak Prescott 95.84 (Scott)

Kyler Murray 82.76 (Cole)

Joe Burrow 76.34 (Alec)

Josh Allen 69.92 (Cole)

Ben Roethlisberger 32.34 (Alec)

Aaron Rodgers 23.00 (Scott)

Gardner Minshew 18.12 (Ryan)

Matthew Stafford 12.32 (Darrin)

RB

Alvin Kamara 147.6 (Darrin)

Ezekiel Elliott 123.7 (Alec)

Aaron Jones 115.0 (Ryan)

Dalvin Cook 113.3 (Sneen)

Derrick Henry 111.2 (Cole)

Chris Carson 99.9 (Ryan)

Clyde Edwards-Helaire 95.2 (Scott)

Josh Jacobs 91.5 (Scott)

Todd Gurley 89.0 (Darrin)

James Conner 81.2 (Hoefs)

Ronald Jones 71.1 (Hoefs)

James Robinson 70.9 (Andy)

Melvin Gordon 65.6 (Darrin)

Austin Ekeler 64.2 (Andy)

Mike Davis 63.5 (Andy)

David Johnson 63.0 (Nick)

Myles Gaskin 60.4 (Cole)

Miles Sanders 60.4 (Alec)

Nick Chubb 60.2 (Sneen)

Joe Mixon 57.5 (Andy/Ryan)

Jonathan Taylor 56.0 (Alec)

Christian McCaffrey 53.2 (Scott)

Jerick McKinnon 41.9 (Hoefs)

Kareem Hunt 40.4 (Nick)

Kenyan Drake 38.4 (Nick)

David Montgomery 32.6 (Sneen)

Darrell Henderson 31.0 (Darrin)

Raheem Mostert 24.5 (Nick)

Antonio Gibson 19.6 (Andy)

Saquon Barkley 15.4 (Nick)

J.D. McKissic 14.4 (Scott)

Adrian Peterson 12.8 (Darrin)

Malcolm Brown 10.6 (Cole)

James White 8.2 (Hoefs)

Boston Scott 7.4 (Cole)

J.K. Dobbins 7.1 (Cole)

Le'Veon Bell 6.6 (Andy)

Alexander Mattison 4.0 (Sneen)

Jeff Wilson Jr. 2.9 (Scott)

WR

Calvin Ridley 121.0 (Nick)

DeAndre Hopkins 119.8 (Cole)

Adam Thielen 119.0 (Darrin)

Tyreek Hill 98.8 (Hoefs)

Allen Robinson 99.3 (Alec)

Amari Cooper 92.0 (Scott)

Tyler Lockett 88.2 (Alec)

Stefon Diggs 86.2 (Sneen)

D.J. Moore 80.4 (Hoefs)

Mike Evans 79.9 (Ryan)

Keenan Allen 79.6 (Andy)

Robert Woods 74.3 (Nick)

Julio Jones 70.0 (Sneen)

Cooper Kupp 68.5 (Andy)

Robby Anderson 67.0 (Cole/Sneen)

Jamison Crowder 61.9 (Ryan)

DK Metcalf 60.9 (Darrin)

Davante Adams 60.3 (Darrin)

JuJu Smith-Schuster 53.0 (Sneen)

DeVante Parker 52.4 (Cole)

Odell Beckham Jr. 45.42 (Scott)

Chris Godwin 41.1 (Cole)

Justin Jefferson 39.6 (Alec)

Will Fuller 62.9 (Nick)

Darius Slayton 35.0 (Ryan)

Diontae Johnson 34.6 (Ryan/Andy)

Marvin Jones 31.8 (Hoefs)

Kenny Golladay 30.7 (Ryan)

Allen Lazard 25.7 (Cole)

CeeDee Lamb 25.0 (Scott)

Tyler Boyd 24.6 (Scott)

Cole Beasley 23.5 (Cole)

A.J. Brown 22.6 (Andy)

Brandin Cooks 21.8 (Hoefs)

Marquise Brown 18.5 (Alec)

Terry McLaurin 16.7 (Alec)

Jerry Jeudy 10.5 (Ryan)

T.Y. Hilton 9.3 (Scott)

A.J. Green 5.9 (Andy)

Michael Thomas 4.7 (Ryan)

Julian Edelman 4.2 (Sneen)

Emmanuel Sanders 2.8 (Sneen)

TE

Travis Kelce 112.0 (Hoefs)

George Kittle 81.7 (Nick)

Mark Andrews 74.3 (Darrin)

Darren Waller 73.5 (Ryan)

Hayden Hurst 59.7 (Alec)

Jonnu Smith 58.8 (Andy)

Zach Ertz 42.5 (Scott)

Noah Fant 37.2 (Cole)

Tyler Higbee 36.4 (Nick)

Evan Engram 29.9 (Sneen)

Hunter Henry 28.2 (Sneen)

T.J. Hockenson 10.2 (Cole)

Robert Tonyan 5.5 (Scott)

Greg Olsen 3.0 (Cole)

Eric Ebron 2.9 (Ryan)

Blake Jarwin 2.2 (Andy)

Chris Herndon 2.1 (Andy)

K

Justin Tucker 67 (Scott)

Rodrigo Blankenship 66 (Andy)

Wil Lutz 49 (Hoefs)

Harrison Butker 48 (Sneen)

Greg Zuerlein 43 (Darrin)

Chris Boswell 40 (Nick/Alec)

Mason Crosby 38 (Cole)

Jake Elliott 32 (Ryan)

Matt Prater 30 (Alec)

Graham Gano 8 (Ryan)

Robbie Gould 7 (Nick)

Jason Sanders 6 (Nick)

Randy Bullock 3 (Cole)

Stephen Gostkowski 2 (Hoefs)

Ka'imi Fairbairn 1 (Cole)

DF

Baltimore Ravens 65 (Alec)

Indianapolis Colts 54 (Andy/Ryan)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 43 (Andy)

Pittsburgh Steelers 40 (Hoefs)

Chicago Bears 32 (Scott)

Arizona Cardinals 31 (Nick/Cole)

San Francisco 49ers 28 (Sneen)

Los Angeles Rams 25 (Hoefs/Nick/Darrin)

New England Patriots 20 (Ryan/Andy)

Los Angeles Chargers 16 (Cole/Scott)

Buffalo Bills 14 (Darrin)

Cleveland Browns 13 (Nick)

Miami Dolphins 12 (Nick)

New York Jets 8 (Nick)

Denver Broncos 6 (Cole)

Washington Football Team 6 (Hoefs)

Philadelphia Eagles 5 (Nick)

New Orleans Saints 5 (Ryan/Darrin)

Atlanta Falcons 2 (Cole)

Kansas City Chiefs -1 (Cole)

Hypothetical Standings (Top 4 scorers win, bottom 4 lose, 5th = BYE)

The Golladay Inn 4-1

Free Chiquita 4-2

Team ChowHounds 4-2

Tax Paying Homeowner 2-2

Colieveland 96ers 3-3

Team Hoefs 2-3

Christy Fichtner All-Stars 2-3

Rise From The Asch3s 2-3

SNEEN MACHINE 1-5

WRBL Week 5, 2020

  Wisconsin Rapids Bro League

Week Five

Our Sixth Official Season of blaming Cole Walters for Eli Manning's rockin' beach bod.

Current Standings (with regular season won-loss streaks & [Seasonal Point Totals]) 

Steven Nett Division

Team ChowHounds (Darrin Aschebrook) 4-1 W3 [753.10]

Colieveland 96ers (Cole Walters) 3-2 L1 [632.96]

Rise From The Asch3s (Scott Aschebrook) 1-3-1 L3 [616.06]

Shooter McGavin Division

The Golladay Inn (Ryan Dougherty) 3-2 W2 [758.28]

Christy Fichtner All-Stars (Andy Todd) 3-2 W1 [670.06]

Tax Paying Homeowner (Alec Swanson) 2-3 L2 [658.70]

Tanner Glaza Division

Free Chiquita (Nick Zurawski) 3-2 L1 [636.36]

Team Hoefs (Nathaniel Hoefs) 2-3 W1 [640.04]

SNEEN MACHINE (Tyler Sneen) 1-4 L2 [595.98]

Week Five Final Scores

HOEFS defeats ALEC 143.56-138.56

DARRIN defeats COLE 171.02-119.12

RYAN defeats SNEEN 149.18-109.64

ANDY defeats SCOTT 130.4-86.26

BYE defeats NICK 0-123.8

Heroes of the Week: RB Mike Davis (29.9), QB Patrick Mahomes (29.7), WR Adam Thielen (29.3)

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Hero of the Week: RB Mike Davis (Christy Fichtner All-Stars)

Waiver Wonders: WR Chase Claypool (42.6), WR Travis Fulgham (31.2), WR Brandin Cooks (31.0)

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Waiver Wonder: WR Chase Claypool (116 Total Yards, 4 Total Touchdowns)

What-if of the Week: RB Jonathan Taylor (15.4) or WR Marquise Brown (19.8) in the FLEX spot over WR Terry McLaurin (5.6) would have given Alec a win over Hoefs.

Upcoming Week 6 Match-ups

NOTE: NFL Schedule subject to change due to ongoing COVID-19 cases rising and possible postponements (Ex: KC @ BUF is Monday @ 4 PM CT). Look it up on your own time.
Hoefs v. Nick

Darrin v. Alec

Ryan v. Andy

Scott v. Cole

Sneen v. BYE

Bro...

Remember when defenses used to be a thing? The only thing we lost with no NFL preseason seems to be the ability for teams to stop one another and this trend in football isn't just limited to the NFL. The big, bad, defense-heavy, conservative SEC in college football? Well, they had final scores of 41-38, 45-41, 44-21 and 63-48 last week. Clearly not being able to practice fully as a team all offseason without limitations due to COVID-19 has harmed the defensive side of the ball more than offenses that can just draw something exquisite on paper, follow the routes and deliver excitement consistently. Suddenly everybody is playing Big 12 football and us fantasy owners are perfectly okay with that as it's led to all-time highs in fantasy scoring. Eventually, the weather and schemes will catch up and we'll be back to typical football results but, I can't say I hate watching football on arcade mode either.

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LSU Defensive Coordinator Bo Pelini isn't used to offenses that don't run for 3.0 yards per carry every down (see: Big Ten) and it's cost LSU a chance at a repeat championship.

The only thing harder to follow than the NFL schedule this year has been the "flapdoodle" nonsense that is the Christy Fichtner All-Stars' Running Back situation. After draft day, I was set with three starters (Joe Mixon, Austin Ekeler and Le'Veon Bell). Before kickoff on week 1, news trickled out that the Jaguars placed RB Devine Ozigbo on IR so, I hopped on UDFA James Robinson thanks to Cole Walters and friend of the league, Gabe Stoltz openly bragging him up on Twitter. Thankfully, Robinson is now the one constant in my lineup that should still be there come week 17 as he's outperformed all but 8 running backs in fantasy. One of those running backs, I added after week 2's Christian McCaffrey injury, Carolina backup RB Mike Davis. Once Bell was temporarily IR'ed before week 2, there was a hole to fill even with the emergence of Antonio Gibson over Peyton Barber in Washington's backfield. Once Zack Moss went down in week 3, Devin Singletary SHOULD have burst through for more fantasy production with more touches but, that never materialized into top-notch fantasy production. Even with Singletary not able to separate himself from Moss, I was still confident enough in my suddenly seemingly stacked storage of backs that I dealt Joe Mixon (huge volume guy but the productivity seems inconsistent behind a terrible offensive line) for another receiver (Diontae Johnson, now OUT with a back injury after one -2 yard catch). I was so overconfident in my backfield that I even dumped Le'Veon Bell the week the Titans game was postponed so that I could add my emergency tight end Chris Herndon. Thankfully, that move didn't cost me more than any production out of the TE slot for that week because six days later, I gave up on Brandin Cooks (before his breakthrough game of course) for now-active RB Le'Veon Bell. The NFL moves fast though and after one very "meh" game for the Jets, Bell talked his way out of Adam Gase's torture dungeon and now, Clyde Edwards-Helaire owners roll their eyes at the nuisance that is his new Chiefs' backfield mate, Le'Veon Bell. Time will tell just what the hell the best offense in football looks like with a former first-round fantasy talent trying to rebound his career at 28. One thing is certain and that is that my stash of running backs isn't done being shuffled as it is the most fluid situation in fantasy football outside of the NFL schedule in relation to virus outbursts.

The WRBL standings are still pretty jammed tight with Darrin Aschebrook a surprise front-runner as the lone 4-1 despite multiple games missed by all-pro WR Davante Adams. Now, Adams returns to a lineup featuring blast from the fantasy past names like Tom Brady, Todd Gurley and as of publication date, Adrian Peterson this week. Team Chowhounds' 171 point showing this past week was highlighted by a two touchdown performance from Adam Thielen and another strong, 17.6 showing from Mark Andrews. Sorry Cole, there wasn't supposed to be a 96-point comeback this time around. Near the bottom of the standings, optimism is not spreading around SNEEN MACHINE or Rise From The Asch3s headquarters as both are stuck on one victory after five weeks. Sneen's most recent loss falling to The Golladay Inn must have been especially demoralizing as even the last-minute addition of David Montgomery to the Machine's lineup and all the math I had to personally do after realizing he was on Tyler's team still couldn't result in a win. Ryan improves to 3-2 and he holds the points advantage in the Shooter McGavin Division over yours truly. Scott's bye week QB Dak Prescott sadly broke his ankle and football fan's hearts on a run against the Giants on Sunday so, it's safe to assume that Scott won't be turning down Aaron Rodgers' rightful place in the starting lineup going forward. 

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Andy Dalton will now take over under center for the NFC East-leading 2-3 Dallas Cowboys.

Next week, Nick Zurawski looks for any sign of life resembling the Lamar Jackson of 2019 that convinced Nick to feature him as a no-brainer starting QB every week. He'll be giving the Ravens' QB another start, this time against league rookie Nathaniel Hoefs, who has zero name preferences so we'll just call him "Rookie" for the remainder of 2020. Nick's week 5 loss came down to the wire as the Titans threw an unnecessary and uncalled for touchdown pass to put away the Bills on Tuesday Night Football. The TD toss also put Nick's bye week hopes away as it was enough for a 21-point showing out of Jonnu Smith and a 6.6-point advantage for my team over Nick's bottom-four finishing Free Chiquita. Jonnu and my 0RB approach take on Ryan's The Golladay Inn, now featuring Kenny Golladay! after the Lions' Bye. The winner of our match will decide who holds the Shooter McGavin crown for at least one week. Cole made the right choice dealing for Phillip Lindsay with Melvin Gordon making poor off-field choices and now in doubt for this Sunday's Bronco-Patriot game. Along with Myles Gaskin and the 12-point potential hookups between Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins, Cole's team is gaining momentum and is favored by 14.5 points over Scott's faltering Rise From The Asch3s. Alec kind of needed a win this week because things do not look any easier this week against the Steven Nett Division leader Team Chowhounds and the Tax Paying Homeowner has a game to make up in the standings already. Hopefully all of the games get played and everybody stays healthy going into week seven because I'm tired of discussing rule changes in all of my leagues and once baseball is done, football will be all that's left in 2020. 

Oh, and Sneen is on bye this week. Nobody cares? Ok, cool.

2020 WRBL Scoring Leaders

QB

Russell Wilson 147.38 (Ryan)

Patrick Mahomes 137.86 (Andy)

Tom Brady 99.60 (Darrin)

DeShaun Watson 98.34 (Hoefs)

Lamar Jackson 97.76 (Nick)

Dak Prescott 95.84 (Scott)

Matt Ryan 83.18 (Sneen)

Joe Burrow 76.34 (Alec)

Josh Allen 69.92 (Cole)

Kyler Murray 53.84 (Cole)

Ben Roethlisberger 21.36 (Alec)

Aaron Rodgers 19.20 (Scott)

RB

Alvin Kamara 147.6 (Darrin)

Dalvin Cook 113.3 (Sneen)

Ezekiel Elliott 111.7 (Alec)

Aaron Jones 101.9 (Ryan)

Chris Carson 99.9 (Ryan)

Josh Jacobs 91.5 (Scott)

Todd Gurley 79.3 (Darrin)

Clyde Edwards-Helaire 74.3 (Scott)

Derrick Henry 70.8 (Cole)

Melvin Gordon 65.6 (Darrin)

Austin Ekeler 64.2 (Andy)

James Conner 64.0 (Hoefs)

David Johnson 63.0 (Nick)

Nick Chubb 60.2 (Sneen)

Jonathan Taylor 56.0 (Alec)

James Robinson 55.6 (Andy)

Christian McCaffrey 53.2 (Scott)

Mike Davis 52.0 (Andy)

Miles Sanders 48.2 (Alec)

Ronald Jones 45.0 (Hoefs)

Myles Gaskin 43.8 (Cole)

Joe Mixon 42.6 (Andy/Ryan)

Jerick McKinnon 41.9 (Hoefs)

Kenyan Drake 38.4 (Nick)

Kareem Hunt 32.7 (Nick)

Darrell Henderson 21.8 (Darrin)

David Montgomery 18.9 (Sneen)

Saquon Barkley 15.4 (Nick)

Raheem Mostert 14.9 (Nick)

Malcolm Brown 10.6 (Cole)

Antonio Gibson 10.1 (Andy)

James White 8.2 (Hoefs)

Boston Scott 7.4 (Cole)

J.K. Dobbins 7.1 (Cole)

Le'Veon Bell 6.6 (Andy)

Jeff Wilson Jr. 2.9 (Scott)

WR

DeAndre Hopkins 110.5 (Cole)

Adam Thielen 104.9 (Darrin)

Calvin Ridley 102.1 (Nick)

Tyreek Hill 93.3 (Hoefs)

Allen Robinson 89.0 (Alec)

Tyler Lockett 88.2 (Alec)

Keenan Allen 79.6 (Andy)

Mike Evans 77.9 (Ryan)

Amari Cooper 71.1 (Scott)

Stefon Diggs 69.6 (Sneen)

D.J. Moore 66.1 (Hoefs)

Cooper Kupp 64.4 (Andy)

DK Metcalf 60.9 (Darrin)

Robert Woods 60.3 (Nick)

Robby Anderson 55.3 (Cole/Sneen)

JuJu Smith-Schuster 53.0 (Sneen)

Jamison Crowder 50.1 (Ryan)

Davante Adams 48.2 (Darrin)

DeVante Parker 45.9 (Cole)

Odell Beckham Jr. 40.92 (Scott)

Will Fuller 38.6 (Nick)

Julio Jones 36.3 (Sneen)

Darius Slayton 35.0 (Ryan)

Diontae Johnson 34.6 (Ryan/Andy)

Marvin Jones 31.8 (Hoefs)

Chris Godwin 31.3 (Cole)

Allen Lazard 25.7 (Cole)

Tyler Boyd 24.6 (Scott)

Cole Beasley 23.5 (Cole)

Terry McLaurin 16.7 (Alec)

Kenny Golladay 16.2 (Ryan)

CeeDee Lamb 11.6 (Scott)

Jerry Jeudy 10.5 (Ryan)

T.Y. Hilton 9.3 (Scott)

Marquise Brown 9.2 (Alec)

A.J. Green 5.9 (Andy)

Michael Thomas 4.7 (Ryan)

Julian Edelman 4.2 (Sneen)

Emmanuel Sanders 2.8 (Sneen)

TE

Travis Kelce 90.5 (Hoefs)

Darren Waller 73.5 (Ryan)

Mark Andrews 70.2 (Darrin)

George Kittle 57.8 (Nick)

Jonnu Smith 56.5 (Andy)

Hayden Hurst 44.0 (Alec)

Zach Ertz 42.5 (Scott)

Noah Fant 37.2 (Cole)

Tyler Higbee 36.4 (Nick)

Hunter Henry 28.2 (Sneen)

Evan Engram 24.9 (Sneen)

T.J. Hockenson 10.2 (Cole)

Greg Olsen 3.0 (Cole)

Blake Jarwin 2.2 (Andy)

Chris Herndon 2.1 (Andy)

K

Rodrigo Blankenship 58 (Andy)

Justin Tucker 51 (Scott)

Wil Lutz 49 (Hoefs)

Harrison Butker 40 (Sneen)

Greg Zuerlein 40 (Darrin)

Mason Crosby 34 (Cole)

Chris Boswell 32 (Nick/Alec)

Jake Elliott 32 (Ryan)

Matt Prater 30 (Alec)

Robbie Gould 7 (Nick)

Randy Bullock 3 (Cole)

Ka'imi Fairbairn 1 (Cole)

DF

Baltimore Ravens 59 (Alec)

Indianapolis Colts 51 (Andy/Ryan)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 43 (Andy)

Pittsburgh Steelers 40 (Hoefs)

Los Angeles Rams 26 (Hoefs/Nick)

San Francisco 49ers 23 (Sneen)

Chicago Bears 21 (Scott)

Arizona Cardinals 17 (Nick/Cole)

Los Angeles Chargers 16 (Cole/Scott)

Buffalo Bills 14 (Darrin)

Cleveland Browns 13 (Nick)

New England Patriots 12 (Ryan)

New York Jets 8 (Nick)

Denver Broncos 6 (Cole)

Philadelphia Eagles 5 (Nick)

New Orleans Saints 5 (Ryan/Darrin)

Atlanta Falcons 2 (Cole)

Kansas City Chiefs -1 (Cole)

Hypothetical Standings (Top 4 scorers win, bottom 4 lose, 5th = BYE)

The Golladay Inn 4-0

Team ChowHounds 4-1

Free Chiquita 3-2

Christy Fichtner All-Stars 2-2

Tax Paying Homeowner 2-2

Rise From The Asch3s 2-2

Colieveland 96ers 2-3

Team Hoefs 1-3

SNEEN MACHINE 0-5