Thursday, October 13, 2022

WRBL Week 5, 2022

 Wisconsin Rapids Bro League

Our eighth official season of blaming Cole Walters for my car taking a Cal Raleigh-sized dumper as I turned off the highway this week. RIP

Bro... 

TRADE: Cole sent RB Miles Sanders and WR Brandin Cooks to Brett for RB Breece Hall and WR Allen Lazard prior to week 5.

Only three teams in the Bro League stand tall with winning records. Of course, Cole Walters is still at the top despite a matchup-dependent loss this week as he averages 146.86 points per week, enough to hypothetically win every week of this still young season. After a decently competitive start to the 2022 season, he is the lone winning team in the Steven Nett Division mainly due to Stoltz's continued reliance on Nathaniel Hackett and the Denver Broncos offense, though I suspect a changing of personnel is nearing quicker than offseason us could have expected. Generally, NFL football is watchable for fantasy reasons while college football both good and poor in quality is fun to watch. Bad NFL football makes me legitimately upset and watching Russell Wilson and his supposedly torn lat not average 20 points a game with plenty of weapons surrounding him has made some of the worst football of 2022 and yet, the Broncos were gifted another primetime game this week against the somewhat quiet Los Angeles Chargers. If QB Justin Herbert is healthy, this current iteration of Denver's offense doesn't stand a chance. Last week's 9-12 OVERTIME loss to the equally unwatchable Colts re-established my peace with losing access to Thursday Night Football viewership thanks to Amazon Prime this season. Maybe I'll go down the streaming service subscription road again sometime in the near future (I did just drop Netflix for what it's worth) but for the time being, they need to add a lot more sporting events/content before I hand any more money to Jeff Bezos and his space adventures.

The other teams with winning records in the Bro League are Shooter McGavin division leader Alec Swanson (4-1), who beat Gabe by 68.76 points in week 5. Alec massively benefit from TE Travis Kelce...

A. Being one of two trustworthy Tight Ends in 2022 (the other being Andy's TE Mark Andrews)

and B. Scoring four touchdowns with an absolutely Jerome Bettis-like 7-25-4 statline on Monday Night against the Raiders.

Kelce is just one of a few reasons to reinvigorate the excitement that sometimes disappeared last year for the Kansas City Chiefs. Not only is Mahomes doing Mahomes things but, the running game looks far more competent than it did last season with Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Isiah Pacheco and Jerick McKinnon alternating snap counts on a weekly basis to efficient results as they all work well in the passing game along with being league-average runners that benefit from the defenses constantly sweating KC's alien Quarterback and crazy play-calling. For the time being, this offense doesn't even miss Tyreek Hill (who is likely missing Mahomes at the moment with Tua Tagovailoa and Teddy Bridgewater sidelined in concussion protocol) as it's opened up the offense with defenses unprepared for whichever receiver Andy Reid and Mahomes feel like getting involved on a weekly basis (much like the RB conundrum). The only constant is TE Travis Kelce and that weekly positional certainty is why Alec has a commanding one-game, 68-point (rounded up) advantage over the rest of his division. The other NFL team to get hyped about after this week's results are the Buffalo Bills, who just handed down the worst Steelers loss in 33 years with a 38-3 thwacking on Sunday where QB Josh Allen put up a week 5 QB high of 35.16 points, with about 90% of that coming before halftime and Case Keenum taking over once coach Sean McDermott decided to rest the early-season All-Bro favorite. Peaking ahead at the Week 6 NFL Schedule and oh, look at that...

FOX Sports
3:25 PM CST: Buffalo Bills @ Kansas City Chiefs. A rematch of last season's Divisional Round epoch.

The final, unsung winning team so far in the Bro League is The Rule of Law. Yes, my team that made a trade offer of nearly my entire roster to Hoefs' Yeezy Taught Me for WR Cooper Kupp has now won three in a row and is the lone winning, non-divisional leader. It's been a bizarre start to the season but, the reliability of TE Mark Andrews and the inability to bench bellcow RBs like Derrick Henry (RB4) and Christian McCaffrey (RB3) have helped my team's stock rise. Now, I feel better than ever but it's fantasy football... One week, you have the deepest team in the league and after a series of snaps, you're down three starters that put up 0.0 like ESPN's Field Yates who claims to have had QB Teddy Bridgewater, WR Tee Higgins and TE Darren Waller in his lineup last week. Only Nick's Waller affected WRBL results this week but, the impact was a killer as he lost by nine on Monday Night Football to Hoefs, giving Nathan his first win of the season. There's no London games this week so at least we don't have to worry about any more Alvin Kamara situations and as the zero winless/undefeated teams only five weeks in have told us, anything is possible as we're all still alive and Tomfoolery is on the rise as the trade market continues to heat up.

Steven Nett Division
Colieveland 96ers (Cole Walters) 4-1 L1 (734.34)
Here Dad Weights (Jaime Sparkes AKA: Sparky) 2-3 W1 (638.72)
Stoltzya's Electric Orcas (Gabe Stoltz) 2-3 L1 (588.86)
Yeezy Taught Me (Nathaniel Hoefs) 1-4 W1 (578.48)

Shooter McGavin Division
Tax Paying Homeowner (Alec Swanson) 4-1 W2 (688.86)
The Rule of Law (Andy Todd) 3-2 W3 (620.92)
Kyler's Study Buddies (Brett Weinfurter) 2-3 L2 (638.6)
Scott's Many Endeavors (Nick Zurawski) 2-3 L2 (584.68)

Week Five Final Scores
ANDY defeats COLE 150.04-146.86
HOEFS defeats NICK 118.94-109.36
SPARKY defeats BRETT 153.78-131.76
ALEC defeats GABE 169.4-106.66

Heroes of the Week: RB Austin Ekeler (35.9, Sparky), RB Leonard Fournette (35.9, Nick), QB Josh Allen (35.16, Cole)

Waiver Wonders: TE Taysom Hill (34.08), WR Dyami Brown (24.5), WR Jakobi Meyers (24.1)

Benchwarmers of the Week: WR Gabe Davis (32.1, Nick), WR Tyler Lockett (27.4, Andy), RB Alvin Kamara (23.4, Sparky)

The Seattle Times
Waiver Wonder: TE Taysom Hill (3 Rushing Touchdowns, 1 Passing Touchdown, Fumble Recovery)
Upcoming Week 5 Schedule: WRBL & NFL
Sparky v. Cole
Andy v. Hoefs
Nick v. Gabe
Alec v. Brett

THURSDAY @ 7:15 PM CT: Washington @ Chicago
Noon CT: Tampa Bay @ Pittsburgh
San Francisco @ Atlanta
NY Jets @ Green Bay
Cincinnati @ New Orleans
Baltimore @ NY Giants
Jacksonville @ Indianapolis
Minnesota @ Miami
New England @ Cleveland
3:05 PM CT: Arizona @ Seattle
Carolina @ LA Rams
3:25 PM CT: Buffalo @ Kansas City
SNF @ 7:20 PM CT: Dallas @ Philadelphia
MNF @ 7:15 PM CT: Denver @ LA Chargers
BYES: Las Vegas Raiders, Tennessee Titans, Detroit Lions & Houston Texans

Scoring Leaders

QB
Josh Allen 146.54 (Cole)
Lamar Jackson 130.08 (Nick)
Patrick Mahomes 123.02 (Sparky)
Jalen Hurts 104.24 (Brett)
Joe Burrow 95.14 (Alec)
Kyler Murray 82.74 (Hoefs)
Russell Wilson 74.56 (Gabe)
Tom Brady 39.52 (Andy/Hoefs)
Justin Herbert 23.26 (Brett)
Trevor Lawrence 16 (Andy)
Jimmy Garoppolo 8.44 (Andy)

RB
Austin Ekeler 113.7 (Sparky)
Saquon Barkley 105.6 (Cole)
Christian McCaffrey 95.2 (Andy)
Derrick Henry 92.9 (Andy)
Leonard Fournette 91.4 (Nick)
Josh Jacobs 88.6 (Alec)
Aaron Jones 72.8 (Brett)
Dalvin Cook 71.7 (Nick)
Nick Chubb 63.4 (Gabe)
Breece Hall 53.6 (Brett/Cole)
D'Andre Swift 50.8 (Hoefs)
Jonathan Taylor 50.2 (Gabe)
Joe Mixon 44.6 (Gabe)
Antonio Gibson 43.1 (Gabe)
David Montgomery 42.9 (Alec)
Javonte Williams 42 (Cole)
Jeff Wilson Jr. 33.6 (Hoefs)
Najee Harris 31.1 (Nick)
James Robinson 29.4 (Hoefs)
Ezekiel Elliott 26.3 (Andy)
Clyde Edwards-Helaire 22.3 (Sparky)
Dameon Pierce 20.3 (Andy)
Melvin Gordon 19.6 (Cole)
Kareem Hunt 18.5 (Brett)
Alvin Kamara 14.9 (Sparky)
Miles Sanders 13.8 (Cole/Brett)
Khalil Herbert 11.1 (Alec)
James Conner 7.1 (Nick)
Jamaal Williams 5.6 (Nick)
Elijah Mitchell 4.1 (Hoefs)
Rashaad Penny 1.5 (Hoefs)
Kenyan Drake 0.8 (Sparky)

WR
Cooper Kupp 132.1 (Hoefs)
Stefon Diggs 119.8 (Cole)
Justin Jefferson 115.92 (Alec)
Tyreek Hill 104.2 (Gabe)
Davante Adams 100.4 (Brett)
Jaylen Waddle 83.6 (Cole)
A.J. Brown 77.6 (Nick)
Courtland Sutton 77.2 (Gabe)
Ja'Marr Chase 76.5 (Brett)
Deebo Samuel 75.1 (Alec)
CeeDee Lamb 74.7 (Hoefs)
Marquise Brown 70.6 (Andy)
Mike Evans 69.6 (Andy)
Michael Pittman Jr. 59.3 (Sparky)
Terry McLaurin 58.3 (Alec)
Christian Kirk 55.4 (Sparky)
Mike Williams 53.9 (Sparky)
Brandin Cooks 33.9 (Cole)
Diontae Johnson 30.4 (Nick)
Tyler Lockett 29.7 (Andy)
Drake London 25.6 (Brett)
Tee Higgins 23.8 (Sparky)
D.J. Moore 23.8 (Hoefs)
DeVonta Smith 23.4 (Gabe)
Amon-Ra St. Brown 19.1 (Nick)
JuJu Smith-Schuster 15.9 (Andy)
Chris Godwin 12.3 (Hoefs)
Keenan Allen 10.6 (Brett)
Curtis Samuel 7.8 (Hoefs)
DK Metcalf 7.5 (Brett)

TE
Travis Kelce 111.8 (Alec)
Mark Andrews 91.2 (Andy)
T.J. Hockenson 65.8 (Cole)
Dallas Goedert 63.5 (Sparky)
Darren Waller 39.5 (Brett/Nick)
Zach Ertz 38 (Brett)
Tyler Higbee 25.7 (Hoefs)
Kyle Pitts 25 (Gabe)
Dalton Schultz 15 (Nick)
George Kittle 11.2 (Hoefs)
Gerald Everett 1.2 (Gabe)

K
Daniel Carlson 62 (Nick)
Justin Tucker 52 (Sparky)
Evan McPherson 46 (Brett)
Tyler Bass 42 (Cole)
Brandon McManus 41 (Alec)
Ryan Succop 34 (Andy)
Matt Gay 22 (Hoefs)
Graham Gano 19 (Hoefs)
Jake Elliott 16 (Gabe)
Harrison Butker 9 (Gabe)
Rodrigo Blankenship 8 (Andy)

DF
San Francisco 49ers 57 (Gabe)
Buffalo Bills 56 (Sparky)
Dallas Cowboys 52 (Brett)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 49 (Alec)
Denver Broncos 36 (Cole)
Baltimore Ravens 29 (Nick)
Green Bay Packers 28 (Hoefs)
Los Angeles Rams 18 (Andy)
New Orleans Saints 6 (Cole)
Indianapolis Colts 5 (Andy)
Pittsburgh Steelers 5 (Nick)
Miami Dolphins -1 (Nick)

Hypothetical Standings (Top 4 scorers win, bottom 4 lose, no divisions)
Colieveland 96ers 5-0
Tax Paying Homeowner 3-2
Kyler's Study Buddies 3-2
The Rule of Law 3-2
Here Dad Weights 2-3
Stoltzya's Electric Orcas 2-3
Scott's Many Endeavors 1-4
Yeezy Taught Me 1-4

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