WRBL Week 12, 2019

Wisconsin Rapids Bro League

Week 12
Our 5th official season of blaming Cole Walters for the artist formerly known as Papa John.

Current Standings (with regular season won-loss streaks)
Steven Nett Division
Rise From The Asches (Scott Aschebrook) 8-4 L1
Team ChowHounds (Darrin Aschebrook) 5-7 L2
Team Easy Breesy (Ryan Dougherty) 5-7 W1
Colieveland 96ers (Cole Walters) 3-9 W2

Shooter McGavin Division
30 to 50 Feral Hogs (Andy Todd) 10-2 L1
SNEEN MACHINE (Tyler Sneen) 7-5 W1
Tax Paying Homeowner (Alec Swanson) 5-7 L1
Navy Is Illiterate (Nick Zurawski) 5-7 W1

Week Twelve Final Scores
NICK  152 - SCOTT  134
COLE  154 - DARRIN  112
RYAN  101 - ANDY  79
SNEEN  125 - ALEC  81

Heroes of the Week: WR Chris Godwin (37 points), RB Leonard Fournette (36), QB Lamar Jackson (35)

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Hero of the Week: WR Chris Godwin (Colieveland 96ers)

Zeros of the Week: DF Oakland Raiders (-1, Alec), WR Amari Cooper (Darrin)

Waiver Wonders: QB Ryan Tannehill (32 points), WR A.J. Brown (23), QB Jameis Winston (23)

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Waiver Wonder: QB Ryan Tannehill (14/18-259-2-0, 40 yards rushing w/ 2 TDs)

Upcoming Week 13 Match-ups & NFL Schedule (in CT)

Darrin vs. Alec
Nick vs. Cole
Ryan vs. Scott
Sneen vs. Andy

THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL (Thursday): Chicago @ Detroit 11:30 AM

Buffalo @ Dallas 3:30 PM

New Orleans @ Atlanta 7:20 PM

Sunday NOON: NY Jets @ Cincinnati

Tennessee @ Indianapolis

Philadelphia @ Miami

Green Bay @ NY Giants

Cleveland @ Pittsburgh

Washington @ Carolina

Tampa Bay @ Jacksonville

San Francisco @ Baltimore

3:05 PM: LA Rams @ Arizona

3:25 PM: LA Chargers @ Denver
Oakland @ Kansas City

Sunday Night Football: New England @ Houston 7:20 PM

Monday Night Football: Minnesota @ Seattle 7:15 PM

Bro...

One week removed from the stat correction that could still end up deciding the league, Lamar Jackson made sure that it would take a plethora of edits in box scores for Nick Zurawski's Navy Is Illiterate to drop one of the most important upsets of the year over Rise From The Asches. Sure, Scott's team showed up to the tune of 134 points in one of the lowest scoring fantasy weeks in recent memory but, Nick was not going to drop a fourth straight, essentially ending his 2019 fantasy season (or just WRBL season as he does have a team in a 14-team league that went from 1-4 to the playoffs somehow). No matter which "mediocre" team ends up in the #4 seed for the WRBL playoffs (whether that be as a 7-7 team or a 6-8 team), Scott and I are on high alert for whichever challenger enters the field of play. I said back in week 1 that this should ideally be the season Nick Zurawski finally wins and with Lamar Jackson, Leonard Fournette and DeAndre Hopkins as hot as they are right now, you best believe the path is already being paved for Z to visit Titletown. This week, Jackson dropped 35 points on Monday Night Football and immediately crushed any hopes the Rams had at winning the NFC West. Now, Baltimore still holds a two-game lead over the wildly inconsistent, Duck Hodges-led Steelers. 

The only reason I traded 4 players to Cole was for him to suddenly become an obstacle & restore interest. You're all welcome because the former placematt of the league for us to all step over is now on a two-game winning streak and actually has Z shaking in his wildcard-desiring boots. It is entirely to the credit of Cole though that he has become this obstacle because not only has Mark Ingram somehow upped his game with more targets in the Ravens' passing game but, the decision to start streaming quarterbacks based on opponent and the reemergence of Melvin Gordon post-holdout have made the 96ers play spoiler on multiple occasions already. Streaming quarterbacks was the plan for my Feral Hogs at the beginning of the season but, once the waiver wire seemed to dry up a tad, I made the WRBL's lone trade of the season and since then, Cole has ridden Derek Carr and Sam Darnold to surprising levels of success. His 154-112 win over Darrin once again reminded everyone that Darrin once blew a 96-point lead in the championship and ever since then, the eldest Aschebrook has not seen a single meaningful down of fantasy football. This week, Darrin will be one of many rooting for Cole to upset Nick in order to keep his own playoff hopes alive so that he might see some meaningful December football again.

Kirby Lee
Sam Darnold led a shocking 34-3 Jets' upset of the Raiders along with the 3-9 96ers' second consecutive victory.

QUICK HEADS UP: Next week's WRBL Review will likely be a few days late (think Friday or Saturday) due to scheduling conflicts.

If a Sneen Machine falls into the playoffs and literally nobody cares, does it still make a sound? Well to Alec's defense, he has been setting a complete lineup every week but for someone on the brink of the playoffs as part of the 5-7 quadblockage (a word I just invented) for fourth place, others have begun to worry about his waning interest in the entire sport thanks to the lack of development from Mitchell Trubisky. On the Tax Paying Homeowner's fantasy team, there's still Tarik Cohen and his lack of explosiveness has not gone unnoticed but otherwise, our Pernell McFanboy has mostly abandoned his Bear fan roots for a team that he is seemingly less committed to. It certainly doesn't help that Saquon Barkley doesn't seem fully recovered from an early season injury and trust me that the feeling of disappointment from a keeper not panning out is almost unmatched in terms of fantasy sports misery levels. Even with Aaron Rodgers finishing in the single-digits and the Steelers' RB situation being so muddied up that Jaylen Samuels can't even get double digit targets anymore, Sneen was still able to (99% odds) lock up his spot in the postseason with a 44-point win over Alec. Along with much of the NFL, Alec's team took the week off with nobody topping 11 points except for Panthers' WR D.J. Moore, a budding store that hit 30 against the Saints' defense.

In the fourth most exciting match of the WRBL week, my team suffered the clearest case of bye week blues thus far with Austin Ekeler, Patrick Mahomes (who is not Christian McCaffrey) and Travis Kelce getting the week off in favor of Tom Brady (11 points), Duke Johnson (3) and Jacob Hollister (4). The end result? 79 points. A pathetic all-around showing but hey, you take the good, you take the bad, you take it all and there you have... The Feral Hogs. Ryan got his win from Drew Brees, Allen Robinson and pure scheduling luck of the draw. Team Easy Breesy joins the quadblockage despite a 101-point week and a hypothetical loss.

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Aaron Jones (3 points) and the Packers were one of many teams hindered by either weather or outmatched by opposing defenses this week.

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Please make sure to have your lineups set for Thursday morning's 11:30 AM kickoff between the Bears and Lions (Take Jeff Driskel out of your lineup!). This Turkey Day features Kenny Golladay, Allen Robinson, Ezekiel Elliott, Dak Prescott, Amari Cooper, John Brown, Michael Thomas, Alvin Kamara, Drew Brees, Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley and a shit ton of fantasy points so yeah, set your lineups. In the Bro League, Nick vs. Cole may be the most hyped matchup of the week but, the quadblockage will be broken at minimum into three with two 5-7s facing each other this week with Darrin's ChowHounds taking on Alec: Tax Paying Homeowner. The other 5-7er, Ryan faces Christian McCaffrey (who is not Patrick Mahomes) and the Rise From The Asches team. I also play Sneen but with our division decided, who cares? One win from myself or one loss for Scott and the #1 seed is mine. Not that seeding means anything. After all, a new season starts come week 15.

Scoring Leaders

QB

Lamar Jackson 262 (Nick)

Russell Wilson 218 (Andy/Alec)

DeShaun Watson 194 (Darrin)

Aaron Rodgers 189 (Sneen)

Patrick Mahomes 186 (Cole/Andy)

Kyler Murray 134 (Scott)

Tom Brady 130 (Andy)

Drew Brees 97 (Ryan)

Carson Wentz 62 (Scott)

Dak Prescott 52 (Darrin)

Josh Allen 50 (Ryan/Sneen)

Gardner Minshew II 40 (Ryan)

Jameis Winston 37 (Cole)

Kirk Cousins 31 (Nick/Scott)
Sam Darnold 27 (Cole)

Jacoby Brissett 26 (Ryan/Cole/Alec)

Matthew Stafford 24 (Ryan)
Baker Mayfield 23 (Scott)

Daniel Jones 21 (Andy)

Derek Carr 19 (Cole)

Matt Ryan 18 (Nick)

Cam Newton 16 (Alec)

RB

Christian McCaffrey 327 (Scott)

Dalvin Cook 247 (Sneen)

Nick Chubb 190 (Scott)

Derrick Henry 189 (Darrin)

Leonard Fournette 185 (Nick)

Ezekiel Elliott 184 (Ryan)

Aaron Jones 178 (Ryan)

Mark Ingram 169 (Andy/Cole)

Alvin Kamara 159 (Darrin)

Le'Veon Bell 158 (Darrin)

Austin Ekeler 139 (Andy)

Marlon Mack 124 (Alec)

Saquon Barkley 117 (Alec)

David Johnson 115 (Nick)

Todd Gurley 113 (Ryan)

James Conner 92 (Sneen)

Josh Jacobs 92 (Nick)

Melvin Gordon 89 (Cole)

Devonta Freeman 87 (Scott)

Tevin Coleman 81 (Sneen)

Joe Mixon 65 (Cole)

Tarik Cohen 47 (Alec)

Chris Carson 45 (Nick)

Latavius Murray 36 (Scott)

Kerryon Johnson 35 (Andy)

Damien Williams 33 (Sneen/Andy)

LeSean McCoy 25 (Cole/Darrin)

Jaylen Samuels 24 (Andy/Sneen)

James White 24 (Andy)

Frank Gore 23 (Cole/Darrin)

Ronald Jones II 21 (Sneen)

Phillip Lindsay 19 (Andy)

Chris Thompson 18 (Cole)

Kenyan Drake 17 (Cole/Alec)

Miles Sanders 17 (Alec)

Devin Singletary 15 (Andy)

Brian Hill 9 (Scott)
Sony Michel 7 (Cole)

David Montgomery 7 (Scott/Nick)

Duke Johnson 3 (Andy)

Chase Edmonds 2 (Nick)

WR

Michael Thomas 260 (Andy)

Mike Evans 206 (Scott)

DeAndre Hopkins 196 (Nick)

Chris Godwin 189 (Cole)

Julian Edelman 182 (Sneen)

Julio Jones 178 (Alec)

Amari Cooper 148 (Darrin)

Keenan Allen 137 (Alec)

Allen Robinson 128 (Ryan)

Cooper Kupp 121 (Andy)

Odell Beckham Jr. 116 (Nick)

Tyreek Hill 115 (Ryan)

Davante Adams 109 (Sneen)

John Brown 106 (Darrin)

Adam Thielen 103 (Andy)

Tyler Lockett 101 (Cole/Andy)

T.Y. Hilton 99 (Cole)

Kenny Golladay 88 (Alec)

Marvin Jones Jr. 85 (Ryan)

Emmanuel Sanders 76 (Scott)

Courtland Sutton 66 (Alec)

JuJu Smith-Schuster 64 (Andy)

Golden Tate 64 (Scott)

Tyrell Williams 61 (Cole)

Brandin Cooks 58 (Ryan)

DJ Chark 51 (Cole)

Calvin Ridley 48 (Sneen)

D.J. Moore 47 (Alec)

Tyler Boyd 42 (Nick)

Stefon Diggs 42 (Alec/Nick)

Jarvis Landry 37 (Scott/Cole)

Sterling Shepard 35 (Darrin)

Deebo Samuel 34 (Scott)

Robert Woods 29 (Sneen)

Alshon Jeffery 28 (Darrin)

Sammy Watkins 27 (Nick)

Mohamed Sanu 26 (Sneen)

Larry Fitzgerald 22 (Sneen)

Antonio Brown 15 (Darrin)

Michael Gallup 11 (Andy)

Devante Parker 11 (Cole)

Will Fuller V 10 (Ryan)

Christian Kirk 10 (Cole)

Auden Tate 9 (Alec)

Marquise Brown 6 (Alec)
DK Metcalf 6 (Ryan)

Curtis Samuel 6 (Darrin)

Terry McLaurin 2 (Scott)

TE

Travis Kelce 165 (Andy)

Zach Ertz 152 (Sneen)

George Kittle 133 (Cole)

Evan Engram 105 (Darrin)

Austin Hooper 103 (Scott)

Darren Waller 102 (Nick)

Hunter Henry 75 (Ryan/Alec)

Jared Cook 32 (Scott/Darrin/Cole)

Vance McDonald 31 (Alec)

Will Dissly 30 (Alec)

Greg Olsen 30 (Cole/Nick/Scott)

Delanie Walker 30 (Ryan)

Mark Andrews 27 (Nick/Ryan)

Gerald Everett 17 (Ryan/Sneen)

David Njoku 12 (Nick)

Jason Witten 10 (Ryan/Darrin)

Gerald Everett 7 (Darrin)

Darren Fells 7 (Scott)

Dallas Goedert 7 (Ryan)

Jimmy Graham 7 (Ryan)
Jacob Hollister 4 (Andy)

Mike Gesicki 3 (Cole)

T.J. Hockenson 1 (Scott)

PK

Harrison Butker 111 (Nick)

Justin Tucker 109 (Alec/Andy)

Wil Lutz 104 (Andy/Sneen)

Greg Zuerlein 84 (Ryan/Darrin)

Jake Elliott 58 (Sneen)

Robbie Gould 48 (Cole/Scott)

Mason Crosby 37 (Cole)

Matt Gay 37 (Ryan)

Matt Prater 35 (Alec)

Josh Lambo 34 (Darrin)

Stephen Gostkowski 32 (Darrin)

Ka'imi Fairbairn 24 (Scott/Nick)

Chris Boswell 21 (Cole)

Zane Gonzalez 20 (Darrin)

Mike Nugent 13 (Scott)

Adam Vinatieri 13 (Cole)

Austin Seibert 12 (Scott)

Younghoe Koo 11 (Cole)

Michael Badgley 6 (Scott)

Joey Slye 2 (Darrin)

DF

New England Patriots 168 (Scott)

Buffalo Bills 91 (Darrin)

Chicago Bears 72 (Nick)

New Orleans Saints 71 (Alec/Sneen)

Los Angeles Rams 70 (Sneen/Andy)

Baltimore Ravens 60 (Andy/Nick/Andy)

Los Angeles Chargers 57 (Ryan)

Pittsburgh Steelers 53 (Cole/Ryan)

Dallas Cowboys 35 (Andy/Cole/Sneen)

Philadelphia Eagles 35 (Cole)

Carolina Panthers 33 (Cole/Darrin/Alec)

San Francisco 49ers 31 (Andy/Nick)

Jacksonville Jaguars 26 (Scott/Cole)

Oakland Raiders 13 (Alec)

Washington 12 (Andy)

New York Jets 11 (Cole)
Cleveland Browns 10 (Cole)

Tennessee Titans 7 (Andy)

Minnesota Vikings 3 (Scott)

New York Giants 3 (Cole)

Arizona Cardinals 2 (Cole)

Seattle Seahawks 2 (Andy)

Denver Broncos 1 (Cole)

Hypothetical Standings

30 to 50 Feral Hogs 9-3

Rise From The Asches 8-4

Tax Paying Homeowner 7-5

SNEEN MACHINE 6-6

Navy Is Illiterate 5-7

Team ChowHounds 5-7

Colieveland 96ers 4-8
Team Easy Breesy 4-8