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