Sovic Post: Most Valuable Players

So as a follow-up to yesterday's Projected Points rankings, I realized it'd be relatively easy to input the amounts we paid for each player and take a look at who got the most bang for their bucks during the draft. With that in mind, I divided each of our starting players' projections by their cost to find out who were the most valuable draftees, i.e. who was projected to score the most points per dollar. Of course at the top of the rankings were a bunch of quarterbacks and defenses who went for $1 each, so to avoid just publishing a list of those people I set a minimum cost of $5. Here were the top most valuable draftees at each position, along with their projected points per dollar (pppd) and owner.

THIS JUST IN!!! HOOSGOW BLOWS.

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74 more hours...

The season is upon us. I didn't do a draft recap because I've been too busy searching the interweb for awesome pictures of balls hitting men's asses, but I have noticed that there's been some free agent activity recently. 

--Cody decided to add Tavaris Jackson at the expense of Deion Branch. I hate Tavaris with a passion, but he is a starting qb, which means something. And...Cody paid all of $0 to get him (which is $3 less than he paid for Deion Branch during the draft). 

--I decided to pick up Lance Hendricks, because he is going to be awesome (trust me).  I love having 2 TE's.  I might even start 2 in week one (that's hammond style for those of you who remember).  

--The only other owner active in the free agent auction process has been Dois, and I'm going to make fun of him. First, he added Vince Young. Vince Young is a shitty fantasy player who has a reputation for "just winning football games." However, I have to forgive this addition because Dois decided to draft Vick...so insurance is needed. Next, Dois decided to add John Beck. I would have applauded this pickup until today, when the headline"Rex Grossman to start vs. Giants" scrolled across the ESPN ticker. Now, he's just a backup homer pick for the Nova native. On Aug 28th, Dois made the choice to pickup Antonio Brown.. I'm sure Dois was watching Pitt's 3rd preseason game the previous night when Antonio exploded for 137 yards received and 2 td's. Not wanting to be outbid, Dois bid and won Antonio for $2 in the next morning's free agent auction, forgetting that no sane person actually watches any preseason football (no one else bid).

I can't wait for the season to start, bitches.

-Will

Hi

Welcome back, Cody.  Welcome Forshay.
Draft is on Wed, Aug 24 at 8pm eastern.

Week 12 recaps part one

Only one week left in the regular season.  Crazy shit.  Here are the first half of the recaps.  The rest of the recaps followed by a week 13 preview are in the works.  I hope to have them out by Saturday.  


Nude Tayne 106.2     Hoosgow 80.5 (recap by whiteford)

I have very little to say about my actual matchup against Joe so if you are reading this expecting something mostly about football I’d skip it entirely.  If you want to read a little about my Thanksgiving with Will and his Dad then read on to the second paragraph.  But let’s briefly get the fantasy stuff out of the way.  It was pretty boring and went largely as predicted, i.e. Kyle Orton had a huge game, BJax had a lousy one, and the rest of my team was average.   Joe’s only shining star on the other hand was Jamal Charles but that wasn’t nearly enough.  So, down goes the hated Hoosgow. 

Anyway, I spent my Thanksgiving eating turkey, not drinking alcohol, and watching the Dallas v NO game at some crazy people's house with a man who owned ~14,500 VHS tapes that were very loosely organized; however, were securely stored within a temperature and humidity controlled shed.  He proceeded to trap me, my wife, Will, and Will’s father in the shed and describe in detail his collection, walking us through the stacks upon stacks of movies for about half an hour.   My favorite sections were his "Exploitation" section (both of black people and women) and "Italian Horror" collection.  Fascinating.   This man is somehow part of Katie’s family so Will is the one that gets to visit every Thanksgiving.  To make Will’s Dad look good (Dr. Shoaf was afraid of coming off badly due to lack of wine/nap and general crankiness) I had got to be the “bad cop”, which turned out to actually happen when I began loudly rooting against the Cowboys.  Everyone loved me.

Dr Teeth 77.7  Boys on Boats 51 (recap by viche)

There is neither great pride nor much to say in winning a fantasy game with 78 points, but I just wrote an entry on my own blog about what a horrible owner Bryan Dick is (Shoaf, feel free to provide a link there; page views get me wet link...guys, this is worth a look. Great writing...ed note), so writing about my Uberleague opponent Chris Blickley should be an easy transition. Both Dick and Blick are 2-10 this season, but at least Dick has enough self-respect to start players at every position most weeks. Blickley decided that starting a D/ST in Week 12 would have been excessive, so despite having the Cleveland Browns on his roster, he left that slot blank. Not that it would have helped: pretty much the only player on this team of any value is Chris Johnson, and he dropped a big fat goose egg.

I shouldn't be so bothered, though, since Blick's ineptitude kept my playoff hopes alive despite a rather atrocious performance from the Electric Mayhem. I wasn't really paying attention Monday night, so I'm not sure how the Chargers score 36 points and Philip Rivers scores a mere 8, but as it happens Rivers was picked up by fellow AFC Wester Matt Cassel, who more than doubled anyone else in this contest with 28 points. Honestly, that's all there is to say about this game, except for the fact that I left Fred Jackson on the bench for the third straight week, and in those three weeks he's averaged 26 points. I'm gonna go ahead and start him this week, so naturally he'll be back into the single digits. I am one of an amazing six teams at 7-5, and the lone 6-6 team has a higher point total than me. Needless to say, I'm frightened. See you in the Consolation Bracket.

London's Lackey's 151.2     The Warfishes ditto 54 (recap by dois)

It was a Happy Thanksgiving indeed for the London’s Lackeys!   Despite showing some signs of fight this year, the Detroit Lions are still the Detroit Lions and this year it was the Pats chance for an early turkey day feast.  Golden Boy Tom Brady connected for 2 touchdowns to (recently added and inserted into the Lackey lineup that morning) Deion Branch.  Really I could just stop right there.  When Branch waltzed into the end zone for the 2^nd time, this matchup was over.  Brady’s 30.7 and Branch’s 24.3 were enough to outscore the entire woeful Warfish squad this week.  Much like in Hammond’s delightful writeup last week, Trey can be thankful for Boys on Boats whose 51 points were the league low (although I am led to believe there was some problem with getting a DEF into the lineup – someone please right the ship over there.  I hear Forshay is available as a co-manager).   So Trey was fucked anyway but was especially let down by Chris Johnson’s 0.7 and the highly awaited return of Vincent Jackson which got the dreaded squadoosh (TM stat boy).  Victory firmly in hand, the Men from Charlottesville nevertheless did not quit, knowing they are still in the hunt for the uber points total.  Only Antonio Gates, returning after 2 weeks absence, failed to score in double figures as the Lackeys put up a league-leading 151 points to close the gap on the fat, evil commish to just 3.5 points going into the last week.

Week 11 recaps...better late than never.

Happy Thanksgiving (from Deadspin)

Well, thanksgiving was a interesting for me.  My dad came in town, and we went to hang at katie's family's house (extended family...not inlaws).  However, the person hosting thanksgiving doesn't drink, and doesn't have alcohol in their home.  That's not a huge deal for me or katie, but my wine sucking dad was not happy.  After bitching the entire day before Thanksgiving, once we got into the house, he basically stared off into space, and wondered aloud when we could leave and drink wine.  Whiteford came to thanksgiving with us; he can vouch for this. At one point, my dad awkwardly stared at Whiteford for a while and said, "don't worry, I'm not coming onto you.".  Then he settled back into not interacting with others.  I'm also pretty sure he was eye fucking the shit out of whiteford's wife.  What a great thanksgiving.
The moral of this story:  don't let my dad into your house without wine or Jim Beam around.

Week 11 recaps:
Manning and me  155.2     Dr. Teeth  124.5 (recap by commish)
Holy fucking shit.  Beb had an amazing week.  Since beb is currently in Malaysia balls deep into his new wife, I'm pretty sure we can attribute this win to Jenni's poon.  I've always suspected that she had a fantasy powerhouse hiding behind her knickers; this is all the proof I need.  Where to start?  Beb had 3 guys go over 20 (Ryan fitz, bowe, santonio) and four more over 10 (burner, woodhead, wayne, and marcedes).  Jesus.  What an epic week.  Sovic wasn't a slouch either.  MJD and Rivers matched beb's highest scores, and other sovic coached players did fairly well (as his 122 total points can attest).  However, with Boldin only getting 0.9, it wasn't going to be enough to match up with Beb's players and Jenni's box.  Congrats, beb. 

Team Pussy  126.2    Nude Tayne  119.4 (recap by commish)
I was so excited for this recap.  It was exciting and high scoring...I was getting tingles!  Dekker came out on top, and my mouth was watering for a good old fashioned whiteford skewering.  Alas, it wasn't going to happen.  Dekker texted me that he was busy with thanksgiving (understandable), and didn't have time to write  it up.  However, he did convey this: "just be sure to tell whiteford he put up a good effort and there's still time to jump aboard the Pussy Wagon as it rolls into the playoffs."  Well played, sir.  


Steuberleague  126.5      Londen's Lackey's 119.8 (recap by steuber)
Another typical game for Ste uberleague - an opponent putting up over 100 pts. But wait, somehow Ste uberleague came out on top of this match-up while proudly holding onto the "most points against" position.  Bidet vs Steubet, east vs west; a lot was was riding on this match.  The best coast came out on top with SoCal's finest, dirty Sanchez, proving to be the difference maker vs Bidet's OP, Tom Brady. All other positions were pretty much equal including strong QB & RB performances, mediocre WR play, and crappy D and TE contributions. Anyone want Brees and Moreno for their 1st rd draft pick next yr? (commish note:  are we trading draft picks?)


Return of Terry Tate 104    Fat Wolverine  90.2  (recap by xadam)

Suck it Will!  Suck it long, and suck it hard!  Your little team may perform well against others, but you forgot one thing: Defense wins championships, and my defense has been stellar all season.  Having by far the lowest Points Against, and the only team under 1000 PA, teams just cant score against me, and yours was no different.  Even the "best receiver in the league" was only able to gain a measly 3.2 points.  And to further my argument, only your Bears defense was able to put up a strong showing by shutting out the Miami 3rd string Dolphins.  But it was the Baltimore D (god damn right!) that was able to put the nail in the coffin with 2, yes TWO gratuitous interceptions for touchdowns at the end of the game that they were already dominating.  This week I move to #2.  Next week I plan to tie your record as I shut out the otherwise frightening Rodgers/Vick super QB combo of Pussies.

Hoosgow 95.2    Hung like Blag 78 (recap by sexy Joe)

Hoosgow won big, again, denying the uberworld a chance to read a witty summary by HLBJ.  In the spirit of the season, here is a list of what Hoosgow is thankful for, in reverse order: 

10.  That Dekker made a drafting mistake - otherwise Hoosgow was screwed.

9.  That the non-UVA people admitted to the uberleague are Terrapins who suck and not Hokies who strangely often don't suck.

8.  That the Giants won the Series, and beat the Phillies and Braves (retiring Bobby Cox!) along the way.

7.  That Beb and Jenni registered for a wedding haiku and no one else got it for them.

6.  That the Commish's uber-dreams turn to dust every single year.

5.  That Tottenham is having a great European campaign.

4.  That the Dois was late for the draft, allowing Hoosgow to perform some research.

3.  For Dirk Kuyt (Dekker knows what I mean).

2.  That fantasy football is a game of chance.

1.  That the Boys on Boats are the worst team in the league! 

Good luck in week 12.

Week 10 recaps

The last of the bye weeks are over, so all the people who don't enjoy managing their team with the free agent auction system can chill the fuck out (as evidenced by the quiet bidding this week).  On to the recaps...I feel I have to say something about my matchup with viche, even though his writeup is outstanding (the first one below).    Going into Monday night, I was down almost 27 pts, and I only had one more guy to play.  Sovic had absolutely creamed me, and I really didn't give myself much of a chance.  Then, first play of the eagles/skins was a HUGE Vick to Desean 88 yd. td bomb.  I got 15 pts back right there.  Then...desean disappeared for the rest of the game, despite Vick throwing 18 more td's...and my win disappeared as well.  Congrats viche.  I guess I can't be too pissed if I scored 120.5 pts.
And congrats to beb for finally getting married.  Dois, Sovic and I had a fucking blast.  Here are some random pictures from my phone from pre-wedding shit.

Reliving pledge days at the rehearsal dinner...

Some nerdy beb/jenni wedding equations...

...which were eventually simplified to be sexual in nature.

Recaps after the jump...