Week 5 MVP Award Winner –
freespirit (33 Points)
As the Week 5 games got underway, five club members decided not to trust the 0-4 Autopicker and so they switched their pick to the LA Rams. 1 of those 5 players was freespirit, who sent me a text saying: “Switch me to L.A.” Seattle ended up winning the game 30-29 and The Autopicker finally won its first game and now stands at 1-4 (make that 2-4 after this week). Thus, freespirit was off to a really bad start for the week, allowing 13 other club members to start out 2 Points ahead of her. But she came soaring back quickly with a set of dominant picks for the Sunday games. Among her great picks were both Games of the Week with Buffalo and Green Bay, the Double Stakes of Baltimore-Minnesota, a correct pick of Carolina with TJ, and she was the only player in the entire club to get the Triple Crown of Houston-New Orleans-Oakland and land the prestigious 7 Point prize. All of this added up to her scoring 33 Points, winning the Week 5 MVP Award, and moving into 1st Place with a huge 8 Point lead. The Week 5 MVP Award Runner-Up was Nighthawk with 29 Points. Nighthawk has quietly moved into a tie for 4th Place and it appears that our 2008 Club Champion is going to be challenging for the club title once again. One other brilliant pick made this week was done by Badwater Nessie, who was the only player in the entire club to correctly pick Indy over Kansas City on Sunday night. That takes a lot of courage to pick a 10 point underdog to win like that. But it pays off big time when you are right. Our current Top Five in the club is (1) freespirit, (2) Slick Chick, (3) Bob Swerski, and (4) Drummer Boy and Nighthawk. However, everyone in the next five positions down to 10th Place are all within 5 Points of entering the Top Five.
Taking a break from football for a moment, I wanted to make brief mention that perhaps we could all keep The Cat in our prayers. As many of you know, he and his wife are serving down in Ecuador as regular pioneers and there is a lot of civil unrest going on there. Even in his own neighborhood, there are sounds of gunshots and tires burning in the streets. So our thoughts are with the brothers and sisters there including The Cat and his wife.
Moving over to Head to Head Weekly, we have Captain Jack Sparrow putting on an absolute clinic in Division One. He has now completed a sweep of his entire division and sits at 4-0 all alone in 1st Place. He can now officially forget about his Head to Head misery last season. In Division Two, Bob Swerksi and Double-Double remain undefeated at 3-0-1 and are tied for 1st. Which one of these two great players is going to blink first and take a defeat? In Division Three, freespirit is in 1st with a decent record of 2-1-1. In Division Four, Nighthawk remains undefeated at 3-0-1 but The Cat is hot on his tail with a record of 3-1. Let’s not forget that the All-Time record for most regular season Head to Head wins is 9-1 and that is shared by The Cat (2000), Annie-mole (2000), and Hoosier Daddy (both 2000 and 2010). During that season in 2000 (19 years ago), The Cat actually went 8-0 and swept his entire division (we had a lot more players back then in each division). Looking at Pro Bowl Team Weekly, there seems to be two dominant teams early in the season. The first is McTriple Play, who have started out 4-0 and are on fire. The second is defending champs Wild Animals, who improved to 3-1 after winning their 3rd straight game. These two titans will be meeting for the first time this season in Week 6. Which team will come out victorious?