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Week 9 full picks now posted (Sun 8:00am).  All players are welcome to view my picks once they have turned their own in for the week.

Week 8 MVP Award Winner –
Nighthawk (27 Points)

2008 Club Champion Nighthawk has reclaimed his spot in the Top Ten after a strong 27 Point performance that won him the Week 8 MVP Award.  His Pro Bowl Team was back together last weekend, as Bob Swerksi and Stinkerbell were visiting him in New York, thus reforming McTriple Play in person.  With all teammates present, it inspired Nighthawk to come up with some brilliant picks just when he needed them the most.  With there not being much separation between the Top Ten and Top Five right now, Nighthawk now finds himself a mere 10 Points away from entering the Top Five for the first time this season.  Another strong MVP-caliber performance could help him achieve that.  The Week 8 MVP Award Runner-Up was shared between Drummer Boy, Fearless Tuna & Stinkerbell, who all scored 26 Points.  Drummer Boy has been operating this season without much fanfare.  As a result, the pressure has been off and he has been able to quietly made great picks week after week and rise to 3rd Place in the standings.  He now is just 3 Points away from the top spot.  Does anyone out there really believe that he won’t be in 1st Place next week?  Perhaps Captain Jack Sparrow will have something to say about that and make him walk the plank if he thinks he can catch up.  Fearless Tuna continues his streak of amazing picks.  This is the third straight week in which he has been either the MVP or Runner-Up MVP.  Thus, it is no surprise that he has gone from at one point being 40 Points out of 1st Place to now being only 7 Points out.  It just goes to show that until the very end of the season, nobody is really out of it.  Stinkerbell claimed her second Runner-Up MVP of the season and climbed back up to her peak position of #7.  She is currently tied with her chief rival Double-Double, as both have 164 Points.  Stinkerbell is only 16 Points away from being in 1st Place, which reveals how tight the race for the Club Championship is this season.  She would love nothing more than to become back-to-back Club Champion.  That is a feat that has never before happened, and one that she personally thwarted Drummer Boy from accomplishing last season.  Triple Jeopardy has been shaking up the club a bit this season.  It is interesting to see how some players select it every week, some select it once in a while, and some refuse to select it no matter what.  Double-Double is the best player at picking Triple Jeopardy wisely and correctly this season, sporting a perfect 4-0 record that has brought him 8 Bonus Points.  The big question is when will MJD Hogg, Captain Insano & The Rickster finally take the risk of selecting it this season?  We are all waiting to see if they can pick it right or not.  If you look at the race for #1 and take note of each Top Five player’s Triple Jeopardy records, you can see how MDJ Hogg may have been negatively affected by not ever selecting TJ while those around him are picking it sometimes.  He surely could have used a few Bonus Points here and there to help out.  The Top Five currently consists of brand new #1 Captain Jack Sparrow (1 Week at #1), #2 MJD Hogg (2 Points back), #3 Drummer Boy (3 Points back), #4 Fearless Tuna (7 Points back), and #5 Mr. T (8 Points back).

Here are the club’s picks for Week 8 . Nighthawk wins the Week 8 MVP Award with 27 Points, while Fearless Tuna, Stinkerbell, and Drummer Boy tie for the MVP Award Runner-Up with 26 Points.

Week 8 full picks now posted (Sun 9:30am).  All players are welcome to view my picks once they have turned their own in for the week.

Week 7 MVP Award Winner –
Captain Jack Sparrow (37 Points)

The strongest two players from last week kept up their momentum this week, although they flipped spots while doing so.  Last week’s MVP Award Runner-Up Captain Jack Sparrow scored 37 Points to plunder the Week 7 MVP Award and move only 1 Point away from First Place.  It seems lately that everyone who gets in his way in the standings ends up walking the plank to make room for him.  Captain Jack had proclaimed on Club Chat that he was going to shine some hooks and do a little fishing.  While his fishing failed to reel in the Tuna he was hoping to catch, he did end up reeling in all other club members.  Captain Jack Sparrow’s huge week resulted from his only missing two picks on the entire sheet: the Autopicker game and the Colts game.  If strong winds persist, Captain Jack could very well sail the Black Pearl into First Place next week, leaving all other vessels in his wake.  Last week’s MVP Fearless Tuna scored 35 Points to swim off with the Week 7 MVP Award Runner-Up.  The Fearless one has been swimming as fast as he can underwater, avoiding any fish hooks being dropped with bait, but still being outpaced by the Black Pearl’s sails.  Even so, the second strong week in a row was enough to send Fearless Tuna into the Top Five for the first time this season.  Looking around the league, there were a few other standout performances.  Scoring 30 Points or better last week were nine players in total, including Double-Double (energized from eating a real Double-Double during his recent trip to Las Vegas), Rad Dad (fully recovered from the -1 Point debacle and playing strong again but disappointed the Swerski Award suggested on Club Chat did not become reality), The Rickster (quietly moving up and lurking just 6 Points outside of the Top Five), Drummer Boy (feeling snubbed by Coach Gruden and thus playing hard to prove his All-Pro status), MJD Hogg (pulling out all the stops to hold onto his spot at the very top), Roadrunner (having rebuilt the engine of his 1969 Plymouth roadrunner 383 four-speed hard top with high performance headers, racing cam, and bored out cylinders), and Shaylene (recovering well from her season-ending knee and arm injuries last year to once again run the 40-yard dash in 4 seconds).  The Top Five currently consists of #1 MJD Hogg (5 Weeks at #1), #2 Captain Jack Sparrow (1 Point back), #3 Mr. T (13 Points back), #4 Drummer Boy (14 Points back), and tied for #5 Captain Insano & Fearless Tuna (18 Points back).