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Week 7 MVP Award Winner –
Halibut J-Bird (32 Points)

When Halibut J-Bird announced that he was returning to the club after an 11 year absence, it was a happy moment for many club members who missed having him as part of the group.  Halibut J-Bird (full official name Just For the Halibut! J-Bird) is a two-time Club Champion, having won the club title back in 1999 and 2003.  But since he had not made any picks since 2008, some wondered if he would still be able to make great picks as he had in the past.  These past two weeks have provided a clear answer to that question, as last week he won the MVP Award Runner-Up and this week he scored 32 Points to win the Week 7 MVP Award.  This very strong week has propelled Halibut J-Bird all the way into 1st Place where he now enjoys a 4 Point lead.  Now that he has returned to his perch at the top, we will see how Halibut J-Bird responds to the pressure of having everybody chasing after him.  Our Week 7 MVP Award Runner-Up was Stinkerbell, who scored 29 Points and has been making consistently strong picks lately.  She now sits in 3rd Place, a mere 5 Points out of the top spot.  Rounding out the Top Five, we have freespirit at #2, Double-Double at #4, and Bob Swerski at #5.

Over in Head to Head Weekly, Double-Double continues to dominate the competition.  Last week, he forced Captain Jack Sparrow to walk the plank in a fierce battle 25-20.  This week, he has to face off against one of the players in the club who has been picking the best lately – Badwater Nessie.  In Pro Bowl Weekly, The Supernovas defeated Wild Animals 69-60 in an upset.  It looks like The Supernovas are going to be the achilles’ heel of Wild Animals, as they have now handed them both of their losses on the season.  Meanwhile, McTriple Play has returned to the top spot with another win, this time over Alhambra by a score of 67-46.  And I couldn’t help but notice that all 3 of the members of McTriple Play are in the Top Six in the standings, which shows why they are such a great team.

Here is a copy of the Week 7 Current Standings for those who are having trouble viewing it on their screens:

Week 6 MVP Award Winner –
Badwater Nessie (27 Points)

Last weekend, Badwater Nessie was on his way to New York to visit Bethel when he remembered to turn in his picks for the week.  If you’ll recall, he was coming off a very strong Week 5 performance where he scored 25 Points and was the only player in the entire club to correctly pick the upset of Indy over KC in the Sunday night game.  In Week 6, Nessie followed that up by scoring 27 Points to win the Week 6 MVP Award.  The key to Nessie’s success was once again with the Sunday night game.  Yet again, he was the only player in the entire club to get the Sunday night game correct with his pick of Pit over LA Chargers.  That’s quite an accomplishment knowing that he was the only 1 out of 18 players on back-to-back weeks to get those important games correct.  Another interesting statistic about Badwater Nessie is that last year he led the league in Triple Jeopardy picks, going 11-4 to get 73% on the season.  That was a net gain for him of 14 Points in the standings.  This year, he’s back at it again.  He is currently leading the league (along with Hoosier Daddy) with a TJ picking record of 4-1.  Nessie, who was swimming at the bottom in Last Place just a couple of weeks ago, has now risen from the depths and is all the way up to 11th Place.  The Week 6 MVP Award Runner-Up was a 3-way tie between Halibut J-Bird, Slick Chick, and MJD Hogg, who all scored 19 Points.  At the top of the charts, Slick Chick is locked in a fierce battle with freespirit with only 1 Point currently separating the two.  freespirit logged her 2nd Week at #1 despite struggling in Week 6.  Also struggling last week, but maintaining his spot, was Bob Swerski in 3rd Place.  Rounding out the Top Five, we have Halibut J-Bird in 4th Place and Nighthawk in 5th Place.  A mere 1 Point out of the Top Five, we have three players tied for 6th Place – The Cat, Double-Double, and Stinkerbell.  We have to give credit to The Cat just for getting his picks in last week despite dealing with severe civil unrest in his own neighborhood (as well as across the land) in Ecuador.  Seeing Double-Double and Stinkerbell both tied after Week 6 with 109 Points brings back a flood of memories of their historic battle for the Club Championship last season.  Which one of these two great players will pass the other one up next week?  At the bottom of the charts, Fearless Tuna and Rad Dad are both struggling mightily as they battle it out to avoid Last Place.

We are now halfway through our Head to Head regular season.  Three of our four previously undefeated players took losses last week.  That leaves Double-Double as the league’s only undefeated player at 4-0-1.  Meanwhile, Mr. T and The Cat have taken control of Division Three and Division Four.  In Pro Bowl Weekly, we had the clash of the titans last week as the top two teams squared off.  The match was won by Wild Animals as they defeated previously unbeaten team McTriple Play 51-38.  Wild Animals have now won 4 straight games and have tied McTriple Play atop the leader board with a record of 4-1.

Here is a copy of the Week 6 Current Standings for those who are having trouble viewing it on their screens:

Here are the club’s picks for Week 6 (Monday night game has not been played or scored yet).  Also, Stefan has started doing his own version of keeping track of the picks since he wants to be like daddy.  You can see his version of the picks below.