“Stinkerbell’s Fairytale Season Continues!” (Wk 5)

Week 4 MVP Award Winner –
Stinkerbell (28 Points)

Rookie player Stinkerbell continued her fairytale season by scoring 28 Points last week to win the Week 4 MVP Award.  That means she has won 2 of the first 4 MVP Awards, now logged 3 Weeks at #1, and increased her First Place lead to a staggering 18 Points.  One of the most impressive stats that Stinkerbell has achieved this season is getting all 7 possible Games of the Week correct (not counting the 1 tied Game of the Week which was impossible to get correct).  Last week, Stinkerbell picked both Houston and Oakland to add to her tally.  The only other club members last week to get both Games of the Week correct were resurgent players Hoosier Daddy and Drummer Boy.  Stinkerbell (along with freespirit and Fearless Tuna) also correctly picked the high-risk pick of Baltimore over Pittsburgh for the Sunday night game, which landed her another 6 Points.  One thing notable about Stinkerbell’s picks is that she does not pick conservatively.  She is not just sitting on her lead but she is trying to add to it, and that approach continues to get her further ahead of the rest of the pack.  Stinkerbell’s early season success has a lot of other club members stressed, wondering what they can possibly do to catch up.  The good news is that there are still 13 weeks left, which is plenty of time for people now at the bottom to end up at the top.  One player in particular who is probably now a bit nervous is 2010 Club Champion Slick Chick, who owns the Hall of Fame record for Most MVP Awards In A Season with 5 of them.  When Slick Chick set that record, she scored her first MVP Award for that season in Week 5.  Going into Week 5, Stinkerbell already has two in the bag.  In view of her success through the first four weeks, Stinkerbell has been named the September Player of the Month.  Looking at the rest of the results for Week 4, Fearless Tuna captured the Runner-Up MVP Award with 26 Points.  Right behind him was Hoosier Daddy with 25 Points on the week.  And Drummer Boy was not far behind with 23 Points.  These three players had all been bottom feeders, but they are now on the rise, starting to close in on getting into the Top Five.  The Top Five currently features #2 player Captain Insano (continuing to make very strong picks every week), #3 player Rad Dad (having one of his career best starts so far), #4 player Kip Possible (keeping up his momentum from last week), and a three-way tie for 5th Place between club legends The Cat, Double-Double, and Nighthawk.

Looking at Head to Head Weekly, we are down to having only 5 undefeated players.  Keep in mind that no player in club history has ever gone undefeated in the 10-week regular season of Head to Head play.  The best record ever posted was 9-1.  So these five players: Hoosier Daddy & Rad Dad (both 2-0-1), Stinkerbell (2-0-1), freespirit (3-0), and Captain Insano (3-0) are truly off to a great start.  There were a few interesting results last week.  In a battle between shipmates, Rad Dad def. Captain Jack Sparrow 22-19.  In a match that pitted long-time friends against each other, Double-Double tied MJD Hogg 18-18.  And in a rivalry battle, The Cat def. Slick Chick 16-15 in a match that was decided by a single point.  Over in Pro Bowl Team Weekly, we had three of the closest matches of the season.  In the battle of undefeated teams, McTriple Play def. Wild Animals 52-45.  McTriple Play (which is a father-mother-son team) is now 3-0 and off to a fantastic start.  The other two matches were even more closely contested with Transformers def. The Black Pearl 53-52, and Daddy & His Boys def. the winless and struggling Mega Powers 66-64.

“Kip Possible Dominates!” (Wk 4)

Week 3 MVP Award Winner –
Kip Possible (28 Points)

Kip Possible had a dominating showing last week, scoring 7 Points more than the next closest competitors.  This resulted in him taking a huge jump in the standings from 13th Place all the way to 4th Place.  Kip’s massive 27 Point week included getting the challenging Double Stakes of Wash-Car correct (the only other two players to get that correct were Stinkerbell and freespirit).  Kip also was the only player in the entire club to get the Triple Crown of Phil-NYG-Ten.    Then, he added one Game of the Week with Seattle and the Monday Night game of Pittsburgh.  Well done, Kip.  And in case anyone was wondering, he designed his own official club logo as seen above.  The Runner-Up MVP was a tie between three outstanding players: Bob Swerski, Double-Double, and Stinkerbell, who all scored 21 Points.  Bob Swerski now finds himself in 6th Place, Double-Double in 8th Place, and Stinkerbell remains in 1st Place.  After 3 weeks played, Stinkerbell has a commanding 11 Point lead over 2nd Place players Captain Insano and Nighthawk.  But one bad week can change everything, so Stinkerbell is hoping to find a way to continue making remarkable picks.  I’m not sure how she is doing it, but it’s been quite impressive to behold.  Stinkerbell has gotten all of the possible Games of the Week correct this season, picking 5 out of 6 correct (the only one she missed was the tie game which nobody got).  As a side note, Double-Double was dismayed last week to see the news that Raising Cane’s has been named California’s top fast food restaurant instead of In-N-Out.  Perhaps the slight will inspire Double-Double to make great picks once again this week.  Hopefully those of us who are currently bottom feeders (including myself) will have a better week this week, but we’ll see.

In Head to Head Weekly this past week, Hoosier Daddy tied Rad Dad 14-14 in a battle of great Head to Head players.  Another tie match happened when Club #1 player Stinkerbell tied Double-Double 21-21.  After two weeks, the remaining undefeated Head to Head players include Hoosier Daddy, Rad Dad, Bob Swerski, Stinkerbell, freespirit, The Rickster, Captain Insano, and Nighthawk.  That’s 2 players from each division for a total of 8 players.  In Pro Bowl Team Weekly, McTriple Play and Wild Animals both continued their hot starts and moved to 2-0.  Meanwhile, Daddy & His Boys and The Mega Powers are both struggling, starting out 0-2.

Fearless Tuna’s Week 3 Picks

The Autopicker improved to 3-0 with the Cleveland Browns victory on the Thursday Night game.  Three club members, including myself, had switched over to NY Jets and ended up getting the game wrong.  Here are my Week 3 picks:

NYJ, Atl TJ, Mia, Chi, Min, KC, LAC, NE und, GB, Car, Balt, Sea, TB, Phil, Hou, Jax.