“Stinkerbell scores 40 Points to win the Week 7 MVP!”

Week 7 MVP Award Winner –
Stinkerbell (40 Points)

Following on the heels of her husband’s historic 39 Point performance last week, Stinkerbell reclaimed family bragging rights by topping him and scoring 40 Points to win the Week 7 MVP Award.  Stinkerbell did this by brilliantly picking 4 games correct that turned out to be upsets (according to oddsmakers).  In fact, going into Sunday night, she had a Perfect Week going, giving the club flashbacks to what transpired just last week.  She finished out the week by missing the Over/Under and Arizona on Monday night, thus preventing her from claiming what would have been the Highest Score in a Week ever posted with a possible 43 Points.  For the second straight week, Captain Jack Sparrow can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that his Hall of Fame record remains safe.  The biggest effect of Stinkerbell’s massive week was that she jumped from 7th Place to 2nd Place in the Current Standings.  And she went from being 28 Points behind Drummer Boy to being only 4 Points behind him.  Now that is a huge jump, the likes of which have rarely been seen in the club.  The Week 7 MVP Award Runner-Up was shared between My Wife Loves Jimmy G & Captain Jack Sparrow, who both scored 30 Points.  These two players have both been on fire lately and have a lot of momentum as they both charge up the standings.  My Wife Loves Jimmy G is now in 3rd Place while Captain Jack Sparrow is in 8th Place.  However, as recently as Week 3, Captain Jack was in Last Place in the club.  So this has been quite the turnaround.  And to think he is now only 13 Points away from getting into the prestigious Top Five.  Looking at the Top Five in the Current Standings, we have #1 Drummer Boy (4 Weeks at #1), #2 Stinkerbell (4 Points back), #3 My Wife Loves Jimmy G (5 Points back), #4 Captain Insano (9 Points back), and #5 Double-Double (11 Points back).  As you probably noticed, Drummer Boy’s lead has collapsed and he is in danger of falling out of the top spot.  That was something unthinkable as recently as last week.  But now he faces the tall task of delivering a week of outstanding picks, with pressure closing in on him from all sides.  I don’t want to put unfair pressure on him here in this column, so let me just say that I do think he is up to the task.  He had an off-week last week, which as one club member told me “proves that he is human”.  But I kind of doubt something like that will happen two weeks in a row.

The Club’s Week 7 Picks

Here are the club’s picks for Week 7. Stinkerbell wins the Week 7 MVP Award with 40 Points, while Captain Jack Sparrow & My Wife Loves Jimmy G share the MVP Award Runner-Up with 30 Points each.

“Drummer Boy & Bob Swerski Have Near-Perfect Weeks!”

Week 6 MVP Award Winner –
Drummer Boy (41 Points)

Drummer Boy & Bob Swerski posted near-perfect weeks as they both picked 14/14 games correct.  As you may know, there have been three Perfect Weeks in club history: 2004 & 2019 by The Rickster and 2012 by The Cat.  Drummer Boy & Bob Swerski nearly matched those legendary feats and landed themselves in the Hall of Fame, but they were denied by picking the Over/Under wrong.  Even so, it is worth celebrating the accomplishment of both players because they have done the nearly impossible.  We are in the 23rd year of the club, so on average a Perfect Week happens once every 7+ years.  Drummer Boy scored slightly higher than Bob Swerski as he selected Triple Jeopardy to snag the 2 Bonus Points and the Week 6 MVP Award with 41 Points.  Drummer Boy also fell only 1 Point short of another Hall of Fame record which is the Highest Score in a Week, accomplished by Captain Jack Sparrow in 2006 with 42 Points.  In addition, he is now 3/5 of the way to matching Slick Chick’s seemingly unbreakable Hall of Fame record of 5 MVP Awards in a season from 2010.  As things stand right now, Drummer Boy seems to have broken the club.  I’ve never seen a player make such great picks week after week, year after year.  He now has a 14 Point lead in 1st Place and the 5th Place player is a staggering 25 Points behind him.  There’s not much the rest of the club can do except stand aside and tip their hats (or helmets).  Bob Swerski claims the Week 6 MVP Award Runner-Up with 39 Points, which seems a bit unfair when you pick 14/14 games correct.  But he is no doubt happy to be all the way up the standings into 6th Place while at the same time watching his Bears win some big games.  The current Top Five consists of #1 Drummer Boy (3 Weeks at #1), #2 Captain Insano (14 Points back), #3 My Wife Loves Jimmy G (19 Points back), #4 Double-Double (21 Points back), and #5 Mr. T (25 Points back).  It’s also worth noting that the best two players so far this season at picking Triple Jeopardy are Captain Insano & Stinkerbell (both 3-0).

Taking a look at Head to Head Weekly for the first time this season, the division leaders are as follows.  Division One: Drummer Boy (4-0), Division Two: MJD Hogg (3-1), Division Three: New York City Sewer Rat (2-1-1), and Division Four: a current three-way tie between The Rickster, Shaylene & Stinkerbell (all 2-2).  Over in Pro Bowl Team Weekly, we had some notable results in all three matches last week.  In the first match, Daddy & His Boys sent a message to defending champs Wild Animals that they are a serious contender by beating them 93-91 and moving into a 1st Place tie.  In the second match, The Gridiron Guardians def. The Hulkamaniacs 92-71, which also allowed them to move into a 1st Place tie.  And in the third match, McTriple Play crushed Tuna Generations 105-50, which brought them very close to the all-time Hall of Fame record 112 combined team Points (accomplished by Wild Animals in 2012).