Here are the club’s picks for Week 6. Drummer Boy wins the Week 6 MVP Award with 41 Points, while Bob Swerski wins the MVP Award Runner-Up with 39 Points. Both players picked every game correct but only missed the Over/Under.
Fearless Tuna’s Week 6 Picks
Week 6 full picks now posted (Sat 8:00pm). All players are welcome to view my picks once they have turned their own in for the week.
“My Wife Loves Jimmy G & Nighthawk share the Week 5 MVP!”
Week 5 MVP Award Winners –
My Wife Loves Jimmy G & Nighthawk (28 Points)
Two players stepped up in a huge way last week to claim a share of the Week 5 MVP Award with 28 Points each. The first was My Wife Loves Jimmy G, who was the only player to score Points in each of the major categories including the Double Stakes, a Game of the Week, Sunday night, and Triple Crown. Let’s not forget that just two seasons ago, My Wife Loves Jimmy G finished as the Club Champion Runner-Up to winner Rad Dad, missing the title by a mere 8 Points. With his MVP week, My Wife Loves Jimmy G has placed himself solidly into 2nd Place in the Current Standings. Very impressive, indeed. The second was Nighthawk, a club legend who returned this season to help out the club when he found out we needed an extra player. For that reason alone, Nighthawk deserves to be this season’s winner of the Sportsmanship Award. But he has his sights set on more than that, as he has now climbed the standings into 12th Place. What makes that especially impressive is that when you join the club late, after the season has already started, the rules state you must begin 1 Point behind the Last Place player. With that in mind, you can see that Nighthawk is having a huge impact this season. And last week, Nighthawk was the only player in the entire club to correctly pick both Games of the Week with Houston & Miami. The Week 5 MVP Award Runner-Up was none other than Drummer Boy, who scored 26 Points and narrowly missed a three-peat of MVP Awards, which would have established a new Hall of Fame club record. Only Drummer Boy can miss both Games of the Week and still have a massively high overall score for the week. If that happened to any of the rest of us, we would have flopped and ended with a very low score. I’m not sure how he keeps doing it. A look at the current Top Five reveals #1 Drummer Boy (2 Weeks at #1), #2 My Wife Loves Jimmy G (7 Points back), #3 Mr. T (10 Points back), and tied for #4 Captain Insano & Double-Double (11 Points back). And that wraps up the Main Page column for this week.
The Club’s Week 5 Picks
Here are the club’s picks for Week 5. My Wife Loves Jimmy G & Nighthawk share the Week 5 MVP Award with 28 Points, while Drummer Boy wins the MVP Award Runner-Up with 26 Points.
“Drummer Boy takes control with the Week 4 MVP Award!”
Week 4 MVP Award Winner –
Drummer Boy (26 Points)
Drummer Boy has taken control of the club by going back-to-back and winning the Week 4 MVP Award with 26 Points. After only 4 weeks of play, he has a commanding 7 Point lead in 1st Place, which should be enough to assure him of at least several more weeks on top. Drummer Boy’s huge week came about partly because he was 1 of only 3 players to correctly pick both Games of the Week with Atlanta and Las Vegas. He also continues to pick well on the Point Spread games and was 1 of only 6 players to get both Monday night games correct with Tennessee and Detroit. And with that, Drummer Boy is looking ahead to Week 5 when he could potentially shatter the dreams of more club members. Is it possible that he could win a third straight MVP Award and establish a new Hall of Fame record by doing so, for the Most Consecutive MVP Awards Won? We will have to wait and see. The Week 4 MVP Award Runner-Up was won by Mr. T, who scored 25 Points. By bouncing back so strongly, Mr. T has muscled his way up into 3rd Place and is once again a contender. An interesting thing about the Current Standings right now is that you have Drummer Boy sitting all alone at the top. But then if you look at 2nd Place through 8th Place, each of those players is only separated by 1 Point. So there is a real battle going on right now. The current Top Five consists of #1 Drummer Boy (1 Week at #1), #2 Captain Insano (7 Points back), #3 Mr. T (8 Points back), #4 My Wife Loves Jimmy G (9 Points back), and #5 Double-Double (10 Points back). And congratulations are in order to MJD Hogg, who has been named the September Player of the Month Award winner. MJD Hogg posted 1 MVP Award and 3 Weeks at #1. It was a close battle between teammates MJD and Drummer for the award, but MJD edged Drummer out this time. He had a slightly stronger overall month, which was not easy to do.