WASTED POTENIAL
...the last standing undefeated.
Week Three in the Subsim Fantasy Football League...and is this the most offensive year of football ever? I watched seven hours of of football and replays yesterday, and this time last year, we had teams scoring 160, 170, even a 200 point score. This year, this week, we had four (4) teams score less than 100.
Enough with the bitching, let's look at this week games, after we look at this.
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Black Cats got to stay at home for two weeks in a row and were our match of the day. In something resembling a retirement home afternoon nap, the Cats are the first team this week that didn't have a wide receiver score a touchdown. The Bosses were marginally better with both Jamar Chase (WR) and Garret Wilson (WR) crossing for scored, but the Bosses were barely able to crack the 100 point barrier. In a game where no one wanted to win, the Black Cats should have forfeited - they would have achieved the same result. Boss team comes in and defeats the Black Cats in a low scoring 115 - 85.
Speaking of low scores, how about them Drunk Monkeys. At home they had the opportunity to put the defending Torpedo Bowl champion down 0-3, basically, if they showed up. But they didn't. Not even the Taipans receiving corp scoring 0 touchdowns helped the Monkeys get the victory this week. In a case of "how low can you go" The Australian Taipans slither to their first win of the season to defeat the Monkeys 94 - 88.
Banter Brigade were hosting the Wasted Potential of Coach Casey this week. With McCaffrey (RB) still out of the Brigade with injury, this was an easy coast to victory by the Waste - they didn't need Derek Henry (RB) to blow through the Banter scoring 36 points. The Banter are in trouble with the star RB out of action allowing the waste to claim another easy victory. Wasted Potential blow out the Banter 138 - 88.
The only match that was worth watching was the Who Dat Nation hosting the Helmand Nighthawks. The Nighthawks and the Who Dat Nation are traditionally the powerhouse teams of the Sub Simmers league but this year they're struggling to get going. But, it's week three and for the third week, we've had rewrite this column as the complexion of the game changed Monday Night. The Nation were 0-2 on the season and 40 points behind on the scoreboard before Josh Allen (QB) took to the field. Allen (QB) put on a clinical display while the Nighthawks kicker, McPherson, was scoring more points than Tee Higgins. This was a nail biter of a game, easily the best game of the week and the season so far. (Perhaps there is hope for the rest of the league.) With Josh Allen (QB) at 38 points, Coach Fuel For Blood pulled him form the game, I thought, maybe too early. I was right. Tee Higgins (WR) did barely enough to give the Helmand Nighthawks the win by the narrowest margin of the week. Final score, the Helmand Nighthawks defeat the Who Dat Nation Rises 110.52 - 109.92, a gap of 0.5
So let's check the board and see what happened.
At 3-0, Wasted Potential sit at the top of the league with sole ownership, being the last undefeated team. After that it gets a little murky. The win by the Bosses over the Black Cats has both teams at 2-1 sharing with the Helmand Nighthawks. Behind them, Drunk Monkeys, Taipans and the Banter all sit at 1-2, and the Who Dat Nation is alone in the cellar at 0-3.
Next week we go to Wembley for our match of the day as the Helmand Nighthawks host the Drunk Monkeys. While billed as battle of 1-2 teams, there's a lot closer on paper than one might expect. With both teams at 1-2, there's a lot on the line here, even this early int he season.
And provided we have no more injuries decimating teams, it wants to be a better week than this.
Each week, the Associated Subsim Writers (ASW) will nominated their Most Valuable Torpedo (MVT) of the week, the single player who proved decisive in their teams performance.
Looking aorund there were probably three candidates for this week, maybe four. But there can only be one. For the effort of 6 receptions for 118 yards and 2 touchdowns, for a total of 35.80 points, the Week Three MVT goes to Jamar Chaser (WR) of the Boss Team.
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