SOMEBODY STOPPED THE CATS
...before they ghosted off.
Week Six in the Subsim Fantasy Football League., and still our league leaders are a ghost team. This week we'll find out about the powerhouse team that fell to the cellar dwellers of the league. We'll find out just how many injuries there are on one team, and we'll look at some of the future weeks where the players vacation occurs during the middle of the season.
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Our match of the day this week was up in Oregon as Coach Fuel For Blood attempted to put a halt on the Black Cats. The visiting Cats had been on a tear in recent weeks knocking off the current #2 and #3 seeds in the league. The Cats were looking like they were going to ghost their way through the season without Coach FYC until they arrived in Oregon. Cats were out on the field early Thursday night but failed to mount an impressive score, and you just thought that this might be the week that their march to the Torpedo Bowl falters. The Who Dat Nation, who for some inexplicable reason this season, have not lived up their history so far this year, turned on the pace and sent the feral visitors home to Carolina with a loss. The Who Dat Nation, finally, right the ship and stood the early season slide by convincingly defeating the Black Cats 162-124.
In Texas, the Australian Taipans slithered into town for a shoot out with the Guns of Hoculi. The Gunners were well poised to cut the snakes - until they left Nick Chubb (RB) on the starting team as an injured reserve. Coach Casey has made some minor changes to their team in recent weeks, and has quietly gone about business as usual. Despite playing a man down, the Gunners trailed the Taipans most of the weekend as we headed into Monday night. Holding a thirty point lead, it was inconceivable that the Australian Taipans could choke (again) on successive Monday nights. And choke they almost did. Josh Allen (QB) of the Gunners single highhandedly put the team in contention throwing for over 300 yards, a couple of touchdowns and a two point conversion, but Taipans kicker Trevor Bass continued to chip ahead to run out the clock with a Taipan victory. Taipans get a game up on the Guns of Hochuli be defeating them 152-140.
Our shock of the week comes from the Helmand Nighthawks hosting the Drunk Monkeys at their home Stadium, Wembley. After an earlier curtain raiser between the American Jaguars and Dolphins, the Nighthawks took the same field in the evening to dispose of the Monkeys. We have it on good authority from the BBC that several Nighthawk players were in the bar prior to the game toasting their win - before even taking the field. The Monkeys came out less inebriated that the Nighthawks and began to pile points on, The Nighthawks, recognizing that the scoreboard was displaying a loss, tried to keep pace with the Drunk Monkey scoring machine, but they just ran out of time. The Drunk Monkeys post the highest score of the week - playing a man down, and the Nighthawks just couldn't score enough points to stay with them. The biggest upset of the year so far, the Helmand Nighthawks fall at home, to the ghosting Drunk Monkeys, 174-154.
We're almost at the midway point of the season and its still no clearer than it was four weeks ago. The Black Cats hold the number 1 seed - and quite comfortably too by outscoring everyone in the league. The Taipans are even with them at 4-2 but their entire running back corp has been sidelined with injuries that the Taipans are now on their third tandem in the backfield since the start of the season. The lack of a running game for the Taipans puts them on shaky ground.
One game back at 3-3 are both the Helmand Nighthawks and the Who Dat Nation. With both teams on even keel it is expected that one of these teams will eventually defeat the Black Cats and win the division, but the longer that these two continue to take wins and losses away from each other, it shortens the length of time needed to catch the Cats.
At the tail of the field the Drunk Monkeys and the Guns of Hochuli both sit at 2-4 - but they could both easily be 5-1. Their losses have come in close games but their wins have been against the engine house of the league. The Gunners are strongly favored to outscore the Monkeys, but both teams are still in contention, and may still win their division.
Next week marks the halfway point of the season and with no real outstanding team, we have to begin looking around the for the best match up. We didn't have to look to far for next week as the Black Cats get to return home and host the Australian Taipans in the prime time game of the week. The winner of this game will have sole possession of the league while the loser could potentially drop to the fifth seed, pending the outcome of other games.
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.
They don't win a lot of these awards, but this week they become the first team to win this award twice in the season, albeit with different players. For the effort of 9 receptions for 186 yards and 2 receiving touchdowns, and rushing for 2 yards (most important) for a total of 42.10 points, the Week Six MVT goes to Cee Dee Lamb (WR) of the Drunk Monkeys.
