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[levinakl]

count me in that group as well, with Gore and Watson (no Bush or LT), but a 28.3 from FWP and 18.6 from Edwards is definitely a good way to start the week from the #381 slot.

 

[Case Ace]

Yep ... LDT, Gore, Bush, & Watson owner. How am I gonna separate my myself? Heath Miller baby. What a hero this guy is.

 

[cgcloutier]

Currently 93rd with FWP, LT, Gore, Watson

 

[BassNBrew]

Hate to say this, but this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500. I looked at many of the top lineups and they're stacked with the commonly held players. For example the guy below in the #1 spot has Gore, Bush, LT, Housh, Glenn, Jennings, ans Watson owners in a pickle. They most likely need to root against their own players. I've been stating that defense would be a huge determining factor in this contest and the 15 from Oakland has basically differentiate this guy from the others in the top 30.

Jake Delhomme $15 24.45 Peyton Manning $29 20.05 J.P. Losman $ 6 17.80 Reggie Bush $22 49.80 LaDainian Tomlinson $71 34.20 Marion Barber III $10 19.60 Frank Gore $10 11.80 Derrick Blaylock $ 1 0.00 T.J. Houshmandzadeh $23 26.60 Donte Stallworth $14 21.10 Marty Booker $ 2 17.10 Terry Glenn $13 9.20 Greg Jennings $ 2 3.40 Kevin Curtis $ 5 2.60 Troy Williamson $ 4 0.00 Ben Watson $ 9 7.10 Courtney Anderson $ 1 3.80 Stephen Gostkowski $ 1 8.00 Shayne Graham $ 3 7.00 Oakland Raiders $ 1 15.00 Carolina Panthers $ 8 1.00 ---------------------------------TOTAL 203.35

Not sure exactly how to interpret your statement bolded above. If "this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500" means that most of the 501 rosters have a disproportionately low probability of winning the contest, given the Week 13 results, then I respectfully disagree. I agree that any of the highest scorers in Week 13 has a leg up and each of them has a better chance of winning the contest than any of the rosters that are not among the highest scorers. However, I assume your statement implies that the highest scorers in Week 13 have a disproportionate chance of winning, compared to the remaining rosters, and I disagree with this assessment.

For example, I'll give you the top-100 scorers based on Week 13 results. And I'll bet you $1.00 that the winner does not come from among the top-100 Week 13 scorers.

I'll wager you another dollar that more than half of the top-5 scorers in the contest (over Weeks 13-16) do not come from the top-100 Week 13 scorers.

I'll bet you a 3rd dollar that more than half of the top-25 scorers in the contest at the end of Week 16 are not from among the top-100 Week 13 scorers.

Each of these bets would be a test of your statement that "this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500." I may be wrong and you may be right -- I have no way of proving that any of the above bets is actually a good bet from my perspective. However, that's my gut feeling about the probabilities that are involved. I guess time will tell.

I'll accept all three of your wagers in good fun if you track it here on a weekly basis.

 

[BassNBrew]

Rank	Player		RANK10	RANK11	RANK12	RANK13	4WEEK1	Lyle Reger	27	20	9	52	767.302	Travis Shaw	6	1	54	305	759.203	Justin Koneck	134	10	149	7	757.254	Mike Pontius	46	24	35	45	751.705	Ryan Hatton	3	47	199	81	748.606	Jeff Rivard	14	2	270	197	744.457	Bart Glenn	173	30	60	8	743.958	Mark Wallace	34	63	5	130	742.759	Adam Warshowsky	271	6	129	19	742.7010	Marc Dinerman	179	23	229	25	725.00

sorry my formatting still stinks, but I stand corrected about the ability to come from behind. This is a list of players and their rank within the survivors since week 10 (first late week without byes). The leader had only one top ten week, and that was just ninth. So, its not over yet, but you'd better be consistent!I'll keep working on the format, but I wanted to get the analysis out here...

Just my gut instinct here, but I think the ability to come from behind has been reduced as the season progresses. The deeper we've moved into the season, the more the top 500 have evolved into becoming more similiar. More similiarity equates to less ability to leap frog others.

 

[ctriopelle]

Hate to say this, but this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500. I looked at many of the top lineups and they're stacked with the commonly held players. For example the guy below in the #1 spot has Gore, Bush, LT, Housh, Glenn, Jennings, ans Watson owners in a pickle. They most likely need to root against their own players. I've been stating that defense would be a huge determining factor in this contest and the 15 from Oakland has basically differentiate this guy from the others in the top 30.

Not sure exactly how to interpret your statement bolded above. If "this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500" means that most of the 501 rosters have a disproportionately low probability of winning the contest, given the Week 13 results, then I respectfully disagree. I agree that any of the highest scorers in Week 13 has a leg up and each of them has a better chance of winning the contest than any of the rosters that are not among the highest scorers. However, I assume your statement implies that the highest scorers in Week 13 have a disproportionate chance of winning, compared to the remaining rosters, and I disagree with this assessment.

For example, I'll give you the top-100 scorers based on Week 13 results. And I'll bet you $1.00 that the winner does not come from among the top-100 Week 13 scorers.

I'll wager you another dollar that more than half of the top-5 scorers in the contest (over Weeks 13-16) do not come from the top-100 Week 13 scorers.

I'll bet you a 3rd dollar that more than half of the top-25 scorers in the contest at the end of Week 16 are not from among the top-100 Week 13 scorers.

Each of these bets would be a test of your statement that "this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500." I may be wrong and you may be right -- I have no way of proving that any of the above bets is actually a good bet from my perspective. However, that's my gut feeling about the probabilities that are involved. I guess time will tell.

I'll accept all three of your wagers in good fun if you track it here on a weekly basis.

interesting bets if you look at my analysis at the bottom of the last page (67). kinda depends on what type of week last week ends up being in the grand scheme. a couple of weeks end up where the top guys did very badly but for the most part the top scores are top 50's . I'd put odds on the original poster at about 2:1Also I think Dodds called the top guy needing at least 680. The last 4 weeks scoring (of just those still alive) had the top 10 scores over 725....better get your game on!

 

[ctriopelle]

Just my gut instinct here, but I think the ability to come from behind has been reduced as the season progresses. The deeper we've moved into the season, the more the top 500 have evolved into becoming more similiar. More similiarity equates to less ability to leap frog others.

realize that the data presented represents the only the teams we have left. oddly enough, several teams in the top 10 has VERY bad weeks, as low as 300+ in one case. so it CAN be done, you just need several good weeks to overcome a bad week.

 

[red]

my guess is that the team with the most points wins

 

[Charley]

Hate to say this, but this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500. I looked at many of the top lineups and they're stacked with the commonly held players. For example the guy below in the #1 spot has Gore, Bush, LT, Housh, Glenn, Jennings, ans Watson owners in a pickle. They most likely need to root against their own players. I've been stating that defense would be a huge determining factor in this contest and the 15 from Oakland has basically differentiate this guy from the others in the top 30.

Jake Delhomme $15 24.45 Peyton Manning $29 20.05 J.P. Losman $ 6 17.80 Reggie Bush $22 49.80 LaDainian Tomlinson $71 34.20 Marion Barber III $10 19.60 Frank Gore $10 11.80 Derrick Blaylock $ 1 0.00 T.J. Houshmandzadeh $23 26.60 Donte Stallworth $14 21.10 Marty Booker $ 2 17.10 Terry Glenn $13 9.20 Greg Jennings $ 2 3.40 Kevin Curtis $ 5 2.60 Troy Williamson $ 4 0.00 Ben Watson $ 9 7.10 Courtney Anderson $ 1 3.80 Stephen Gostkowski $ 1 8.00 Shayne Graham $ 3 7.00 Oakland Raiders $ 1 15.00 Carolina Panthers $ 8 1.00 ---------------------------------TOTAL 203.35

Not sure exactly how to interpret your statement bolded above. If "this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500" means that most of the 501 rosters have a disproportionately low probability of winning the contest, given the Week 13 results, then I respectfully disagree. I agree that any of the highest scorers in Week 13 has a leg up and each of them has a better chance of winning the contest than any of the rosters that are not among the highest scorers. However, I assume your statement implies that the highest scorers in Week 13 have a disproportionate chance of winning, compared to the remaining rosters, and I disagree with this assessment.

For example, I'll give you the top-100 scorers based on Week 13 results. And I'll bet you $1.00 that the winner does not come from among the top-100 Week 13 scorers.

I'll wager you another dollar that more than half of the top-5 scorers in the contest (over Weeks 13-16) do not come from the top-100 Week 13 scorers.

I'll bet you a 3rd dollar that more than half of the top-25 scorers in the contest at the end of Week 16 are not from among the top-100 Week 13 scorers.

Each of these bets would be a test of your statement that "this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500." I may be wrong and you may be right -- I have no way of proving that any of the above bets is actually a good bet from my perspective. However, that's my gut feeling about the probabilities that are involved. I guess time will tell.

I'll accept all three of your wagers in good fun if you track it here on a weekly basis.

Will do. I'm kind of interested to see what happens to the top-100 Week 13 scorers over the next 3 weeks. I expect there will be some dispersion week-by-week, as other players have big weeks. But I really have no idea how quickly, or to what extent, the dispersion (from the top-100, to be replaced by rosters in the lower 401) will occur. Or how many of the lower 401 will crack the top-5 or top-25 by the end of the contest.

Should be interesting -- if I lose the bets, I'll either payoff or buy you a drink at your favorite watering hole -- your choice (if we happen to be near each other, I'd be glad to join you for a drink or two).

 

[Charley]

Rank	Player		RANK10	RANK11	RANK12	RANK13	4WEEK1	Lyle Reger	27	20	9	52	767.302	Travis Shaw	6	1	54	305	759.203	Justin Koneck	134	10	149	7	757.254	Mike Pontius	46	24	35	45	751.705	Ryan Hatton	3	47	199	81	748.606	Jeff Rivard	14	2	270	197	744.457	Bart Glenn	173	30	60	8	743.958	Mark Wallace	34	63	5	130	742.759	Adam Warshowsky	271	6	129	19	742.7010	Marc Dinerman	179	23	229	25	725.00

sorry my formatting still stinks, but I stand corrected about the ability to come from behind. This is a list of players and their rank within the survivors since week 10 (first late week without byes). The leader had only one top ten week, and that was just ninth. So, its not over yet, but you'd better be consistent!I'll keep working on the format, but I wanted to get the analysis out here...

Thanks for the data! If you look at the rank in the 1st week, 3 were in the top-10, 1 was in the 20's, 1 was in the 30's, 1 was in the 40's, 2 came from 101-200, and the final one came from 201-300. Only 1 of the rosters ranked 101+ in the 1st week cracked the top-5 (over the 4-week period), and only 3 of the 101+ cracked the top-10.This is kind of what I expected. Looks like I'm a definite underdog regarding the 3 bets. But I've got a fighting chance, so it could be worse.

 

[JohnDoe]

I see Drew Carter will finally contribute to my team this week.

 

[my man otis]

T. Scheffler

2 TDs lot of people have him IIRC.

 

[Army Eye]

Incredible. Just when you think Tomlinson is going to finally have a subpar game.. look what happens

 

[Darth Cheney]

Incredible. Just when you think Tomlinson is going to finally have a subpar game.. look what happens

I own LT2 and since I already had Jones Drew and Parker, this will probably be the only week that I'm rooting for him to have a bad game.

 

[ctriopelle]

Thought I had the top RB score locked up with Gore/FWP...thanks LT for peeing in my cheerios...

great game for gates, at least me and 8 others distanced ourselves from the field on that one...

 

[cgcloutier]

Awesome.....

Not a bad week when you have LT, Gore, FWP, M Clayton, TJ, and T. Scheffler.

 

[ctriopelle]

193.05

how'd I do that?!??!! Something tells me that is going to be a very good score this week based on the scoring so far.

everyone can stop scoring now this week...except the FG the Bears need to win on MNF...

edited to add that I can't add today....

 

[levinakl]

156.05 (Glenn - 18.6), not enough to get me into the mix, although if I came close to this score last week, I'd be feeling better

Rivers 22.45

Delhomme & Simms - 0

FWP - 28.3

Gore - 25.8

Rudi - 25.2 (about time he did something, and yet he still doesn't score for me)

Norwood - 4.6

Jacobs - 1.6

Housh - 25.8

Wayne - 19

Edwards - 18.6

R Williams - 13.3

Jennings - 7.3

Williamson - 5.3 (wow, just seeing him score is odd after the past few weeks)

Glenn - ????

Franks - 2.1

Watson - 1.5 (this position killed me)

Graham - 3.0

J Brown - 3.0 (This also hurt me badly)

Miami - 11

Cincy - 8

Add it all up, it's 225.85 overall, but only counts for the aforementioned 156.05

 

[Kirby]

About 183 at the moment. McAllister needs to outscore Gore, and Glenn and Holt need to pass Edwards then Curry. This is a high scoring week for everyone, i'm guessing.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Good, keep posting some high numbers so my eliminated crew doesn't look so good

I'd be at 164.7 + (Bush - 25.2), for a cumulative of 351.15 if Bush doesn't pass him.

Congrats to the Watson/Scheffler owners who finally got something out of their #2

-QG

 

[ctriopelle]

Good, keep posting some high numbers so my eliminated crew doesn't look so good I'd be at 164.7 + (Bush - 25.2), for a cumulative of 351.15 if Bush doesn't pass him.Congrats to the Watson/Scheffler owners who finally got something out of their #2 -QG

how about us watson/gates owners?

 

[BassNBrew]

193.05 how'd I do that?!??!! Something tells me that is going to be a very good score this week based on the scoring so far.everyone can stop scoring now this week...except the FG the Bears need to win on MNF... edited to add that I can't add today....

Sure will be, that said I'm sticking to my theory that defense and TE2 will be the key difference maker. You can substitute in TE1 for the small number of non-Watson owners.Nice week by the way.

 

[ctriopelle]

Sure will be, that said I'm sticking to my theory that defense and TE2 will be the key difference maker. You can substitute in TE1 for the small number of non-Watson owners.Nice week by the way.

Thanks. Just need Glenn and Bush to be only mediocre tonight (but a nice score by Bush would definitely help my money league playoff chances this week!).2 week total is at about 358 as of now, but if Bush and Glenn can top Gore and Wayne I'll be moving up...

 

[Gamblor]

After a terrible start last week my team went off this week, too many players though. Ill have some good scores not being used - obviously benefitting others and not me.

wasted score of 20 for Manning

wasted score of 17 from Evans and Coles

wasted score of 18.5 from McGahee

still no Tomlinson or Gore

:(

 

[levinakl]

2 week total is at about 358 as of now, but if Bush and Glenn can top Gore and Wayne I'll be moving up...

My 283.7 sure looks piss poor compared to you

 

[ctriopelle]

unfortunately mr. Brees may have killed all my previous reasons for gloating...need to look up his % stats...

 

[ctriopelle]

only 8 VERY happy teams right now....hopefully their other players didn't fare as well

 

[red]

i should be hanging tough with a 2-week total = 337.73 + STL DEF (-1)

got killed at TE it looks. no gates or scheffler.

 

[BassNBrew]

FYI...the Bush/LT/Houshimachampionship owners that did so well last week posted 84 points between those 3 players.

 

[The_Borg]

So far, I'm at 187.4 this week with St. Louis DEF (-8.0). My current two week total is 350.15 pending Monday night.

 

[Cowboys#1]

anyone have the brees/bush combo?

 

[QuizGuy66]

Good, keep posting some high numbers so my eliminated crew doesn't look so good I'd be at 164.7 + (Bush - 25.2), for a cumulative of 351.15 if Bush doesn't pass him.Congrats to the Watson/Scheffler owners who finally got something out of their #2 -QG

how about us watson/gates owners?

Okay, okay, just because Gates is keepin' me on life support in my regular fantasy football playoffs As for Scheffler, this is the first time all year that he would used over Watson, hence the note.Please somebody post a 2-week total higher than 355.15. Maybe keepin' track post-elimination wasn't the brightest of ideas...-QG

 

[videoguy505]

~171, my highest score ever. Chance for a little more on MNF, but not too likely. Still going to be behind a lot of you guys, was just inside #275 last week.

 

[franks&beans]

Decent rebound week, but with two runningbacks not used both scoring over 25 points, it seems like a waste. Too little too late for me.

 

[cgcloutier]

Looks like I will have a total of 340.3

I had pretty identical's weeks with 164.15 and 176.15. This weeks score was pretty much without a QB, considering I have Vick, Brad Johnson, and Jake D.

 

[ryoly]

I should be around 179.9 for this week with no players left on MNF...

The two weeks' total should be around 338.4...

I just hope this leaves me within 25-30 Pts from the Leader...

 

[Shrek]

Sure am glad that Bush, Rudi, etc decided to do something after I got eliminated.

 

[Sabertooth]

264 total thus far

 

[buckeye35]

Looks like I'm at 160.4 this week (308.9 total). I was #187 last week, so who knows. It will be tough to make the jump without LT, but we'll see. I still have the Bears (vs. Atlanta's 13.0) and Isaac Bruce (vs. Braylon Edwards' 18.6) this week. I'd like to see the Bears do what they did last week. Bruce had a nice 18.5 last week, so I'm hopeful.

 

[pigskinliquors]

I'm at 330.5 (combined two weeks) and still have D. Clark (-1.5) and Curtis/Bruce (-13.3). Here's rooting for 20 points for Clark and Bruce or Curtis so I can get somewhat into the running. If not

 

[levinakl]

I totaled up the top 9 from week one plus my own (originally #381) to get some perspective. Here are the tabulations:

I apologize for not writing down the names and for the lack of formatting

1. 203.35 + 165.45 = 368.80 (+ K Curtis -23)

2. 199.45 + 152.10 = 351.55

3. 198.45 + 156.50 = 354.95

4. 197.35 + 130.75 = 328.10 (+ I Bruce -7.3)

5. 196.85 + 157.65 = 354.50

6. 196.25 + 144.20 = 340.45

7. 193.05 + 172.30 = 365.35

8. 190.25 + 164.40 = 354.65

9. 189.80 + 173.15 = 362.95

Me 125.45 + 160.45 = 285.90

all I can say is it doesn't look pretty for me at this point.... :(

 

[BassNBrew]

Decent rebound week, but with two runningbacks not used both scoring over 25 points, it seems like a waste. Too little too late for me.

This is what I kind of suspected after last week...people are going to have to root against their own players.

 

[ctriopelle]

finished at give or take 364-365 assuming my math is good. I really didn't want to take scores from Glenn and Bush, although Bush's performance looks to have helped me into my $$ league conference championship.

good luck to everyone!

 

[The_Borg]

I totaled up the top 9 from week one plus my own (originally #381) to get some perspective. Here are the tabulations:I apologize for not writing down the names and for the lack of formatting1. 203.35 + 165.45 = 368.80 (+ K Curtis -23)2. 199.45 + 152.10 = 351.553. 198.45 + 156.50 = 354.954. 197.35 + 130.75 = 328.10 (+ I Bruce -7.3)5. 196.85 + 157.65 = 354.50 6. 196.25 + 144.20 = 340.457. 193.05 + 172.30 = 365.358. 190.25 + 164.40 = 354.659. 189.80 + 173.15 = 362.95Me 125.45 + 160.45 = 285.90all I can say is it doesn't look pretty for me at this point.... :(

If these top 9 stay near or at the top, then my 350.15 two week total should keep me within striking distance of the top 12.

 

[Doug Drinen]

bump

 

[The_Borg]

Hate to say this, but this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500. I looked at many of the top lineups and they're stacked with the commonly held players. For example the guy below in the #1 spot has Gore, Bush, LT, Housh, Glenn, Jennings, ans Watson owners in a pickle. They most likely need to root against their own players. I've been stating that defense would be a huge determining factor in this contest and the 15 from Oakland has basically differentiate this guy from the others in the top 30.

Jake Delhomme		$15	24.45 Peyton Manning	   $29	20.05 J.P. Losman		  $ 6	17.80 Reggie Bush		  $22	49.80 LaDainian Tomlinson  $71	34.20 Marion Barber III	$10	19.60 Frank Gore		   $10	11.80 Derrick Blaylock	 $ 1	 0.00 T.J. Houshmandzadeh  $23	26.60 Donte Stallworth	 $14	21.10 Marty Booker		 $ 2	17.10 Terry Glenn		  $13	 9.20 Greg Jennings		$ 2	 3.40 Kevin Curtis		 $ 5	 2.60 Troy Williamson	  $ 4	 0.00 Ben Watson		   $ 9	 7.10 Courtney Anderson	$ 1	 3.80 Stephen Gostkowski   $ 1	 8.00 Shayne Graham		$ 3	 7.00 Oakland Raiders	  $ 1	15.00 Carolina Panthers	$ 8	 1.00 ---------------------------------TOTAL					  203.35

Bass,I would not be too sure about your prediction. I just jumped from #103 to #34 in one week. With two weeks still remaining anything can happen.

 

[hove]

It's hard to beat that "I scored more than last week, yet went back quite a bit in the standings" feeling in the morning.

 

[Charley]

Results for Week 14, as promised. The 1st table gives the rankings in Weeks 13 and 14 for the top-25 scoring rosters after Week 14. All 25 rosters were from the top-100 in Week 13 -- not good news for the 3 bets.

Table 1 - Top-25 after Week 14 (Total pts for Wks 13-14)Rank/roster – Week 13 – Week 14 – Week 15 – Week 161. Lorraine 14 12. Glenn 8 23. Callaway 20 34. Torreano 31 45. Karlovic 10 56. Giordano 1 67. Frew 9 78. Koneck 7 89. Martich 11 910. Colby 58 1011. Brekke 84 1112. Gallimore 23 1213. Hermanson 38 1314. Feszczyszyn 32 1415. Barnett 43 1516. Kinigstein 50 1617. Tate 42 1718. Morrisey 12 1819. Campbell 78 1920. Kennedy 71 2021. Grove 34 2122. Gerousis 37 2223. Nieto 77 23 24. Williams 5 2425. Canada 3 25*****************************************203. Barrett 65 203250. Poorman 64 250255. Holly 89 255306. Liss 97 306Among the top-25 in Week 14, the biggest increase was Brekke who jumped from #84 in Week 13 to #11 in Week 14. Note that 4 rosters dropped from the top-100 in Week 13 to rank 200+ in Week 14. One roster from the top-10 in Week 13 dropped from #4 in Week 13 to #105 in Week 14.The 2nd table shows the dispersion among the top-100 rosters in Week 13 – the 3rd column gives the number of top-100 Week 13 rosters that wound up in the different categories in Week 14. As expected, there was a fair amount of dispersion -- 72 rosters stayed in top-100 in Week 14, but 28 rosters ranked in the top-100 in Week 13 dropped to rank 101-306 in Week 14.

Table 2 – Summary of Dispersion of Top-100 (from Week 13)Rank – Week 13 – Week 14 – Week 15 – Week 161-10   	10		911-20	  10		821-30	  10		1031-40	  10		741-50	  10		951-60	  10		861-70	  10		571-80	  10		781-90	  10		491-100 	10		5101-125	0		9126-150	0		8151-175	0		5176-200	0		2201-250	0		2251-300	0		1301-400	0		1401-501	0		0

As noted below, the biggest difference makers in Weeks 13 and 14 (using a value pts approach) were Reggie Bush, A. Gates, Tomlinson, TJ Houshmanzadeh, S. Jackson, and Holt. No surprises there!

Difference Makers (weeks 13 & 14) – [QB/RB/WR/TE]Pts  Value  Player [Week 13, Week 14]78.0	 51.6  Reggie Bush [49.8, 28.2]51.4	 39.4  A. Gates [22.0, 29.4]64.2  37.8  L. Tomlinson [34.2, 30.2]52.4  37.4  TJ Houshmanzadeh [26.6, 25.8]61.4  35.0  S. Jackson [25.5, 35.9]50.0  35.0  T. Holt [24.5, 25.5]46.3  30.3  M. Harrison [30.2, 16.1]44.7  29.3  M. Furrey [27.3, 17.4]43.5  28.5  D. Driver [13.1, 30.4]41.4  26.4  M. Booker [17.1, 24.3]35.6  23.6  T. Gonzalez [29.5, 6.1]35.4  23.4  J. Shockey [18.5, 16.9]36.5  21.5  L. Fitzgerald [15.6, 20.9]46.8  20.4  L. Betts [26.3, 20.5]53.3  19.7  D. Brees [14.7, 38.6]**********************QB Difference Makers (weeks 13 & 14)Pts  Value  Player [Week 13, Week 14]53.3  19.7  D. Brees [14.7, 38.6]49.5  15.9  M. Bulger [20.7, 28.8]47.5  13.9  V. Young [22.0, 25.5]43.5   9.9  E. Manning [22.2, 21.3]41.9   8.3  T. Green [30.0, 11.9]41.9   8.3  P. Manning [20.1, 21.8]38.8   5.2  B. Roethlisberger [17.1, 21.7]38.4   4.8  B. Favre [16.0, 22.4]37.5   3.9  S. McNair [18.1, 19.4]35.3   1.7  C. Palmer [15.4, 19.9]**********************RB Difference Makers (weeks 13 & 14)Pts  Value  Player [Week 13, Week 14]78.0  51.6  Reggie Bush [49.8, 28.2]64.2  37.8  L. Tomlinson [34.2, 30.2]61.4  35.0  S. Jackson [25.5, 35.9]46.8  20.4  L. Betts [26.3, 20.5]41.7  15.3  M. Jones-Drew [10.6, 31.1]40.0  13.6  B. Westbrook [24.4, 15.6]39.1  12.7  D. Williams [30.5, 8.6]38.9  12.5  W. Parker [9.6, 29.3]38.7  12.3  T. Henry [13.2, 23.5]37.6  11.2  K. Jones [19.2, 18.4]37.6  11.2  F. Gore [11.8, 25.8]**********************WR Difference Makers (weeks 13 & 14)Pts  Value  Player [Week 13, Week 14]52.4  37.4  TJ Houshmanzadeh [26.6, 25.8]50.0  35.0  T. Holt [24.5, 25.5]46.3  31.3  M. Harrison [30.2, 16.1]44.7  29.3  M. Furrey [27.3, 17.4]43.5  28.5  D. Driver [13.1, 30.4]41.4  26.4  M. Booker [17.1, 24.3]36.5  21.5  L. Fitzgerald [15.6, 20.9]34.0  19.0  P. Burress [16.3, 17.7]33.8  18.8  D. Mason [22.0, 11.8]33.6  18.6  J. Cotchery [24.9, 8.7]33.2  18.2  D. Stallworth [21.1, 12.1]32.2  17.2  T. Glenn [9.2, 23.0]31.2  16.2  B. Edwards [12.6, 18.6]**********************TE Difference Makers (weeks 13 & 14)Pts  Value  Player [Week 13, Week 14]51.4	 39.4  A. Gates [22.0, 29.4]35.6  23.6  T. Gonzalez [29.5, 6.1]35.4  23.4  J. Shockey [18.5, 16.9]24.1  12.1  T. Scheffler [2.5, 21.6]20.4   8.4  A. Crumpler [14.4, 6.0]20.4   8.4  V. Davis [3.1, 17.3]

 

[BassNBrew]

Hate to say this, but this contest is effectively over for most of the remaining 500. I looked at many of the top lineups and they're stacked with the commonly held players. For example the guy below in the #1 spot has Gore, Bush, LT, Housh, Glenn, Jennings, ans Watson owners in a pickle. They most likely need to root against their own players. I've been stating that defense would be a huge determining factor in this contest and the 15 from Oakland has basically differentiate this guy from the others in the top 30.

Jake Delhomme		$15	24.45 Peyton Manning	   $29	20.05 J.P. Losman		  $ 6	17.80 Reggie Bush		  $22	49.80 LaDainian Tomlinson  $71	34.20 Marion Barber III	$10	19.60 Frank Gore		   $10	11.80 Derrick Blaylock	 $ 1	 0.00 T.J. Houshmandzadeh  $23	26.60 Donte Stallworth	 $14	21.10 Marty Booker		 $ 2	17.10 Terry Glenn		  $13	 9.20 Greg Jennings		$ 2	 3.40 Kevin Curtis		 $ 5	 2.60 Troy Williamson	  $ 4	 0.00 Ben Watson		   $ 9	 7.10 Courtney Anderson	$ 1	 3.80 Stephen Gostkowski   $ 1	 8.00 Shayne Graham		$ 3	 7.00 Oakland Raiders	  $ 1	15.00 Carolina Panthers	$ 8	 1.00 ---------------------------------TOTAL					  203.35

Bass,I would not be too sure about your prediction. I just jumped from #103 to #34 in one week. With two weeks still remaining anything can happen.

I said "most", not "all" as I obviously wasn't including your team. GL the rest of the way!!!

 

[ctriopelle]

Me thinks its going to get eerily quiet the next 2 weeks as nobody doing well wants to jinx their team. I've been pretty busy with a new job assignment, but I don't know if I have the cajones to say much at this point anyway. Not quite a top 10 team yet, but last week REALLY helped!

Good luck to everyone, KEEP ROCKIN' ON GATES! I NEED YOU FROM HERE IN!