Thursday, October 3, 2013

Weekend Preview: Season 12, Week 5


 

Week 5 starts today with Buffalo versus Cleveland, a titanic matchup with major fantasy implications! (not really)
 
Matt and Michael are in front at 3-1 and are the two highest scorers, a huge glut sits at 2-2, with Paul and Josh M bringing up the rear at 1-3. The league is wide open once again!
 
Scoring is led by Peyton Manning, who was Michael’s first round pick. Jimmy Graham is 5th in scoring, whom Michael drafted in the 2nd round. When asked about his amazing foresight in drafting Manning, Michael said “It was a mistake, I should have taken CJ Spiller and Steven Jackson. My 25 mock drafts composite and round-by-round values chart said so, but I didn’t follow it. I fucked up!”
 
Matt is dependent upon the Eagles combo of Michael Vick and LeSean McCoy. When asked after practice Monday about what he’ll do during the bye, Matt said “What’s a ‘bye’ week? There are bye weeks? No one told me!”
 
Josh M won Week 4. On his scoring outburst, he said “I’ve won the last two years, I have to start 0-3 just to make it challenging for me. The other coaches are so terrible.”
 
Josh V barely missed out on the weekly and had to settle for second. He didn’t sound happy about it when we caught up with him, “I wish I was Paul Rickey. I wanna be Paul Rickey so bad. Life would be so much better if I was Paul Rickey.”
 
 
Here's a look ahead at Week 5 matchups:

Paul 1-3 (87-71) vs Shane 2-2 (81-77)
Paul is 13-7 all time vs Shane, and Paul won the last matchup.
Paul has had a rough start to the season, but he normally gets back on track and finishes in the playoffs. Will he do it again? Shane’s squad gets Cam Newton back from a bye, but his weakness at RB with Adrian Peterson on a bye is significant. Paul is catching Shane on the right week, and will win the matchup.

Josh M 1-3 (28-18) vs Wendell 2-2 (88-70)
Josh is 3-2 vs Wendell all time, with a 2 game winning streak.
Wendell has some serious bye week problems at RB, plus an unoriginal team name. Josh M has decided to start the season, so watch out. Josh will climb up to 2-3.

Rob 2-2 (64-94) vs Chris 2-2 (70-88)
Chris leads 11-9 all time, but Rob won the most recent game.
Chris has some RB problems and injuries at WR, but Rob has severe bye week problems. This will likely be to lowest scoring matchup of the week, but look for Rob to pull out the cheap win.

Matt 3-1 (29-17) vs Josh V 2-2 (79-79)
Matt leads 5-1 all-time, but Josh V won the last meeting.
Matt’s Eagles have a great matchup against the Giants. Will that be enough to take the win? Josh V is at full strength as well, but Matt’s best is better than Josh’s best this season. Matt will win easily and move to 4-1.

Michael 3-1 (79-79) vs Greg 2-2 (77-81)
Michael leads the series 16-5 all time, and won the last two matchups.
Michael has dominated the historical series and holds a big edge in projected points. Meanwhile, Greg has some matchups problems and injury issues. This one is easy, Michael will move to 4-1.
 

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