250th Post: Fantasy Football Tuesday Week 2

It is almost fitting that the 250th post for Reflections on Sports is a post on fantasy football.  It is a cool feat that this blog has reached a milestone like this and have enjoyed the ride so far and look forward to hopefully 250 more posts.

It was in interesting week 2 in the JustUs Geeks Fantasy League.  After the aftermath of Week 1, I was in 3rd place overall and 1st in the "Autobots" division.  On the podcast last week, the guys at JustUs Geeks made mention of my performance by saying that my point total for week 1 "was never wrong".

Week 2 saw a crazy output by all the teams in the league.  Going into Monday night it looked as if every team in the league would have 1 win and 1 loss.  I was down going into the Monday night game with Eric Decker left to play.  I was hurt big time by Aaron Hernandez getting hurt early in his game and putting up 0 points and Jamaal Charles & Brandon Marshall getting next to nothing.  Thankfully I was helped that my opponent Jared started Antonio Gates who didn't play and Eli Manning who was on the bench.  It literally took a late 4th quarter rally aided by a punt return and reception by Decker to put me over the top and to secure the victory.  With the win, I go to 2-0 and atop the JustUs Geeks Fantasy League after two weeks.  Here's the recap of Week 2:

Hub City All Stars Comes from Behind to Squeak By Alabama Autobots

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  Hub City All Stars (2-0) 122.24
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  Alabama Autobots (0-2) 120.42

Hub City All Stars (2-0, 272.28 points) edged Alabama Autobots (0-2, 223.34 points) 122.24 - 120.42, led by Tom Brady with 22.54 points. Hub City All Stars came into the Sunday games already in front 17.40 - 8.40. They gave up that lead after the late Sunday games and were behind 111.02 - 99.54. However, Hub City All Stars pulled off the comeback victory on Monday night, with 6.20 points from Eric Decker.

Hub City All Stars Smooth Moves

• The 17.00 points by Stephen Gostkowski was the league-high for a K this week.
• Frank Gore scored 16.50 points, which ranked 10th out of all the RBs in the league this week.
• Even with a zero from starter Aaron Hernandez, Hub City All Stars was still able to win.
• The Chicago Bears Defense exceeded scoring projections by 88.4%, with 15.00 points against a projected 7.96.
• Even with only 5 of the 11 starters scoring more than their projection, Hub City All Stars was still able to win.

Alabama Autobots Regret Tracker

• Left Eli Manning on the bench, where he led the league in scoring with 61.20 points.
• Left Brent Celek on the bench, where he scored 15.70 points and surpassed his scoring projection by 173.5%, the highest percentage of any player on the team.
• Did not start Maurice Jones-Drew, who underachieved but still scored more than any RB on the team with 12.70 points against a projected 15.74.
• Should have started Nate Kaeding, who underachieved, but still had more points than the starting K with 8.00 against a projected 9.69.
• Hub City All Stars won the K position battle, beating Alabama Autobots 17.00 - 7.00.

What If

• Hub City All Stars would be 2-0 if they played Alabama Autobots every week.
• Besides Alabama Autobots, Hub City All Stars would have beaten only two other teams this week.
• Hub City All Stars would have defeated Alabama Autobots 150.04 - 102.92 had they played each other last week.
• Hub City All Stars would be 7-7 if they played every team every week.
• Alabama Autobots would have lost to four other teams besides Hub City All Stars this week.
• If they played every team every week, Alabama Autobots would be 3-11.

Game Notes

• Hub City All Stars was not able to cover the 7.04-point spread in the win.
• At 1.82 points, the margin of victory was the tightest of the week.
• Hub City All Stars won even though Alabama Autobots performed better against their scoring projection. Alabama Autobots scored 86.0% of their 139.98 projected points, while Hub City All Stars recorded 83.1% of their 147.02-point projection.
• Alabama Autobots got smallest total score from their RB position of any team this week with 11.80 points.
• Hub City All Stars had the lowest winning score in the league this week with 122.24 points.
• The 120.42 points put up by Alabama Autobots ranked sixth in the league this week.
• Cam Newton did what he could in the loss for Alabama Autobots. He scored 32.22 points, the sixth-highest score in the league this week.
• Vincent Jackson did his best in the loss, ranking sixth among all WRs in the league with 20.80 points.