(WatchBlog McGee is a fictionalized blogger but reports on actual, flesh and bone, real-life fantasy football leagues. This year, he is embedded deep in the CFFFL, and will be periodically blogging on league matters.)
WatchBlog here again. Halloween provided quite a spine tingling ending to week 8. Let’s get to it.
Underdog has its day
Week 8 was a good one to be an underdog in the CFFFL. After the league worst Badger knocked off The Lions on Sunday, the lower seeded teams continued to give the higher seeded teams fits into Monday night. Even the 4CJD leading Puppies were not immune to the trend as they fell hard to the surging Leftovers, without so much as a whimper. The underdog Hottez were also on pace to overtake the Cousins late on Monday night, and probably would have had it not been for a late game injury to RB Ryan Matthews. While the Cousins escaped the bite of the week 8 underdogs, the 47ers did not, as they lost in dramatic fashion to the bottom dwelling Offensives. After the dust settled, 3 of 5 week 8 CFFFL games were won by the team with the worse record.
Don’t dress as a Quail for Halloween
WatchBlog’s pick for the best CFFFL team through the first half of the season did not disappoint in week 8, and became the first team in the league to reach 7 wins. After beating the PlowBoys, the Quail Hunters are now alone at the top of the CFFFL in record, and have a 2 game lead in their division with 5 to play. Amanda “Sure, I’m left-handed, I just don’t go on and on about it” Cook has her team hitting on all cylinders, but faces the new look Offensives in week 9 who happened to be the 2nd highest scoring team in week 8.
Change is good.
The first CFFFL trade of the year likely would have not changed either week 8 result for the teams involved, but going forward, both teams have addressed consistency issues at weak positions, the Cousins at WR, and the Offensives at RB. It is too early to tell which team will benefit the most from the trade, but rest assured that WatchBlog will be tracking the traded players performance for the balance of the season. It will be interesting to see if other teams attempt to improve through trade rather than just free agency, but then again, you can only trade if you have something someone else wants. Sorry, Lions...
WatchBlog out.
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