Week 6 Fantasy Football

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Yeah baby, back to .500. AP went LT and is showing why the Lions should have taken him #2 overall (and not Megatron).

185.85 to 145.5. A barn burner. But actually, I didn't even have the top score for the week. One of the guys scored 204.95, but he had LT and Norv Turner finally got half smart and fed LT the ball. So LT went LT as well as AP and AP out LT'd LT.

So now I am 3-3 with the 2nd most points scored in the league (847.8) and I also have the most points scored against at 822.9, and it's not even close as no other team has 800 points scored against them.

My waiver wire pickup of Derek Anderson (over Kurt Warner), was pure genius!!! And drafting Thomas Jones in the 4th round (the 10th leading rusher in the NFL) and Adrian Peterson in the 5th round (the TOP rusher in the NFL) is proving to be genius as well. Well, actually, Doing the Opposite it proving to be genius.

As I said, when you Do the Opposite, a second tier back always falls to you in the 4th round, always. Thomas Jones isn't a sexy fantasy football name. But he is the 10th leading rusher in the NFL (420 yards - more than Alexander, Westbrook, and LJ), on a run first team, and while he hasn't gotten the TDs neither has Willie Parker, Travis Henry, Willis McGahee (until this week) or LJ (until this week too.). But 3 years ago Rudi Johnson wasn't a sexy name, 2 years ago he still wasn't, and last year Brian Westbrook wasn't. Those are the guys I got in the 4th round in the last couple of years (ever since I started Doing the Opposite). So now that I have Peyton, Roy Will, Holt, and Braylon to go with AP, and T. Jones how good does this team look for fantasy purposes? Let's throw in the Jags Defense as well. Those of you that "had to reach early" for the Ravens and Bears, where are you at now?

With Do the Opposite, the only real research you do is on the RB position. You grab the top QB in the first round (Peyton), if you can't get him next year you can for sure go Brady or Palmer now that they have proven themselves. Then go WR in round 2 and round 3 (or grab Antonio Gates...if not Gates, you wait on your TE until the teen rounds). Then rounds 4-7 it's all RB's. That's where your research comes in. Rank your rb's from about 1-30 and take the top guy off the list or the guy who doesn't have the same bye week. To cut your research even more, go to Border's with a note pad, grab 5 or 6 fantasy football mags off the shelf. Go to their cheat sheets and write the top 30 guys they have at running back and their rank. Do this for each magazine. Then average out the rankings the "pros" give and re-sort for your own. You can get that done in a half hour. You keep one of the magazines (I prefer Fanball), and in rounds 13-15 you grab your TE, kicker and defense based on the ranking in the mag. From rounds 8 - 12 it's all the backups to your WR and QB.

I seriosuly get my research done in about an hour for the fantasy football season.

Anyway, I've preached alot on the no duh element of Do the Opposite. Just Do it next year.

My top 3 - Adrian Peterson (71.1), Derek Anderson (37.55), and Braylon (24.7) for 133.35

His top 3 - Matt Hasselbeck (37.5), Tony Gonzalez (27.4), and Brian Westbrook (22.6) for 87.5

More oddities from the league

• I have more points scored against me than 7 of the other teams in the league have scored for themselves.
• We have 3 teams with a record of 4-2, 4 teams with a record of 3-3 and 3 teams with a record of 2-4. Parity doesn't just abound in the NFL. I went from out of the playoffs last week to the 4th seed this week.
• The lowest point total I have had scored against me this year is 116.45...the lowest. Take away that point total and the average for the other 5 games is 141!! So I guess I will have 140+ put up against me every week.
• If I had not played Sammy Morris (who got hurt) and played Welker at my flex spot (Roy Will was on the bye) I'd of had the high score this week of 216.25. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, I know
• This week I play the guy who did score 200+ points this week, is the top scorer in our league (he's had the weekly high score 3 times...$60 for him, he's 3/5 to paying his entry fee), is also 3-3, but has Steve Smith, Kellen Winslow, Chargers DST, and LT on the bye.
• Can I say it anymore....D-O T-H-E O-P-P-O-S-I-T-E

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