Week 3 Stampede Blue Fantasy/Picks Update
Another good week of participation in the picks contests with some interesting results to say the least. This weeks winner in the Straight Up contest is Obscene (not sure if that was assigned by Yahoo or picked by the user, please let me know as I am interested) who got 13 of 16 games correct. Again, Stampede Blue loves the Patriots as all entries except 4 picked them to beat the Bills (more on this game in the ATS section). Every entry that was submitted picked the Chargers over the Chiefs. The "Dreamteam" Eagles are still being picked heavily as only 15% of the entries went with the Giants straight up. Overall, Lord help our Colts leads with 36 out of 48 correct picks.
Against the Spread this week, r.steal led the way with 13 out of 16 correct (hope you bet those man cause that's bank right there). Props also to ColtsFanFromHawaii who had 12 correct. My note about the Pats and Bills gets interesting to me here. While 95% of you picked the Pats to win the game, 63% thought 8.5 was too big a number and took the Bills plus the points. Looks like Stampede Blue knew more than Vegas on that game. NFC powerhouse favorites Philly and Atlanta cost people the most as 80% thought they would cover and neither did. Overall standings show Lord help our Colts on top again with 28 out of 44 correct (64%).
Fantasy News after the jump....Check out each league at http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/stampedeblueleagueX where X is a number between 1 and 13.
Winner this week is Live and Let Addai from League 10 with 224.3 points. He was led by a huge 51.6 point performance from Wes Welker and over 30 points from Drew Brees, Darren McFadden and Jermichael Finley (anytime you get 30 from a TE you should be golden!). Overall highest score goes to Peyday from League 7 with 514.85 (171.6 points per week).
Closest game this week involved the BigBlueShoe who was handed his first lose of the season by The Breakers (who got their first win of the season) by just 0.35 points. BBS was down by 12.35 with Santana Moss left to play on Monday night. With 4 minutes left in the 4th and the Redskins in 3rd and 17, Rex Grossman tried to hit Moss deep down the right side, but threw the ball out of bounds. This one play would have changed the outcome of the fantasy matchup. Sorry for ya BBS!
In other SB Fantasy News:
- Statistical Anomaly (the Legaue 12 version) and Mr. Blue in League 3 have had the distinct honor of having the most points scored against them. The strange thing is, both teams have given up the exact same number of points after 3 weeks (492.45).
- League 5 continues to be one of the most competitive leagues as this week all games were decided by an average of 13.91 points.
- Congrats to Manning4Prez in League 1 for the biggest win of the week (119.35) but it comes with a caveat. They played (V) () _) () who only scored 58.2 after losing Kenny Britt and getting a goose egg from Beanie Wells. Tough week for them.
- Matt's Statistical Anomaly teams went 7-6 this week, bringing his overall record for the year to 23-16 in all leagues.
Congrats to all the winners from Week 3 and good luck!
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i almost lost.
I got 0 points from Deion Branch and was down 7.6 points going into the colts/steelers game. neither of us had anyone playing moday, and I only had Vinateri playing. Got 8 points and won by 0.4. Super awesome, but how does Branch get blanked?
Sorry, total gambling noob here
When you say “take the points”, does that mean you expect, in this case, the Patriots to win by less than the number given by Vegas?
by BenD on Sep 29, 2011 4:13 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Yep...
You see if you “won” your bet by taking the team you select plus or minus the number that has been set for that game.
NE and Buf for example. I took Buffalo plus 8.5. That means when I look at the final score I add 8.5 to Buffalo’s total and see who has the higher total. If NE would have won 35 to 24 on the field, the final line would have been NE 35 and Buffalo 32. NE would have been the correct bet.
Probably not the best explanation but I hope it helps.
Bleedin' Blue for as long as I can remember. Can you believe we get to be fans while our team has the greatest QB of all time?!?!?!
Here's a simpler explanation, maybe.
When you see -8.5 it means that team must not lose and win by at least 9 points. The .5 is simply to eliminate ties. If the team is a +8.5 it means the team must either win or not lose by more than 9 points. Using the NE/Buf example, if Buffalo was +8.5 it means NE would have to win by 9 to be the correct wager. If Buffalo won or lost by 8 or less then Buffalo was the correct bet.
by ActionOxford on Sep 29, 2011 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions
League 5
Are we the only ones that were affected by the Yahoo outage? How many showed up to the actual draft that got rescheduled? I had to autodraft.
You may be right...
I ended up on auto draft as well, but I modified the beginning of my draft list. I don’t know if any other league drafts were changed.
Bleedin' Blue for as long as I can remember. Can you believe we get to be fans while our team has the greatest QB of all time?!?!?!
by emiller17 on Sep 30, 2011 6:38 AM EDT via iPhone app up reply actions
I also missed the draft
but I heavily altered my draft list the night the original draft was supposed to take place. I ended up with a lot of the players I wanted actually.
I have no idea what any of this means.
"If they want me to be a crazy, emotional, frenzied fan in section 603, then they can't expect me to be reasonable about the business of football"
4-0
Well gonna be an easy win this week. I’m playing some moron who’s whole team is colts players, including Payton. Like i said last week. These people should be banned from playing next year. Also like to see a winners league and so on and so fourth…
by PeytonsForeHead on Sep 30, 2011 8:07 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
PS......
Many, many thanks for setting up the leagues and love the weekly highlights article!!!
by PeytonsForeHead on Sep 30, 2011 8:09 AM EDT reply actions
Every single team in my division is 1-2,
so although my tram hasn’t been too grand so far, neither has my competition!
Dallas Clark: Some tight ends catch. Some block. Clark just owns.
3-0...somehow
Have lost Jammal Charles to IR, Kenny Britt on IR, “back-up” Qb Peytoen Manning, IR more or less..and Aaron Hernandez out for another week or two.
I play Statistical Anomaly this week, so GL Matt…Brady and Welker are BOUND to have an off week sooner or later
Go Blue!
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