Showing posts with label Power Rankings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power Rankings. Show all posts

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Wings and Things Power Rankings: Week 4

This is what the first place Dream Shakes are doing right now.

1) Dream Shake -- Another week, another 1st place team.  This time it's the Dream Shakers leaving no doubt with a whopping 221 points and a commanding lead of 60 points over the next closest team.  31 points for Forte and Beanie, 30 from Nicks, 28 from Megatron, and on and on.  Well done, my young son.  Keep having fun partying with Matt Leinart and those Southern California babes... and the girl on the right.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Wings and Things Power Rankings: Week 3

The most delicious grub in Stamford: the High School from Garden Catering, in honor of DandyBoy.


1)  Vlad Ducasse -- As Tommy Satran aka Satchy Satch said, Danny is the best teammate.  I put him at the top of the power rankings and he made sure to make me look good for doing so.  Soom's mouth tastes like foot because Big Vlad gave the Shape Ups the business.  Amish Rifle and Ray Rice got 20 apiece, but even more impressive is the work that Dandyboy does to get 19 and 18 points from Jimmy Graham and Tim Hightower, respectively.

2)  Softer Knocks --  The matchup of the week did not disappoint, but Timmy's Golden Boy QB's were no match for Joe.  Matt Stafford, beast QB of the 3-0 Lions has passed for 977 yards, 9 TD's , and only 2 picks through the first three games.  At this point, we can safely say that the former Elite 11 favorite of Football Jukes (below, far right), is officially and Elite NFL QB as long as he can stay healthy.  The Knocks look strong even in the wake of Jamaal Charles' injury thanks to Jermichael Finley (who scored 31 points last week) and the man who is on pace to gain over 2,000 yards receiving this season.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Wings and Things Power Rankings: Week 2

Beef on Weck, at worst the 2nd best grub Buffalo.  In honor of the 2-0 Bills.


1)  Beefcakes -- Timmy's in first place and he has a good team, so he's #1 in the power rankings now.  I took my whoopin' last week thanks to 29 points apiece from Brady and Jahvid Best and 26.6 more from LeSean McCoy.  Epic showdown between two of three 2-0 teams this week, the Beefcakes and Softer Knocks.  Can Timmy hold on to the top spot?

2)  Vlad Ducasse --  The Vlads had another strong showing in a Week 2, 152-150 loss to Dream Shake.  I was all ready to give it to Soom for doubting my ranking prowess, then Will ruined everything by pulling out a comeback win on Monday night.  Unavailable for comment, Soom's publicist issued a statement for Dandyboy, saying of their Week 3 matchup, "if Michael Vick is allowed to play after sustaining a concussion and not practicing all week, you're going down!"

But I don't know about you guys, I am buying what the Amish Rifle is selling.  Ryan Fitzpatrick is making that magic in Buffalo to the tune of 472 yards, seven touchdowns and only one pick through two games, so it'll be up the the gritty bunch from The Estates at Benedict Canyon Woods to knock them back down to earth.




3)  Dream Shake -- Another team with crap quarterbacks that is just getting it done.  The receiver-rich (Megatron, Hakeem, Stevie Johnson and Steve Smith) Dream Shakers are rolling and as long as Matt Forte and Beanie Wells keep up their production, we could see them at 3-0 after facing Kerry Collins and the G-MEN this week.

4)  Kiss the Baby -- Demps made sure to put an end to all that "Jukes may go undefeated" talk with a swift, 195-139 beatdown in the battle of last year's cellar dwellers.  Vincent Jackson let the charge with 36 points and both Ryan Matthews and Peyton Hillis got over 23, but it was a total team effort that his Guy has to be proud of, wherever he is.

5)  G-MEN -- The fantasy G-MEN rebounded from a crappy Week 1 and panic over the QB situation to produce the biggest blowout of the week, a 197-139 win against the preseason power rankings leader, the RI Bulldogs.  (The real life G-Men also won, but predictably looked like crap).  Same story this week, a lot will be riding on Rodgers, Purple Jesus and Miles Austin (38 points last week, but projected for 0 this week on the matchup page as of 12:08 PM EST, is he hurt or something?) to carry the load.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Wings and Things Power Rankings: Week 1

Not sure where these are from, but I want to go there.


Week 1 is in the books, but not before some big time shake-ups in the power rankings.  I tried not to be too reactionary because it's only one week, but some teams really showed me something so I had to adjust my initial evaluations of each team.  As always, feel free to comment and send pics of wings and/or things.


Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The NFL's "Elite 8"

Since ESPN just came out with their initial NFL power rankings today, I was in the mood to do something similar. Most people would agree that the NFL is the hardest league to predict year in year out. The fact that there are only sixteen games, a multitude of injuries, a hard salary cap, and short primes for even the best of players, all contribute to a league that prides itself on parity. Although there is always a chance that a random 7-9ish team can win the superbowl one year later (Cowboys in 2011?), this years NFL has an elite group that should stake claim to the Lombardi Trophy this winter. The amazing thing about this "Elite 8" is that they are equally distributed amongst the AFC and NFC. Just for fun, I decided to categorize the 8 teams based on their likelihood of winning it all. In reality, each of these eight teams has a pretty equal shot.