Golden Showers Week 4

Week 4 Recap

Matt M (4-0) vs Josh (1-3)

Horrible. Just awful. This had to be the most embarrassing effort in all of fantasy football. I mean just think what could have been if things were different. Of course what I am talking about is that Matt started Randall Cobb. He could not even get half of his projected points (pathetic). Everyone else in his starting line exceeded their projections. Matt’s team was led by Devonta Freeman and his 3 TDs for a second week in a row. A late week add in Martellus Bennett piled on 25 points. But this huge out put of points seemed to go to waste. Not because Matt faced a foe that pulled out a total greater then his, no, quite the opposite. Josh rolled out his line up with high hope, but it turned out to be a day he wish he could forget. In the direct inverse of Matt’s lineup Josh only had 1 player reach and exceed his projected total. Good ol’ John Brown led the way with 15.80 points for Josh’s squad. Just to reiterate, Josh saw 8 of his 9 players come up short of their projected totals. It was a rare bad day for the Steelers with Heath Miller and Antonio Brown combining for 10.30 points. Carlos Hyde being plagued by a bad offense which isn’t letting him run only got 3.20 points. Just needed to look towards his bench, which out scored his starters (86.90) by 10 points with only 5 guys. As good as Matt was he could have done better. Vincent Jackson was sitting on his bench with 30.70 point, he probably should get rid of that bum Cobb. Matt wins the most uncompetitive contest ever 181.56 - 76.88.

Reuben (3-1) vs Chris (0-4)

As bad as Josh’s team looked he still outscored Chris’s team. Chris had a tough day only seeing one of his guys get over their projected total. Mark Ingram led his team with 18.80 points. Greg Olsen seemed to disappear, last week he was a monster, this week he was as quiet as a mouse only getting 4.80 points. The usually reliable Marvin Jones, who apparently only catches touchdowns, only had one catch and it was not a touchdown. The big hype this week was for Derek Carr, but he just couldn’t live up to the expectation. Reuben only saw two of his guys reach the projected totals. Led by Le’Veon Bell and his 28 points, Reuben was able to just get enough out his players to get by Chris. AJ Green had an ok game for his standards getting 15.20 points. The second highest scorer was the Carolina Defense which has been the most consistent part of the line up. Reuben and his team are still scoring 100 points a week. Chris on the other is still winless and drastic changes may be on the horizon. Reuben wins a blow out 109.02 - 70.54.

Rico (2-2) vs Julian (2-2)

In one of the closer matches Julian had a good head start by having Justin Forsett getting an early 15 points on Thursday Night. His leading scorers were Pierre Garcon, who added 18.50 points with a late game winning TD in his game, and Chandler Catanzaro, who seemed to kick all the points for the Cardinals in that game. Julian did see let downs by the usually stout Cardinals Defense who could only come up with 1 point against the Rams, and also Darren Sproles who barely saw any action getting only 1.70 points. Rico had his usual high scoring game having 5 of his players get past their projections (two others just miss the projections by .04 and .06). Rico had a Chargers connection that led him in points. Philip Rivers and Danny Woodhead had 26.22 and 17.80 respectively. Rico did see disappointment in his star receiver though. Julio Jones only had 4 catches for 38 yards which equaled to 7.80 points (cut him). At the end of the Sunday day games Rico had a slight 13 point lead with Dan Bailey and Jimmy Graham still to go, while Julian had his QB Russell Wilson left. It wouldn’t be the craziest thing to see Wilson go off and lead Julian to victory. Rico had Bailey get 8 more points Sunday Night to pad his lead to 21 points now. All Julian needed was for Wilson to get over 20 points and not have Jimmy Graham see the ball. Well this almost happened. Jimmy only had 4 catches for 29 yards (cut him). Wilson couldn’t get it done though with 2 fumbles and a lack luster offensive performance he only got 15.48 points, below his projected total. Rico wins a down to the wire match 118.82 - 105.68.

AJ (2-2) vs Mike (0-4)

In what was projected to be the biggest blow out of the week turned out to be a defense struggle. Neither team could really take control and put up those high scores we have been accustomed to see in this league. I really feel the difference might have been when Mike was too busy saving lives and keeping the world safe and forgot to change out and injured Andrew Luck from his lineup. Hey it happens to the best of us. To be fair to AJ though the back up would have been Matthew Stafford and he got smothered by the Seahawks Defense and only got 8.12 points. Another costly reason for Mike’s low out put was Ryan Matthews, who scored big last week but put up a doughnut this week. Now luckily for AJ, this time, Mike last Doug Martin on the bench who had his best game of the year gaining 25.30 points. Not all bad news for Mike, the Rams Defense, Graham Gano, and Travis Benjamin all went over the projected scores. AJ got decent production from his lineup, compared to his opponent, at least everyone score a point. Aaron Rodgers was basically shut down by a strong 49ers Defense and only got 16.26 points, 5 points short of projected. Super stud Odell Beackham Jr couldn’t crack 9 points, and Jordan Reed ended up injuring himself twice in the game only getting have his projection. AJ was led to victory by the pick up of the week in Karlos Williams who surpassed his projection and scored 16 points, and also Justin Tucker kicked for 15 points on Thursday Night. Oh what could have been for Mike if he changed his quarterback…probably not much. AJ wins an interesting match 89.06 - 62.40.

Matt H (4-0) vs Gino (2-2)

This turned out to be the game of the week. Gino was projected to win by 15 and hand Matt his first loss of the season. Matt was already in a hole after watching his top scoring QB Ben Roethlisberger go down last week he had to make a key QB pick up off of waivers. He got Tyrod Taylor who had been lighting the fantasy football world on fire. Unfortunately for Matt Taylor had his lowest output of points for the season. Jordan Matthews and Travis also had underwhelming performances both getting well below their projected totals. Matt did see 5 of his players get above their projections. His team was led by DeAndre Hopkins who added a second straight 100 yard day and Jeremy Hill who woke back up and scored 3 TDs, they scored 24.70 and 24.00 points. 'All Day’ Adrian Peterson was also flirting with another 20 point day. Gino still continues to show us that you score points and win games through the draft, plus so key free agents help I guess. Gino saw 8 of his players get into double digit scoring, 5 of them passing their projections. Charles Clay and Brandon Marshall led the way with 20.10 and 19.80 scores. Cam Newton wasn’t needed much in his game, so they had a disappointing 16.06 points. Both of Gino’s RBs were under the projected targets. Once again we had another contest go down to Monday Night Football. Matt took a slim point lead into the game with still needing to roll out a shaky Seahawks Defense and Gino H=having Steven Hauschka still to kick for the Seahawks. Good thing for Gino the Seahawks haven’t really figures out to score TDs yet so his kicker benefited scoring 11 points for the night. The Seahawks Defense was able to keep the Lions off the scoreboard for the most part but were not getting any extra points with sacks or turnovers. With time winding down Gino has a lead of .40 with the Lions driving. Calvin Johnson of the Lions catches an arrow pattern and is heading straight for the end zone. The touchdown will gaurentee and victory for Gino and knock Matt out of the ranks of the undefeated. Out of no where Kam Chancellor flies in and knocks the ball loose inches from the goal line. The ball goes out of the endzone with a little nudge from KJ Wright for the touchback. Matt gets the point for the fumble recovery and takes a small lead as time expires. Matt wins a thrilling Monday Night comeback to remain undefeated 133.96 - 132.36.