Here I am once again waiting until Wednesday night/Thursday morning to quickly throw a recap together before week 14 starts. This will probably be another short one. Let's start by giving props to player of the week Patrick Mahomes for AR12 is Weird. Mahomes had 37.44 fantasy points, leading Scotty to a win in his matchup and a 10-3 overall record. Good job! It seems like the player of the week awards have been really spread out this year, as opposed to last year when it was either Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, or Ja'Marr Chase winning every week. Should make the Rad MVP Fantasy MVP award awfully hard to hand out.
Implications for each game:
Dynastic Dan becomes the first team to clinch a playoff berth with the win. Even if I was to lose my last 2 games, the worst I could do is four losses. So yay good job to me. This was a rematch of last year's title game. Mike is going to be hard pressed to repeat as he now has five losses, and will need some back luck from the teams above him in the standings if he wishes to make the postseason.
Alice and BDB's game didn't have any implications, as both teams are eliminated already.
Perry's win over Bluth didn't have too many implications either. Bluth had already been eliminated, and Perry is as close to clinching a playoff berth as you can get. All he pretty much has to do is beat 2-11 My Team next week and he is in.
My Team vs AR12 is Weird: not many implications either. It helps solidify Scotty's position as a postseason team. He essentially just has to win one more game and he's in. And one of his last two games is against TBone.
Ned's win against Show me the TDs. Now this game had implications. This was a devastating loss for Sean's team. With two games left, he is in the same boat as Skattebo Doesn't Know. He needs major bad luck from the teams above him to have a chance. He does have a chance to gain a game on Scotty, as he is matched up against him next week.
Teflon Don's win against TBone only really mattered as far as draft positioning. Teflon Don has TBone's first rounder next year, so he is probably hoping TBone finishes last. But in order for that to happen, TBone has to lose out, and My Team has to win one of its last two games. Hmm what will happen?
Please behold the updated standings:
I'm not feeling too great about being in first. I've given up the fewest points in the league so far, and I am worried that my luck is going to run out the second the postseason starts. If the season ended today, I'd be facing off against Ned. I would not feel comfortable with that matchup at all. No matter who plays who in the postseason, it is going to be a tough match.
If things stand as they are Scotty, Perry, and Ned will likely be clinching soon. Mike and Sean have outside chances at making the playoffs, but they really needed to win their matchups this week. They would have been in charge of their playoff fates. Now they need other teams to win to help them out. And they need to win out too. I haven't looked to see how the tiebreakers at the top shake out, but their best bet is ned losing one of his last two games. I guess we'll see how this week goes!
At the bottom of the pile, however, there are some great examples here of how I do head to head tiebreakers. This is how the first round of the draft would go (minus the playoff teams) if the season ended today:
first round:
#1: My Team (lost season series to TBone 0-1)
#2: Teflon Don (pick acquired from TBone)
#3: BDB (lost season series to Alice 0-2)
#4: Alice
#5: Teflon Don (lost season series to Bluth 0-1)
#6 Bluth
#7: Show me the TDs (tied season series with Skattebo Doesn't Know at 1-1, has fewer points scored)
#8: Skattebo Doesn't Know
#9, 10, 11, 12: ??? between Dynastic Dan, AR12 is Weird, Bluth, and Show me the TDs
Bluth owns ned's first round pick (acquired in McCaffrey trade)
Show me the TDs owns TDs or Bust's first round pick (acquired in Justin Jefferson trade)
So Teflon Don, Bluth, and Show me the TDs all have two first rounders next year. Great ammo for these guys to really refuel their teams. After the season ends, I'll be doing my usual offseason tracker of draft picks and who has whose picks. That'll make things a little less confusing if your eyes glazed over reading all this.
But I really hope you all are getting a hang of Dynasty and how this works as we near the end of year 3. Some of you are dynasty vets so I know you get it. But for those who this is their first dynasty league (and there are a lot of you) hopefully you're beginning to get the flow of it now.
And I want to make the offseason even easier to understand. This year when the year ends, I am immediately going to put your taxi player on your roster. You remember the taxi players, right? You picked one before the start of the season? Well, you are getting them back. They won't count against your roster limit either.
I am not going to enforce any "you must cut down to 20 players by xxx date" rules this time. I'm going to give you the entire offseason to hang onto all your players so you can make any trades you want. Assuming you have a fully rostered team with 25 players, 2 players on IR, and your taxi pick (who I'll put back on your team manually) that would give you 28 players to work with in the offseason. You may not have access to Yahoo in the offseason, as they often shut down when there is no fantasy football taking place, but I will manually track everyone's rosters and draft picks on a spreadsheet that I share with you, as I normally do.
Ten days before the draft (which will always be on the first Sunday of August) I will hit everyone up with the "you must trim down to between 15 and 20 players" message. That's when you'll finally have to trim down to meet roster requirements before the draft. But aside from that, you'll have the whole offseason to work with your players and wheel and deal and make draft moves. Theoretically, I could trade 5 players and a draft pick to one team for just one draft pick. So they'd have 33 players and I'd have 23 (assuming each team started with 28). And that would be totally fine. You don't have to trim down to the 15-20 requirement until the 10 day period before the draft. Like I said, you have the WHOLE offseason to wheel and deal your players.
And everyone is in the group text this year so hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more deals in the offseason. That's all I am going to talk about next year until more near the end of the season, so hit me up if you have questions.
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