Headhunters 2: The Dirty Dozen

## In Memoriam: A Team Has No Name

A rest day, a MattJinx, and a bye.

A rest day: That's what the 49ers called McKinnon's limited usage against the Patriots. Essentially, he had worked too hard this season and was given the day off. In his stead, Jeff Wilson ran roughshod over the NE defense until working too hard and getting hurt. What the 49ers SHOULD have done was given Wilson a rest half after all his usage in the first half. Then they could have been well rested for bed time.

A MattJinx: On Thursday night, Commish delivered a deadly blow to No Name when DeSean Jackson caught 3 catches on the first drive. Great start, Commish exclaimed, before jokingly adding "this has all the makings of a start that makes you think *wow if my player is used like this he'll have 50 points,* before that player is never being used the rest of the game. He..um...wasn't used again the rest of the game. And then he went on IR. Good career, DeSean!

A bye: As if the 49ers weren't hurtful enough, having to swap in Jimmy G for Lamar Jackson isn't exactly a one-for-one. No Name ultimately could not compensate for the point loss at the position. Jackson hasn't come within 10 points of Jimmy G's 14 all season.
Put it all together and sprinkle in a dud from Travis Kelce and A Team Has No Name becomes a Team With No Head.

A Team Has No Name:

## In Memoriam: Shotti's Bugatti

We had our first double elimination this week, which means a second in memoriam section and this one felt like a long time coming. Shotti may have been ranked 8th in the pack, but they couldn't seem to get going in their inaugural season.

Their roster was very similar to me telling my fiance that I'm going to clean my corner of the bedroom or start working out again. It's always about to happen. Any day now. Tomorrow it will be clean. Next week I'll be back in shape. It's just that tomorrow never comes.

Like a sneeze that you just can't get out, Shotti could not get the right roster together in time to save himself. After spending nearly all his money on Joe Mixon and Miles Sanders ($850 total), the team didn't have the funds available to purchase backup power when both of those backs went down with injury.

Shotti may have been doomed from the start, however, when his 6th overall pick, Michael Thomas, suffered a high ankle sprain in week one and didn't play another snap.

Shotti did have a chance to save himself but suffered from Patriots denial syndrome. I've seen this a few times over the last couple weeks. Teams, amazingly, are STILL starting Cam Newton with better options on their benchs. I think it's from 20 years of "the Patriots are good, they're going to get right." But Cam is not right. His 3 points wasn't nearly enough, but Derek Carr's 34 on Shotti's bench would have been more than enough to save him.

So now the Bugatti heads to the junk yard. A decent rookie run for the Shotti Bunch, but it comes to an end here in week seven.

Shotti's Bugatti:

## New Releases

In what is certain to be the a giant feeding frenzy on the waiver wire this week, here are the top ten players available:

1. Michael Thomas
2. Lamar Jackson
3. Travis Kelce
4. Joe Mixon
5. Miles Sanders
6. Amari Cooper
7. DJ Chark
8. Mike Evans
9. Cole Beasely
10. Antonio Brown

What makes this so interesting is that so many of these players are coming back from injury. How will that affect the bidding?

## Week Seven Bidding Results

Last Year's most expensive week six player: Saquon Barkley ($473)

* OBJ with a $263 busted knee right in Neck-Fix's face.
* Henry VIII needed Darren Waller and he got him, dorpping the biggest bid in his franchise's history. Waller's 18 was the difference between survival and elimination.
* Team Has No Name with a good effort in their final weeks of bidding, but not enough.
* The Coach spending money but not sure on what.

## Money Spent Per Week

Money Spent Per Week
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 7

It's no surprise that for the second week in a row, bidding has outpaced the corresponding week in 2019. After all, LiveWithIt was one of the stronger teams in the league.

## Week Seven Results

* Biggest Climber: Last Coach Standing (^10)

* Biggest Faller: Carole Pigskin/The Guilloteam (v5)

## Kings of the Castle

### 1. @FFDraftScott

Just in time for Halloween, Scott has a monster performance. But with Kyler Murray and Antonio Gibson on the bye this week, FFDraft must be spooked.

### 2. Gore-ronavirus

Gore got his money's worth out of Davante Adams this week, but similar to the above team, this is a huge week of byes for rona. No James Robinson and no DeAndre Hopkins. Luckily, there is plenty on waivers to choose from.

### 3. Neck-Fix and Chill

Okay, so the OBJ bid didn't exactly work out (but hey, neither do I). The Justin Herbert bid, THAT is a catch. Herbert looks like the real deal and his 63 points, coupled with an amazing 66.10 from Tyler Lockett, was more than enough to make up for a roster that really struggled.

### 4. Last Coach Standing

The coach ranks last in remaining budget, and there aren't really any bid names to speak of on the entire roster. But he made it work with his guys this week in a big comeback performance that proves he still deserves to be here. Does this roster have enough left for the duration?

### 5. Clydesdales

Two weeks at number five for last year's first eliminated team, and they still have $985 to spend on whoever they want. It may be time to give this team some credit...well, maybe next week.

## On the Chopping Block

### 12. Henry VIII

This team is so bad that they are still 61 points behind LiveWithIt, who was eliminated a week ago. They are catching more bad luck this week, with McCaffrey back practicing but probably not suiting up for a Thursday night game. So it's one more week until they get their first overall pick back, if they can survive it.

### 11. Out of Luck

Looks like Luck has a little more luck in him. There was an outside chance at elimination this week, but with Henry's shit performance from Robert Woods they actually had a one-team buffer from the double elim. Russ Wilson's 57 carried a team that featured James O'Shaughnessy out-performing all his WR's combined.

### 10. Hasta Laviska Baby

Laviska has a bye in week eight, so will Hasta's super powers be diminished? Getting Aaron Jones back will be a decent trade off.

### 9. It's Blitz! Track 2

Blitz rolled the dice and won in not using their precious immunity idol this week. Things were looking rough and they finished with 31 points below their projection. They fittingly finish in 9th, which is their rank on the season, and they enter week eight with the most remaining money.

### 8. The Guilloteam

Not used to featuring this team in the bottom five, but almost every team is featured in one or the other and their 174-point performance would still likely enough to survival the next few weeks as bottom-feeder teams continue to shit the bed at an amazing clip.

## Narrow Defeats

Margin of Defeat for Last Place Teams:

As bad as Shotti was they were SO close to avoiding elimination.

## Rulers of the Kingdom

2020 first place finishers:

Scott becomes the first team to repeat on top in 2020. In Week seven of 2019, It's Blitz! became the first team to repeat in 1st place. They became the champions.

## Dungeon Dwellers

2020 teams that finished second-to-last, narrowly avoiding elimination:

'sup?

## Dead Money

Keeping track of all the cash that never got spent by teams that are now eliminated.

Dead Money

## Remaining Budget

Total remaining: $6657 out of $12,000 (56%)

See you all next week and happy bidding.