Headhunters 4: The Dirty Dozen

## Introduction

In what was essentially a rematch of the 2021 Headhunters Championship, trophy winner Executioner went toe-to-toe with Muller Lite and in the end got stubbed.

## In Memorium: The Executioner

It was a slow and gruelling execution for Executioner on Monday Night Football as he got to watch Matthew Stafford go full 0-16 Lions on his ass in front of a national audience.

As the early games progressed and the afternoon games began, the line for the chopping block was exceedingly long. Henry VIII had lost his QB on TNF when his brain fell out through his earholes. Beach McBungalow was hoping to look back and see that Axel "rose" to the occassion in New England, but Hoyer-I-Don't-Even-Know-Her instead Axel "fell" in the first quarter. Drake "3am in..." London almost had Hasta Laviska saying hasta la vista. And Muller Lite was light on points yet again. But then several teams caught waves that surfed them into week 5 and when the tide receeded we were left with the washed up remains of our 2021 championship teams.

Muller Lite had the point advantage heading into MNF but not a large projection advantage. They were rolling out Kittle and Rams defense. It's never a good sign when you need a player to do well against your defense, which you also need to do well. Executioner, meanwhile, had Jeff Wilson and Matthew Stafford. Essentially, Executioner needed Wilson to score TDs and Stafford's Rams to play catch up all game to keep Jeff running and Matt throwing. And of course, the better Wilson did the worse Rams D would do. It's a tangled web we weave.

The game ran both managers through the entire gambit of emotions. From Jeff Wilson's first TD:

To George Kittle's TD (that eventually got reversed):

And all the fantasy angst inbetween:

In the end, Executioner got exactly what he wanted. The Rams played from behind, Wilson scored a TD, the 49ers ran it up on the Rams defense...but it didn't matter. Stafford needed just 25.24 points. That was still below his projection and would have put him as the 19th ranked QB of the week, slightly ahead of Ryan Tannehill. But no. He sucked. And just like that a second champion is knocked off in a row. The path to repeating is never easy, and it's never easy leaving the game with all $1,000 in your pocket. Maybe next year he'll be able to...execute better...

The Executioner:

## Weeks Survived (2019 v 2020 v 2021 v 2022)

Weeks Survived (2019 v 2020 v 2021 v 2022)
 Bobecue Chicken
 It's Blitz! Track 2
 The Executioner

If this trend continues, Executioner will have another great run in 2023.

## Dead Money

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

Dead Money 2022

This is the most dead money we have ever had through the first four weeks.

## New Releases

1. Michael Pittman
2. Kyler Murray
3. Kyle Pitts
4. James Robinson
5. Jeff Wilson Jr.

## Week Four Bidding Results

#### Quick-Hit Thoughts

* Time for Wildcat to change his name from "no QBs no problem" to "no good QBs no problem" because he's basically assembled an entire army of bottom-10 starting QBs.
* Of course I say that but we all saw what the Geno Smith/Cooper Rush tandum did last week so egg on my face, right?
* I also love Wildcat dropping $1 bids on everyone just in case. Like maybe 12 other people won't notice Cooper Kupp is available. Shoot your shot.
* When you want something bad enough, you go out there and you get it. And Beach McBungalow wanted Dallas Defense bad. And as the league's 12th-best fantasy defense, who wouldn't want them?? Apparently everyone else.
* The Deebo gambit really paid off for KVR. He made $159 off the auction. Let's crunch those numbers really quick here. Bought Deebo a week ago for $277, sold him for $159...crunch crunch crunch...damn, he made negative 118 bucks! Art of the Deal like you read about.
* Best bid of the week goes to Laser Rocket who only outbid the next highest guy by 8.6%. Great market assessment.
* Sure-oh made her play this week by snagging Blitz's WR tandem and making them her own, but at the cost of 89% of her annual budget.
* YUGE overpay on Zeke for Out of Luck, who hasn't met his projection in three of four games to start the season.

## Money Spent Per Week

Money Spent Per Week
 3

With bye weeks beginning in week 6 and two non-elimination weeks coming, it's more important than ever that the bench is solidified with each elimination. I expect a lower bidding week with less talent hitting the market from Executioner, but still a lot of jockying for players coming for sure.

## Week Four Results

* Biggest Climber: Wildcat (^10)
* Biggest Faller: The Guilloteam (v8)

## Kings of the Castle

### 1. deCaPitated

Ascended to first this week with the help of SF defense. Perhaps the best sign that this team is on the up-and-up is Tom Brady finally divorcing himself from shitty performances and breaking his projection just like he broke his vows. We're all lucky TB12 is married to the game or I'd truly believe love was dead.

### 2. Wildcat (no QBs no problem)

What a Rush! Cooper Trooper and If Geno, Geno both busted their projections this week, with Austin Ekeler and Miles Sanders each hitting 39 points tl elevate Wildcat from the depths of the dungeon into the upper levels of the castle. They might actually have TOO MANY QBs now. There are only 12 teams left, so a max of 24 QBs can start each week. If Wildcat can win all three QBs from Executioner, they'll have 8 starters and still be unable to block the other 11 teams from starting two quarterbacks.

### 3. burrow for sure-oh

216, 209, 212...225! $888 Bought Burrow an extra 9.33 points over her average. Burrow/Higgens stack is a thing. Kupp and Adams are good. But it's a bit scary on the bench, with Patterson now on IR and Gibson potentially losing his starting job to Brian "Butt of Steel" Robinson in the coming weeks.

### 4. Out of Luck

Out snip-snap-snip-snap team of the year is Out of Luck. Another top four finish this week thanks to Jared Godd and Justin Jefferson. Zeke may have been an overpayment, but being able to swap him in for Swift was huge. A big concern is Mitch Trubisky losing his job, meaning Out of Luck is back to having just one QB on the roster.

### 5. Henry VIII

Commish has always been a HockenSTAN and watching him go nuclear was a breath of fresh post-apocalyptic air. But it wasn't just HockenSZN. Hollywood, Hall, Jones and Herbert all stepped up to cover for Tua Tagovailoa's early exit. The best part of not being eliminated is not having to deal with the moral dilemma of wanting the best for Tua's health and also being pissed that he screwed me in a fake game for minimal money.

## On the Chopping Block

### 12. Muller Lite

The league's cockroach, Muller Lite refuses to get squished time and again. Lite is the walking wounded, with Renfrow, Chark, Thomas, Prescott, and Schultz all out in week four. Getting some of those guys back and winning a bid or two could shore up this squad, but Lawrence/Jones are volatile QBs with tough matchups in week five.

### 11. Bad Boys II - The Soundtrack

Nobody can deny that Bad Boys is doing stuff. Adding, dropping, trading, auctioning, starting, sitting. It'll really break your neck trying to follow it all. And at the end of the day he sits in 11th place with an average of 167.07 points a week. Surely he'll get better eventually, right? How can a person just move sideways in perpetuity?

### 10. Hasta Laviska Baby

If Hasta's strategy is to hope and pray he survives the first month of the season before making a single move...congrats, it paid off! But it's starting to get scary now for Da Baby. It's one thing to buy your time and then start gathering players late, but the problem is if you lose those bids in a crucial week and you haven't done anything to improve in September/early October, the margin for error is small.

### 9. The Guilloteam

A precipitous and dramatic fall for Guilloteam, who was Hurt by Jalen and burned by Burks. His bench exploded, which is a great sign for the future, but things got a little spooky ooky mid-day on Sunday.

### 8. Laser Rocket Arms

Lost Javonte Williams which is huge as he's already down Monty and there isn't a lot on the waivers this week for RB. Luckily he is about to get Robinson back whose pre-season hype has been enough to keep him on IR-spots across the fantasyverse. That likely won't help him in week 5 though...

## Average Scores of Eliminated Teams

Average Scores of Eliminated Teams
 It's Blitz! Track 2
 Bobecue Chicken
 CoachKnows

Executioner is averaging more points per game than four teams that are still alive. In fact, 177.11 is good enough to rank 5th on the 2021 season among the 18 eliminated teams. But that isn't how Headhunters rolls.

## Narrow Defeats

Margin of Defeat for Last Place Teams:

Margin of Defeat for Eliminated Teams
 It's Blitz! Track 2
 Bobecue Chicken
 The Executioner

## Rulers of the Kingdom

2022 first place finishers:

Top Scorers by Week
 2
 3
 4

## Dungeon Dwellers

2022 teams that finished second-to-last, narrowly avoiding elimination:

Low Scorers by Week
 2
 3
 4

## Single Season Scoring Records

As teams get eliminated, their single season performance will appear here.

Bobecue sets a weird record here. He becomes the first team to finish a season between 300-400 points.

## All-Time Combined Points Scored

Same as above: eliminated teams will have their 2022 season added to the total.

Enjoy this while it lasts, Executioner. He will lead this chart until CP or Guilloteam gets eliminated.