Headhunters 4: The Fine Nine

## Introduction

One play dooms Muller Lite in a week where Bad Boys asserted himself as one of the biggest heels in league history.

## In Memorium: Muller Lite

Like a cockroach beneath my boot, I felt myself constantly asking how this thing could possibly still be alive. And yet, for nearly a year Muller Lite would not go down. And despite being one of the league's worst teams it still took Wildcat working a deal in the final hour to knock Muller Lite out of the game.

When the 1pm window started and Wildcat had an inactive TE on the active roster, it seemed like destiny that he was going home. But no QBs no problem turned into no TE no problem when he worked out an emergency deal with Bad Boys that sent the bye week Ekeler to Soundtrack in exchange for Stefon Diggs. And it worked, Diggsing him out of a huge hole on Sunday night. It's one of those trades that looks like collusion, smells like collusion, talks and walks and acts like collusion, but sort of isn't? Bad Boys gets a stud RB and a solid WR2 in Mike Williams, once Williams returns from injury. And Wildcat gets Diggs and also survives. I guess ultimately, this is Headhunters and sometimes you gotta snake your way from week to week.

End of the day, it was Muller Lite fighting for his Muller Life on Monday night football against burrow for sure-oh. Burrow had Burrow (of course), Chubb, and Tee Higgins going but needed a lot of points to get it done and make it to next week. With Burrow getting shut down all game, it was looking good for Muller to somehow survive another week. That was until a 4th quarter, garbage time, heave it and see what happens throw from Burrow to Higgins that resulted in a 41-yard TD.

Muller had a problem with his QB2 all year, flip flipping between starting Jones, hating Jones, benching Jones, learning to love Jones and starting him again. But alas, he chose poorly this week and would still have been alive if he'd put his faith in the New York Jets. As a Jets fan, it is sort of poetic that the actions of another Jets fan eliminated him while a Jets QB on his bench could have saved him.

Ultimately, Muller Lite the manager probably deserved to survive another week, but Muller Lite the team should have been dead weeks ago.

Muller Lite:

## Dead Money

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

Dead Money 2022

## New Releases

Is this the worst team to ever make it eight weeks in Headhunters history?

1. George Kittle
2. Leonard Fournette
3. Tyler Lockett
4. Chris Godwin
5. Najee Harris

## Week Eight Bidding Results

#### Quick-Hit Thoughts

* Jared upgrading from Baile Zappe to Patrick Mahomes is possibly the biggest glow up the league has ever seen.
* In a hilarious twist of fate, Bad Boys wins all-pro Mark Andrews only for Kyle Pitts to finally have his first decent fantasy day of the season.
* Gotta give props to Bad Boys for a perfect bid to win Mandrews though. He outbid Jared by just $3.

## Money Spent Per Week

A typically strong week throughout league history, probably because week 8 is the first time a really strong team gets cut while people also still have a lot of money left. After that, things tend to drop in price.

## Week Eight Results

* Biggest Climber: deCaPitated (^4)
* Biggest Faller: Beach McBungalow (v8)

## 2022 Draft Dodgers

This is the latest all of the top four drafting teams are still alive.

## Kings of the Castle

### 1. Bad Boys II - The Soundtrack

They don't call him the bad boy of Headhunters for nothing. Last year he joined forces with his cousin. This year, he's saving his friends by stealing their most prized assets. Now, he has a team that may not be beatable until the final four at the earliest. Kamara/Etienne/Ekeler at RB. Hill/Hopkins/Chase eventually at WR. Mandrews at TE. But there is a missing scale in the side of this dragon. QB. Stafford and Heinicke will be starting on Championship week.

### 2. Henry VIII

This team plays well every week and still leads the league in scoring, but projection-wise Yahoo doesn't particularly appreciate this roster and it does at times give off real ticking time-bomb energy. Like at any moment these guys could all just suck the same week and this team is done.

### 3. Laser Rocket Arms

A good combined effort this week with only Brian RobbedAtGunPointinson the only player below 12 points on the entire starting roster (and one of only two players under 10 on the whole roster). With their best player at each position through with their byes, Laser can now use his leftover funds to build out the flex spots and bolster his bench for the final push.

### 4. Hasta Laviska Baby

Finally decided to spend some money but very little return on investment in week 8. At one point Hasta was projected to go home and my Twitter fingers were already stretched out and ready for action. But alas, another week, and he gets stronger with Mahomes set to premiere in week nine coming off the bye.

### 5. deCaPitated

Lamar hasn't beaten his projection since week 3, but Jalen Hurts sure has. Together, this makes for the nastiest tandem currently starting in Headhunters. Let us not forget that two weeks ago this team was bailed out by a non-elimination spin of the Wheel of Fate. What they do from here on out is Young Gravy.

## On the Chopping Block

### 9. Beach McBungalow

Big drop. Would have been eliminated this week if Muller had started Zach Wilson, that's how close he came. Mid-week he pulled off a blockbuster trade that has since been overshadowed by KVR, sending Kenneth Walker and Davis Mills to burrow in exchange for Davante Adams. Adams promptly rewarded Beach by having maybe the worst fantasy day of his career. Lucky for him he was once again carried by the most unlikely of heroes: Kirky and the Red Rifle.

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

Who can say for sure why Wildcat started Darren Waller, but the bottom line is he made money moves to save himself and he lives to die another die hopefully soon. He was a victim of all his players doing reasonably well but nobody popping off a 50-pointer like maybe of the teams above him had. It's that time of season in Headhunters when you need people blowing up or you could go home, even on a decent day.

### 7. burrow for sure-oh

Sweet Dee had to wait a little longer than usual to find out if she was safe. In fact, I'm sure that she didn't know until she woke up Tuesday morning. 43% of her team's points came on Monday Night Football and most of that came on one play. Kenneth Walker had an okay day on his new team, while Dvis Mills can likely be dropped at the first sign of a real QB.

### 6. Out of Luck

Stuck with Jared Scoff and it paid Goff this week as he was back tossing the ball all over the place to the tune of 35 points. Kyler, meanwhile, also had a big fantasy day. Both play on teams that are always behind which makes them great fantasy assets, but each is capable of a dud and it would be a shame if that came all at once. Speaking of duds: Wan'Dale and Higbee were letdowns this week. Just saying.

## Rulers of the Kingdom

2022 first place finishers:

 We finally have a repeat first place finisher and it's Bad Boys coming in with one of the best scores in league history.

## Dungeon Dwellers

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

 Makes sense that we would lose Muller Lite after two second-to-last finishes. But the 187 from McBungalow this week is a little scary since it means the level of competition is really ramping up.

## Single Season Scoring Records

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

Despite surviving an extra week, Muller Lite only outscores last week's eliminated team by 51 points.

## All-Time Combined Points Scored

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

## Remaining Budget

Still some big money out there but we've seen the last player go for over $500 this season for sure. Should be interesting to see what happens with so little on waivers this week.

## Conclusion

Just a quick reminder that we will not have a writeup next week. We will have an elimination though. We will also not have an elimination in week 10 but instead the last place team will lose 10% of their remaining budget. HAPPY HUNTING Y'ALL!