EDOTLOCCA's Corner: 2016.6 - Week 6

Good evening everybody! Or just adjust that greeting to suit whatever time of day you are reading, I cannot please everyone. As always, it has been an exciting week in the LOC, but we have an extra twist now with the suicide pool which has really hit full stride. Well, for most of us, 25% of the league has of course already crashed out. This news, whilst saddening for the coaches (failures) in question, is absolutely hilarious and makes me enjoy the suicide pool even more! But then, I can’t really laugh with the Tyrants dead in the water, swimming lessons are becoming an urgent requirement and if that fails, a defibrillator. There’s always this week, speaking of which…

Coaches Award

There were some close games this week! Very close! But were there any really big calls that made people win? Not so sure. However, there is one coach who has been on the radar for a while now and been unlucky not to win this award to date. Well, the wait is finally over, congratulations to Coach Stubbs Jr., highest scorer, biggest winner on the week and leading the league. But, the really key, more of his classic spot start heroes, Jordan Howard looks like a 1st round pick! This Gridiron Gang team is the one we have been due a while, look out.
Honourable mentions: Coach Leach and Coach Allen, you both won really tight games and deserve a mention. Well, here, have this honourable mention.

Wooden Spoon

Tough to award this one this week, lots of good coaching calls. But, if I had to pick, which I do, there was one call which stuck out to me. It was a bold decision and riding the hot hand is usually a good call, but when you lose by 1.02 points and you have you 3rd pick WR1 on the bench with a score that could have won it for you, ouch. Commiserations Coach Sherwood.

Bold predictions

Wrong, wrong, wrong, kind of half right, wrong and pretty close. Basically another week of 0-6 which leaves me a truly fantastic 1-23 on the season. But, lacking the cultural background or intellect to understand the concept of ‘flogging a dead horse’, I shall continue making bold predictions with vigour and enthusiasm! Here we go!

Patistan vs. Forge Flyers: Brian Hoyer a starting fantasy QB, what exciting times we live in people! My bets are he can’t keep up with a thoroughly pissed off Cam Newton, but he’ll give it a go as the two combine for 65 points.

IKNAN vs. Gridiron Gang: I am not sure if I have ever predicted a kicker-off before, so why the hell not. Two of the most reliable (and hardest to spell) kickers in the league put 15 points up apiece.

Bear Necessities vs. ADRZ: Le’Veon Bell is back, but he hasn’t broken out yet, that changes this week unfortunately for ADRZ, 180 yards and 2 TDs.

The Tuckfards vs. The (Brady??) Bunch: In a warmup for when they faceoff the following week, Big Ben and Brady put on an air show, 4 TDs each, but 3 of Brady’s go to Gronk… bittersweet.

The Dream Team vs. Burdettinators: Greg Olsen is going nuts already and if he gets Cam back a 25 point fantasy game is on the cards.

Tom’s Tyrants vs. Cash4Gould: Lamar Miller gets his first TD of the season (for reasoning see: Colts), but Elliott doubles anything the Texan musters.

And there you have it people, another fresh set of predictions, 1 part courage, 3 parts sheer optimism, no doubt a recipe for success! Looking forwards to the week ahead as always, onwards we go! Until next time.