The #1 South Park Cows are the league's best team.
The #2 Phoenix Uprising remain perennial contenders.
After that we have got a dozen teams that are all contending for a playoff spot. Nobody is hotter than #6 Pawnee, and nobody is free falling quite like #14 Mar-A-Lago, but nobody is out of it. Eight wins is the magic number for clinching a playoff spot, six games remain. Do the math and you see a path to the post season for every team.
The rest of the mock bracket lists contenders #3 Deputy, #4 Hill Valley, and #5 Orgrimmar. All three scored in the top four spots in at least one of their most recent two seasons. #7 Manitoba falls behind the playoff pace but sits over .500% alongside a resilient #8 Brew-Tang crew. The six teams behind them find themselves with losing records and a lot of work to do: Winning out would be ideal, but five of six would get it done with some big point totals. #9 Savannah and #10 Binghamton are best poised to make a run of it.
NOTE: Brew-Tang and Savannah are separated by just 1.07, so that matchup is likely to be decided by stat corrections. A reversal would likely push the Petes all the way up to the #6 seed, bouncing the Pride from their playoff spot, at least for the week.
SCOREBOARD:
Week 7 Matchups
POWER OUTPUT:
- HVM 258: The backend of this receiving corps has gotten very shaky recently, but the defense has swarmed. The loss of Kwon Alexander (ACL) will be felt, but can be weathered.
- SPC 254: The Cows continue to be better, smarter, more handsome than the Y! projections. A team so deep their 3rd and 5th round picks (Larry Fitz & Lamar Miller) are spare parts.
- PAW 239: It was too early to announce their WR group as consistently good, but Nick Chubb's ascendence gives them a terrific rookie backfield and RB depth priced to move.
- DVH 217: Another team with great RBs and a stellar D but little in the way of dependable wideouts, there's going to be an arms race to acquire available receivers.
- BIN 212: The defense got it done in this one; The return of G-Reg looked quiet until he scored a game winner. Could be the stash of the year given the dearth of quality at Tight End.
- BKB 199: Winning by 1 is precarious- if they hold the lead it will continue their pattern of alternating wins and losses. They'll need to string a few together to make their first ever dance.
- ORG 199: Tough luck losers in week 7, the Horde take on the McFlys next, the fourth (of four) teams ahead of them, stacked in weeks 4, 5, 7, and 8. Back of the schedule looks exploitable.
- SAV 198: If the loss stands, it will be the Petes' third loss by less by a single digit margin. The team's skill players continue to dazzle- they just cannot get the results they want!
- PHX 190: Winning lucky is better than losing good, but the Uprising have done it with smoke, mirrors, and an excessively easy schedule to date.
- HCM 179: This offense is good enough to suffer Gronk's back spasms or a down week at RB, but the defense has just been deplorable. 4-6 IDPs have scored single digits every single week.
- MMC 156: The Crew crash land with back to back clunkers on the shoulders of Deshaun Watson. The Running back situation looks dire in the near immediate future.
- PRH 155: A truly pathetic performance by their WR group with four players combining to score 10.5 total points. The team does have three credible RBs to deal from but... yikes.
- MAL 141: The team has two very good quarterback options, which is frustrating since only one can play in any given week. With Rivers on bye, Wentz will try to stop the bleeding.
- NYF 132: The Finest had no shot in this one, even if they did play Trubinsky. The defense is on life support and will look to turn it around without Julio in week 8... he's on bye.
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