Investing & Maybe Fantasy Baseball

Week 8 Tight End Results

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Byes: Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans

The Actual Rankings are based my scoring primer. It basically follows ESPNs standard scoring but uses fractional points and slightly devalues passing touchdowns.

I’ve been saying since the inception of my blog, but I’ll say it again, Jermichael Finley should be dropped in any league with 14 owners or less.

In PPR leagues Jason Witten is the number 2 ranked tight end the rest of the year. Despite missing one game (I don’t count the first game of the year) he leads the team in targets with 72. In standard leagues he’s my number 3 tight end with Gronk and Tony Gonzalez as my top 2.

Week 8 Quarterback Results

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Byes: Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans

The Actual Rankings are based my scoring primer. It basically follows ESPNs standard scoring but uses fractional points and slightly devalues passing touchdowns.

Matthew Stafford had the best fantasy week with 352 yards and 3 touchdowns. He’s averaging 18 fantasy points per game. The takeaway is Stafford will be a top 10 quarterback the rest of the year. However, if his supporting cast continues to step up (like they did against the Seahwaks) he can be a top 5-6 quarterback. Another food for thought, how good could this offense be if they had any semblance of a running game.

Matt Hasselbeck finished the week as the 14 fantasy quarterback, exactly where I predicted. Jake Locker appears he will be healthy for Sunday’s game against Chicago. So you can drop him because Locker should be the main man moving forward.

Jay Cutler isn’t playing well. I thought this was a great chance for Cutler to have a solid fantasy day, but he looked awful. It doesn’t help he was constantly under duress (sacked 6 times) behind an extremely suspect offensive line.

Philip Rivers stunk. His offensive line doesn’t give him a lot of time, the wide receivers can’t get open, but that doesn’t mean Rivers is not partially to blame. He missed on a few open receivers and he made poor decisions. At best, he’s a top 20 quaterback.

Josh Freeman did not perform as well as stat line (on Sunday) suggests. He benefited greatly from a 64 yard dump off (for a touchdown) to Doug Martin. If you take that away he only throws for 200 yards with 51% completion percentage. Like Rivers, he wasn’t accurate with most of his passes. I’m still not buying the hype he is a a top 15 quarterback.

Week 8 Defense/Special Teams Results

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Byes: Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans

The Actual Rankings are based my scoring primer. It basically follows ESPNs standard scoring but uses fractional points and slightly devalues passing touchdowns.

The underrated Miami Dolphins Defense finished as the number one ranked fantasy defense. I had them ranked the highest at 6. I would have ranked them higher but Mark Sanchez had played quite well in the three previous games so I didn’t expect a monster day. For the last four weeks they’re averaging 12.25 points per game. Couple that with games against the Colts, Titans, Bills and Seahawks the next four weeks this make them a sneaky defense pickup.

The Seattle Seahawks had an extremely disappointing week against the Lions. The Seahawks game plan was simple, take away Calvin Johnson and make the other wide receivers beat them. What was most concerning was the Lions converted on 75% of 3rd downs (12 out of 16). I’m not ready to jump off the bandwagon. They’re still a top 5 defense.