By Ken Fletcher
Team of the Week: Poppycock United
I know you’re sitting there saying, “John?! John is your team of the week? Ken, YOU had the team of the week! You scored 83 points! That’s more than Kobe ever scored in a game.” Sure, of course, my team is pretty great, we all know that. I mean obviously I had a gameweek rank of 670, launching my overall rank just outside of the top 100k. Sometimes things just go your way. But our league is about Head To Head matchups, and in this case Poppy had a groundbreaking week. In probably the largest non-familial rivalry game in the league, Poppy did the unthinkable to defeat his opponent. He busted out the triple captain chip, and possibly changed the game forever. Sure common sense would say, “Hey, use the triple captain chip and/or the bench boost chip on double gameweeks, so you’ll end up with the largest score possible.” John took a dump all over that logic in a big wet way. He realized that his game against Jeff would come down to maybe 1 or 2 players (KDB vs Coutinho). He knows his opponent well enough to know exactly who he’d captain (Aguero) and took advantage of that knowledge. By playing the triple captain chip against a seemingly identical team, he all but assured himself a victory in the gameweek and redefined how everyone will look at their chips ever again. One, slight problem, he could only do that once. Good luck with the rest of your season John.
Worst Team of the Week – About Nothings
Sure Dethohol scored a low number, but the poor guy never stood a chance, so there’s no need to pile it on. Besides he’s already made 3 transfers this week, and half the league has midweek games to be played, so I’m sure he’ll be right back in the argument for gw7. The Muchados squad gets the honors for worst team of the week. And to be fair, the team they have isn’t even bad, they just all decided to blank at the same time. But in the end, there’s just really no excuse for losing to Randy. I mean it’s Randy. Didn’t he go -4 and still start Wanyama on purpose? Yes, yes he did.
Matchup of the Week
NaughtonthePienaar vs Muchados
Two teams tied for first in a head to head battle for sole possession of first place. I say that because no Sardar brother can beat Randy the league legend, so I’m predicting the winner of this matchup will be alone at the top of the table. Not a lot of healthy players separating these two teams, and this game may ultimately come down to which of their superstar players will recover from their respective minor injuries.
Fletchermetric Lines (Pre-Transfers)
Manchesthair -9 Dethohol
Floppers -2 4xMLS
Old Bits -2.5 Poppycock
Ramrod -4 Cathcartache
Pitch -3 TBD
DYB pk Haters
Team of the Week Prediction – Haters Gonna Hate/Downing Young Boys
Worst Team of the Week Prediction – Dethohol
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