2009 DIS Unplugged Super Bowl champs ibleedblue/NO CLUE CREW (update #31)

[doconeill]

I have been remiss...I haven't posted who our managers are in the second DIS Unplugged Fantasy Football League, and the NFL season starts tomorrow night!

We are keeping it as two "conferences", competing separately until the last week of the season where the two conference champions compete against each other. Most teams returned, but due to some attrition and not having managers play in both conferences we added a few new teams to the league, and some teams changed names. The teams were roughly randomly assigned between the conferences.

This year's Magic Kingdom Conference:

Mushu Maniacs (Alztybrn) - 2008 League Champion
ESPN Club (Paging Tom Morrow) - 2008 Runner Up
Reedy Creek Smoke Eaters (newtodis)
Wheezy's Warriors (Twheezy)
Tink's Hammer (phoenixblue) - New manager
Donald's Pants (BostonRob)
Fatphil Fanatics (Fatphil32)
Magic Knights (lawsonsontour) - Rookie Of The Year
Philly Soarin' (disneydaveb)
Jungle Cruise Skippers (doconeill)
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (klam_chowder)
No Clue Crew (ibleedblue) - New manager

EPCOT Center Conference:

T-I-double-guh-err (Dark Helmet)
Pete's Rant (LuccaDrake) - New manager, and nominee for best team name...
Brother Bears (aaronmckie)
Disney Chiefs (Janitor Beans)
Pluto's Revenge (Splat25)
Team DoleWhips (DSWalczak)
Doom Buggy (Poopachino) - New manager
Plutes Cowboys (Mr. Plutes)
Carousel of Doom (flyingcat2003)
Mr. Toad Rides Again (stitchlover) - New manager
Boardwalk Buskers (shaq_d)
Grumpy Dopey (The Grumpus)

Let's hope for a fun an exciting season, and that Tom Brady lasts more than 3 minutes...

You can follow all the action in the links in my signature...

 

[Mr. Plutes]

I just hope I'm over 500 this year lol.
Goodluck everyone!!!

 

[flyingcat2003]

And so it begins!

 

[stitchlover]

I'm ready for some football! Looking forward to the first game this week...hoping I don't get my butt kicked but still looking forward to the game.

 

[doconeill]

Forgive if I don't give those long week-by-week evaluations as much this season...I have soccer practice Tuesday evenings. You know...that thing that was called football before football?

True quote from another football draft I was in:

"And Romo doesn't have a girlfriend to distract him this season."

"Jason Witten doesn't count?"

And Romo's ex - Owens, not Simpson - only went 2-for-46 and faces a life in the Arctic-er, Buffalo.

Well, Brady lasted more than 8 minutes this time. And it only took half that to beat the Bills. But several bells got rung out there...McNabb broke a rib, Urlacher's out for the season, and Carolina pulled their starting QB (Delhomme, who got a whopping -8 points) to watch their BACKUP McCown get hurt.

Overall, it was a strange, strange weekend for football. Clutch kickers missing, some volleyball, some rugby...anyone could have won this weekend - well, maybe except for Detroit and St. Louis.

Never mind that Detroit is starting a rookie QB, and the fact that they are Detroit. What can you do against someone like Drew Brees and his 6 touchdowns? Well, then again, maybe he only got that because it WAS Detroit - but he's gonna be HUGE again this season.

And seriously...the Philly D/ST being the third top points scorer?!?

Enough...the results...first the Magic Kingdom Conference:

Yours truly the Jungle Cruise Skippers (doconeill) took High Points this week with 115, led by of all things a tight end (John Carlson, SEA, 21)

On the low end of the scale, and I'm kind of shocked to say this...ESPN Club (Paging Tom Morrow)! Single digits across the board, topping out at a measly 55, losing to newcomer Tink's Hammer (phoenixblue). Guess the #1 spot in the draft doesn't always work out...

Even returning DIS Unplugged Champion Mushu Maniacs (Alztybrn) lost to Reedy Creek Smoke Eaters (newtodis), 86-66.

Over in the EPCOT Center Conference, Boardwalk Buskers (shaq_d) ran away with 137 points to win over Team DoleWhips (DSWalczak) (60). Of course, having both Adrian Peterson (37) and the Eagles DST (35) helps. Just those two would have won.

But 60 wasn't the lowest - both T-I-double-guh-err (Dark Helmet) and Pluto's Revenge (Splat25) tied for low with 59.

But its a long season...

 

[klam_chowder]

Thx a mint for the fab recap, commish!

cheers,

 

[doconeill]

Wow.

Just...wow.

Sure it's early, but I'm not sure just what teams are good, and what teams are doormats this season. And then it seems like everyone who scores big also leaves the game early with something busted, bruised or battered. I can't make any decisions on filling out my bye week free agent replacements because it changes every week.

Top 3 players points wise this week:

45 Chris Johnson, RB TEN
35 Frank Gore, RB SF
30 Matt Schaub, QB HOU

Not exactly on the "most coveted" list of Tier 1 players, but they are making a case for themselves now. THey never came remotely close to that when they were on any of MY teams...

Everyone who started one of these guys won. Interestingly, Matt Schaub is a free agent in the ECC, having been drafted and dropped. The Reedy Creek Smoke Eaters in the MKC had both Johnson AND Gore, and turned in a whopping 162 points for high score not just in the combined league, but I think set some sort of record! He beat up the poor Wheezy's Warriors 162-71. And that wasn't his highest possible score either!

I thought yours truly would go from first to worst with low points except for a late surge from kicker Tynes, leaving the poor ESPN Club to take low points losing to the No Clue Crew, 95-52, thanks in part to the Cowboys DST managing a -4. So much for the #1 draft position, as the resident expert starts the season in the hole 0-2.

In the ECC, high score was taken by Brother Bears with Chris Johnson's help, beating the low score recipient T-I-double-guh-err 135-53.

Next weeks high scorers, sent to me by Madame Leota:

David Garrard, Thomas Jones, Steve Smith (NYG)

 

[flyingcat2003]

Nice recap.

 

[klam_chowder]

Nice recap.

I totally agree

...especially since he didn't mention how I got denied ...again

cheers,

 

[stitchlover]

Hey...I didn't suck this week. YEAH!

 

[doconeill]

It's up. It's down. It's up again.

It's the roulette wheel of Fantasy football.

Instead of Matt Schaub throwing for tons of touchdowns this week (although he got a respectable number of points this week), Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, and Kevin Kolb(!!!) did.

Instead of Chris Johnson and Frank Gore (who is now out for several weeks) running for touchdowns, it was Maurice Jones-Drew (7 points in week 2) and Pierre Thomas (zero points until this week, and giving Drew Brees' arm the weekend off, much to the chagrin of his owners).

In the MKC, last week's low points winner yours truly the Jungle Cruise Skippers returned to their first week high points glory, winning 117-72 over previously unbeaten Philly Soarin'. With ESPN Club finally getting out of the cellar (or would that be the utilidors?), beating Fatphil Fanatics 97-56, that leaves Reedy Creek Smoke Eaters as the only unbeaten team, despite getting a measly 67 points, enough to beat this weeks low points winner Magic Knights 67-53.

We also scored our first Rookie Fodder award, with Donald's Pants losing to redshirt rookie (klam was a rookie last year, but we don't have another rookie in the MKC) Big Thunder Mtn Railroad 92-74.

In the ECC, Mr. Toad Rides Again gets a triple whammy, setting previously undefeated Carousel of Doom off its axis 117-42, with Mr. Toad taking high points and CoD getting both low points AND the Rookie Fodder award...ouch! The Carousel may be listed as "seasonal" next week...

Boardwalk Buskers and Disney Chiefs remain the undefeateds in the ECC.

I asked Madame Leota about this weeks top scorers, and she only responded "How the heck should I know?!? Go ring some bells...". So while at the Christmas Carol Train Tour, I spoke with Jacob Marley's ghost. Unfortunately he could only tell me that Manchester United and Arsenal are good picks, while Chelsea v. Liverpool will be close. So I went to Everest and had a discussion with Betty the Yeti about a number of things (she's still feeling a little stiff), but she likes(*) Mike Sims-Walker, the 49ers, and thinks Jason Campbell with either score big - or a big fat zero...

* Disclaimer: Past predictions are not indicative of future results. In fact, past predictions probably indicate a complete inability to predict anything. It's what you get from ghosts and mythical creatures. What do they care? Can't be trusted.

 

[klam_chowder]

Love the recap, commish!

Mr. Toad Rides Again - nice job

Does anyone in the league track the Dis FFL scoreboard on their iPhone while watching the games? It loaded fine but I have to keep reloading the page to get the scores updated. On my PC, it automatically updates like advertised...any suggestions on how to get it done on the iPhone?

cheers,

 

[flyingcat2003]

Oh the pain , please make it stop..

 

[doconeill]

Who would have expected two touchdowns from the Saints Defense this week? Apparently Carousel Of Doom, who may have had the waiver wire pick of the week this week - except there was the 49ers defense (a Betty The Yeti pick, by the way) who scored THREE touchdowns and 39 points. And the team in the ECC to pick them up was Pluto's Revenge...who was against Carousel Of Doom, beating them 139-86 to take High Points in the ECC.

And in the MKC, the 49ers were picked up by Donald's Pants, who needed those points to beat ESPN Club 111-73 to take home a Dragonslayer award...but High Points went to Tink's Hammer, taking down the last of the undefeateds, Reedy Creek Smoke Eaters 118-74.

(Speaking of Betty's picks for the week:

49ers DST: 39
Mike Sims-Walker: 21
Jason Campbell: 8

Those three alone would have beat 3 teams in the MKC and 4 in the ECC. She'll have her own ESPN Insider column soon...)

ESPN Club also has to earn our first Benchwarmer award of the season, since Rashard Mendenhall apparently found his playbook between the couch cushions last week and churned out 30 points on the bench,compared to LaDanian Tomlinson's Big Uno.

Low points were close but Big Thunder Mountain Railroad managed only 52 points despite having Tom Brady with 19 points.

With no undefeated teams in the MKC, it currently has 4 teams at 3-1 and 5 at 2-2...pretty tight so far.

To round out the ECC, Low Points went to the poor Grumpy Dopey, who like BTMR had Tom Brady but could only muster 47 points. GD also takes the Benchwarmer award, having 50 points on the bench, 48 of which would comprise a valid lineup that would have beat his 8 starters. I was torn with two other contenders - Disney Chiefs had Mendenhall on the bench, but Brother Bears was tougher - 71 points on the bench vs. 58 active, although 83 came from three QBs, while the active QB was on a bye week. But I couldn't give it to BB because even David Garrard's 25 points would not have won the match. I feel bad for kicking a dwarf when he's down though, since GD hasn't been able to scratch together a win yet.

Joining GD down at the bottom of the league is Team DoleWhips, who get a Rookie Fodder award for losing to Mr. Toad Rides Again, 87-71.

Also, with Boardwalk Buskers losing their first match to T-I-double-guh-err 101-92, that leaves the Disney Chiefs alone at the top at 4-0, with 2 teams at 3-1 and 6 at 2 and 2...

I'd tell you Betty's picks for next week, but I need them for myself...

 

[doconeill]

So, if you had Mike Sims-Walker on your team, you learned far too late that he got mad about DVC no longer covering valet parking fees and apparently complained too loudly and was benched, giving you a big fat ZERO (and pretty much the entire Jacksonville team did similar)...so hopefully your teams were strong enough to deal with that (in the DIS leagues, both teams were. Not so for my team in my work league )

And if you were prescient enough to pick up Miles Austin (37 points) and play him this week, you would hopefully have won your week and be declared The Great Wizard Of Fantasy Football. I don't know ANYONE who did that though...so Roddy White's measly 33 points was tops for players this week, but there were a lot of top notch results across the board.

Tops of the MKC board this week were the Fatphil Fanatics with 139 points, beating early conference leader Reedy Creek Smoke Eaters (139-73), giving the RC their second straight loss, and leaving Philly Soarin' and Mushu Maniacs atop the leaderboard. And the kicker? He had no kicker! (FYI, teams, please make sure you are paying attention to bye weeks...)

Speaking of pork, the Maniacs returned the ESPN Club to their measly point-losing ways, winning 105-55 and giving the Club their third low-points award in 5 weeks, and earning a Dragonslayer award. I might have to retire the award at this point...playing the Jacksonville defense (-6) this weekend would do that to you though.

And a special shout out to Wheezy's Warriors, for managing to beat the Jungle Cruise Skippers 85-75 and earning their first win, so the MKC no longer has a winless team!

Not so in the ECC, as Team Dolewhips (loss to T-I-double-guh-err, 68-55) and Grumpy Dopey (lost to Roddy White - I mean, Carousel Of Doom, 105-74) continue to struggle for their first win. But neither got low points as Pete's Rant apparently left for Australia as soon as Pete returned, and managed only 39 points having left two bye week players in place - and was up against the high points winner Pluto's Revenge, 113-39.

A bit of a double whammy is that lone remaining undefeated team Disney Chiefs lost their first match this week, but did so to the roaring rookie Mr. Toad Rides Again (112-75), taking down their third successive victim!!! Disney Chiefs still is at the top of the ECC at 4-1, but there are no less than EIGHT TEAMS nipping away at 3-2!

It looks like both conferences are still anyone's to win!

 

[doconeill]

Wow...first, Drew Brees shows that the Giants aren't really all that, throwing for 4 TDs, while the Packers showed the Lions that they really are that bad. Then someone peed in Belichick's Gatorade and he had Brady pick apart the Titans defense like they were picked out of the stands for a practice session and realized just how cold it actually was.

At the other end of the spectrum, the Eagles got shocked by the Raiders, and Hasselbeck threw up a great big goose egg in what should have been a "favorable matchup" against the second-worst pass defense in the Arizona Cardinals (the DST and TE Carlson had the most points for Seattle players at 5). Hope you weren't depending on Seattle for a win...

5 players had 30+ points this week: Brady (39 - and that seems low...), Jones-Drew (33), Randy Moss, Drew Brees, and Ray Rice (all 30).

Anyways, lets talk about the EPCOT Center Conference first for a change...

Grumpy Dopey not only gets their first win this season, but does so on the back of Tom Brady and takes high points with a 120-54 win over Mr. Toad Rides Again (the low points scorer), stopping the rookie's winning streak at 3.

And former conference leader Disney Chiefs suffered another loss, dropping to 4-2 and is now in a 5-way tie for first...

Over in he Magic Kingdom Conference, high points went to the Tom Brady-bearing (notice the pattern?) Big Thunder Mountain Railroad with a 132-93 win over Fatphil Fanatics. Low points this week wasn't a really low score, but Mushu Maniacs lost to Jungle Cruise Skippers 102-76 thanks to the aforementioned Jones-Drew and Rice, and despite Hasselbeck...this dropped the former conference leader back into a 4 way tie at 4-2. In fact, there are also 4 teams at 3-3, and 4 teams at 2-4 - a pretty tight leaderboard.

And I have to give the Bench Warmer award to the Magic Knights, whose manager must have been the only guy in all of England screaming as the numbers came in and he realized Drew Brees was on the bench...

 

[stitchlover]

Mr. Toad Rides Again here...this past weekend SUCKED! Hope to have a better score this week. Still licking my wounds in a corner.

 

[doconeill]

I'm sure our British brethren enjoyed our example of the dichotomy that is the NFL...the handleful of truly awful teams, and the handful of teams that pummel them into oblivion. Except Bill Belichick was actually smiling in the days before the game, so I guess he wasn't totally POd at someone and kept the score "reasonable". I tended to giggle at all the historical asides about Wembley Stadium hosting the Olympics, the World Cup finals, etc. considering that they actually tore down that stadium (as beautiful as it was), and built a whole new one in its spot. I never visited the old stadium, but I remember going past it taking the Metropolitan Underground line from my relatives house in Ruislip into London to do our sightseeing. I'm sad now that I didn't get a chance to see a game there. Hopefully I can make it to Anfield before it is gone too...

And I'd just like to point out that lawsonsontour talked flyingcat2003 and myself into doing a English Premiere League fantasy league...and guess who's ahead of lawsonsontour...

The ECC no longer has a winless team! Team DoleWhips finally has a 1 in the win column after winning a close match against Pete's Rant, 96-93. Of course, this was helped by Pete's Rant leaving Nate Washington in the lineup on a bye week...

High score this week goes to the Boardwalk Buskers, stopping Grumpy Dopey's longest winning streak at 1 129-73, while rookie Mr. Toad Rides Again gives the Brother Bears the double whammy - the Rookie Fodder award and Low Points, beating them 70-44.

With wins this week, Pluto's Revenge and Plutes Cowboys now are at the top of the pack at 5-2, but there 7 teams right behind them...

Over in the MKC Donald's Pants demolished the No Clue Crew 145-80 for High Points, while defending champion Mushu Maniacs dropped their second straight and third overall to Tink's Hammer 75-69 for Low Points, and Tink's Hammer now shares first place with Philly Soarin', but the MKC remains pretty tight overall.

I do want to give out one Bench Warmer award this week to Wheezy's Warriors. Now normally, anyone who leaves a TE on the bench who gets 27 points in a week (Vernon Davis), when 10 points is a really good game for a TE, would earn it. But the Warriors also had Owen Daniels who still earned 18 points. But with the Steelers DST (21 points) on the bench in favor of the Raiders DST (?!?), who earned -6...well, 'nuff said...

 

[doconeill]

I like the headline on ESPN.com today - GM loss hard on Mangini. Yeah, maybe because he's next? We're halfway through the season, and I'm sure the break-up lines are being discussed in several corners - "Sorry, you're a great guy and all, but we think we need to go in a different direction...", "We need a change...", "You're not getting paid any more. Get out."

Interesting match of the week - Maurice Jones-Drew vs. Chris Johnson. First, MJD runs for a 80 yard TD, and then after resting at halftime came back and ran for a 79 yard TD. Apparently Chris Johnson felt he could do better, and se he ran 52 and 89 yard TDs, and topped MJD in total yardage 228-177 (although he had a lot more carries - 24 - to MJD's 8). No surprise they were the #1 and #3 scorers. What is surprising is that #2 is Ryan Moats, who only touched the ball in one game prior to this this season.

Speaking of MJD vs. CJ, they figured prominently in the ECC match-up between conference leading Plutes Cowboys vs. Brother Bears, with the Cowboys (with MJD) beating the Bears (with CJ) 107-84 and taking High Points and is alone at the top, now that rival Pluto's Revenge fell to Mr. Toad Rides Again 79-39 and earning both Low Points and the Rookie Fodder award, sliding into a 4-way tie for second place.

In the MKC, High Points went for the third time this season to the Jungle Cruise Skippers, beating the Fatphil Fanatics 133-82.

Low points was interesting - going in to Monday night, the Magic Knights had all of 9 points and a practical lock on the award - but between Drew Brees and Jeremy Shockey managed to scrounge to 32 points (against ESPN Club's 95), moving into a low-points tie with Wheezy's Warriors, who lost to Philly Soarin' 74-32).

The MKC is still led by Philly Soarin' and Tink's Hammer at 6-2, but the Skippers are keeping pace at 5-3 while 6 other teams are at 4-4.

 

[doconeill]

Who'da thunk that Larry Johnson would be gone faster than Eric Mangini? He's been a fantasy pain for a couple seasons now, but now he's made a lot of roster decisions easier for people. It will remain to be seen if some team wants to take a chance.

Kudos to Kurt Warner for getting 5 TDs, one of which he threw AFTER he was benched to give him a break while Leinart proved why he's playing second fiddle to the old man.

The Magic Kingdom Conference is back to a three-way tie for first, with both Philly Soarin' and Tink's Hammer dropping their respective matches while the Jungle Cruise Skippers continued their win streak, with all three teams at 6-3.

Tink's Hammer got, well, hammered by Donald's Pants this week 145-68, with the Pants getting High Score for the week. And although last year's Rookie Grudge Match between the Magic Knights and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ended with the rather low total of 56-53 in favor of the Knights, those were actually the third and fourth lowest scores with the honor of lowest went to Fatphil Fanatics with a whopping 33, thanks to leaving 3 players on bye week in the active lineup...

I was torn on the Benchwarmer award this week...Wheezy's Warriors had Kurt Warner on bench (30 points) in favor of Joe Flacco (3), but the Warriors won their match (and just barely won a Dragonslayer award, beating ESPN Club 112-91)...but Philly Soarin' put up only 46 points while the bench scored 89 - including 25 points from TE Greg Olsen while Visanthe Shiancoe, on a bye week, was left in.

Over in the EPCOT Center Conference, Plutes Cowboys continues their solo ride at the top at 7-2 with the Boardwalk Buskers alone in second place a game behind.

High points this week went to T-I-double-guh-err for their win over Mr. Toad Rides Again, 107-97, despite Mr. Toad having the top two scorers this week (Warner and Michael Turner).

Low Points went to the 45 points of Brother Bears, due to three bye players and one injured player left active.

Hmm...does the Commish have to come knocking? Or is everyone down at Disney this week?

Just 4 weeks left in the regular season!!!!