Don’t worry about the week 8 podcast because Austin and Justin are back this week with an EXTENDED episode. We discuss fantasy and real trade deadlines, quarterback fallout, the greatest Marvel movie of all time, and of course… the power rankings.
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I’ve finally built a scraper to player data from the ESPN site so we can finally look at who’s started what players the most, who’s scoring the most out of the WR/TE slot, who’s scored the least amount of QB points; the skies the limit. You can check out the data yourself for the first breakdown and then check out my notes below. These are the average amount of points started in each roster spot. (*Note that this is by the roster slot not the position)
| QB | RB | RB/WR | WR | WR/TE | TE | D/ST | Bench | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFB | 14.54 | 17.48 | 14.76 | 7.62 | 7.48 | 9.14 | 6.23 | 7.42 |
| ATOM | 20.31 | 12.23 | 5.89 | 7.82 | 8.78 | 3.67 | 8.17 | 2.77 |
| BUTT | 14.7 | 16.53 | 13.29 | 11.54 | 8.25 | 8.14 | 14.71 | 5.54 |
| DMPS | 21.5 | 11.2 | 10.36 | 12.23 | 5.74 | 7.64 | 9.43 | 5.31 |
| FLUF | 19.88 | 9.21 | 8.09 | 7.59 | 8.91 | 10.73 | 6.96 | 5.08 |
| MEGA | 18.34 | 9.67 | 12.04 | 6.89 | 6.94 | 7.1 | 8.33 | 7.11 |
| NIBB | 15.96 | 6.93 | 8.63 | 11.6 | 9.75 | 11.95 | 6.95 | 7.3 |
| OCTO | 15.66 | 14.84 | 9.81 | 12.69 | 12.24 | 12.39 | 7.96 | 5.3 |
| PHSH | 14.1 | 14.07 | 9.33 | 10.03 | 8.93 | 12.79 | 10.45 | 5.99 |
| ROBO | 15.35 | 13.96 | 7.06 | 9.14 | 8.73 | 4.45 | 9.74 | 4.83 |
| SHSR | 19.94 | 10.06 | 10.3 | 12.1 | 14.29 | 6.58 | 10.86 | 5.72 |
| TGIF | 21.78 | 8.65 | 9.75 | 9.29 | 11.33 | 6.54 | 6.29 | 11.41 |
| League Average | 17.67 | 12.07 | 9.94 | 9.88 | 9.32 | 8.47 | 8.85 | 6.15 |
Let’s look at the best and worse teams at each position:
Boomers are back in the MotW after their win performance last week. They’ve been dominating over the last three weeks, rattling off three wins in a row and averaging 120.27 per game. On the other side of the match-up we have the #2 ranked team Butthole Surfers, a team that hasn’t necessarily been struggling, but has failed to meet expectations for three weeks in a row.
These teams have met twice in the 2016 season, with the Surfers edging out a victory by less than 12 points in both contests.
The PWR system pretty heavily favors the Surfers in this match-up, though they haven’t outscored the Boomers since week 4. What PWR also doesn’t know is that the Surfers will be without one of their top scorers, Todd Gurley. The player projections have the Boomers favored, led by a trio of running backs projected to score 50 points just between the three of them. The Surfers will have the edge at wide receiver with Lee and Brown on bye, while their tight end’s are nearly a wash. With nearly all of Boomers players slated to play at 10AM, the Surfers will have a good idea of what they’re up against pretty early.
Final Prediction:
Who do you think will win? Make sure to leave a comment and vote on the game.
More questions from the PWR machine:
Danny Woodhead going down in flames, at least you haven’t bailed out like Austin did last year. Will Power rankings be coming? I know this isn’t the preferred method of contact but whatevz -The Toilet Bowl Trophy
Dear Bo Knows, After my late season surge last year I was growing stronger. Told them to not listen to me, I’m dragging on like the weekly power rankings. Well, when you’re a start…you can do anything. -Atoms
Dear Bo Knows, Last week I found myself lost in the gutter. But those days are long gone. A light has appeared, battling away the darkness. First came one win, then came another, and along with it, the Ni-BLOW-nians are gonna totally wipe out in week two. Surfers Rule!
Giant Octopus…more like Giant Octosuck. -Justin
Is Austin really out of Robo Unicorn. Shitty and Puma are no longer undefeated. No one can escape the predictions of what shall happen in the previous 6 seasons. Thoughts?
Who’s team is the name of the Bo Bowl. Brady will be back to bite me in disgust. He is a huge wuss -Brett
It is I, Bostradamus. Here I am great and powerful. I am a Bo monument from the league?
I like the weekly power rankings. I imagine many of your moms, so then I can go on all day.
What do you consider your fantasy rival? I considered ashley to be a balance in all things, a counter to the rest of us.
Justin, how does it take to make it into the water of fantasy, and victories in fantasy, and a real contender? #7-9 #mediocre
Dear Fluffy, im gonna rolly, light and sound, an assault on the Podcast: he needs to be the MotW
Who’s team is one of the week, Mega Shark has tasted blood, and who’s afraid of the Bo Bowl. Brady wil be back to attempting to steal lobsters from his vacation.
It is clear that I have fallen back to bite me in the first pod cast about power rankings again? Fuck
No kicker this year….what are the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.
Justin got his wish to be president. So keeping with the embarrassment of my mistakes, a draft peppered with delusions of grandeur for mediocre players, completely devoid of any reasoning on my league’s podcast, a podcast that is totally not yours, but I see a large octopus….oh of course. Mega Shark takes a bite out of town or is he just sad that his team sucks?
Austin, how horrible is it hearing about the state of the podcast?
PWR has finally learned how to speak and has some write-ins that were just too late for the mailbag. Here they are:
But today I was wondering if they basically gave 100% A+ ratings to transpire in a fantasy karma is not a fantasy
Kudos on jim
And if you planning any reasoning behind the time machine to shake off the pressure and I found a fantasy football topics and punishes them I hear all forms of this
I am grateful to live vicariously through hacking? I was he is my insane dancing skills speak to the high and Butthole Surfers Rule! How do I am too intelligent, too late on top RB and even that hackers aren’t helping, I was the time.
Obviously too handsome, and I would have godly powers, kills himself instead I am for the week. RIP Boomers. It says: SHENANINOPES.
the former champ Fantasy gods are a thing and The Year of me all things – Jon from Ikea
the Bo Knows is my first time dipping my hopelessness concerning my son.
Brett stroke himself off this week! Boomers will devour Giant Octopus, more of these two, they are actually a thread, just overall were falling into the league.
Jimmy, well earned break from dimension where I didn’t like they know, and Octo are on the bo bowl? Am I have emerged from Hopelessly Tall Austin, I’m talking heads and his lazy so-called predictions of fantasy anything
Even when my late season in flames, at the Atoms (3) Shitty and then they think ESPN is the Austin’s of scattershot, and happenings while younger generations are prepared for I hear you feel Justin…
Salutations Bo Bowl Champs….? Justin, what kinda podcast crew this season? Cox has no chance of Cleveland and they belong, losing shows that stuff works.
Boomers vs Bunnies: Octo’s newfound DGAF attitude opens the first one. Odell Beckham Jr. David Johnson who’s now Trump is so good idea. Sincerely, Hopelessly Tall
Now excuse me, people tell me again, Hopelessly Tall and their entire team. You think this matchup, magic or form an assault on top RB are the league. How do not real life as they have for waivers? Asking for Kidlike Extreme Dummies Nopehole Suckers Codumbia Nopebirds.
Lucinda is on this week with Justin to lay down the real story about the Nibblonians. After going over the usual we dig into a unnecessarily long mailbag where Lucinda digs into the nity gritty of playing fantasy football.
Garbage Time Pro is the website we talk about in the intro. Our league ID is 45342.
| Average | Points Rank | Last 3 | SoS | RoS SoS | PWR Rank | Win% v Field | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nellis A.F.B. Boomers | 101.61 | 5 | 120.27 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 55.84% |
| Springfield Atoms | 82.2 | 12 | 68.43 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 29.87% |
| Butthole Surfers | 115.11 | 2 | 94.6 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 74.03% |
| Dreadmetal Pumaskulls | 100.71 | 6 | 89.9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 50.65% |
| The Fluffy Bunnies | 88.4 | 10 | 103.27 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 40.26% |
| Mega Shark | 86.4 | 11 | 90.27 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 33.77% |
| The Nibblonians | 93.69 | 7 | 101.5 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 48.05% |
| Giant Octopus | 115.27 | 1 | 103.18 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 72.73% |
| Philadelphia Shenanihads | 107.1 | 3 | 104.47 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 58.44% |
| Robot Unicorn | 90.64 | 9 | 78.63 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 35.06% |
| Shelbyville Shittysauruses | 103.47 | 4 | 95.73 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 61.04% |
| Team GoInsanelyFast | 91.79 | 8 | 98.1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 40.26% |
For a quick mid-season review, I thought I’d post up some stats similar to the 2016 posts. You can check out all the definitions here.
So let’s take a look at where each team is at:
The Top Dogs: The top four teams in points, all within one win of division lead.
A Little Bit of Luck: These teams hardly have more points (if at all) than the tier below, but thanks to a little luck they’ve secured 4-5 wins each
A Tier Divided: This tier only has two teams, one on the rise and another barely staying afloat.
Toilet Bowl Bound: Not looking good for the teams in this tier, all have a less than 10% chance to make playoffs.
I usually save this for a little later in the season since a lot can change, but lets go ahead and take a look at the current playoff chances of each team. Remember, there’s six teams going to playoffs this year, so the chances for the top teams is a lot higher even this early in the season. Also remember that Scruffy Looking Nerf Herders won the Bo Bowl when they were at 0.7% to even make the playoffs. You can view the code used to generate the predictions here.
| Team | Playoff Chances |
|---|---|
| Giant Octopus | 99.60% |
| Butthole Surfers | 99.23% |
| Dreadmetal Pumaskulls | 98.96% |
| Philadelphia Shenanihads | 98.95% |
| Shelbyville Shittysauruses | 62.27% |
| The Fluffy Bunnies | 45.66% |
| The Nibblonians | 42.06% |
| Nellis A.F.B. Boomers | 25.76% |
| Robot Unicorn | 15.57% |
| Mega Shark | 7.30% |
| Springfield Atoms | 4.26% |
| Team GoInsanelyFast | 0.39% |
Two brothers facing off for the first time since week 11 in 2014! It’s a revenge game for Mega Shark as they’ve lost the last three games and have a lifetime 3-9 record against the Boomers. They’ve got an uphill battle as the Boomers have been surging the last three weeks, scoring an average of 114 points per game, compared to Mega Shark’s paltry 81.
These teams first played each other in Bo Knows inaugural season on Week ONE, with the Boomers just beating out Mega Shark by only six points. Check out these teams:
Although there’s a lot of unfamiliarity here, there’s a few familiar faces. Aaron Rodgers was repping for Boomers at the time, and who knew that Mega Shark was going back to his roots when he drafted Frank Gore?
Now let’s look at what each team has done so far this season:
Just looking at each team, it would look like the Boomers were heavily favored, but the player projections have the teams at a dead even split of 105 points each. Mega Shark will be missing Golden Tate on bye and Aaron Rodgers to injury, and it looks like Zeke’s status is currently up in the air for the Boomers. The projections like the Boomers power RB duo of Gordon and Ingram, but also Mega Sharks’ depth. Depending on how each team sets their lineup, we may be waiting till Monday night and Chris Thompson and Nelson Agholor for a conclusion.
Who do you think will win? Make sure to leave a comment and vote on the game.
We’re just about halfway through the season so I thought we could take a look at the current power rankings and how everyone arrived.
We’re back with Andrew and Brett and Justin’s cellphone to talk about week 6 matchups, including two super close games. Enjoy listening to the power rankings, next weeks matchup of the week, and some very questionable mailbag questions.
I’m working on the algorithm that ranks teams and I was hoping for a little user input. If you guys could complete the poll and let me know which teams you’d rather face it would help a lot. Thanks!