FFWC High-Stakes Recap: Week 12
We hope everyone enjoyed a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday. Week 12 of the FullTime Fantasy Football regular season is now complete. With all 32 NFL teams in action, scoring was up as we recorded one of our highest-scoring weeks this season. With just two weeks remaining, to secure a coveted playoff position, here is a look at the Top 20 Leaderboards across the four Major FFWC XI Tournaments. Fantasy Football World Championship Week 12, in the race to claim the $150K FFWC XI Grand Prize, was the third-highest-scoring week this season. After our 600 players posted 79,606.75 points last week, that number jumped to 88,813.75 combined points this week. Some modest moves occurred at the top and four new teams joined the FTF World Championship Top 20 Leaderboard. Continuing a long run at the top, Just(in) Time is the FFWC XI overall leader for an eleventh straight week. Led by Christian McCaffrey (30.90) and Keenan Allen (24.60), plus a rebound by Derrick Henry (20.60), Simeon Yarbrough and Brian Marzorini posted 167.25 points. In a possible FFWC SLOW 4 playoff preview, for the $4,000 League Championship Prize, Just(in) Time (9-3) scored a H2H win over House of Orange (10-2). Climbing one position, Team Honeycutt (10-2) moved from third to second overall. Unfazed, after a tough H2H loss by just 1.10 points last week, Steve Honeycutt piled up 188.10 points. C.J. Stroud (33.90), Tyreek Hill (25.40), and Keenan Allen (24.60) continue to lead the way. A season-high 25.90 points from Isiah Pacheco helped Team Honeycutt move from 27.20 to just 6.35 points out of first overall. Team Zefurs (11-1) moved from fourth to third overall. Posting consistent numbers, including a 169.60 recent three-week average, KJ Duke’s squad scored 172.70 points. Firing from Seat #5, in the FFWC Online 9/3 9 PM ET draft, Zefurs selected A.J. Brown (220.00), Keenan Allen (257.75), and D.J. Moore (206.40) with his first three picks. None of the other 599 FFWC XI players have that WR stack. With the Best Record already secured, plus a 198.75 Most Points lead, KJ is well positioned to collect the $10K Dominator league prize. Slipping two spots, Miss New Booty VII (11-1) went from second to fourth overall. Falling from the undefeated ranks, Oliver Dawoud’s squad posted 159.40 points. Although low by his standard, that total was above the 148.02 points per player Week 12 average. With the Best Record clinched Oliver is also closing in on a Dominator win as he leads the FFWC Online 8/26 league by 93.15 points. Back in the Top 5, for the sixth time this season, Mr Yellow Stickers (10-2) moved from sixth to fifth overall. Mike Schlissberg’s FFWC CIRCA 9/9 team racked up 184.05 points. Already stacked with players like C. McCaffrey, R. Mostert, K. Allen, and D.J. Moore, the recent surge by WR Brandin Cooks, plus the return of RB Kyren Williams, helps make Mike’s squad a strong playoff contender. Our FFWC XI “Shout Out of the Week” goes to a long-time FullTime Fantasy high-stakes player Biplab Mandal. Posting a Week 12 high 211.85 points, Team Bipcoin (10-2) jumped from 43rd to 18th overall. Biplab also moved into a Dominator position in FFWC SLOW 4 as he has a two-game lead in the standings. After entering the week 27.90 points off the pace, Team Bipcoin now leads that league by 30.65 points. From the “Never Stop Grinding” category, we salute Team Surf n Turf in the FFWC 9/9 league. Despite a 3-9 record, John Ross currently owns the second Most Points playoff position in his league by 25.50 points. If he can make it to the dance, John’s 140.29 points per week average isn’t far off the 146.45 PPW that our 2022 Champs, Detroit Iceholes, opened the playoffs with last season. After no one scored at least 200 points last week, ten teams reached that plateau during Week 12 action. Just two of the 600 FFWC XI teams remain undefeated. Angel’s Envy (13th), and Team Stanton (44th) are still perfect with a 12-0 record. Both teams are currently sitting in a $10K Dominator prize position. If the playoffs started this week, just 18.89 points would separate the top 100 FFWC XI scoring teams. That is down slightly from the 19.88-point gap last week. Circa Las Vegas Fantasy Championship Scoring was also up in our inaugural FullTime Fantasy Circa LVFC Tournament. The Week 11 group total was 139,354.90 and that number jumped to 155,815.80 during Week 12 action. Including the five new teams that entered the Top 20 Leaderboard, some big numbers were posted. The beat goes on, as Mr Yellow Stickers 1 (11-1) posted another high-scoring week and retained first overall for a third straight week. Mike Schlissberg’s Circa LVFC 6/8 team posted an impressive 200.35 points and his overall lead is now 86.00 points. With QB Dak Prescott (35.55) at the top, and the Niners DF/ST (10.00) at the bottom, Mike’s 11 starters all scored double-digit points. Four of those players posted 21.90 or more points. Back in second place, for the first time since Week 8, team 2 Bros DP (9-3) moved up two positions. Thanks in part to a solid build during the draft, Robert Dinges’ Circa LVFC SLOW 5 team racked up 196.20 points. From Seat #8, T. Kelce, J. Waddle, K. Allen, and D.J. Moore were Robert’s first four selections. He completed a three-player Miami stack, by adding T. Tagovailoa and R. Mostert in the 10th and 11th rounds. Slipping one spot, The Great Gatsby 18 dropped to third overall. Ray Cowart’s Circa LVFC GrindTime #3 squad scored 179.35 points. Ray’s team moved to 11-1 and continues to be led by Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, and Keenan Allen. Ray is the only LVFC Owner with that three-player stack. Showing solid patience during the draft, Ray waited on Prescott (QB12) until the 11th round. Legend In My Own Mind 3 (9-3) moved from sixth to fourth place overall. Adding a second team to the Top 5 list, Mike Schlissberg’s
Manic Monday: Week 12
Social media giveth and social media taketh away. I’m generally amused at how people handle social media on holiday weeks. For some reason, Thanksgiving food takes seems to be a hot topic and 2021 was no different. As a dad, I’m quite familiar with macaroni and cheese. If my son could, he would eat it 300 days a year or more. Granted, it’s not the special side that many families enjoy in a casserole dish during holidays, but I expressed my opinion that mac and cheese wasn’t a great side because of the frequency that we eat it. I want really unique holiday food. Things we don’t eat but once or twice a year that gives these last two months of the calendar that special appeal. Just how I feel….you know….an opinion. Or not. Needless to say, I was quickly ridiculed by a Twitter mob, many of which were people I’ve never interacted with and had no followers in common. Miserable people out seemingly searching ‘mac an cheese’ just so they could go tell strangers why their own opinion was, in fact, wrong. You’d have thought I said Mac and Me deserved the 1988 Oscar over The Last Emperor. I’ve been dealing with this for years so it was no problem, but slightly annoying. On the bright side, I wasn’t about to be one of those people that make a controversial statement on purpose to drum up attention then paint myself as the victim when I received backlash. I’m sure your grandma’s extras super duper special recipe is awesome and clearly, all I know is the stuff in the blue box, but I’m entitled to my opinion, as are you. And, I’m owning what I said: Mac and cheese is just ok. See, I believe in being accountable. Accountability ac·count·a·ble –/əˈkoun(t)əb(ə)l/ (adjective) – (of a person, organization, or institution) required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible. The keyword there is responsible. Whether it’s the rare food take or, more commonly, a football opinion, I always take full accountability for what I write or share on social media. It’s kinda half the reason I started writing this series every week. I ALWAYS pinpoint where we were wrong. To me, it’s vital to take responsibility when you’re off. Owning your mistakes can help identify what went wrong in the research and help refine the process. DFS touts have a long history of not taking accountability and only sharing the plays that go right. That’s easy. We’re all wrong, all the time. Just part of the game and what makes this hobby so much fun- trying to navigate the myriad of data to hit the occasional home run. I made plenty of calls in fantasy that didn’t work out too well this week and some of my game picks were just atrocious. I actually picked the Steelers to win and said to take the UNDER 47 in the Packers Rams tilt. That was toast in the third quarter. That was so bad, I’m thinking I should just switch to proper food decisions. Stuffing, by the way, is the correct choice. Where We Were Right Speaking of correct, we did well with Thursday’s second game. Our projections placed Michael Gallup and Hunter Renfrow inside our top-20 wide receivers for the week and that’s precisely where they are entering Monday. Renfrow, in fact, is WR5 in PPR formats. Leonard Fournette was our RB8 in PPR projections. After a four-score game, Fournette wound up posting the top overall fantasy numbers from the entire slate but few sources listed Tampa’s starting running back inside their top-12 backs for the week. It would feel wrong not to talk about the main theme for this week, Mac Jones, who we ranked as our QB15. Jones and the red-hot Patriots continue to get better each and every week, with Jones playing like a seasoned veteran and hitting some impressive throws in each contest. Where We Were Wrong Ugh, what an ugly week for quarterbacks. No signal-caller had posted more QB1 performances this season than Jalen Hurts, who seemed poised to have another stellar outing against a Giants defense that ranked in the bottom-10 against opposing quarterbacks. Hurts was awful, throwing three interceptions and having his worst outing of the season. And Hurts wasn’t the only quarterback we missed on. Cam Newton was even worse, posting an abysmal 23.8% completion percentage and tossing 4(!) picks. Should have known that a guy whose name is Mac spelled backward was going to be a poor choice. Running back wasn’t much better. Normal every-week studs like Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, David Montgomery, and Nick Chubb topped our projections and all finished far lower than that. CMC and Cook could even be sidelined for multiple weeks after exiting their respective games with injuries. That will shake things up in a major way as the fantasy playoffs approach…but maybe that’s precisely what we need after Week 12. 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