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Hey guys!

Been a while hasn't it?

We're five weeks into the season and the most active person in the league has been...Tim?  Go look at all the stuff he's posted on the league page and give the man kudos for keeping the beat of our leagues heart still going (Note: That last sentence had a Hillary Duff reference in it.  A very sad, annoying Hillary Duff reference).

Also, after five weeks into the season, we haven't had a writeup by votre sinceremente.  That changes today.

As I've stressed above, we're five weeks into the season.  It's about at this point where we can start looking at the numbers and have actual, meaningful takeaways.  And I'm always a sucker for habitual self-deprecation in the form of numbers, so as I usually do at this time of year, I'll be summarizing our league's scoring through the first five weeks.  This does not include Thursday night's TY-splosion, Foster-athon, or Luck-fest.



QB
1. Sean - 126 points
2. Dan - 122
3. Tim - 92
4. Bryan - 86
5. Jeff - 84
6. Joe -80
7. Danny - 69
T8. - Jose - 58
T8. - Baron - 58
10. Arun - 57

Takeaways:

- It's Peyton, Luck, and everyone else
- Sean really got a good fill in with Eli when Peyton was on his bye.
- Bryan's effectively played his two-headed Kaepernick/Foles situation
- Some big names that haven't performed the way we'd hope: Brees for Jeff, Stafford for Jose, Cam for Danny
- My situation is understandable given I started Geno Smith twice.  Baron's is understandable given he starts Tony Romo (on the league's run-heaviest team mind you)
- Poor Katarya and his Tim Brady situation

RB
1. Tim - 128
T2. Joe - 114
T2. Sean - 114
4. Dan - 101
5. Baron - 91
6. Bryan - 87
7. Jose - 81
8. Jeff - 74
9. Arun - 71
10. Danny - 65

Takeaways:
- With all the injuries that have happened this year, there have only been a few consistent performers.  For example, if you have Demarco Murray, you should damn well lead the league in RB points (it's at this point Jose face palms after trading him last year)
- Want to know a big reason why Baron is struggling?  His three biggest investments were at the RB position, and while Gio has turned out just dandy for him, Monte and Forte haven't given him enough return to this point to get him above 5th in scoring.
- I've told Sean this directly, but there really is nowhere to go but down.  How many of you here think Arian Foster will stay healthy the rest of the year?  That's what I thought.  And Ahmad Bradshaw?  Or how about Bradshaw's unsustainable TD rate?  Don't get me wrong, Sean does have T-Rich in the event of an injury, but he still probably won't be able to hold as much value as Bradshaw is right now.  But I don't think his fall would be very hard once we detail the WR section.
- I look at Danny's team and I see a team that was reliant on a lot of last year's magic to carry into this year.  Matthews, Stacy, Deangelo, Woodhead...It's a veritable list of 2013 performers who, for one reason or another, haven't delivered this year.  To Danny's credit, despite his history as one of the league's least reactive teams, he did pick up Forsett, but that's looking like a three-headed monster situation right now.

WR (this is just the two players you played at your WR spot any given week, not WRs played in the flex)
1. Sean -  154
2. Dan - 122
3. Danny - 107
4. Joe - 98
5. Arun - 93
6. Bryan - 91
7. Tim - 78
8. Baron - 61
9. Jose - 56
10. Jeff - 51

Takeaways:
- Jeff has built up a reputation as a guy who sure does love his WRs.  And based on his WR count after the draft, you could say that assumption still held true.  But some circumstances were different this year.  For one, Jeff's biggest investments were in the TE and QB position, and he's gotten incredibly inconsistent performances from the rest of his team.  Kinda like what Ken had last year.
- Remember that floor I spoke about with Sean?  This is why he still should perform.  For as much as we think his RBs should stumble, he still has Antonio Brown and Jordy and his top WRs.  You tell me if you see a problem with those two.
- The scariest part about Dan's scoring is that D. Thomas has only had one really good game.
- A couple of crazy Julio games have skewed Joe upwards, but he's gotten strong contributions out of Golden Tate, especially during Megatron's injury spell.
- I'm not going to lie, I definitely thought I would've outscored Baron's team, at least, when I started doing this.
- The league leaders all have studs at WR. Except Danny.  What's impressive about his situation is, despite playing Megatron the Decoy the past couple of weeks, Kelvin Benjamin has turned into a huge TD threat (much to Danny's delight), and the Steve Smith Revenge Tour is going strong.  While I don't think this holds for Senior, Gary Kubiak led offenses have typically only featured one receiver, and if Smith is the man, then he could post big games.

TE
1. Joe - 68
2. Danny - 55
3. Sean - 53
4. Jeff - 51
5. Jose - 47
6. Tim - 44
7. Bryan - 42
8. Baron - 35
9. Dan - 21
10. Arun - 19

Takeaways:
- Boy, that Julius Thomas sure does look like a good player huh Joe?
- Who knew that Greg Olsen would kill it for Danny?  I don't even think Danny's played another guy.  It might be 55 points of just Greg Olsen.
- Seriously, Sean is Top 3 in all skill positions to date.  A lot of it is Martellus Bennett, and it remains to be seen if he keeps it up once Jeffery and Marshall are fully healthy.
- Last year Vernon Davis had one of the most unsustainable TD rates in NFL history (it was something like 1 TD every 4 catches, and half of them were coming from over 20 yards out).  So Katarya picks him, he has a first good game, he gets hurt, and Katarya KEEPS PLAYING HIM.  Now he's been forced to play Eric Ebron, which pretty much sums up his TE situation to date.
- Trend time! While being 5th in TE scoring, yours truly is 1st in the last three weeks.  Gronk this Gronk that Gronk this Gronk that.
- Two monster games from Antonio Gates have propped Bryan up to 7th in TE scoring, but I think he has the highest variance amongst all owners.  It's truly boom or bust.

Flex
1. Dan - 67
2. Baron - 52
3. Jose - 50
T4. Sean - 48
T4. Arun - 48
6. Joe - 40
7. Tim - 36
8. Jeff - 31
9. Danny - 29
10. Bryan - 28

Takeaways:
- The flex is the most deceiving position to snapshot because, for example, Sean could throw Jordy there for the heck of it and skew is WR and Flex numbers in an instant.  But it's fun to hypothesize why a lot of the lowest scoring teams lead the flex position?  Is it because they do the aforementioned strategy?  Or are they deep across the board in B to C level players.  I tend to believe the latter.  While players like Dan go big on superstars early and backfill on cheaper players in the flex spot (although I think Ellington played there last week for Dan), the guys who don't get the biggest stars fill in with a bunch of mid-level players that they fill into their flex spots.
- There is honestly nothing else I can take away from this.

K
1. Bryan - 57
2. Arun - 51
3. Jose - 48
T4. Joe - 44
T4. Danny - 44
6. Baron - 36
7. Tim - 34
8. Jeff - 33
9. Sean - 30
10. Dan - 29

I only bring up kickers because Stephen F***ing Gostkowski scored 21 points against me.  Had this been two weeks ago I'm pretty sure Bryan would be in sixth or something.

D/ST
1. Arun - 70
2. Sean - 52
3. Tim - 46
T4. Joe - 30
T4. Baron - 30
6. Bryan - 27
7. Dan - 22
8. Danny - 21
9. Jeff - 15
10. Jose - 0

Two things:
1. Just what we need, Sean's team to be good at another thing.
2. I've scored zero points total this year at the D/ST position.  Holy crap.

Now, even though these numbers look at the season from a wholistic standpoint, there are some differences between looking at all five weeks and looking at even just the last three weeks.  I'm not going to repost everyone's rankings in the past three weeks, but here's the major differences I've noticed if you remove the first two games of the year:

- Greg Olsen is the top TE in the league.  Let that sink in for a second.
- Jeff's team has taken a slide. He's 10th in the "random" positions: K and D/ST.  He's also 10th in WR scoring.
- Katarya has ZERO points out of the TE spot.
- Sean's team has not gotten any better, but not any worse.
- Guess who's trending upwards?  Despite low scoring, I'm tied with Danny for the top TE spot.  Gronk this Gronk that Gronk this Gronk that.
- Danny's defense has scored negative points in the last three weeks on defense.  Jeff, even more negative.
- Don't look now, but Tim and Joe are third and fourth in scoring the last three weeks.

So here's what I'm seeing.

1. The creme de la creme is Sean, and Dan's not far behind.  Sean should fall down a bit, and I have no idea how deep Dan's team really is once these bye weeks truly settle themselves.
2. Tim, despite losing AP, has a darn good team so long as Murray carries everything.
3. Joe and Bryan are contenders.
4. I'd venture that Danny, myself, Baron, Arun, and Jeff are all in that "others" category.  One of us could make a run, but the odds are against us.  That being said, it's been a weird year (I'm 3-2 after all), so surprises could happen.

Since it's 8 am and I need to get ready, for the day, I'm going to cut this post off now.