Week 11

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The Domination of the Week:  Jeff 130.94  --  103.98 Stacey

Futility of the Week:  Brian, scoring the second most points in the league but falling to Derek who scored the most points.

Victory margins were close this week much the same as the closeness of the playoffs.  Jeff's 27 point win over Stacey was the smallest domination of the week to date this season.  The loss to Jeff marks 3 consecutive losses for Stace as she's fallen into 9th place and Jeff scales to 8th.  Ethan made his streak 2 wins in a row with one over Heath this week and he joins Jeff and Stacey at 4-7 although he still sits in 10th place.  The loss for Heath marks his 2nd in a row and joins Jake who found a win against Barr in the ever anticipated rubber match of the umbrella matchup at 5-6.  Heath sits in 7th place while Jake, who has the edge in points for, occupies the 6th and final playoff spot... for now.  DJ handled Evan who had probably the worst fantasy week in terms of injuries I've ever seen.  With his loss, Evan joins Barr and Derek at 6-5 and is situated between the two of the standings.  Derek is in 3rd, Ev in 4th, and Barr is desperately clinging to that 5th spot as he is generally concerned about his team having lost two straight.  With his win in combination with Brian's loss, DJ moves into 1st place and is the first team to clinch a playoff berth.  By my calculations, no team is out of the playoff hunt as of now.

Thursday Thanksgiving games saw a lot of points being had by many.  Solid performances by Crowder and Moncrief delivered 33.30 points for Ethan but a monster 3 TD game from AB helped Brian keep pace with 32.10 points in their matchup.  The third installment of the newlywed matchup began with Derek's Vikings defense coming back down to Earth after the traditional blow-up against Brian, but a great game by Elliott and nice outing by Hopkins (K) have Derek at a slim 37.00 - 32.60 lead over Stacey who saw a very nice game from DeSean Jackson and Riddick.  The matchup of Heath vs Jake saw both teams initially falling short of projections as Hilton registered a sub-par game for Jake while Tate and Witten both delivered less than desirable performances for Heath.  Heath has the lead 19.00 - 8.40.  In probably the most crucial matchup of the week and maybe of the year, one team could tighten their grip on that final playoff spot.  4th place Evan and 5th place Barr are squaring off this week and Evan holds a slight advantage after the Thursday games behind a typically stellar effort by Bell.  Bailey also notched a good performance while his defense, the cowboys, got him a nice goose egg.  Meanwhile Barr had a solid performance from Big Ben but sub-par ones from his RB duo of Kelley and Gore.  Hindsight will tell him he should have went with Jones.  The final matchup is Jeff vs DJ and is off to a heated start.  Jeff enjoyed a phenomenal performance from Reed and a good one from Dez, while DJ had Dak do his usual thing but surely desired more from Vinatieri who registered just 1 point.  Jeff leads 43.70 - 22.70.

The matchups are getting ever more pivotal as the playoffs are just two weeks away.  There is still much room to move both up and down in the standings and we are sure to see more fluctuation in this week and the next.  I generally hope everyone had a great thanksgiving yesterday.

Week 10

So the Browns are 0-10. The 76ers, Hornets and Mavericks are a combine 5-25. Wow it sucks to suck.






This year the domination league doesn't really have a "shitty" team since everyone is above 3 wins. It makes for a competitive league and it looks like I will finally make the playoffs and stop the drought.








Domination of the Week: Derek destroying Heath 176.54 - 110.92. The 65.62 point victory also lead to the name change for Heath. Heath is known this week as Rusty's Sperm. It's pretty creative if you ask me!




Futility of the Week: This goes to myself. Second place lost to last place and it was a tough one to swallow. Ethan won 118.30 - 113.62. Maybe Brian saying my team is not a threat is a correct statement.


We are in Week 11 already which is crazy. This whole year is going crazy. We have some very intriguing matches this week. Second place DJ battles Third place Evan. It is ironic that we get rid of someone who never set his lineups and then we acquire someone who never texts or follows the domination league rules. This needs to be addressed in the offseason by the commissioner. Ethan takes on Heath in a pivot match for Heath. He is currently sitting in the last playoff spot but Jake and Stacey are both on his ass for that last playoff berth. According to a source, Football Team is "gonna be the playoff hawk and whoop all your asses out of the playoffs" he already beat me so .......
Stacey plays Jeff which will be a win for Stacey because Jeff is still trying to make deals when the deadline was over last weekend......


Brian and Derek battle for what should be the best matchup. Both of these teams can put up huge numbers if they want too. Brian is looking like the front runner right now as he has been dominating since I delivered him a loss 4 weeks ago. Still barely behind Jeff, Derek has given up a shit load of points which is honestly just luck. Derek is still one of the clear cut favorites to hold the trophy at the end of the year.


The umbrella matchup is happening for the third time. Jake has numerous players on Thursday night as do I. It should be interesting.


Matchup of the Week: DJ VS Evan. This is solely based on the current standings.


With the byes about out of the way, the playoffs are looming. Things are starting to play out and the playoff teams are being apparent. Make sure you check out the podcast Caldwell started, it is some good shit!
Hopefully we can all get together over the holidays and watch some football. If I lose the damn umbrella match-up I will have to bring Jake that fucking umbrella.

Week 9

Donald Trump is the next president of the United States of America. Damn.


Anyhow last week was an important week in the domination league. We are finally able to tell what teams are "for real" and what teams are just banking on waiver pickups to survive.


Domination of the Week: Chris defeating Derek by 38.80 points. We should have known when Mike Evans went off for 38 points on Thursday, that Chris's team was do for a big win.


Futility of the Week: Stacey.  Stacy just had a bad week, it's fantasy football, it happens.




<<<<<<<<<50 POINT ALERT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Brian beat the shit out of Jeff with a 54.22 point win and renaming Jeff's team to Eileen. With the win, The Brovie Bunch officially move back into first place with a 6-3 record. Heath also won by 62.34 with his victory over Stacey. After discussing it with me, he went with Oh Tuck Me. It Fitz! It's original but it works.


The trade deadline is this Saturday so if anyone wants to pound out any more deals, now is the time to do it. If the playoffs started today: Brian, Chris, DJ, Evan, Heath and Derek would be your teams. Jake is still in the running and will have the umbrella matchup next week with me to determine who keeps the fucking umbrella. Stacey is also tied with Derek and Jake at 4-5. This is by far the most competitive season of the Domination League. It seems like once Seed left, everything changed .......


Matchup of the week is Jake vs. DJ. DJ is still holding on to his playoff berth while Jake is staying alive and looking dangerous. DJ is scared of Jake's team, according to a source. It should be another great week of  domination.


We have two more weeks to cover mostly all the byes until week 13 when the shitty Browns and Titans are on byes.


Good luck this week. Dominate or get dominated!!!!!!!

Week 8

The Domination of the Week:  Evan 165.00  --  99.46 Ethan

Futility of the Week:  Derek, who would've beaten any other loser this week but lost to any other winner.

!!! DOUBLE 50 POINT WIN ALERT !!!
Week 8 and we are already at an alarming rate of 50 point wins.  This week marks the fourth week where a double 50 point win alert has been issued.  This clearly is a historic pace.  Evan whooped his big bro Ethan to the tune of 65 points, while Brian dismissed Heath, who scored the least amount of points this week, by 65 also.  Heath's name for the week will be "Blind Squirrel" meanwhile Evan chooses to shit all over the domination league constitution and still hasn't picked a name for Ethan.  Penalties will be incurred if he fails to choose a name by Sunday.

With his win, Evan extends his winning streak to 3 in a row and rockets into the top spot of the standings thanks to Derek and Barr losing to DJ and Stacey, respectively.  Brian leapfrogs the pair as well into second place thanks to his win.  It is worth noting that Brian has the lowest points against score on the season, but across the league this stat has never been closer as the difference between the highest (Derek) and lowest is only 180 points.  Perhaps the most unremarkable game of the week was 7th place Jake vs 9th place Jeff.  Jeff came out on top after scoring the second most points of the league this week by .04.  His win ties their records at 3-5 and drops Jake back down to 9th place and allows Jeff to climb to 8th.  Heath's loss sees him fall into 7th place and Stacey's second win in a row vaults her into 6th place over Heath on points for as both have 4-4 records.  Derek falls to 5th place with his second loss in a row and evens his win-loss record out at 4-4 as well.  DJ, Barr, Brian, and Evan all own 5-3 records and are placed in reverse order of how I just listed them 4th to 1st.

The trade deadline is November 12th which is just a week from Saturday so we are sure to see some last minute trade scrambling done.  The playoffs are a mere 6 weeks away.  Be advised that the Domination League Playoffs run from week 14 through week 16.

The matchup of week 9 is 9th place Jake vs 1st place Evan.  Other noteworthy matchups are 3rd place Barr vs 5th place Derek and 6th place Stacey vs 7th place Heath.

Standings:
1. Evan (5-3) ↑2
2. Brian (5-3) ↑2
3. Chris (5-3) ↓2
4. DJ (5-3) ↑1
5. Derek (4-4) ↓3
6. Stacey (4-4) ↑2
7. Heath (4-4) ↓1
8. Jeff (3-5) ↑1
9. Jake (3-5) ↓2
10. Ethan (2-6)