Grout Week in Review: Week 1
Well, was it good for you? It was good for me.
Often times, people will reflexively ask “How’s your day?” or “How are you doing?” On Fridays, I always let them know that I’d be about “x” out of 10 normally. Because it’s a Friday, there are two points of Friday inflation to consider. Now that it is the NFL season and the NFL is just floating around us everywhere, I’d be a six at my dog’s funeral. Call it NFlation.
I wanted to hop on and recap a couple things, so The Fantasy Grout can mostly be forward-facing. I cannot promise to do this weekly, but as often as I can, I will. Let’s start with the Grout for a Shout. Let’s see, Ware do we start? Oh, I know. Spencer Ware. He had a pretty good game on Sunday. I don’t know if you heard. Just 11-for-70 and a score on the ground, to go with eight targets and 7-for-129 through the air. NBD.
Willie Snead was nipping at his heels, with only 0.7 fewer raw points, but thanks to Ware’s $400 of price savings over Snead, he takes the Week 1 Grout cake. Who picked Ware as his play and will now get his due Shout? Well, to start, two people did, with geoffoz being one of them. Like a lot of people did, ahem…MeInCash…ahem, he swapped out Ware for TJ Yeldon as his Grout for a Shout pick at the 11th hour. The only person to stay with Ware was daddywarbuttocks. I could “Shout Him Out” here or I could just text him. He’s my brother-in-law. Congrats Craig.
One thing you might notice? My screen name in yellow, on the first page, and a certain “toWin” fella on the second page? You know what that means! Week 1, to me!
I met JM in person this weekend, and as you might expect, he’s generally nice. Also, he’s tall. Strikingly tall. His wife too. I can’t help but assume he finds my antics childish given that, if for no other reason, he perpetually is looking down on little 5’10” me.
Anyway, we were talking about the stakes of our 17-week wager. As of now, they are … nothing (that we can think of). If you have something, let us know in the comments below. I won’t speak for him, but I will say I’m pretty open to whatever. Then again, I’ve won every single solitary week of the contest!
Taking a broader look at the week, the Millionaire Maker was conquered by a guy with the screen name RandyRanderson1. The rest of the Randy Randersons will have to get in line behind numero uno! He paid down at running back (both Grout recommendations), but spread his money pretty evenly across the wide receivers. He stacked Brees with two of his pass catchers, and ran a tight end out there against his own defense. To each his own, I guess. For Randy, his “each” owns a million dollars.
Randy’s lineup netted him 250.52 points, which was over 5 points clear of the field. For the Sunday slate, he had 89% of the optimal/highest scoring (regardless of salary) lineup, which is excellent. His lineup shared five players (Ware, Riddick, Green, Cooks, and Snead) with the optimal lineup.
A bomb of fantasy points went off in Washington last night, so when you break down the full Thursday through Monday slate, you have to include Steelers. Unlike the Sunday only slate, where the highest scoring lineup, ignoring salary, was under $50,000, the highest scoring lineup over the whole weekend cost $56,000. With one simple change though, swapping out Antonio Brown for Will Fuller V, you lose fewer than 11 points and save over $6,000 in salary. Frankly, if someone had clued me in that Fuller is a Fifth Generation Will Fuller, I definitely would have considered him more. Bred to stuff that stat line … Fuller.
I’ve attached all three of those lineups below. Have a look-see. Also, remember to answer at least six if someone asks you today
