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Week 15: The disgusting, horrible, no good, very bad playoff week

Gross.
Ooooh man, what a week for Fantasy Football Semis. The chart above (not my work) sums up all the scoring players in each position, which shows you that this is the lowest scoring week 15 this decade.

Some notable high scoring players that possibly killed your team this week:

QB: Drew Brees, Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, Jameis Winston, Jared Geoff
RB: Philip Lindsay, Aaron Jones, Lamar Miller
WR: Keenan Allen, Amari Cooper, Tyreek Hill, Jarvis Landry, Adam Theilin
TE: Gronk, Ertz, Ebron

And that's not even counting superstars that sat this week including Odell, Conner, and Melvin Gordon

As it turned out, two of our semifinalist teams were relatively unaffected by the collapse, while their opponents were absolutely devastated by it. This resulted in the most lopsided semifinals I've seen yet, with an average margin of victory of 62.5 points. Ouch.

Matchup Preview

There's only one matchup worth previewing now, our championship!

NB Power (8-5) v Eagle Powers (7-6)

Here we are. For the first time ever neither myself nor my wife can win the championship, which means we're finally getting a trophy! (You can't buy that for yourself, right?). So maybe that gives you guys an extra bit of motivation to win. Both of these teams are obviously juggernauts, but only one can survive this week.

Players to watch:
  • James Conner/Jaylen Samuels: The cheat code of playing a RB in your TE continues to pay off for Eagle Powers, but there are questions here now. If Conner does play will he perform well enough to warrant playing over Dalvin Cook? Will Samuels gets enough touches to still be TE worthy if they share reps?
  • Derrick Henry: The Titans now have one solidified offensive gameplan, and that is to give the ball to Henry as many times as humanly possible. Despite how awful he had been all season he now has 50 (!!) carries in the last two weeks, and the team is winning. Will they keep this up?
  • Brandon Cooks: Gone are the days of Geoff lighting up secondaries with 50 yard bombs it seems. The Rams passing offense is now legitimately struggling and Cooks hasn't eclipsed 10 points since his bye. Is it bounce back time vs a horrific Cardinals team, or will the Rams even need to throw the ball to win?
  • Zack Ertz: Carson Wentz is officially done for the season, and Foles seemed much happier connecting with his WRs than his star TE. Ertz obviously still has the talent to dominate, but we'll see if he gets the opportunity.

Oh, and just a friendly heads up: there is no Thursday game tonight, but there are two games this Saturday, so don't forget to set your lineups a day early!

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