While WWE Fantasy no longer exists it is still most certainly an honorary member sport of the RFC. Here is a little tribute to the fallen event. Click on the image below to download the movie, however this does require you to install Pando, which I can't guarantee comes free of spyware.
Or you can view the YouTube version below, which is the same movie but a slightly lower quality (this one is really dark) but you'll get the point.
After an eventful weekend in NJ of losing my money, dignity and ability to turn my head (table 1, Kenny 0) I did manage to win NASCAR by a whopping 1 point (sorry Kotwicki). No surprising upsets this week although Hames was once again bested by Team Case and he now drops out of the coveted first place position for the first time this year, and there is now a two way tie between the growing powerhouse Team Burns and the everso absent Team Brohl. A late congratulations needs to go out to Mr. Stephen Burns and Mr. Stephen Stancil for their dominant PBR performances last week. I failed to notice that both of them placed in the top ten of PBR scores nationwide. Team Burns had a 3rd place finish and Team Stancil finished up in 7th. I am now convinced that had we not started late into the season that the RFC competitors would be holding down the overall leader board.
P.S. Props to Team Stancil for the Micheal Waltrip usage this week, especially since it was a night race and I'm pretty sure he has cataracts. Although I am still waiting for you to bench Kenseth for him.
A stellar performance from Team Burns this week, who took two event wins in NHRA and PBR. Karma brought some balance to his team with a 1 point win in PBR over team Kotwicki, after suffering a similarly close loss in the same event last week. Team Case picked up the BASS win which now makes it eight weeks in a row that the team has won at least one event. That streak will be hard to continue next week however since the only RFC event will be the NASCAR race at Charlotte. It was nice that Team TJ came out for a PBR event this week, even if he did get crushed in the process. Don't worry TJ practice makes perfect, just keep plugging away.
El torro is spanish for the torro, and that means that this weeks bulls are finally up, so head over to the site if ou haven't already and pick some winners. Day one of the SC BASS stop is also in the books although the scores have not yet posted for the day. However some dissapointing bags for a lot of the top pros should make for a close fantasy week. Making tomorrow's cut with all of your anglers will be key to being in the hunt for a victory this week.
Don't worry about picking any bulls this week because the only event going on is the NASCAR race at Darlington. Get ready to hear a lot about the nostalgia of this race track and the evil being that is California who stole the Labor Day race from the beloved pride of NASCAR, Darlington. The legendary track should make for a good fantasy week. There are 8 drivers who average top tens on this track including Earnhardt, Stewart, and Gordon who will all be looking to get their first wins of 2008. Not only is it also not a favorite track for this year's top drivers Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, or Jeff Burton it has also been repaved which is creates a wildcard aspect. It should be anybody's race to win this week but look out for Edwards who has had success at similar tracks this year and the red hot Hamlin. Who knows maybe even Kenseth can manage to finish this one and start pulling his weight over there on Sack's team, although I am going to say Sack should start Waltrip in his place anyway to teach him a lesson, a good benching should set his priorities straight, give him a chance to think about what he is doing to the team. Not to mention it is Waltrips 700th career start, I think that deserves a nod.
I don’t think it is possible for anyone to have a more frustrating overall week than Team Burns had or a more lucky one than Team Case. After this week’s RFC events finally came to a close he did finish with the most points total for the week but just barely missed out on two key event wins. The first came in NASCAR after his team dominated the race for 95% of the time only to lose the event by 11 points to Team Case after a misfortunate tire failure. The second was a record close loss to Team Case in PBR. The margin of victory at the Des Moines Classic was less than 1 point. A mere 0.34 points separated first and second place! It was an outstanding showing from the RFC participants, four of which placed in the top 100 overall this week (Kenny finished 8th, Burns finished 14th, and Sack finished 29th, and Hames finished 97th), and an honorable mention goes to Bryan who just missed the cut at 102. So congratulations around the board. Check out the top 100 standings for the week here: http://www.pbrfantasy.com/Events.cfm. The BASS teams stepped it up big this week with almost everyone scoring over a thousand points. The big winner was Team Stancil who amassed a near record breaking 1316 points and finished in the 94th percentile. That win was Team Stancil’s first BASS event win, which went nicely along with Team Hames’s first event win in NHRA. Leaving the two teams tied at 2 events but Hames stays ahead of Stacil with the better tie breaker score.
I’m still waiting on the first hand account of the wild finish at Richmond this week from our very own reporter in the field, but as far as I could tell from T.V. land Kyle Busch probably needed a police escort out of that place. The intense last twenty laps of the race created havoc in the fantasy standings. A record breaking performance by Burns turned into an extremely close event loss when Denny Hamlin (who after breaking the track's laps lead record suffered a right front tire problem with about 20 laps to go) fell to the back of the field opening the door for DEJ and Kyle Busch. The battle for first ended in Junior being spun out with only 11 laps to go and after the caution was raised it was Clint Bowyer who capitalized on the incident to take the win and give Team Case the event win by a close 11 point margin. Congratulations to Bryan for being the first one to attend an RFC event, and I can guarantee he won’t be the last. From what I can gather he had a pretty good time and even got to watch his new acquisition Kurt Busch pull out an astonishing 42nd place finish when he wrecked right in from of his new owner. Luckily Bryan only traded The Mexican for Busch, who didn’t have any more of a stellar finish (and yes Bryan did have the people around him calling Montoya “The Mexican”, good work Bryan). While there were no upsets this week (all four top teams beat all four bottom teams) there was one record that was broken which is worth a mention and that is that Sack managed to score the LOWEST total for a week with a whopping 202 points! He managed to start 4 drivers who finished in the bottom 35 (and his benched driver was just as bad finishing 37th). To put this in perspective, the chance of picking those dirvers is the same as picking five drivers in the top 9 and Sack's total team score of 202 was only 12 points better than the single score for the winner of the race Clint Bowyer who scored 190 points for Team Case. For a full four driver field that is an impressive feat and a record that I guarantee will stand for a long time.
ESPN has finally made the live video weigh-in for the BASSMaster tournament free. Check it out at http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/tournaments/live/index, the weigh-ins are starting at 3PM this week.
Don't forget to pick your bulls.
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