2011 Chinstrap Ninjas fantasy football contest: Week 16 lineups, Week 15 results
Another awesome week for our contest teams. Week 15 was our fourth best week of the season.
Even crazier: Rob Gronkowski, started by 11 teams this week, wasn’t even in the top 10.
Read on to find out what else happened in the league or skip to the comments to post a lineup for Week 16.
What a crazy week in fantasy football, huh? Reggie Bush, C.J. Spiller and Brent Celek probably nuked some playoff semifinals this week. You could have made some good money if you had predicted that on Friday, let alone at the beginning of the year.
Drew Brees and Calvin Johnson were the big point-winners this week. Three teams — Purple Coconuts, Team Name Here and Brandon — started both players to earn 15 points and lead the league in Week 15.
The points moved all three teams to the top of the December race. Purple Coconuts leads the field with 25 points, followed by Team Name Here, Brandon, Dante Bruno and Dr. Zoidberg.
Super Friends took the No. 4 spot this week, starting both Megatron and Matthew Stafford, our tough luck point-giving quarterback this week. The performance was enough to push Super Friends into sole possession of second place overall.
Krause and Schozophrenic Smurfs also started Stafford to earn the tough-luck point.
MoHawks and 69ers each started Brees to score five points and help the league to its 63-point performance.
I’m not sure what’s crazier, that Tom Brady was only started by two teams — Dante Bruno and Chickenheads & Pigeons — this week, or that he ran for a touchdown and threw for 320 and another two scores and wasn’t even good enough to make the top three quarterbacks.
Our crazy starts are getting less crazy as the season goes along mostly because of how this season has played out. Schizo Smurfs started Torrey Smith. Dante Bruno started Felix Jones. Cartisimo started Eli Manning, Chris Johnson and Marques Colston. MoHawks also started Colston. Super Friends started Frank Gore.
Top performers this week:
Quarterbacks
Drew Brees threw five touchdowns and totaled 412 yards to post 34.88 fantasy points in Week 15. Matthew Stafford didn’t break the 400-yard mark, but came close, piling up 391 and four touchdowns. He scored 30.14 points. Tim Tebow was third with 27.86 points
Running backs
Depending on your system setup, C.J. Spiller could be a running back, a wide receiver or both. ESPN counts him as an RB/WR, so feel free to play him at either position. He led all backs with 28.7 points. He scored a rushing TD, a receiving TD and 167 yards from scrimmage. LeSean McCoy scored three TDs and lost a fumble to finish with 25.7 fantasy points. Reggie Bush was third with 24.7 points. He rushed for 203 yards
Wide receivers
Calvin Johnson‘s ridiculous 9-214-2 performance was good for 33.4 fantasy points. Spiller was our No. 2 WR with 28.7 fantasy points. Roddy White was third. The Falcons standout receiver caught 10 passes and turned them into 135 yards and two TDs.
Tight ends
Aaron Hernandez was the top Patriots tight end this week, catching nine passes for 129 yards and a touchdown. He also ran once for 16 yards to finish with 20.5 fantasy points. But it wasn’t enough to top Eagles tight end Brent Celek. Celek caught five passes for 156 yards and a touchdown to lead the positing with 21.6 fantasy points.
2011 Fantasy football contest: Week 15 results
| Rk | Team | Wk15 | QB | RB | WR | TE | |
| 1 | Purple Coconuts | 15 | Brees | Foster | CJohnson | Gronkowski | |
| 2 | Team Name Here | 15 | Brees | Foster | CJohnson | JGraham | |
| 3 | Brandon | 15 | Brees | Foster | CJohnson | Gronkowski | |
| 4 | Super Friends | 6 | Stafford | Gore | CJohnson | Gronkowski | |
| 5 | 69ers | 5 | Brees | Rice | Harvin | Gronkowski | |
| 6 | MoHawks | 5 | Brees | Foster | Colston | Gronkowski | |
| 7 | Krause | 1 | Stafford | Foster | Harvin | Gronkowski | |
| 8 | Schizo Smurfs | 1 | Stafford | CJohnson | TSmith | Gronkowski | |
| 9 | Dr. Zoidberg | 0 | Romo | FJones | Nelson | Gronkowski | |
| 10 | Dante Bruno | 0 | Brady | Foster | Welker | Gronkowski | |
| 11 | Oops Machine | 0 | Tebow | MBush | Nelson | Gronkowski | |
| 12 | Chickenheads & Pigeons | 0 | Brady | Foster | Welker | Gates | |
| 13 | cartisimo | 0 | EManning | CJohnson | Colston | Gronkowski | |
| 14 | Tom Hagen | 0 | |||||
| 15 | Gridiron Assassins | 0 | |||||
| 16 | LOL Cats | 0 | |||||
| 17 | Rockchalk | 0 | |||||
| 18 | Crampers | 0 | |||||
| 19 | Chill Tow. | 0 | |||||
| 20 | inthewhale | 0 | |||||
| 21 | Sockonfl | 0 | |||||
| 22 | The Pimps | 0 | |||||
| 23 | Bearserker | 0 | |||||
| 24 | Show Me Your TDs | 0 | |||||
| 25 | Spurrier, YTVRC? | 0 | |||||
| 63 |
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2011 Fantasy football contest: December standings
| Rk | Team | DEC | |
| 1 | Purple Coconuts | 25 | |
| 2 | Team Name Here | 20 | |
| 3 | Dante Bruno | 20 | |
| 4 | Brandon | 20 | |
| 5 | Dr. Zoidberg | 20 | |
| 6 | Super Friends | 11 | |
| 7 | 69ers | 5 | |
| 8 | MoHawks | 5 | |
| 9 | Tom Hagen | 5 | |
| 10 | Chickenheads & Pigeons | 5 | |
| 11 | Oops Machine | 5 | |
| 12 | cartisimo | 1 | |
| 13 | Krause | 1 | |
| 14 | Schizo Smurfs | 1 | |
| 15 | Gridiron Assassins | 0 | |
| 16 | LOL Cats | 0 | |
| 17 | Rockchalk | 0 | |
| 18 | Crampers | 0 | |
| 19 | Chill Tow. | 0 | |
| 20 | inthewhale | 0 | |
| 21 | Sockonfl | 0 | |
| 22 | The Pimps | 0 | |
| 23 | Bearserker | 0 | |
| 24 | Show Me Your TDs | 0 | |
| 25 | Spurrier, YTVRC? | 0 | |
| 144 |
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2011 Fantasy football contest: Overall standings
| Rk | Team | Reg | |
| 1 | Team Name Here | 82 | |
| 2 | Super Friends | 67 | |
| 3 | Dante Bruno | 66 | |
| 4 | 69ers | 61 | |
| 5 | MoHawks | 61 | |
| 6 | Purple Coconuts | 47 | |
| 7 | cartisimo | 43 | |
| 8 | Brandon | 37 | |
| 9 | Tom Hagen | 36 | |
| 10 | Dr. Zoidberg | 33 | |
| 11 | Gridiron Assassins | 31 | |
| 12 | LOL Cats | 28 | |
| 13 | Chickenheads & Pigeons | 22 | |
| 14 | Krause | 21 | |
| 15 | Oops Machine | 16 | |
| 16 | Rockchalk | 10 | |
| 17 | Crampers | 5 | |
| 18 | Chill Tow. | 5 | |
| 19 | Schizo Smurfs | 4 | |
| 20 | inthewhale | 2 | |
| 21 | Sockonfl | 1 | |
| 22 | The Pimps | 0 | |
| 23 | Bearserker | 0 | |
| 24 | Show Me Your TDs | 0 | |
| 25 | Spurrier, YTVRC? | 0 | |
| 678 |
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Post a lineup for Week 15 in the comments. It’s never to late to join up. Each owner has a chance to score up to 35 points in a week, enough points to move into seventh overall. And as long-time owners know, there are more bonus points to be had in the postseason. This race is far from over.
To learn more about the contest, including scoring/lineup rules or to see Week 1′s lineups thread, go to the original post.
Week 1 results, Week 2 lineups
Week 2 results, Week 3 lineups
Week 3 results, Week 4 lineups (with September’s champions)
Week 4 results, Week 5 lineups
Week 5 results, Week 6 lineups
Week 6 results, Week 7 lineups
Week 7 results, Week 8 lineups
Week 8 results, Week 9 lineups (with October’s champion)
Week 9 results, Week 10 lineups
Week 10 results, Week 11 lineups
Week 11 results, Week 12 lineups
Week 12 results (with November’s champion)
It’s Nice to get back on the board, after a couple of 3 and out weeks.
I’ve got a line-up question that I would like some extra input on.
In a 1/2pt PPR who do you guys like this week H. Nicks vs The Jets or Julio Jones vs The Saints?
Thanks
Julio vs saints. Nicks will be blanketed by Revis all game.
QB- Matthew Stafford
RB- Arian Foster
WR- Calvin Johnson
TE- Jimmy Graham
EP, At one point this past weekend CJ Spiller had the top spot at wr and rb. How would that be scored here? D.
MoHawks: I agree with Krause. That Atlanta-New Orleans game could be a mad shootout.
Dante Bruno: I’ve been thinking about it and here is my ruling on the ridiculous Spiller shenanigans:
We use standard ESPN scoring (with fractions). ESPN lists C.J. Spiller as a RB/WR, which means owners can start him at either position. In my opinion — and I’m up for other suggestions — that means we should allow teams to start him at RB or WR.
If he finishes a week leading both positions, I think we must bend our rules. In that case we would also give full points to the No. 2 player at WR and RB and our No. 3 player would earn a tough-luck award.
Brees
Fitz
Mike bush
Graham
testing
LOL I got it ep
Watch AF get it done….
QB-Cam
RB-RR
WR-SM
TE-Gronk
brady
mathews
white
witten
fanduel?
http://www.fanduel.com/entry/CYFSLQ?invitedby=lifeinhell&cnl=aa
QB: Newton
RB: Blount
WR: A.J. Green
TE: Witten
Team Name Here
QB – Brees
RB – Mendenhall
WR – Megatron
TE – Jimmy “Leg” Graham
How do you want to work out fan duel Chicken?
69ers
QB – D. Brees
WR – M. Floyd
RB – R. Rice
TE – R. Gronk
QB: T. Tebow
RB: R. Rice
WR: C. Johnson
TE: J. Graham
Super Friends
Romo
Rice
Megatron
Witten
EP, I am changing my WR from SM to VC.
Boun Natale
Thanks for the input guys. I was leaning Jones, just wanted a little push.
QB Brees
RB Foster
WR Julio Jones…why not
TE Graham
Too much Egg Nog I guess. Traveling and all my focus all week is my Championship game today, it’s too late for Foster, so switch my RB to
Ray Rice
I got it Chicken.. You got the ten bucks. I would play a round with you if you want to. Clashingcivs53@yahoo.com is my email. Either way I will enjoy the site.