Nothing sweeter than pulling out a victory on MNF and so far Jr has pulled it off two weeks in a row. Managing your lineup can make or break your week in fantasy, Jr made some unconventional plays and they both led to victories, so let me start the breakdown with week 1 of Jr's MNF miracles.
In our ROC Dynasty league week 1, Jr aka Korean Teen Wolf was set to go heads with No-Nato for the season opener. Heading into MNF, score was Jr: 93.58 vs No-Nato: 90.04. Both teams had 1 player going for them in the SD @ OAK game. Jr had the choice of D-Mac who was named starting RB earlier in the week or D. Sproles the fast playmaker and backup to LT. No-Nato on the other hand had Z. Miller, starting TE for the Raiders who is unfortunate enough to have Mr. Russell as his starting QB. Only up 3.54 points, Jr decides to play Sproles over D-Mac on the basis that SD RB's was going to man handle the Raiders front seven and run all over them. Most managers in this case probably go with D-Mac as the safer bet since he'll likely have more touches leading to more scoring opportunities rather than playing the backup who will have his touches limited by the RB ahead of him on the depth chart. Risky play but lets take a look at the results.
Jr
D-Mac: 17 rush attempts, 68 rush yards, 2 rec, 25 rec yards, totaling 19 touches and 21 looks representing 33% of OAK's offensive plays, 8.3 fantasy points
D. Sproles: 9 rush attempts, 23 rush yards, 1 rushing TD, 5 rec, 43 yards, totaling 14 touches and 16 looks representing 27% of SD's offensive plays, 15.1 fantasy points
No-Nato
Z. Miller: 6 rec, 96 rec yards, totaling 6 touches and 6 looks representing 9% of OAK's offensive plays, 12.6 fantasy points
As you can see D-Mac played a big part in the Raiders offensive game plan accounting for 1/3 of Oakland's offensive plays. Turns out Jr is luckier than a leprechaun to have LT roll his ankle sometime in the 1st half thus allowing D. Sproles to play an integral part in the 2nd half and take control of a key drive in the 4th quarter with 18 seconds left that led to his first rushing TD for the season. All honesty without LT rolling his ankle, I think Sproles neither gets the opportunity for the game winning 5 yard rushing TD nor does he see the increase in his looks and touches as LT's and Sproles ended up with the same number of touches and looks. In the end, the Sproles play puts him over the top of No-Nato by a total of 6.04. Which by the way Sproles 5 yard TD gallop accounted for 6.5 points.
For Jr's next MNF miracle, Jr goes head on vs $maSH 4 Ca$H aka Big Spence in week 2 of our super competitive Vulture league. Jr: 81.7 vs $ma$H: 85.54, this time Jr heads into MNF down 3.84. Only thing is that Jr probably shouldn't be down by 3.84 heading into MNF, his decision to bench B. Edwards and play D. Bess puts him in this predicament. Even though Edwards plays for the anemic Browns offense led by the inept Brady Quinn, I just don't see the rationale of playing Bess(Wr3) over Edwards(Wr1) in almost any situation. So lets take a look at the numbers.
Jr
B. Edwards: 6 rec, 92 rec yards, totaling 6 touches and 7 looks representing 13% of Cleveland's offensive plays, 12.2 fantasy points
D. Bess: 3 rec, 29 rec yards, totaling 3 touches and 3 looks representing 4% of Miami's offensive plays, 4.4 fantasy points
As you can see by the numbers, Edwards put up a solid week and was fantasy relevant as his touches and looks accounted for 13% of Cleveland's offensive plays. Edwards 92 yards for the day accounted for 46% of Cleveland's total net yardage. While Bess was barely on the field and put up a very pedestrian stat line of 3 catches for 29 yards. Bess didn't register his first catch till late into the 2nd quarter with 1:14 left to go, but he did have a crucial reception late into the game in the 4th quarter with 56 seconds left on 2nd and 19 on Miami's own 35 for a 18 yard gain. That catch gave Jr 2.3 points edging $ma$H by a overall margin of .56. Once again in the waning seconds, Jr was able to pull a rabbit out his hat with one of his unconventional plays and pull out the W. Makes me think Jr has the luck of Irish going for him, as his two unconventional decisions led him to fantasy gold on MNF again. Sometimes its just better to be lucky...
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