Castle's Weekly Start-em / Sit-em Thread

[BigBucs]

In unconventional fashion for me, I'm going with a receiver here over a RB who gets a lot of carries. My pick is Wayne. Both of these games have the potential to turn in to shootouts. Wayne is getting a lot of looks from Luck, and I think that continues this week.




1) I still think that Gates has a good season. Last week Gates showed that he's close to 100% and I think he has a good week this week. Pita is a good option as well and may very well outscore Gates, but I'm going with the guy with the better history. My pick is Gates.

2) Good lord, how in the world did you end up with five top 20 running backs? Picking who will do the worst out of those five is like picking a needle in a haystack. Here is how I'd rank the five: 1) Forte, 2) McCoy, 3) MJD, 4) Richardson, and 5) Morris.

Forte is still a little banged up, but he looked good enough on Monday night. I think he tears through the Jags defense this week. McCoy and MJD don't have great matchups, but both are for sure starts every week. Richardson and Morris are about even, but I'd rank Richardson higher than Morris just because I can't bring myself to trust Shanahan. There is no reason to believe that Morris is the main guy in Washington, but Shanahan has pulled a switch at the last minute for unknown reasons before.



Rivers. New Orleans defense is horrible and Rivers is still the much better fantasy QB.



Not a bad problem to have. I'd start Lynch for sure. Charles and Richardson are two completely different backs. Charles has way more upside, but Richardson will put up the more consistent results. I would say it depends on where you are in your standings and what the rest of your team looks like. If your supporting cast is solid, then I'd go Richardson. If the rest of your team is mediocre, then go with Charles because you'll likely need the big points to win. As for my official pick, I'll go with Lynch and Charles.

Im 3-1

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[mcstl25]

Flex position, PPR league: Nate Washington @ Minnesota, Randall Cobb @ Indianapolis, or Sidney Rice @ Carolina. I am trying to claim Rice off waivers and drop Cobb for Sunday morning, so my hand may be forced to go with Washington or Cobb if it doesn't go through.

Washington regardless. Not a bad idea to go for Rice, but I wouldn't start him until Wilson gets benched.

 

[mcstl25]

Im 3-1

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Pretty impressive team. So tough to chose between Charles and Richardson, but with that squad I'd give the very slight edge to Richardson.

 

[BigBucs]

Yea, think Im gonna stay with Trent. Baltimore is gonna stack the box and dare Castle to go downfield.

 

[x0xHumblex0x]

Jamaal Charles or Schone Green??
both facing tough defensive teams.....MJD is my other starter


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[mcstl25]

Jamaal Charles or Schone Green??
both facing tough defensive teams.....MJD is my other starter


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Definitely Charles. I have Shonn Greene on one of my teams and am considering dropping the bum.

 

[BigBucs]

Jamaal Charles or Schone Green??
both facing tough defensive teams.....MJD is my other starter


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Was this a real question :lol:

 

[St. Francisco]

Flex position, PPR league: Nate Washington @ Minnesota, Randall Cobb @ Indianapolis, or Sidney Rice @ Carolina. I am trying to claim Rice off waivers and drop Cobb for Sunday morning, so my hand may be forced to go with Washington or Cobb if it doesn't go through.

Washington regardless. Not a bad idea to go for Rice, but I wouldn't start him until Wilson gets benched.

I claimed Rice and dropped Cobb:

Nate Washington: 5 points

Sidney Rice: 11 points

Randall Cobb: 18 points

Should've dropped Washington for Rice, and kept Cobb. Should've known better than to trust a Titan. Fuck that team.

It's all good though, because Colston got me 40. Winning 177-176 and he's out of players, I still have the Jets defense.

 

[kmanharris]

I claimed Rice and dropped Cobb:

Nate Washington: 5 points

Sidney Rice: 11 points

Randall Cobb: 18 points

Should've dropped Washington for Rice, and kept Cobb. Should've known better than to trust a Titan. Fuck that team.

It's all good though, because Colston got me 40. Winning 177-176 and he's out of players, I still have the Jets defense.

Who you're going to bench, right?

 

[jms493]

Reggie scored 42.20 points for me in a flex....LAWL! :thumbsup:

 

[BigBucs]

I claimed Rice and dropped Cobb:

Nate Washington: 5 points

Sidney Rice: 11 points

Randall Cobb: 18 points

Should've dropped Washington for Rice, and kept Cobb. Should've known better than to trust a Titan. Fuck that team.

It's all good though, because Colston got me 40. Winning 177-176 and he's out of players, I still have the Jets defense.

Colston pushed my shit in last night. I went from winning by 5 to losing by 27 and he still has Houstons D. I have Shaub Foster and Houstons kicker but its gonna be tough If that defense scores double digit points like I expect them to.

 

[BigBucs]

The Foster/Shaub/Graham trio did me proud :smugruss: 27 point deficit was eaten like scooby snacks, won by 11. All I needed was one more fucking point though going into that last drive and I would have gotten it had the Texans looked to move the chains instead of tell Foster to get down at first contact, only needed 3 yards to make it 160. High score every week gets $25 knocked off of their buy in. I tied with another mfer with 121 but his margin of victory was greater :rage:

 

[Villain]

Benjarvus Green-Ellis @ Cleveland
Frank Gore vs Giants (home)

 

[mcstl25]

Official Week 5 Results:

1. Reggie Wayne 549 over Willis McGahee 184 - Correct
2. Antonio Gates 53 over Dennis Pita 59 - Push
3. Phillip Rivers 307 over Alex Smith 517 - Incorrect
4. Marshawn Lynch 193 and Jamaal Charles 337over Trent Richardson 341 - Incorrect
5. Donnie Avery 59 over Andre Brown 0 - Correct
6. James Jones 232 over Brian Hartline 138 - Correct
7. Nate Washington 73 over Randall Cobb 244 and Sidney Rice 159 - Incorrect
8. Jamaal Charles 337 over Shonn Greene 95 - Correct

Week 5 random thoughts:Not a bad week. Worst call of the week was Washington over Cobb/Rice. However, I had assumed that Britt was going to be out when making that call. Probably still wouldn't have made a difference anyway as the Titans looked horrible. Two of my more gutsy calls ended up paying off with Wayne over a full time RB in McGahee and James Jones over the NFL leader in receiving yards. Alex Smith had a surprisingly very good game, but Rivers didn't do too bad. If humble starts posting more in this thread I may end up with a .900 correct percentage.

 

[St. Francisco]

Flex spot again, PPR league:

Nate Burleson @ Philadelphia, or Darrius Heyward-Bey @ Atlanta?

 

[kmanharris]

Made a bold trade. I'm sitting at 1-4 and going nowhere. It is a 6 team, 2 QB league and I am getting the shit end of the stick, every fucking time.

I traded Stafford (my other two QBs are Romo/Flacco) for Malcolm Floyd and Ridley.

My WRs were Welker, Jennings, Nicks, Decker. Then Nicks and Jennings got hurt and I've had a bunch of fill in bums playing while I get shit on. Ridley improves my RBs to him, Peterson (who keeps getting TDs poached by Percy fucking Harvin), Forte, and Fred Jackson.

Thoughts on the trade? The league is ridiculously deep, obviously.

 

[Fappin Raptor]

William Powell v. Buffalo
or
Alex Green @ Houston
or
James Starks @ Houston

 

[Fappin Raptor]

I'll throw this one out there again because I can't decide.

Rob Gronkowski @ Seattle
or
Tony Gonzalez v. Oakland

 

[Fappin Raptor]

William Powell v. Buffalo
or
Alex Green @ Houston
or
James Starks @ Houston

I'll throw this one out there again because I can't decide.

Rob Gronkowski @ Seattle
or
Tony Gonzalez v. Oakland

Cancel these. I traded Gronkowski away and received a RB that will start over all of those RBs.

 

[Obst]

Vick Ballard vs Jets or Doug Martin vs KC