NFL Week 10: Results of Picks and Fantasy Teams
Last Modified
11/19/2004 6:31 PM
Byline: Mike Cunningham
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Story Summary
Week 10 in the NFL brought more controversy and chaos TO's way. How much brighter can his star shine? We'll answer that shortly on HammRadio but here is how we did last week.
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We will only pick winners here. I don't care about lines. The NFL is about victories, not point spreads. So use our picks for your amusement purposes only. Don't forget to check out Sunday night/Monday morning for our Sunday Night QB review of the Eagles-Browns game. We will have a preview of the game this weekend!
Last Week: [Preview] [Results]
- NFL Week 10 Picks (winners only)
- Yahoo! Fantasy Match-up
- FFNation Fantasy Line-up
- ESPN Gridiron Challenge
- Using the HammQuotient to Evaluate a Trade
| Week 10 NFL picks - Mike Cunningham Week 10 (8-6)? Total Wins on the Year: 87 (tied for 10th at work -- 95 points for first place) | ||
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| Home | Away | |
| New York Jets 17 |  Baltimore Ravens 20 | |
| Indianapolis Colts 49 | Houston Texans 14 | |
| Atlanta Falcons 24 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14 | |
 Cleveland Browns 10 | Pittsburgh Steelers 24 | |
| New Orleans Saints 27 | Kansas City Chiefs 20 | |
| Jacksonville Jaguars 23 | Detroit Lions 17 | |
| Tennessee Titans 17 | Chicago Bears 19 | |
| St. Louis Rams 23 | Seattle Seahawks 12 | |
| Washington Redskins 10 | Cincinnati Bengals 17 | |
| Arizona Cardinals 17 | New York Giants 14 | |
| San Francisco 49ers 27 | Carolina Panthers 37 | |
| Green Bay Packers 34 | Minnesota Vikings 31 | |
| New England Patriots 29 | Buffalo Bills 6 | |
| Dallas Cowboys 21 | Philadelphia Eagles 49 | |
| MNF total: 54 | ||
Fantasy Football
Week 10 improved my record to 6-4 staying 2 games behind the leader in 3rd place.? I went into Monday night down 59-33.? To get 27 points for the victory was going to be tough, but I fortunately had Donovan McNabb and David Akers to put me over the top.? The Eagles demolition of the Cowboys put me over the top.? And despite not kicking a field goal, Akers had seven extra points to get him big numbers for the week.?
Nov 9 - Nov 15
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HammTastic vs.
Torino Dude
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Apollo's Creed (6-4)
0.65 points.? That's all I was beat by for the Weekly Lead which would have pocketed me a nice 10 dollar bonus.? But that said, a nice victory this week allowed me to get within 1 game of the leader.? In tie breakers I have the second overal total points.? So I could use another 150 point week this week to get some steam going into the final weeks of the season.? Hopefully I won't leave too many points on the bench.?
Note:? I don't have a HammQuotient for the Yahoo league which puts a high premium on touchdowns but little value for yards gained. (20 yards per point versus 10 yards per point in FFNation.com).
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Gridiron Challenge
My Wide Receivers hurt me this week.? I stayed away from the McNabb-TO connection this week and it cost me some points.? I also dropped out of the 90 percentile down into the 80s.? I don't like that at all.? And this is the first time since Week 3 where I was BELOW the average score.? Definitely don't like that!
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Using the HammQuotient To Analyze a Trade
In many Fantasy leagues you have a trade committees to protect teams from unloading players to better teams when your season is over. Some teams begin to troll the 0-5 teams for their best players and unload decent players who have been mired on your bench. Without a trade committe you might see Freddie Mitchell for Marvin Harrison deals left and right.
However, those who argue against trade committees are usually concerned with certain owners who have it against you, rather than truly analyzing a deal. So what is a boy to do? Well, develop some statistics to give you some insight into how the deal is laid out. Here is a recent trade that caused quite a lot of consternation in our league:
Average per weeks (HammQuotient): Team A versus Team B Priest 22.6 (3/4) versus TJ 24.2 (3/4) Blalock 2.4 (0/5) versus Pinner 7.3 (1/4) Stallworth 11.6 (3/5) versus C. Johnson 13.9 (2/4) Keyshawn 11.4 (2/4) versus Gabriel 7.3 (1/4)
Team A's average per week total is 48 versus Team B's (52.7)
The HammQuotient asks the question was it worth starting the player that week? It's a way I like to beat myself over whether I set up my lineups properly that week. Since you're average points per week can be very high, but that is because you scored 40 points one week, but less than 10 the other 3 weeks.
- If a running back gets over 14.5 points then yes.
- If a receiver gets over 10.0 points then yes.
- If a QB gets over 18 points then yes.
- If a K gets over 7 points then yes.
- If a DF gets over 12 points then yes.
In the above cases you Team A's HammQuotient in the trade is 8/18 or .421 versus Team B's 7/16 which is a .438.
So my final analysis of the trade at this point in the season is it's pretty fair.
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