Monday, January 26, 2015

Week 13 Roundup: Steady Fouls She Goes Edition

After all the hubbub I made last week proclaiming a potential huge week in fouling due to the amount of games it turned out to be quite disappointing.I'll get into that when I go over the current standings, but for now let's take a look at any stat corrections.

Stat Corrections: There was only one stat correction, Andre Iguodala had a techy taken away from him but he was a free agent so it does not affect any foul clubs.

Standings as of January 26, 2015:

1. Rodman'sWeddingDress- 6230 (+610)
2. They Call Me Gamblor- 5985 (+425)
3. Baltimore Hitsquad- 5965  (+375)
4. Pgastan FC- 5675 (+415)
5. Arlington Assaulters- 5670 pts (+405)
6. F'N FLOPPERS 5425 (+470)
7. Dis Is Dat Donk Ball- 4450 (+365)
8. Oww Ming's Flagrants 4395 (+320) 

It turns out there was some movement, so I guess I lied in the intro, whoops. Rodman'sWeddingDress scored a whopping 610 points and opened up a 245 point lead on 2nd place. 2nd Place is now They Call Me Gamblor who is 20 points ahead of Baltimore Hitsquad in 3rd place after swapping places this past week. Pgastan FC turned a 5 point deficit to Arlington Assaulters last week into a 5 point lead on them as the two teams swapped positions in the standings with PFC in 4th place and AA in 5th. F'N FLOPPERS is still in 6th place 245 points behind 5th. Dis Is Dat Donk Ball and Oww Ming's Flagrant's are still bringing up the rear.

Transactions: Surprisingly there were no transactions this week.

Well, that's it for now.

Keep Foulin' Y'all!

FM

Monday, January 19, 2015

Week 12 Roundup: Dog Days of Fouling Edition

We are in the dog days of the NFA season, so I'll try to keep these introductions interesting. I was looking at my foulers this morning getting ready to set my lineup since there are matinee games on MLK Day and realized all 7 of my starting foulers have 4 games this week. So that got me thinking, how are the other Foul Clubs looking at for total potential games this week. Here's the rundown:

Pgastan FC: 28
Rodman'sWeddingDress: 26
Baltimore Hitsquad: 26
They Call Me Gamblor: 27
Arlington Assaulters: 26
F'N FLOPPERS: 28
Dis Is Dat Donk Ball: 25
Oww Ming's Flagrants: 26

Looks like most teams are playing 4 games this week so this has the opportuntiy to be a massive week of fouling!

Now, let's look at this past week.

 Stat Corrections: There were a total of 8 stat corrections, all techies taken away from foulers, and 7 of the foulers are owned by foul clubs.

-Giannis Antetokounmpo had a techy taken away from him retroactive to December 13th. Dis Is Dat Donk Ball had him active that week so he loses 40 points.
-Draymond Green had a techy taken away from him retroactive to December 14th. They Call Me Gamblor had him active that week so he loses 40 points.
- James Harden had a techy taken away from him retroactive to December  20th. Pgastan FC had him active this week so he loses 40 points.
-Aaron Brooks had a techy taken away from him retroactive to December 30th. Baltimore Hitsquad did not have him active that week so he does not lose 40 points (Brooks ended up with a techy and an ejection that day so the Hitsquad left 150 points on the bench still).
-Nene Hilario had a techy taken away from him retroactive to January 7th. F'N FLOPPERS did not have him active that week so he does not lose 40 points.
-Blake Griffin had a techy taken away from him retroactive to January 7th. Baltimore Hitsquad had him active that week so he loses 40 points.

Standings as of January 19, 2015:

1. Rodman'sWeddingDress- 5620 (+320)
2. Baltimore Hitsquad- 5590  (+440)
3. They Call Me Gamblor- 5560 (+505)
4. Arlington Assaulters- 5265 pts (+325)
5. Pgastan FC- 5260 (+445)
6. F'N FLOPPERS 4955 (+420)
7. Dis Is Dat Donk Ball- 4130 (+200)
8. Oww Ming's Flagrants 4030 (+295) 

Again, no teams changed position in the standings this week (well there could have been some changes during the week but in the end it reverted back to the standings of last week). Oww Ming's Flagrants and Dis Is Dat Donk Ball have finally cracked 4000 points. F'N FLOPPERS is wel ahead of those two foul clubs with 825 points between him and 7th. Pgastan FC is only 5 points behind Arlington Assaulters at the moment  still in 5th place, while AA is 295 points behind 3rd. For the first time in a while we have a logjam at the top of the NFA standings. They Call Me Gamblor is 30 points behind Baltimore Hitsquad who is 30 points behind Rodman'sWeddingDress. With every Foul Club having at least 25 games between their 7 players, there could be some serious movement this week in the NFA standings.

Transactions:
-Pgastan FC added David West and dropped DaMarre Carroll  on January 17th.
-Pgastan FC added J.R Smith and dropped Tristan Thompson on January 18th.
-Arlington Assaulters added Nick Young and dropped Kobe Bryant on January 18th.


Also, Week 12 Points Graph:


 
That's it for this post.
Keep Foulin' Y'all!
FM


Monday, January 12, 2015

Week 11 Roundup: Players to Watch (and not watch) Edition

Rodman'sWeddingDress texted me a fouler notes snapshot of a fouler he just picked up. The fouler was Jusuf Nurkic and the blurb said this:

"Jusuf Nurkic scored 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting with eight rebounds, one steal and three blocks over 22 minutes before fouling out in Friday's win over the Kings. 
Advice: Nurkic is going to be a blast to watch as he can't stop fouling, he's ultra-productive, and proven by his trash talking to Boogie Cousins he's not going to back down to anybody. He should be owned in all formats."

That's right mainstream fouler notes are starting to talk fouls finally. "....he can't stop fouling." Good stuff.

Now, on the other end of the spectrum you have DeMarre Carroll  who had a good regular basketball night (who cares, am I right?) and got this write up:

"DeMarre Carroll had a nice all-around game during Sunday's win over Washington, putting up 16 points on 5-of-9 shooting to go with four rebounds, four steals, one assist, two 3-pointers, and one turnover. 
Advice: Carroll struggled during the month of December hitting just 40.7 percent of his shots, but has gotten things back on track in January with averages of 11.2 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.6 steals, and 1.2 three-pointers on 50.0 percent shooting."

Notice anything? No mention of his fouling, the true metric of a great player. He had 0 fouls that game, in fact he had 4 games last week and only had 4 fouls the entire week despite averaging 31.5 minutes per game. Luckily PFC had him on his bench last week.

Now let's look at the past week:

Stat Corrections: There were a total of 6 stat corrections last week, all techies taken away from foulers but only 2 foulers were owned by foul clubs so that's all I will touch on.

-Blake Griffin had a techy taken away from him retroactive to December 29th. Baltimore Hitsquad had him active that week so he lost 40 points
-DeAndre Jordan had a techy taken away from him retroactive to December 19th. Arlington Assaulter had him active that week so he lost 40 points

Standings as of January 12, 2015:

1. Rodman'sWeddingDress- 5300 (+325)
2. Baltimore Hitsquad- 5150  (+440)
3. They Call Me Gamblor- 5055 (+470)
4. Arlington Assaulters- 4940 pts (+445)
5. Pgastan FC- 4815 (+430)
6. F'N FLOPPERS 4535 (+400)
7. Dis is dat Donk Ball- 3930 (+420)
8. Oww Ming's Flagrants 3735 (+390) 

With no team scoring more than 470 points (They Call Me Gamblor) and no team scoring less than 325 points (Rodman'sWeddingDress) this week saw no movement in the standings. All teams remained in the same place as they were on January 5th. So, being that it's late and I don't feel like writing much and there is not much to analyze, I'm just going to leave it at that.

Transactions:

-Rodman'sWeddingDress added Jusuf Nurkic and dropped Andrew Bogut on January 11th
-Pgastan FC added Tristan Thompson and dropped David Lee on January 11th.

Well that's it for now.

Keep Foulin' Y'all!

FM

Monday, January 5, 2015

Week 10 Roundup: New Years Edition

Rodman'sWeddingDress incredible run of form continues as he overtook 1st place on New Years Eve with a spectacular night (see previous post).

Stat Corrections:

-Kyle O'Quinn was given a flagrant foul retroactive to December 3rd but he was a free agent then so it does not affect NFA Standings


Standings as of January 5, 2014:
 

1. Rodman'sWeddingDress- 4975 (+760)
2. Baltimore Hitsquad- 4710  (+410)
3. They Call Me Gamblor- 4585 (+500)
4. Arlington Assaulters- 4495 pts (+420)
5. Pgastan FC- 4385 (+615)
6. F'N FLOPPERS 4135 (+360)
7. Dis is dat Donk Ball- 3510 (+525)
8. Oww Ming's Flagrants 3345 (+115)

Quite a few standing changes so we'll start at the bottom again. Dis is dat Donk Ball made it out of the cellar finally with a 525 point week though he was aided by a terrible showing by Oww Ming's Flagrants who only managed 115 points who fell to 8th place. F'N FLOPPERS and Pgastan FC swap places as PFC moves up to 5th and F'N FLOPPERS drops to 6th. PFC scored a nice 615 points but did not gain much on 1st through 4th. Arlington Assaulters stays in 4th place with a 420 pooint performace. They Call Me Gamblor also stays in the same position from last week, 3rd place, with a 500 point performance. Baltimore Hitsquad falls to 2nd place with a 410 point week while Rodman'sWeddingDress scores a whopping 760 points to catapult to 1st place and take a 265 point lead in the process. That's 1,585 points in 2 weeks for Rodman'sWeddingDress,  to quote Ian Darke: "Certainly Through! Ohhhhhh it's incredible!!!!!!"

Transactions:

-They Call Me Gamblor added Kevin Durant and dropped Marcin Gortat on December 29th
-F'N FLOPPERS added Ronnie Price and dropped Vince Carter on December 29th
-F'N FLOPPERS added Donatas Motiejunas and dropped Nick Young on January 4th
-Oww Ming's Flagrants added Carlos Boozer and dropped J.R. Smith on January 4th
-Oww Ming's Flagrants added Wilson Chandler and dropped Klay Thompson on January 4th
-Arlington Assaulters added Spencer Hawes and dropped Trevor Booker on January 4th 

That's it for this week.

Keep foulin' Y'all!

FM





Thursday, January 1, 2015

The Association Ends 2014 With a Bang!

Talk about some good fouling to end the calendar year with, a crazy night in the Association yesterday. 6 out of the 8 foul clubs broke 100 points, with 4 of those 6 breaking 200 and 1 breaking 300 which saw Rodman'sWeddingDress finally dethrone Baltimore Hitsquad for 1st. Here's a breakdown of the scoring last night:

Note State Lines below are: (Personal Fouls-Foul Outs-Techies-Ejections-Flagrants).

 6th Place F'N FLOPPERS only managed 20 points

8th Place Oww Ming's Flagrants managed only 30 points.

4th Place Arlington Assaulters scored 105 points lead by a techy from Matt Barnes with 13 personal fouls to go along from him and his other foulers

Formerly 1st place (now 2nd place) Baltimore Hitsquad scored 125 points lead by a techy from Markieff Morris accompanied by 17 personal fouls from him and his other foulers

5th Place Pgastan FC scored 205 points lead by a TFOC from Eric Bledsoe and another techy from PJ Tucker. His final stat line was 13-1-2-0-0 (Personal Fouls-Foul Outs-Techies-Ejections-Flagrants).

Formerly basement dweller Dis Is Dat Donk Ball but now up to 7th place becasue of his 210 point day yesterday was aided by a Foul Out from Marcus Morris and a Flaggy from Alex Len. His final stat line was 14-1-0-0-1

3rd place They Call Me Gamblor had a 220 point day yesterday with 185 points coming from Russell Westbrook's DTE. He got 7 fouls from his 2 other foulers who had games yesterday for a final stat line of 8-0-2-1-0

The hot team at the moment (Rodman'sWeddingDress) has taken the momentum and parlayed it into his first appearance in 1st place for a while if not all season with 300 points. Demarcus Cousins had 190 points with 2 fouls and a DTE. Quincy Acy also had a techy and 2 fouls and OJ Mayo had 5 personal fouls so close to a FO. His final stat line was 16-0-3-1-0.

So a summary of last night's points:
F'N FLOPPERS; 20 (4-0-0-0-0)
Oww Ming's Flagrants: 30 (6-0-0-0-0)
Arlington Assaulters: 105 (13-0-1-0-0)
Baltimore Hitsquad: 125 (17-0-1-0-0)
Pgastan FC: 205 (13-1-2-0-0)
Dis Is Dat Donk Ball: 210 (14-1-0-0-1)
They Call Me Gamblor: 220 (8-0-2-1-0)
Rodman'sWeddingDress: 300 (16-0-3-1-0)

That's it for this post, Let's keep foulin' in 2015 Y'all!

FM