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FootSided: Fantasy football kickers league Week 7 update

By Zachary Thompson

Oct 16, 2016; New Orleans, LA, USA; New Orleans Saints kicker Wil Lutz (3) gestures after his 54-yard field goal with :16 seconds left against the Carolina Panthers at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The Saints won 41-38. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 16, 2016; New Orleans, LA, USA; New Orleans Saints kicker Wil Lutz (3) gestures after his 54-yard field goal with :16 seconds left against the Carolina Panthers at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The Saints won 41-38. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports /
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Oct 16, 2016; Detroit, MI, USA; Detroit Lions kicker Matt Prater (5) kicks the game winning field goal during the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Rams at Ford Field. Detroit won 31-28. Mandatory Credit: Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 16, 2016; Detroit, MI, USA; Detroit Lions kicker Matt Prater (5) kicks the game winning field goal during the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Rams at Ford Field. Detroit won 31-28. Mandatory Credit: Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports /

Week 6 results

Roberto LOLguayo 17, Automatica Gramatica 15

One of our team’s is under new management, and this week they had a “The Artist”-type transformation as they shed their Garo Yip-premians name and emerged as Roberto LOLguayo. The new owner is Tyler Brooke who started his makeover by shedding Roberto Aguayo who was the first-round pick of the former regime. the transformation yield instant results as LOLguayo picked up their second win of the season to improve to 2-4 while dropping Josh Hill to the low spot in the league at 1-5. Hill actually won in Week 1, but he’s been sliding ever since.

The main contributor to Brooke’s debut win was waiver wire acquisition Phil Dawson who knocked in ten fantasy points in a perfect week in Buffalo. He also got a perfect week from Matt Prater who finished with seven fantasy points. On the flip side, Mason Crosby had a good week for Hill, but a missed XP on Sunday Night Football by Nick Novak ultimately proved to be the difference as Automatica Gramatica took the “L” despite a solid score. At least Hill gets Blair Walsh back from his bye this week.

Lutz Triples 20, May the Folk be with you 20

In the highest scoring game of the week, we had a FootSided first. It was the first time this season that a matchup ended in a tie. My team (Zachary Thompson) got a last-minute long-range FG from Wil Lutz to catch up with Matt Blake and pull even in a 20-20 tie. Lutz missed a long FG earlier in the game, but he was able to convert in the Big Easy to beat the Panthers and give me the five fantasy points I needed to catch up to Blake.

Blake continued to be a fantasy-point machine finishing with 20 fantasy points from his dynamic duo of Justin Tucker and Dan Carpenter. Carpenter was perfect on the day but only kicked one FG while converting all six of his XP tries. Tucker also didn’t miss finishing with three FG and three XP.

The tie leaves both of our teams 3-2-1 and just a half-game out of first in our respective divisions. While it isn’t as satisfying as getting a win, at least neither of us had to take a loss with the second-highest score of the week (always the worst in any fantasy format).

Beckham With the Good Hair 15, The Big Gostkowski 11

This week was also the first time the two Best brothers faced off in our fantasy kickers league and it was Adam Best and his Beckham with the Good Hair team that eked out a close win over  Zachary Best who was another owner who lost due to a costly missed XP. The missed XP came from Zach’s first-overall pick Stephen Gostkowski who had six fantasy points on 2/2 FG but only went 3/4 on XP. His other kicker, Jason Myers was perfect on the day, but in a low-scoring battle with the Bears only kicked 2 XP and a FG.

Adam matched his brother’s total with the 11 fantasy points he got on Sunday Night Football from the ageless wonder that is Adam Vinatieri. His other kicker, Chandler Catanzaro only had to get positive fantasy points on Monday Night Football which he accomplished by converting all four XP he attempted in the Cardinals 28-3 thrashing of the Jets. Adam moves to 4-2 and tied for first in the West while Zach drops to a tie for last in the East with his 2-4 record.

Team Frank 17, Gano You Gonna Lose 12

After Mark Carman and his still-unexplained-team-name “Team Frank” knocked off Mike Dyce both sit at 3-3 six weeks into the season. Carman was powered mostly by Josh Lambo who had 13 fantasy points on a big Thursday Night Football performance including going 4/4 on FG. Carman decided to stick with Ryan Succop in his second slot who ended up with just four fantasy points although the more well-known Steven Hauschka had the same amount on Carman’s bench. It was still enough for Carman to get the win, though, and send Dyce to his second straight loss.

Part of Dyce’s slide is definitely due to his namesake’s struggle along with the rest of the Panthers. Graham Gano missed an XP in the Panthers loss in New Orland and ended up with just three fantasy points. Josh Brown was able to get nine fantasy points against the Ravens, but it wasn’t quite enough for Dyce to avoid dropping to 3-3.

Reach for the Bleach 16, Lin Elliott: Rot in hell 5

It wasn’t that long ago that Patrick Allen was the final undefeated team in our fantasy football kickers league. This week, his team put up the lowest point total  by any team any week this season. In fact, in Allen’s two losses he had put up the two lowest totals with just six and five fantasy points. He has won the rest of his games, though, so he still is atop the East with a 4-2 record. This week he was let down by Chris Boswell who only had one fantasy points as the Steelers laid an egg in Miami, and he didn’t get much help from Cairo Santos either who was 2/3 on XP and 2/3 on FG to end up with just four fantasy points of his own.

The team that cruised to victory over Allen was Matt Verderame‘s Reach for the Bleach who are tied for first in the West with Adam Best. Dan Bailey did more than enough to win the game on his own ending up with 12 fantasy points on 3/3 FG and 3/3 XP. Verderame also got four fantasy points from Sebastian Janikowski as he picked up the easy win.

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