I spoke with Jesus on the Internet
At least that’s who he said he was
And I asked him ’bout his father
Why He allows the things He does
There was nothing for a moment
And then he wrote back “just because”
Here we are on the cusp of the halfway point of the regular season. Our draft strategy is probably a distant memory due to poor planning, underperforming players, injuries, or just bad fantasy karma.
So I guess you take the truth where you can find it
Throw caution to the wind if you don’t mind it
And reel it all back in when they unwind it
And try and stop the needing
‘Cause Romeo is bleeding…
Romeo is bleeding…
Injuries. Let’s look at injures. We get points for a players on field performance. Yet with injuries woven into the fabric of the game there is no credit given. Only disbelief, misery, and stolen W’s. At the time of this writing, there were 45 players on our rosters with injury designations. That seemed like a lot to me.
You don’t know what I know
‘Cause if you did then you’d be me
And looking in the mirror
You might not like just what you see
Or get blinded by reflections as you fly closer than
Anyone should be
To that place where the lies black out the sun
And where your secrets have no other place to run
And the falling of the curtain has begun
And everyone is leaving
‘Cause Romeo is bleeding…
Romeo is bleeding…
Of those 45 injury designations, 8 of them are IR or PUP. Both Joe Burrow & Malik Nabors were round 2 draftees. Tyreek Hill was drafted in the third round. Omari Hampton in the fourth round. George Kittle in the fifth round. Paired with Kittle on the Dinamos is Trey Benson drafted in the 19th round. Joe Mixon was a round 16 draft pick. In round 19 Brandon Aiyuk was selected and has been on the PUP ever since.
Oh and lovers find their solace in the shadows down
The blocks…
Like misdirected sailors who can’t quite see the rocks…
Where the jagged expectations of matters of the
Heart…tear them apart…
They hear the sirens singing
Hey la ho la hey la ho la hey la ho la hey la ho la
When I started looking at this I wondered how this year compared to previous years for injuries. My premise is that injuries correlat to transactions. So I looked at the number of transactions for the same time in each season.
I was surprised by what I found. At this same time for each of the past 8 seasons, 2025 is in the lower half of the eight years ranking 6 in the amount of transactions made! I’m not sure what this means. Is my premise wrong? Are we making better quality of transactions? Below is a chart of the rankings
| Rank | Year | # of Transactions |
| 1 | 2018 | 120 |
| 2 | 2024 | 99 |
| 3 | 2021 | 93 |
| 4t | 2019 | 91 |
| 4t | 2020 | 91 |
| 6 | 2025 | 87 |
| 7 | 2023 | 82 |
| 8 | 2022 | 66 |
So I guess you take the truth where you can find it
Throw caution to the wind if you don’t mind it
Yeah and reel it all back in when they unwind it
And try and keep believing
‘Cause Romeo is bleeding…
Romeo is bleeding…
Romeo is bleeding…
Romeo is bleeding…
As long as my premise about injuries correlating to transactions is sound, then we are having a normal year when it comes to our players missing games. Though it sure doesn’t seem that way. Maybe it’s all about Her! Who is she? She is Fantasy Karma. And she will get her own topic one of these weeks.
Hey la (can you hear the voices)
Ho la (can you hear ’em singing)
Hey la (singing sweet and low)
Ho la
Hey la (now you raise your hand)
Ho la (gonna take a stand now)
Hey la (and follow where love goes)
Ho la
Hey la (come on, come on, come on)
Ho la (come on, come on, come on)
Hey la (come on, come on, Romeo)
–words and music by Michael Stanley
Week 6 Recap, Week 7 Predictions, Most Points Race
Week 6 Recap
Last week I hit on four of the five games. Good on The Reckoning over Anal Explosion, Big Daddy over Offsides Mother F****!, Sleepy Squad over FNG, & Devils Snare over Sloppy Sparrows, I missed on Finkle & Einhorn over Dinamos.
Week 7 Predictions
In addition to injuries being somewhat of an equalizer, we have to contend with bye weeks. For that reason, I feel pretty confident again that The Reckoning gets a W. This time over the Dinamos.
Big Daddy has less injury concerns than Finkle & Einhorn, so Big Daddy for the win.
Same here for FNG. They get the “W” over Devils Snare
When I look at the Sloppy Sparrows roster I see numerous injury questions. For that reason, I think Anal Explosion gets back in the win column.
When Joe Burrow got injured, Offsides Mother F****!’s season started navigating the season like “those misdirected sailors who can’t quite see the rocks…” that Micheal wrote about above. OFM keeps the games close, but Sleepy Squad wins this game I think.
“Hey la ho la hey la ho la hey la ho la hey la ho la”
Most Points Race
While Big Daddy and OFM were slugging it out in a low scoring affair last week, The Reckoning were busy out scoring Anal Explosion in a high scoring affair. The result is a closer most points race.
| Rank | Team | Points | Points Behind |
| 1 | Big Daddy | 1015.48 | – |
| 2 | The Reckoning | 979.38 | 36.10 |
| 3 | Offsides Mother F***! | 977.96 | 37.52 |
| 4 | Anal Explosion | 906.02 | 109.46 |
| 5 | Dinamos | 831.00 | 184.48 |
| 6 | Devils Snare | 824.10 | 191.38 |
| 7 | FNG | 818.56 | 196.92 |
| 8 | Sleepy Squad | 809.96 | 205.52 |
| 9 | Finkle & Einhorn | 796.60 | 218.88 |
| 10 | Sloppy Sparrows | 759.58 | 255.90 |