WK21 - Invasion of Burgundy

The Burg has been pretty quiet thus far in PoV. After having some success during the beginning of the season, Burgundy fell off the wagon, plummeting nearly to the basement of the League, before bouncing around third and fourth position. He's been steadily holding third position since week 12, but that's also around the time that Dick Burns and Tree Bone went MIA, so maintaining third position wasn't as difficult as it seemed.

However, Burgundy is now executing a full on attack, orchestrating a militia invasion. He's been known for these sorts of tactics before, and he's doing it again this season. Let's look at the visuals, courtesy of the stats machine:

Sitch still leads overall, but Burgundy was this week's top bread winner, bringing home an incredible 206.15 fantasy points; that's the most anyone has brought in over a 10 week span. Burgundy can thank Kane (a steal after being dropped by Tree Bone earlier this season), Nikita Kucherov, Victor Hedman and Sergei Bobrovsky; all players brought home more than 20 fantasy points each during the week.

"It's been months now but I still can't get over that Kane pickup," said Safari, shaking his head. "Every damn select-GM submitted a claim as soon as Kane hit waivers. Everyone."

"Suck it!" jeered Burgundy.

"Suck it, Gill!" - I Love You, Man (2009)

With Kane and Crosby both playoff bound, I'm thinking this Burg Surge will be along lasting one, a voyageur that propels itself with fantastic speed. It's destination? Pleasure Town (otherwise known as top spot in the League). Sitch is shaking in his boots (or should I say, cross trainers).

While we're on the theme of Burg Surges, Burgundy also boosted his PPGP by an astounding +0.07 this week. He's now second in PPGP at 3.27, closely behind Sitch, who's still leading and pumping a 3.31 (+0.01 since last week). Safari is humming along in third at 3.25, while Tree Bone (3.07) and Dick Burns (2.93) round out the rest of the League. 

We don't see many changes in the Rainbow, except that Sitch and Burgundy are really starting to break away from the pack in terms of player PPGP. Prior to February 2017, player PPGP across the League was just under 3.00 PPGP, and it really seemed that scoring was proving to be more difficult this year. However, since then Sitch and Burgundy have been able to score at a rate above 3.00 for their players, scoring at 3.15 and 3.14 PPGP, respectively.

No changes to Rank. Sitch has now been atop the rankings for 14 weeks consecutive.

Play wisely, my dear select-GM's. It may be blistering cold out (it was minus 30 with the windchill this past weekend), but I promise you the Spring air is just around the corner. We had a glimpse of it at the end of February, where temperatures were in the low pluses and the snow was melting. The smell of melting snowbanks and thawing mud does something to hockey players; it makes them playoff crazy. Anything can happen in the last few weeks of the Randy Leagues, so be sure to put your best game face on.

Until next time, gentlemen and lady.

- Morpheus Randy