Week 10: Spae's Resurgence

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Ever see the movie: "Go"?

It was released back in 1999 and starred Katie Holmes when she was still hot. Before years of Scientology, Tom Cruise, and a plethora of horrible decisions consigned her to the trash heap of "once promising young Hollywood starlets who ruined their career/life"

Well, there was a scene where a bouncer at the Crazy Horse Too (not a typo) got shot in the arm, and as his father stitched up the wound, he imparted this wisdom upon his son:

"You know what wakes me up in the middle of the night covered in a cold sweat? Knowing that you aren't any worse than anyone else in your whole screwed up generation. In the old days, you know how you got to the top? Huh? By being better than the guy ahead of you. How do you people get to the top? By being so fucking incompetent, that the guy ahead of you can't do his job, so he falls on his ass and congratulations, you are now on top. And now the top is down here, it used to be up here... and you don't even know the fucking difference."

That kind of sums up how Spae's team has managed to turn things around this year. Allow me to elucidate:

DeAngelo Williams: Williams managed only 2.5 points over the course of the five weeks when Le'Veon Bell was starting. Compare that with the 96 points he's tallied during the games Bell has been out and you've got a fantasy running back who's value has skyrocketed based on the fact that the guy in front of him was unable to stay healthy.

Chandrick West: West had 8.5 points over the first six weeks of 2015. Then like clockwork, Mr. Glass (aka Jamal Charles) goes down for the season. Of course West has amassed 72.5 points in his last three games.

James Starks: Eddie Lacey's ineptitude combined with his groin injury paved the way for local boy Starks to become the Packers' primary back. In his first five games, Starks got a combined 25 points. Put that up against the 62.5 he's posted in the last four and you've got a running back who has more than doubled his point output.

Now to be fair, Spae picked Williams on draft day, and West was the backup to his boy Charles. Still, these running backs wouldn't be in the position they are today if it weren't for the ineptitude and injury prone nature of the guys ahead of them on the depth chart.

So cheers to Spae, having fantasy football incompetency work in his favor for a change.