CFCC Week 10 Wrap: Dirty Dawg Success Tips

by: exRegionalWeenie November 7, 2017

Winning every game isn't realistic, so the best way to earn Dirty Dawg fame is to make sure your picks don't stink. The cool thing about Dirty Dawg is that your picks can kinda stink - they just need to stink less than the competition. The Golden Rule of Dirty Dawg is to stink less than the rest.

Week 10 winner John Crafter followed the Golden Rule. He tallied 76 points - not bad, but not record-setting stuff, either. John narrowly beat Daniel Luyk (74 points) and John Glueck (72), who took 2nd and 3rd place, respectively. The remaining members of this week's Fab Five were Jason B. Wright of Franklin, TN, with 66 points and Andy Patrick of Lake Charles, LA, with 64.

What did those Fab Five players have in common? They stunk less than the rest of you. And you know how I can prove that? Because the AVERAGE SCORE WAS JUST 18. The previous week's average was a terrible 21 points, so odd favored a rebound in Week 10. Instead, scores were WORSE. This is one of the worst back-to-back CFCC weeks in recent memory.

Violators of the Golden Rule
While kudos go to the Fab Five for adhering to the Golden Rule, some of you really &%$!$*!'ed the pooch. Did you even try? How can you explain scores in the *minus* 30's (Jamie Tran, Todd Hill and Bob Wagner) or minus 40's (Karen Hatfield and Phil Stiegman)? Even worse was Steve Burrus who had a minus 64! Holy smokes, bro, what was that? You gotta be high to be that bad, so I figured Steve was from a legal pot state like Colorado. Nope, he's from Simpsonville, SC. Simpsonville is near the Appalachian Mountians, so maybe moonshine was to blame. Or meth.

Year-to-Date Standings
Brandon, Mississippi's Brad Bryant reclaimed 1st place after dropping into 2nd place for a week. Brad has a five-point lead over Kent Kyper. Last week's leader (Penny Zabel of Portland, TX) slipped to 3rd. Two players are tied for 4th - Albuquerque, NM's Kerry Jones and FAKE PLAYER Johnny Vegas (Johnny is the 'player' who simply goes with the Vegas line). Do you think maybe a few more of you REAL PLAYERS can step it up and at least keep Johnny from finishing the year in the Top 10? Please?? The rest of the current Top 10 includes Rick Hluchan, Josh Boustead, Loretta Harral, Becky Pitt, and Linda Ashford.

10 Things after 10 Weeks
- Current leader Brad Bryant has been in the Top 10 for seven consecutive weeks
- Brad's current streak matches the longest such stretch for any player this year (tied with Joel Veeneman who did it from Week 2 to Week 8).
- Week 1 winner Tdub (don't blame me) now ranks #327! So much for that early momentum, eh, Tdub?
- Week 2 winner better not laugh. Zach Sefcovic is in 320th place. Hide the children!
- More riches-to-rags tales: Week 3 and 4 winners, Joe Merchant and Andrew Sniezak are no longer in the Top 100.
- Ohio State was the worst of the week as they were taken to the woodshed by Iowa.
- Actually, maybe Penn State was worse. They were much more competitive than the Buckeyes but the Ohio State loss re-opened the door for PSU to make the playoffs...if they didn't lose. Duh!
- Just when the Big 10 was getting better, now Penn State and Ohio State are out of the race, with just an untested Wisconsin team remaining in the national conversation.
- Army 21, Air Force 0. And Air Force was home and favored by 6. Huh???
- The Bedlam match between OU and Oklahoma State was historicly entertaining - unless you like defense.

Group Standings & News
The powerhouse BoomerBacks are in 1st place in the group standings for the 4th time in the past five weeks. They have a five-point lead over 2nd place The Florida Dummies 16.0 and 3rd place Dawgzilla. Boomer and 'Zilla have been in the Top 4 after EVERY WEEK this season. Talk about consistency!

The Harvey Rebels were the Group leaders after Weeks 2 and 3. Today, though - not so much, as they have fallen for back-to-back weeks and now sit in 9th place. Despite their current slump, though, they're still WAY ahead of bottom feeder Portlandia Playas. They've had a strangle hold on last place for five consecutive weeks and they are way behind the team that's in front of them. Hey, Playas, as Dean Wormer said, "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life."