NFL Pick Em Week 4

Another round of me failing at picking NFL games. Leggo!

• Carolina at Atlanta: Atlanta has been playing excellent and are home. Taking ATL
• New England at Buffalo: I think the majority of the BSRS Crew wouldn't be heard from again if the Pats lose. I can't handle that. I need my FelizMiguel. Pats win. 

Fantasy College Hockey: Mock Draft

Most of you, if you're reading this sports related blog are at least familiar with the idea of fantasy sports, particularly in football.  Pick players on various teams, get points based on their performances, beat QuackQuack every year (maybe that last one just applies to me and GW).  Well lucky for us college hockey devotees, some enterprising individual has created a fantasy league for our favorite of sports.  We as a blogging team definitely would encourage you to go over to http://www.fantasycollegehockey.com and make a league with your friends, roommates and others who are stuck living with you in cells in Warren or rat-ridden brownstones on Bay State Road (hey, that's the name of the blog!).  For those of you who want to go dive into fantasy college hockey (it's a great way to educate oneself about the skating world west of Vermont and major players this season who don't reside within walking distance of the B Line) here's a projection of how I would draft to impress your friends and destroy their hopes and dreams in friendly competition.

Scoring breakdown: the number is the amount of points you get toward your weekly score for each that one of your players achieves

GWG	1	Skaters	Game Winning Goal
SHG	3	Skaters	Shorthanded Goal
PPG	1	Skaters	Power Play Goal
EAG	2	Skaters	Extra Attacker Goal
HAT	5	Skaters	Hat Trick
GOAL	2	Skaters	Goal
ASSIST	1	Skaters	Assist
SHUT	5	Goalies	Shutout

W	2	Goalies	Win
L	-1	Goalies	Loss
T	1	Goalies	Tie
N	1	Goalies	No Decision
ALLOW	-5	Goalies	Allowed 5 or More Goals
SAVE	2	Goalies	Save Percentage > 90%

Now, a fearless prediction of how to draft for fantasy hockey success (I'm gonna assume a 10-team league, with 6 forwards, 4 d-men and 2 goalies active each week, so i'm showing enough picks to fill each team at those positions, although 12 more rounds would be necessary to fill benches)  Are you listening, BSRS league members?:
Note: As we are doing in our league, I'm leaving out BC kids (because they're assholes and no one wants to have to be joyful when  Michael Sit scores a goal) and frosh because they're just too unreliable in my mind.  But there are definitely freshman out there who will perform at a high level, it's just difficult to know for certain ahead of time.

2012-13 Pre-Season Hockey LEast Picks

So last March we began a tradition of announcing our own Hockey LEast team. This is a team of players throughout the conference that either suck or we don't like and sometimes a combination of the two. So without further ado, here are this year's pre-season picks:

(Worst) Player of the Year
Vinny Saponari (F) NU- The defending champ is our pick to repeat due to the fact that his rapping is almost as bad as his game on the ice. He was named captain for the Huskies this coming season which will make it that much funnier when he fails miserably.  Oh, and anybody that jersey pops is either 14 or a tool (or both)  To quote Claude Giroux, "We aren't in the fucking world juniors here."

Two new polls out...BU 3rd in HE media polls, 13th in USA Today poll

Two college hockey polls were released in the last 24 hours. One of which was the HE media poll which ranked BU as #3 in the conference in the annual pre-season poll. Terrier juniors Matt Nieto and Garrett Noonan were selected to the All- Hockey East team with Nieto as a forward along with some scrubs from BC(Newton),Maine and Lowell( Gaudreau, Diamond, and Wilson). Noonan was joined by Ruhwedel on the d pair and Newton College goalie Parker Milner was named the goalie. The standings were as follows
1. BC(Newton University)
2 Lowell
3. BU
4. UNH
5. PC
6. Maine
7. Merrimack
8. Northeastern
9. UMass
10. UVM

The national USA Today poll was also released. It has as much significance as the HE media poll which is zero but here it is anyway. BU comes in 13th with BC and Lowell also coming in ranked. Maine, UNH, PC and Merrimack received votes in the poll. Here is the rest of the top 15
1. Newton University -overrated
2. Minnesota- choke artists
3. Michigan -
4. North Dakota - Half the team is suspended for one of their first two games
5. Union -EZAC always has high ranked teams early in the year..they never win shit. Granted Union was a Frozen Four team last year so I am more sold on them than the rest of the conference
6. Cornell
7. Lowell
8. Denver
9. Miami
10. Notre Dame
11. Western Michigan- Should be higher. I think they are a Frozen Four team this year
12. Minnesota-Duluth- Shouldn't be this high with everyone they lost

13. BU

14 Ferris St.
15. Wisconsin

NFL Week 3 Pick 'Em

So last week I only picked up 7 wins. Pretty awful, just like my fantasy team. Aiming for perfection again so let's get into it.

1. Jets vs 'Fins: I think the Jets offense should improve against the Dolphins defense. The Miami offense doesn't impress me and I think the Jets defense will have the upper hand. Jets win.
2. Rams vs Bears: Rams pulled out an impressive win against a pretty good Redskins team last week and the Bears need to pull together after last weeks debacle. I'll take the Rams on an up swing of good momentum.
3. Bills vs Browns: Bills looked like a team last week and we shall see if they can put it together again for the win. Keep an eye out for Trent Richardson. Looking very impressive in the first 2 games so far.