We’re back with another edition of the fantasy basketball report. As a reminder, Lin and Tonic (Joe) led after one week, 5-3. Despite my strategy to draft big men early, I ended up with a commanding lead in assists and a slight advantage in steals and a major deficit in rebounds and blocks after Week 1, so I made the decision to drop the injured Hayden Rooke-Ley ’15 in favor of Ed Ogundeko ’17, who played really well in the first week of conference play. I then decided to move Ogundeko into my starting lineup over Zuri Pavlin ’17, who only had one conference game this weekend. In the back court I moved Jaquann Starks ’16 into the lineup for Joseph Lin ’15. I never should have doubted Lin, who had 43 points, 18 assists and six steals on the weekend. Whoops…
Adam shook up his lineup a bit, too, but didn’t make any roster changes, so our lineups going into the weekend looked like this:
| Lord of the ‘CAC (Adam) | Lin and Tonic (Joe) | |
| POS. | Player | Player |
| Guard | G. Safford | J. Starks |
| Guard | D. Wohl | L. Hausman |
| Guard | J. McCarthy | L. Westman |
| Forward | J. Swords | C. Hudnut |
| Forward | D. Sinnickson | E. Ogundeko |
| Forward | A. Santos | H. Merryman |
| Forward | Mar. Delpeche | D. George |
| Bench | J. Brown | Z. Pavlin |
| Bench | S. Ajayi | H. Sabety |
| Bench | R. Epps | J. Lin |
First we’ll show you the scoresheet for Week 2 alone. Notice that scoring was way, way down from Week 1. Also, just looking at who we decided not to start, and I’ve already mentioned my mistake to bench Lin, but Adam really could have benefited from Jake Brown’s ’17 19 assists. Of course the tradeoff would have been only getting seven points and six boards. On the other side, having Hunter Sabety ’17 in the lineup would have been pretty helpful. After missing the conference opener against Middlebury last weekend, Sabety came back strong against Amherst and Trinity, scoring 28 on 14-21 shooting (66.7 percent) with eight rebounds and four blocks.
| Category | Lord of the ‘CAC (Adam) | Lin and Tonic (Joe) |
| Points | 139 | 146 |
| Assists | 25 | 25 |
| Rebounds | 67 | 99 |
| Steals | 16 | 4 |
| Blocks | 14 | 9 |
| FT% | 74.4% (32/43) | 72.8% (59/81) |
| FG% | 40.9% (56/137) | 48.8% (63/129) |
| 3PT Made | 15 | 6 |
Just by glancing at the table above, it’s clear that I was able to maintain my leads in points and assists and the percentage categories, while also closing the gap in rebounds, so I should be pretty happy.
Unfortunately steals, blocks and 3PT made are quickly slipping out of reach. Take a look now at the composite standings.
| Category | Lord of the ‘CAC | Lin and Tonic | Leader |
| Points | 352 | 399 | Joe |
| Assists | 47 | 76 | Joe |
| Rebounds | 171 | 168 | Adam |
| Steals | 29 | 22 | Adam |
| Blocks | 33 | 15 | Adam |
| FT% | 70.5% (79/112) | 77.1% (138/179) | Joe |
| FG% | 49.1% (132/269) | 50.5% (147/291) | Joe |
| 3PT Made | 33 | 12 | Adam |
Overall score: Tied 4-4