Fantasy Cross Country Week 3: So Close to Three Straight

In Week 3, Team Wang almost made it 3-for-3. He has now won twice and finished 2nd this week by 21 points to Team Hackett. It looks like these two teams may be the cream of the crop in the league at the moment. 

Hackett, the winner on the week, benefited from 3 of the 4 best performances of the week. Victor Mugeche, Kevin Koester, and Tom Seitzer were 1-2-4 and Blake Selm was not too far behind in 11th. With a better week from Jack Crull, Hackett would have one of the best weeks in recent memory. It's looking like the Mugeche pick at #2 is paying off for him and the later round sleeper picks Seitzer and Koester are coming up big, too. Team Wang continues to benefit from a breakout by Oaklee Hauschild and could have been a little closer with a better day by Nassim Oufattole. Wang is still looking very solid going forward. He made the quick pickup of Brady Bauder from Kickapoo after his nice performance at SWCCCA and Bauder returned the favor with a similarly solid performance at Forest Park. That may be a key moving forward as he matches well with Peter Campbell, Andrew Connor, and Matyas Csiki-fejer. How we let these two teams get this stacked is beyond me... Coach Crowe was the most active owner this week, making four roster moves as he finds himself in last at the moment. 

As for me, I had another solid but not amazing week. Riddle took another week off and I didn't get the low scorers I needed to do some damage. Ryan Flood was solid for me this week, but he will be off in Week 4 so I still won't have my full team altogether at once this week. With four of my boys at the Stampede this week, though, it could be a fast week, especially if Riddle tries to chase down the 15:00 barrier and get that follow back from MoMileSplit twitter. I'm sitting 4th at the moment, just behind the man who faithfully keeps the same lineup every week, Team Spewak, but this Stampede week with all the STL kids either running Parkway Central or Sioux Passage or taking the week off could be a big one for yours truly. 

Check out the full results from Week 3:

Rosters heading into Week 4 (italics indicates new additions):