I drafted him and Aiyuk in my $$$ league. So probably my fault.
Looks like a rebuilding year.
Between Mike Evans and Drake London that was a nice Thursday night for my team.
But, of course, Retro has Kirk Cousins and this week is still going to be a fight because I can’t have nice things.
Peteys lost to Great Old Ones by .55 points which is rough. Despite being a contender for most points, he started the season 2-3.
I’m probably going to beat Omni but it’s a closer than than I’d have thought. He’s off to a rough start too but I think he may have hit on both his QB picks. If I win, that’s a 5-0 start. It will be close as to whether Jules or I end up with the point lead.
Dale is very likely to lose which gives me a 2.5 game lead in my division. Justin needs a 3.9 game out of Xavier Worthy tonight to beat Retro. If he does, then I have a 2 game edge over everyone, with the second best record being 3-2. If Retro wins then he’s 4-1.
Hamlet… will always have the 2023 championship. Spiritus went off this week for 162, mostly from the Burrow (and Higgs) explosion.
Well, at least I have my health, kinda.
Somehow I missed that Jules is going to be 4-1.
I was curious which division has won the most wildcards so I looked it up:
Northeast: 2023, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013
Sunbelt: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2016, 2014, 2010
Midwest: 2012, 2011, 2009
That felt about right to me because northeast and sunbelt have been trading blows pretty regularly in the playoff race but I was surprised to see it’s been over a decade since the Midwest took it.
Feeling good about Marv too, though his situation this year is kind of rough. With a little luck Pearsall will justify his draft spot too. Unfortunately, last year’s draft is looking like a trainwreck between Mingo, Tillman and Kendre Miller so that’s definitely hurting the rebuild.
Man I’m hating my IR slots, which currently house Puka Nacua, Hollywood Brown, and now Nico Collins. Ouch. This has me having to press Quentin Johnston into a starting role, and with Mixon questionable in my flex spot I just had to pick up my man Darius Slayton from free agency. That’s never a good sign.
Team is holding together but only barely. These bye weeks certainly aren’t helping.
It’s nerve-wracking dealing with Ellis’s problem from the other side. Every week I wonder if I should swap out Stroud for Kyler and it’s harder now with Kyler playing great and all those Texans injuries.
And now Michael Pittman is out for a few weeks, potentially going on IR as well. Michael Pittman may not be a flashy starter but boy do I like him as a backup for bye weeks.
So I now have two starting receivers and two backup receivers on IR or about to be.
5-0 and maintained the points lead this week. I expect that to melt by the end of the season but it’s fun to make a run.
In particular my WR performance has been unexpectedly good and probably unsustainable. Jayden Reed, Rashid Shaheed, and Brian Thomas Jr are top 10 WRs through the first 5 weeks.
But it’s mostly been my kicker, beautiful Brandon Aubrey.
Is this our highest scoring season ever, collectively?
My scoring is definitely up. I’m averaging 121 points per week with 605 points after five games. I haven’t scored a two digit number yet. Both of those facts are big improvements for me compared to years past, not counting last year.
But I’m pretty consistently in the middle of the pack in terms of scoring. In fact, that 605 total of mine right now is only good enough for 5th most, and Mundi is right behind me in 6th with 602.
It feels like the whole league is scoring more. Is that us getting better at assembling teams or is that the actual NFL players producing more stats? Or both? I wonder.
In any case, I like it.
I have no idea if this season is unusual, but I think in general the scoring earlier in the season is typically higher. There are various reasons - fewer injuries to star players so more points are concentrated in fewer players. Both because star players earn more points than their replacements, but also production tends to get spread around with replacement players. The weather is generally better. I’ve never done the math but it wouldn’t surprise me if something like 60% of the score was earned in the first 50% of the season.
True. Also, no bye weeks the first few weeks. Yeah maybe it’s just that.
Big game this week between Jules and Ellis. If Ellis wins they stay neck and neck for the division but if Jules wins he gets a pretty substantial lead for it.
I’m a little nervous this week that RNATB is going to be the unlikely matchup to break my winning streak, but we’re sitting at 57/43 in my favor at this point so it’ll be close.
Omni is currently projected at a 75% chance to get his first win of the season.
Dale is currently a 96% favorite over Peteys, which means Peteys would start 2-4 which is horrifically unlucky given the quality of his team.
Shit. My game with RNATB is a coin flip at 50/50. He got a 30 point game from Godwin and nothing else, but apparently that’s enough.
About that.
So I entered this offseason with zero starting QBs on my roster. In Week 6 I ended up with 3 of the top 8 scoring QBs (as of Sunday Night) on my roster. In that same week my starting WRs and RBs scored a collective 15.1 points, my subjective top 3 players totaled -0.10 points. Yup, you read that right.
RNATB picked a fine week to blow up and score 141. I need Josh Allen to score 31.22 points. Yahoo puts me at 14% but I think that’s an underestimate, probably more like 25%. I got outscored at kicker, which is of course my downfall.
Ellis beat Jules making the division race pretty tight.
After starting the season 0-2, Gaffer is on a 4 game win streak. That makes the division race for the Midwest pretty close.
Down goes the last undefeated team. I didn’t even have a bad game - 134 points - but RNATB put up his highest score of the season by far.
I was going back and forth before the games deciding on the Denver or Chargers defenses - both of which have been excellent this year. I picked Denver, but if I’d have picked the chargers, the extra 7 points would’ve been enough to just squeeze out the win. Ah well.
The champ starts the season 1-5. Kind of shocking.
I still narrowly retain the overall score lead with Jules 13 points behind me. Northeast has opened up their lead on being the best division by average score. Even their last place team, Gusterrhoids, is ahead of everyone in mid-west and half of sunbelt.
Woo. Bills trade for Amari Cooper who is going to thrive under our father Josh Allen. Allen’s gonna get another #1 scoring season.