It must be something about the fourth week of the season
that brings out the big scores. Total
points scored this week came in at 976, which is the third highest total
all-time. The record was set one year
ago in Week 4, when the total points scored reached 1,000. That week there were 5 teams that scored
over 100 points and this week we had four teams eclipse that mark. Nice job to all of those teams!
But the accolades this week go out to Joe’s Pats who
overcame a 2-point performance from Vernon Davis, and a 4-point performance
from Steve Smith to score 129 points and take this week’s High Score
title! How’d he do it with two of his
players only combining for 6 points, you ask?
Well, he followed his team name and got 70 points from three Pats
(Tom Brady 31, Stevan Ridley 22, and NE Defense 17). Note - If
you’re going to load up on players from one team, it is good to do it with a
team like New England that is now the highest scoring team in reality and the
second highest scoring team in fantasy.
More on that below. Also after
four weeks we have had four different Weekly High Score winners. How’s that for parity, huh? But congratulations, Joe! Nice job on the high score and on remaining the sole undefeated team!
Speaking of being undefeated, I guess the world needs
balance (you know, that whole Jedi and Sith thing), because my Scottish Rebels still have yet to
find a victory, and are scraping bottom at 0 and 4. But don’t think that this counts me out of the playoffs… oh
no! Quite the contrary! I’ve got a full playoff prediction
breakdown, where I’ll go through each team’s record and give the historic
percentages of qualifying for the playoffs at this stage of the season. Don’t miss it!
So let’s get on with it!!
NOW THAT’S THE
INSIDE STUFF
- Brian
Hartline, WR – Free Agent – 34 pts – Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of
this guy, he’s only owned in 23% of leagues.
And Yahoo! only had him projected for 4 points this week, so yeah, they
were off just a bit. He actually set a
Dolphins receiving record with 253 yards on Sunday.
- San
Francisco, DEF – sprouts – 33 pts – Had the 49ers defense recorded a safety,
they would have had a picture-perfect stat line. Get a load of this one: 3 sacks, 3 fumble recoveries, an
interception, a blocked kicked, a return touchdown, and ZERO points allowed.
Well, that’s pretty perfect as it is…
- Drew
Brees, QB – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 32 pts – Brees is putting up the numbers,
but the Saints aren’t winning. He
logged 446 yards and 3 TD’s… and lost.
Man, it’s tough to win in this league.
- Roddy
White, WR – Scottish Rebels – 31 pts – Oh yeah! These kinds of games are the reason I traded for this guy! 169 yards and two touchdowns! Booyah!
Wait…he wasn’t active? I played
Brandon Lloyd instead? D’oh!
- Tom Brady,
QB – Joe’s Pats – 31 pts – Brady threw for 3 touchdowns, and also ran for a
touchdown. That went along with 340
yards passing and no interceptions.
Yeah, I’d say he had a good day.
- Minnesota,
DEF – Free Agent – 31 pts – The Vikings sacked Matt Stafford 5 times, and had
one fumble recovery, but get this – they had two return touchdowns (one kickoff
and one punt) and racked up 186 return yards.
- Cam
Newton, QB – Scottish Rebels – 30 pts – Classic case of over-thinking it… Cam
Newton against the red-hot Falcons, or Matt Schaub against the struggling
Titans? When in doubt, go with your
keepers. Don’t be like me. Double d’oh!
- Matt Ryan,
QB – Midnight Maulers – 27 pts – Ryan trails only RG3 for the top spot in
fantasy scoring. He is flat out
throwing it like a madman this year, and already has 11 passing TD’s through
the first 4 games.
- Aaron
Rodgers, QB – American BadAss – 27 pts – It was the weekend of
quarterbacks! Five of the top 9 scorers
for the week were signal callers.
COME ON, MAN!
- Evan
Royster, RB – American BadAss – 1 pt – I guess you shouldn’t expect too much
from a guy who had his breakout game last week scoring 3 points.
- Dennis
Pitta, TE – BoomGoesTheDynamite – 0 pts – Never caught a pass and never really
needed to as the Ravens walked all over Cleveland.
- Jeremy Maclin, WR – Midnight Maulers
– 0 pts – Only one catch for seven yards.
That’s not gonna get it done.
YOU NEED A KICKER!
I’ve always been rough on kickers here because, well,
they’re kickers. They are impossible to
predict week-to-week, change teams every other year and injure themselves
with their celebrations. But because my
best player this year is my kicker, I’ve decided to extend an olive branch to
the Vanderjagt’s, Septien’s and the like.
So each week, I’m going to highlight the highest scoring kicker, pass
along an interesting tidbit, and point out some high profile players that he
outscored.
Now, without further adieu, here is Week 4’s HIGHEST SCORING
KICKER:
Greg Zuerlein – St. Louis Rams – 18 points
How’d he do it? Four field goals (including 2 from 50+ yards
(one of those was actually from 60 yards out), and 1 extra point.
Following in Apollo Creed’s footsteps – He has three
nicknames: “Greg the Leg”, “Legatron” and “Young G.Z.”
He’s way better than: Michael Vick (17 pts), Victor Cruz (16
pts), Rob Gronkowski (14 pts), Arian Foster (14 pts) and Frank Gore (13 pts).
FLY AGENT, YOU’RE FREE!!
Check out the team of unwanteds that I put together this
week:
QB – Kevin Kolb, ARI – 20
RB – Brandon Bolden, NE – 20
RB – Jackie Battle, SD – 20
WR – Brian Hartline, MIA – 34*
WR – Andre Roberts, ARI – 23
TE – Scott Chandler, BUF – 18*
K – Greg Zuerlein, STL – 18*
DEF – Minnesota, MIN – 31
Total – 184
The asterisk (*)
next to the player names above denotes players who were the highest scorer in
their position for the week.
MARK TWAIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at
the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
FANTASY VS. REALITY
All year I’ve been tracking the total fantasy scores posted
by NFL team, combining all offensive players, kickers and team defenses, in order
to see how points on the scoreboard correlate to fantasy points. Thus far, the way the teams are ranked in
terms of game points is running pretty close to the fantasy ranking, except for
Philadelphia, who is ranked 29th in game scoring, but 19th
in fantasy scoring, and the New York Jets who are ranked 21st in
game scoring, but 28th in fantasy scoring. Speaking of the Jets, their fantasy point total this last week is stupefying. So far this season, the
average points scored per team each week is 80.2... the Jets scored 14 points this week. Fourteen!! That is crazy
terrible! The only team to even come
close to that was Jacksonville in Week 2 scoring only 25 points.
Here are the top five scoring teams in game points, with
their fantasy points and rank in parentheses:
1)
New England Patriots – 134 pts (Fantasy Rk #2, 410 pts)
2)
Houston Texans – 126 pts (Fantasy Rk #5, 381 pts)
3)
Atlanta Falcons – 124 pts (Fantasy Rk #1, 412 pts)
4)
Washington Redskins – 123 pts (Fantasy Rk #8, 368 pts)
5)
Baltimore Ravens – 121 pts (Fantasy Rk #3, 404 pts)
WEEK 4 PLAYOFF PREDICTIONS
In looking at
five years of Sacred Sundays history, there is one record that is a lock to
qualify for the playoffs after 4 weeks.
That record is 1-2-1, which has been observed 2 times, with both teams
qualifying for the playoffs. So that
means that with BoomGoesTheDynamite sitting with that very record right now,
Jens is a shoo-in to make it to the big dance.
The next highest qualifying record, amazingly, is 1-3. There have been 9 teams to start with a 1-3
record, with 8 of those qualifying to make the playoffs. That’s 88.9% of the teams! So Midnight Maulers and Frito Pie are poised
to make a strong run.
An undefeated
record at this point sounds like a good place to be, but we’ve only seen that
record four times, with three of those teams making it in. So Joe’s Pats has a 75% chance to make it
in. A record of 3-1 has been observed
10 times with 7 of those teams qualifying. That means SOFA KING GOOD and sprouts are looking at a 70% shot to make it in.
Now for the teams that have an uphill battle…
Coors Light Drunk Guys and Gotham’s Reckoning both have a record of 2-2. This is the most common record that has been
observed, having been achieved 17 times.
However, only 8 of those teams qualified, so Shawn and Timmy are looking
at a 47% shot to get in. American
BadAss looks to have a strong record at 2-1-1, but in the three times that
record has occurred, only one team made it in.
So Jason, you’ve got a 33% shot staring you in the face. Bringing up the rear (and I mean that in the
worst possible way that you can imagine), are my Scottish Rebels sitting at
0-4. Four teams have started out this
bad in the past, with one of those still managing to qualify. The team that qualified was back in 2007,
when the now defunct “2Fantastic” went 0-4, but battled back to a 6-7 record
and snagged the final wild card spot. There is hope! I’m not out of this thing yet!!
BESTEST BENCH
I can’t even sugar coat this one this week… I made some bad
decisions and rightfully deserve the crown for Best Bench this week. So, with a 44-point improvement possibility,
the Week 4 Best Bench winner is my Scottish Rebels! Only three roster moves were necessary for this one: R. White for B. Lloyd (+20), C. Newton for
M. Schaub (+14) and A. Morris for B. Green-Ellis (+10).
Four teams are on byes this week, so make sure you have your
rosters ready to go! Week 5 is coming
at ya!!
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