Doubling it up!

Two is better than one!

Two in a row!  Hats off to American BadAss for taking home the Weekly High Score Prize for the second week in a row!  Big games from Matt Ryan (31 points) and Ezekiel Elliot (32 points) propelled Jason to 128 points and the crown.  The 128 points scored is the highest single week total so far this season, and it moves BadAss into the top spot for highest scoring team.  Well done bro!

In divisional standings, the South Division is proving to be the dominant force this season, having scored a combined 139 points more than the North (1,860 to 1,721), and boasts an overall combined winning record of 12-8.  But get this, comparing scoring this season to last season isn’t even close… last season through the first four weeks there were a combined 3,012 points scored and this season there have been 3,581!  That breaks down to an average of 57 more points scored per team, or an average of 14 more points scored per team per week.  The scoreboards are lighting up this season, as this is the highest scoring season through the first four weeks since 2013!  Let's keep that rollin'!

Just a couple quick notes this week…

• Every week there has been at least one quarterback to score over 40 points...and this week we had two!  Mitchell Trubisky went crazy for 46 pts (!) and Jared Goff racked up 41.  These two guys combined for 11 touchdown passes.  Wha..what?!
• The top four teams in the North Division (Vandelay Industries, Bubble Craps Bandits, Sofa King Back and Longshanks) are all within 5 points of total scoring.
• Blake Bortles has only lost in 2 of the 196 countries in the world.
• The 10th ranked kicker in fantasy (Josh Lambo, JAX) has scored 35 points.  There are only three tight ends who have scored more than that, and one of those is George Kittle.
• The highest scoring defense is the Chicago Bears who have scored 60 points, ranking them 28th overall in scoring.  (They have more points than Kareem Hunt or Julio Jones).  The thing that makes this notable is the Bears were undrafted, while Hunt & Julio were 2nd rounders.

PLAYOFFS?  DON'T TALK ABOUT PLAYOFFS!
Hard to believe we are already four weeks into the season, but it means that next week I’ll be posting my annual playoff predictions.  It's gonna be tricky this year with the standings being tight and so many points being scored.  Two years ago I went 6-for-6 with my Week 5 Playoff Predictions, but I last year I only got 4 of 6 correct.  Tune in next week to see who I predict will be playing for the crown this season!

BEST BENCH
Wouldn’t be right to finish a week without awarding the Best Bench, and it is a good one this time.  The winner this week had the highest bench total of the season so far, with an impressive 54-point improvement possibility!  Needing only three roster moves to get there, the Week 4 Best Bench goes to… Bye Week!!  Jens needed to swap G. Tate for T. Austin (+25), J. White for D. Cook (+20) and S. Michel for A. Collins (+9).  You see that?  Going with an all New England Patriot backfield would have been better for Jens.  This world is an odd place.  All I can say to that is...What do YOU know?!?

Let’s get Week 5 going!!

For Timmy