It's official! Week 6 breaks a 7-year-old record!

Now that’s the way to do fantasy!  In an impressive display of scoring, we tied the record for most teams scoring greater than 100 points in a single week (6), and set the record for most combined points scored in a single week with 1,006!  Booyah!  The previous record was 1,000, set back in Week 4 – 2011.  A seven year old record goes down, and one which hasn't really been threatened in a long time.  (There was a week in 2016 with 977 total points scored, but nothing even that close since.) Four of the teams scoring over 100 won their games, but unfortunately for Young Guns and Team IR and Holdout! their triple digit scores were in a losing effort.  Those two losses mark the 5th time out of 20 this season where scoring over 100 did not result in victory.  2018 is not being nearly as kind to 100 point scorers as previous years have been .

The big congratulations this week go to Mr. Jens Bolleyer's Bye Week, who had a stellar Monday night and finished at the top of the record-setting mountain with 127 points!  Jens got 56 combined points from his MNF Packers' connection (Aaron Rodgers (31) and Davante Adams (25)), plus added 22 from Sony Michel.  This marks the first Weekly High Score Prize for Jens, and is the 5th different team to claim the prize this season.  Nice work Jens!  Also, the “J” streak continues… we have yet to see a non-J owner claim a Weekly High Score Prize this season.

In league standings, I’m not sure how it could be much closer… we basically have a nice bell curve -- two teams at 4-2, six at 3-3 and two at 2-4.  Six weeks in and the last place team is only 2 games out of first place… that is absolutely crazy!  How about that for parity?!  Make sure you have your best roster set every week (*I’m looking at you Shawn*), because I have a feeling the final standings are going to be just as close.

This week we’ll get an update on fantasy points scored by NFL team, reveal what is probably the best insult, and give out the lowest Best Bench score of the season.  Onward!

BIG TIME

• Todd Gurley, RB – Joe’s Pats – 36 pts – Gurley was a yardage monster against the Broncos, gaining an average of 7.42 yards per carry, to finish with 208 yards and 2 TD’s!
• Jameis Winston, QB – Team IR and Holdout! – 33 pts – Something about this Bucs team just lends itself to big QB performances… Winston racked up 395 yards and 4 TD’s, but did also have two picks.
• Tyreek Hill, WR – American BadAss – 32 pts – This was Hill’s best performance since Week 1 when he had 38 points.  In fact, his total this week was just one point less than the points he scored in Weeks 2-5 combined (15, 5, 5, 8).  Expect another big game come Week 11.
• Melvin Gordon, RB – Longshanks – 32 pts – Gordon ran all over the Browns for a total of 150 yards and 3 TD’s!  This performance moves him to the 2nd ranked spot for fantasy runningbacks.
• Aaron Rodgers, QB – Bye Week – 31 pts – Just another run-of-the-mill game for Rodgers with a come from behind victory including a final game winning 75 yard drive with only 1:07 left.  Seriously, this guy really might be able to pull a rabbit out of his head.
• Albert Wilson, WR – Free Agent – 30 pts – If you’ve never heard of this guy, you are not alone…he was only owned in 10% of leagues.  Apparently he is a 2nd half guy too, as his first half total on Sunday was 5 yards and 0 TD’s, while his second half total was 150 yards and 2 TD’s.  How about that for a 2nd half adjustment?

COME ON MAN

• Graham Gano, K – Vandelay Industries – 2 pts – A week after nailing a 63-yard game winning kick, Gano didn’t get many opportunities (1 30-yd FG), plus he screwed things up by missing a PAT.
• Corey Davis, WR – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 2 pts – The good news= Davis averaged 24 yards per catch.  The bad news = he only had one catch.
• Tennessee, DEF – American BadAss – 2 pts – Just not much going on for the Titans… their lone positive stat for the day was a single interception.
• Jarvis Landry, WR – Longshanks – 1 pt – Landry finished with only 2 catches, which was his lowest total since 2015.
• Jay Ajayi, RB – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 0 pts – Generally players not on IR tend to score more than players who are on IR.  Just sayin’.  (Update your roster Shawn!)
• Caleb Sturgis, K – Joe’s Pats – 0 pts – Similarly, players who are active generally tend to score more than players who are inactive.  Again, just sayin’.  (Update your roster Joe!)

THE BEST INSULT
The best insult ever is “who is this clown?” because:
a) You’re calling them a clown
b) You’re saying they are not even a well-known clown


FANTASY POINTS BY NFL TEAM
The Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs continue to lead the way in fantasy points scored, averaging 99.3 and 97.0 points per week.  In third place is the Saints, averaging 94.2 points per week, followed by Pittsburgh (89.0) and the Chargers (88.2).  Other notables are New England who rank 10th with 81 points per week, and the defending champ Eagles currently rank 18th with only 72.8 points scored per week.

At the bottom of the list are: Dallas (65.8), Jacksonville (65.0), Tennessee (50.0), Buffalo (46.7) and Arizona (41.2).  Look at that… if you played an all Cardinal roster, you would be averaging only 41.2 points per week. Jeez... that’s nearly as bad as the Goldschlager Chupacabras!


BEST BENCH
In a week where the record for most combined points was set, it’s only fitting the Best Bench would be the lowest point improvement possibility of the season.  The lowest Best Bench improvement of all time was a mere 16-point improvement for the Midnight Maulers back in Week 7, 2011.  This week’s winner didn’t go quite that low, but still low with just a 25-point improvement possibility, the Week 6 Best Bench goes to… the Coors Light Drunk Guys!  Shawn needed only two roster changes to get there: L. Murray for J. Ajayi +24 and L. Fitzgerald for C. Davis +1.

Week 7 is coming up which means we are only 2 weeks away from mid-term grades!  Hope you have been taking good notes!