First and foremost this week I’m sending a big
congratulations to Mr. F ‘N A himself, Shawn Martin, who got married over the
weekend! Not sure how he convinced such
a cool chick to marry him, but he’s always been a smooth talker… Hahaha! Love ya Shawn!
Another congrats goes out to Timmy, who showed us once
again the power of Mahomes, being the only team to crack the triple digits on
his way to secure his 2nd Weekly Score Prize! Nearly 60% of Attack of Mahomes 110 points came
from Chiefs players… Mahomes 22, Edwards-Helaire 21, Kelce 15 and KC Def
6. Tim also got strong performances from
his non-Chief wide receivers (Deebo Samuel 17 and Chris Olave 12), improving
his record to 2-2, and the 110 points scored moves him into 2nd
place for overall scoring. Nice work,
Tim-may!!
In other games around the league, parity is in full
effect as 6 teams now sit with a record of 2-2, and my Rebels have the
stupidest looking record ever at 1-1-2, after securing my 2nd tie
game of the season against sprouts this week.
(No team has ever had 3 ties in a season, and we’ve only had 4 teams
with 2 ties.) Young Guns now holds
the best record in the league at 3-1, and the Wyld Ass Monkeys are the highest
scoring team with 386 points scored.
The final congratulations this week go to Joe’s Pats who
snagged the Week 3 high score with a 91-point performance. Week 3 was an oddly low scoring week, where
the other winning teams scored 81, 79 (x2) and 77 points. The last time the Weekly High Score Prize was
won by a score lower than 91 was way back in Week 11 of 2015, when the Coors Light Drunk Guys took the prize with a mere 85
points. This was Joe’s first High Score
of the season, and was the 3rd team to claim a prize. Way to go Joe!
This week we have two Best Benches to hand out, and we’ll
take a look at some mind blowing stats on fantasy scoring by NFL teams this
season. Onward!
BIG TIME FOOTBALL
-Jared Goff, QB – Free Agent – 36 pts – Goff was huge on
Sunday, throwing for 348 yards and 4 TD’s.
He also had a pick-six, so technically he threw 5 TD’s.
-TJ Hockenson, TE – Wyld Ass Monkeys – 34 pts – Best single
game tight end performance of the season!
TJ caught 8 passes for a crazy 179 yards (22.4 avg) and added 2 TD’s.
-Rashad Penny, RB – sprouts – 30 pts – Through the first
3 weeks of the season, Penny had all of 13 total points scored. Then he got to play the Lions this week, and
shredded them for 151 yards and 2 TD’s.
If only he could play Detroit every week.
-Geno Smith, QB – Free Agent – 30 pts – In the “Never in
100 Years Did Anyone See This Coming” category, we have Mr. Smith racking up
320 passing yards, 49 rushing yards, plus 2 TD passes and 1 rushing TD. That sounds more like a Lamar Jackson stat
line.
COME ON MAN
-Devonta Smith, WR – American BadAss – 1 pt – After scoring
a hefty 25 points last week, Smith didn’t do much this week, catching 3 balls for
just 17 yards.
-Mark Andrews, TE – Wyld Ass Monkeys – 1 pt – Bills made
it a top priority to stop Andrews, and they did… he was held to just 2 catches
for 15 yards.
-Gabe Davis, WR – Joe’s Pats – 1 pt – In Week 1, Davis
scored 14 points and looked like he may be a force this season. Since then he has scored 4 points, including
this 1 catch 13 yard stinker. Yuck.
-Alvin Kamara, RB – American BadAss – 0 pts – Kamara was
declared inactive prior to the game, yet was still active for BadAss. Check your rosters!!
-Tony Pollard, RB – Big Sack No TD’s – 0 pts – Here’s a horrific
stat line for you: 8 rushes for 6 yards,
and 1 catch for 2 yards. What. Do.
You. Know??!
NFL TEAM FANTASY SCORING
Through the first four weeks of the season, I calculated
the fantasy points scored by each team and by position to see if there were any
interesting tidbits. Here are some
insights:
-
21 teams have only had 1 QB post points this
season… 10 teams have had 2 QB’s, and 1 team, the New England Patriots, have
had QB points posted by 3 players.
(Still trying to replace Tom.)
-
The New Orleans Saints have had the most
different players post fantasy points with 18 players scoring.
-
The Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams have
had the fewest different players post fantasy points with only 11 players
scoring.
-
The highest scoring team is the Detroit Lions
with 406 points scored across 17 different players. (Yes, you read that correctly). The Lions rank 1st in runningback
points, 4th in tight end points and 5th in both QB and WR
points.
-
The lowest scoring team is the Chicago Bears,
who have only scored 223 points this season.
- The Jacksonville Jaguars rank 7th in total scoring with 340 points scored so far. The Jags are tied with Philly for 1st in Defensive scoring, and their wide receivers rank 7th.
- Every team has at least one position where they rank in the top 10, except for the defending Super Bowl champs, Los Angeles Rams. They currently rank 28th in total scoring (259 points), and their best rankings are their wide receivers ranking 12th, and tight ends ranking 13th. They are 31st in quarterback scoring, and dead last in runningback scoring.
-
Meanwhile Philadelphia ranks in the top 10 in
all categories except Kicker. They are 1st
(tied) in defense, 3rd in QB, 6th in RB, 8th
in TE and 10th in WR. This
has them ranked 2nd overall in scoring with 389 points.
Here is the full list of teams:
|
Rank |
Team |
Points |
|
1 |
Det |
406 |
|
2 |
Phi |
389 |
|
3 |
KC |
387 |
|
4 |
Buf |
382 |
|
5 |
Bal |
361 |
|
6 |
Mia |
345 |
|
7 |
Jax |
340 |
|
8 |
Cin |
331 |
|
9 |
LAC |
331 |
|
10 |
LV |
313 |
|
11 |
Min |
310 |
|
12 |
Sea |
309 |
|
13 |
TB |
309 |
|
14 |
Cle |
306 |
|
15 |
NYJ |
303 |
|
16 |
Ari |
296 |
|
17 |
Atl |
294 |
|
18 |
GB |
293 |
|
19 |
Was |
281 |
|
20 |
Dal |
280 |
|
21 |
NO |
279 |
|
22 |
Den |
277 |
|
23 |
NYG |
272 |
|
24 |
Ind |
268 |
|
25 |
SF |
268 |
|
26 |
Hou |
261 |
|
27 |
NE |
260 |
|
28 |
LAR |
259 |
|
29 |
Ten |
243 |
|
30 |
Pit |
242 |
|
31 |
Car |
238 |
|
32 |
Chi |
223 |
BEST BENCH(ES)
As mentioned earlier, Week 3 was a low scoring week, so
not surprisingly there were not a lot of points left on the bench. The Wyld Ass Monkeys made a good attempt to
claim the Best Bench, but came up just short of American BadAss. To get a 25-point improvement, Jason needed
three roster swaps: T. Boyd for S. Diggs
+9, D. Singletary for A. Kamara +9, and M. Gordon for J. Mixon +7.
In Week 4, there were a lot more points left on the bench,
and sprouts made a good run at it (47 points), but in the end that could not top the Best of
the Best, my Scottish Rebels, with a 48-point-improvement possibility!! A four player swap would get me there: J. Jacobs for D. Cook +21, M. Sanders for A.
Jones +16, J. Jeudy for M. Pittman Jr. +8, J. Dotson for A. Thielen +3. This is my second Best Bench this season, having
claimed my first one just two weeks ago.
This is also the highest Best Bench total this season, with me going
even higher than my 42-point improvement in Week 2. Aye yai yai…
Get your rosters ready for Week 5! And can you believe it, next week will
already be time for my Annual Playoff Predictions! After picking perfect in 2020 (6 for 6) I
dropped back a bit last year only getting 4 of 6 correct. We’ll see if I can get it figured out this
year…
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