After a hot start to the season with five teams scoring in triple digits and 916 total points being scored, things cooled off a bit in Week 2 with only two teams cracking the triple digit mark and just 839 points being tallied.
The big congrats for Week 2 go to Shawn Martin’s J LUV YOU LONG TIME who was the best this week with 118 points! Shawn got a huge game from Alvin Kamara (41 pts) plus Jalen Hurts added 23 and his kicker, Kaimi Fairbairn, scored 20. The win puts J LUV in first place tie in the North Division at 2-0, and makes him the highest scoring team overall with 234 points. Excellent work Shawn!
In league standings, there are three teams at 2-0, three at 0-2 and four at 1-1. All is in balance as it should be. The league records for best and worst start both stand at 6… 6-0 has happened four times in league history, most recently in 2013 when Timmy’s Channel 4 News Team accomplished the feat. 0-6 has happened only twice, as yours truly did it in back-to-back seasons, 2011-2012. Still a ways to go before we talk about any record breakers this year.
Things have really started oddly this season, even by Fantasy Football standards. Here are just a few weird points I’ve noted:
- The highest scoring quarterback through the first two weeks is Baker Mayfield with 47 points, who is leading Derek Carr (also weird) by 5 points (42 points). (Both were undrafted.)
- The third highest scoring player in all of fantasy is the Minnesota Vikings defense who has scored 43 points so far. (11th defense drafted, taken in the 13th round).
- The highest scoring wide receiver is a tie between Jayden Reed, GB, and Chris Godwin, TB, who have scored just 31 points. This ranks them as the 27th highest scoring player in fantasy. (Both drafted in the 9th round.)
- Four kickers(!) have scored 31 points or more, outscoring all wide receivers thus far: Jake Moody, SF (31 pts), Chris Boswell, PIT (35 pts), Ka’imi Fairbairn, HOU (37 pts) and Brandon Aubrey, DAL (38 pts). (Moody and Boswell were undrafted).
- The highest scoring TE is Isaiah Likely, BAL, with just 19 points, ranking him 95th overall in fantasy. (Undrafted.)
- In our league, the second highest scoring team, Jens’ Big Sack No TDs has scored 206 points, yet is 0-2 to start the season.
- In the AFC North, the Steelers are 2-0 while the Bengals and Ravens are both 0-2.
- The New Orleans Saints have scored 91 points (most in the NFL), and lead in fantasy scoring with 233 points through two weeks. (Only two Saints players were drafted… Chris Olave and Alvin Kamara.) Arizona is the second highest scoring team in fantasy with 198 points scored.
Just a quick write up this week, but we’ve always got to give out the Best Bench. Last week we had a historic Best Bench when American BadAss claimed the High Score and Best Bench, something which had only happened 10 times previously. But wouldn’t you know it, and to add to the weirdness we are seeing this season, we’ve done it again! The Week 2 Best Bench is also the Week 2 High Scorer, as Shawn Martin takes the Week 2 Best Bench with a 30 point-improvement-possibility! He needed just three roster moves to get there: C. Godwin for S. Diggs +14, Minnesota for Philadelphia +14 and D. Adams for C. Lamb +2. Way to double-dominate this week Shawn!
Get those waiver claims in and get ready for Week 3!!
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