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Point scoring is taking a dive!  The 2024 season started out strong in Week 1 with five teams scoring in triple digits and a total of 916 points being scored.  Since then scores have dropped with only six teams scoring in triple digits in Weeks 2, 3 and 4 combined!  Total scores in Week 4 added up to 777, a full 139 points less than the first week.  What has happened?  Well this week did have the most bench points we’ve seen this season with 198 points left sitting idle…three teams had 30 point or higher bench-improvement-possibilities.  Last week there were only 144 points left on the bench, and compare that to the miniscule 94 bench points in Week 1.

One team not taking a dive is American BadAss who snuck out a 110-106 victory to claim a second Weekly High Score prize and to also remain as the only unbeaten team in the league!  Jason overcame a nil-scoring tight end (Kyle Pitts) but had six players score double digits led by none other than Baker Mayfield with 28 points, plus had Jayden Reed (WR, GB) score 19 points, and had his running backs (Kyren Williams, LAR and James Conner, ARI) each post 16!  Nice job bro!

In other league happenings, the winless are no more as both Joe’s No Pats and Big Sack No TDs pulled out victories this week.  Joe’s No Pats pulled out a 68-66 victory over Sofa King thanks to some solid Monday scores from Amon-Ra St. Brown (14 points) and Sam Laporta (5 points).  Nothing like depending on Lions to secure a victory.  The other winless team coming in to the week, Jens’ Big Sack, dominated NASCAR Café Honey Mustard 61-43, which was mostly due to the KC Chiefs having a bad day.  As the Chiefs go, so goes NCHM.  So there are now five teams with just one victory: Vandelay Industries, Sofa King, and Luck of the Irish all at 1-3, and Joe’s No Pats and Big Sack No TD’s at 1-2-1.  Two teams are at 2-2: Scottish Rebels and sprouts.  Three teams have overall winning records right now, NASCAR Café Honey Mustard and J LUV U LONG TIME at 3-1 and the aforementioned American BadAss now alone at the top at 4-0.

NOW THAT’S SOME BIG TIME STUFF

• Derrick Henry, RB – Scottish Rebels – 35 pts – Mr. Henry started the game with an 87-yard touchdown run which really set the tone for the rest of his day.  By the end he finished with 199 yards rushing plus a TD and 10 yards receiving plus another TD.  He has had back-to-back weeks scoring over 30 points, which moved him into the overall top spot in fantasy scoring.
• Justin Fields, QB – Free Agent – 31 pts – Fields was a one man scoring machine accounting for 3 touchdowns (2 rushing and 1 passing) to go along with 312 passing yards and 55 rushing yards.
• Jordan Love, QB – Luck of the Irish – 30 pts – Love scored 30 points in spite of tossing 3 interceptions!  He did it by throwing for 389 yards and 4 passing TD’s plus adding a rushing 2 point conversion. 
• Kenneth Walker III, RB – Joe’s No Pats – 29 pts – “Man this guy is legit! Wish I had him on my bench!”  After not playing for two weeks, Walker came back in a big way, logging 80 yards rushing and 3 TD’s, plus 36 yards receiving.
• Baker Mayfield, QB – American BadAss – 28 pts – It was a piece of cake out there for Mayfield, as his Buccaneers walloped the Eagles.  He finished with 347 passing yards and 2 TD’s, plus 10 yards rushing and another TD. 
• Jared Goff, QB – Free Agent – 25 pts – Goff was perfect on Monday night.  For real, he was 18-for-18 passing with 292 yards and 2 TD’s, plus he caught a touchdown pass on a trick play. 

COME, ON, MAN!

• Rome Odunze, WR – NASCAR Café Honey Mustard – 1 pt – After a big week last week (6 catches for 112 yards), he only managed a single catch for 10 yards this week.
• Breece Hall, RB – Sofa King – 1 pt – Just a bad day for Hall as he netted only 4 yards on 10 carries rushing, and got his only points by catching 2 passes for 14 yards.
• Kyle Pitts, TE – American BadAss – 0 pts – He played, but barely.  The ball was thrown his way three times, but he failed to catch any of them.  His name says it all.
• Mike Gesicki, TE – sprouts – 0 pts – It’s pretty bad when you would actually have done better by dropping a pass than catching it, but that was the case for Gesicki this week.  He caught one pass for -9 yards, yes that is negative nine yards.  Not exactly how you pull that one off …(did he get confused and run the wrong direction or something?)
• Mark Andrews, TE – Wyld Ass Monkeys – 0 pts – The battle of zero point scoring tight ends, Andrews versus Gesicki.  Andrews did a little bit better, I guess, since he just simply didn’t catch the one ball thrown his way so he finished with zero yards.  This guy was the 4^th highest drafted tight end this season in all Yahoo drafts, yet currently ranks as the 38^th tight end with only 6 points scored this year. 
• Buffalo, DEF – NASCAR Café Honey Mustard – -1 pt – The Bills Defense was arguably the hottest in the league coming into Week 4 having scoring 26 and 22 points in Weeks 2 and 3.  But the Ravens put an end to all that nonsense and smacked the Bills right in the face with a 35-10 beat down.  Oof.

TOP FIVES

It’s always interesting to take a look at the top fives from each position and see surprises for not only who is on the list, but for who is not.  Here’s a look at the top fives through the first four weeks of the season.

Quarterback

	Name	Pos	Team	Total	Owner
1	Jayden Daniels	QB	Was	90	Sofa King
2	Lamar Jackson	QB	Bal	87	Big Sack No TDs
3	Baker Mayfield	QB	TB	83	American BadAss
4	Josh Allen	QB	Buf	76	Scottish Rebels
5	Sam Darnold	QB	Min	76	W (Oct 2)

Shocking inclusion(s): Jayden Daniels, Baker Mayfield, and Sam Darnold.  (Raise your hand if you thought he was out of the league!).  Shocking omission: Patrick Mahomes, who currently ranks 17^th.

Running back

	Name	Pos	Team	Total	Owner
1	Derrick Henry	RB	Bal	92	Scottish Rebels
2	Alvin Kamara	RB	NO	86	J LUV U LONG TIME
3	Saquon Barkley	RB	Phi	82	Big Sack No TDs
4	Jordan Mason	RB	SF	65	Sofa King
5	Kyren Williams	RB	LAR	65	American BadAss

Shocking inclusion: Jordan Mason – pretty solid waiver wire pickup for the King.  Shocking omission(s): Bijan Robinson, ATL (first running back selected in our draft, currently ranked 21^st), Breece Hall, NYJ (currently ranks 17^th) and Christian McCaffrey who hasn’t even played this season.

Wide Receiver

	Name	Pos	Team	Total	Owner
1	Nico Collins	WR	Hou	62	Scottish Rebels
2	Justin Jefferson	WR	Min	58	American BadAss
3	Jayden Reed	WR	GB	56	American BadAss
4	Jauan Jennings	WR	SF	55	Luck of the Irish
5	Malik Nabers	WR	NYG	54	sprouts

Shocking inclusion(s): Jauan Jennings (try saying that name correctly), and Malik Nabers.  Shocking omissions: Tyreek Hill, MIA (currently ranked 27^th), CeeDee Lamb (ranked 10^th) and Ja’Marr Chase (ranked 8^th, 8 points behind 5^th place).

Tight Ends

	Name	Pos	Team	Total	Owner
1	Dallas Goedert	TE	Phi	32	J LUV U LONG TIME
2	George Kittle	TE	SF	27	Scottish Rebels
3	Isaiah Likely	TE	Bal	21	Big Sack No TDs
4	Brock Bowers	TE	LV	20	NASCAR Cafe Honey Mustard
5	Cole Kmet	TE	Chi	20	Joe's No Pats

Tight ends are the kickers of pass catchers…there's only ever like one guy you can depend on but even that isn't working this season.  The only real shocker here is Travis Kelce not being on this list.  He has been a staple atop the tight end leaders for a long time, but through four weeks this season ranks tied for 13^th with only 14 points scored.

Defense

	Name	Pos	Team	Total	Owner
1	Minnesota	DEF	Min	73	J LUV U LONG TIME
2	Buffalo	DEF	Buf	55	NASCAR Cafe Honey Mustard
3	New Orleans	DEF	NO	54	W (Oct 2)
4	Green Bay	DEF	GB	52	W (Oct 2)
5	Chicago	DEF	Chi	50	Scottish Rebels

Minnesota was the 11^th defense selected in our draft, as American BadAss picked two defenses before the Vikings went off the board.  And how about this crazy stat…the top five defense picked in our draft (DAL, BAL, NYJ, SF and CLE) currently rank 19^th, 21^st, 9^th, 7^th and 14^th respectively. Only two even in the top 10.

Kickers

	Name	Pos	Team	Total	Owner
1	Brandon Aubrey	K	Dal	60	American BadAss
2	Chris Boswell	K	Pit	51	Luck of the Irish
3	Jake Moody	K	SF	50	NASCAR Cafe Honey Mustard
4	Ka'imi Fairbairn	K	Hou	44	J LUV U LONG TIME
5	Evan McPherson	K	Cin	43	Wyld Ass Monkeys

Are there any surprises with kickers or only disappointments?  For surprises, Brandon Aubrey currently ranks 22^nd out of all players, so he’s killing it for a kicker. For disappointments, pretty much everyone else.  In case you’re curious, the top kicker selected in our draft, Justin Tucker, currently ranks as the 23^rd kicker, having scored 30 points this season.

BEST BENCH

As mentioned earlier, there were a lot of points left on the bench this week.  Here are some notable bench players from Week 4:  D’Andre Swift, RB, NASCAR Café Honey Mustard (22 pts), Kenneth Walker III, RB, Joe’s No Pats (29 pts), and Jordan Love, QB, Luck of the Irish (30 pts).  Because of those players, both Joe’s No Pats and Luck of the Irish had solid 30-point-improvement possibilities, but they were not even close to this week’s Best Bench who finished with a very impressive 43-point-improvement possibility!  The fourth different team in four weeks, the Week 4 Best Bench goes to… NASCAR Café Honey Mustard!

Timmy needed a half roster swap to get there:  D. Swift for R. Stevenson +19 points, X. Worthy for R. Rice +13 points, T. Kelce for B. Bowers +6 points and K. Shakir for R. Odunze +5 points.  This is Tim's first Best Bench this season and his first since Week 16 last year.

 

Get those waivers in and get ready for Week 5!! Next week it’s time for my annual “Week 5 Playoff Predictions”…