This season just keeps on delivering… every week it seems like I’m pointing out some new occurrence or event that has never happened before, and we’ve done it yet again! For the first time ever, we have a tie for the Weekly High Score Prize and a tie for the Best Bench. A double-double! First let’s get to the congrats on the high scores… coming in with a tie at 126 points (2nd highest score this season) it was Luck of the Irish and Wyld Ass Monkeys!! For John, he was out in front early with an impressive all-around performance on his team with 7 of 8 players scoring in double digits. Amazingly, John’s scoring was led by his kicker, Chris Boswell, who finished with 24 points! (Dude kicked 6 field goals for the Steelers on Sunday.) After that he had scores of 19, 18, 18, 17, 15, 10 and 6…just great scoring from all positions.
For the Wyld Ass Monkeys, this marks two weeks in a row of snagging a Weekly High Score prize. Rob pulled off the tie with a massive Monday night defensive effort from the Texans, scoring 27 points! He also had another big performance from Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase, who combined for 50 points this week. Excellent work to the both of you! For John this was the first Weekly High Score Prize he has won (or split) this season, and makes it seven different teams who have now won at least a piece of a prize this season.
As mentioned, there was a tie for Best Bench this week,
which we will get to in just a bit, along with playoff scenarios and some quick
hits. Let’s do this!
BIG TIME
- Jared Goff, QB – American BadAss – 37 pts – The Lions looked like they took pleasure in demolishing the Jags, as they didn’t let up until like the 2 minute warning. Goff had an outstanding game, throwing for 412 yards and 4 TDs, leading his Lions to a 52-6 victory. Frankly, it wasn’t even that close.
- Taysom Hill, QB, TE – J LUV U LONG TIME – 32 pts – The guy is listed as a quarterback and tight end, yet did all of his damage as a runningback. All told, he had 138 yards rushing and 3 TD’s, plus added 50 receiving yards. His only blemish was a lost fumble.
- Joe Mixon, RB – American BadAss – 32 pts – Mixon ran straight through the Cowboys, amassing 109 yards and 3 TDs, plus added 44 yards receiving. Mixon has scored more than 14 points in each of his last six games, including a 25-point and a 23-point performance. He is now the 4th highest scoring RB in fantasy.
- Saquon Barkley, RB – Big Sack No TDs – 31 pts – He had a season-high total of receiving yards, 51, plus had his 4th highest rushing yardage total, 146, and added 2 TDs. He is the 2nd highest scoring RB, trailing only King Henry.
- Amon-Ra St. Brown, WR – Joe’s No Pats – 31 pts – Finishing with -4 rushing yards doesn’t really matter if you pair that with 161 receiving yards and 2 TD’s as St. Brown did on Sunday. He has scored 125 points this season, ranking him 2nd among WR’s.
- Joe Burrow, QB – Wyld Ass Monkeys – 31 pts – Over the last 3 weeks, Burrow has scored more points than any other player in the league. He has an astounding 96 points across that span, which is more than Jalen Hurts (75), Lamar Jackson (69), Josh Allen (62), or anyone else by quite a bit. The bye week in Week 12 may be about the only thing that can slow him down.
COME ON MAN
- Terry McLaurin, WR – Joe’s No Pats – 1 pt – Jayden Daniels threw it to nine different receivers on Sunday, so there wasn’t much left for McLaurin. A single catch for exactly 10 yards is all he got.
- Pat Freiermuth, TE – Scottish Rebels – 1 pt – Well he did catch all the passes thrown his way. Unfortunately, that amounted to 2 catches for just 14 yards. D’oh.
- Travis Kelce, TE – NASCAR Café Honey Mustard – 0 pts – This game marked the 5th time this season where Kelce has failed to get over 40 yards, and he didn’t even get close, as he had only 2 catches for 8 yards. This has been a cruel season for Kelce thus far.
- Tucker Kraft, TE – American BadAss – 0 pts – No catches means no yards. No yards means no points.
- Mike Gesicki, TE – Big Sack No TDs – 0 pts – What was the deal with tight ends this week? Just a straight nothing-burger from Gesicki, which marks the 3rd time he’s done that this season.
- T.J Hockenson, TE – 1st to Worst – 1 pt – See this?! Another freaking tight end! Let’s get it together guys!! I mean…Come on, man!
PLAYOFFS?!? DON’T
TALK ABOUT PLAYOFFS! PLAYOFFS?!?
Three more weeks of regular season games before the
playoffs begin in Week 15. Before we dive into scenarios, a quick refresher on
the rules:
- Top two teams in each division automatically
qualify, with the top team in each division receiving a first round bye.
- The next two qualifiers are Wildcards, which are
not division specific. (i.e. Both
Wildcard teams could come from the same division).
- Teams who do not qualify for the playoffs are still
eligible to win the Weekly High Score Prize.
- Playoff results will determine the final
finishes for positions 1 – 6. Final
standings at the end of the regular season (Week 14), will determine final
finishes for positions 7 – 10.
- Divisional standings are determined in this
order: Overall record, Division record,
Head-to-head record, Points scored, Coin flip.
- Wildcard standings are determined in this
order: Overall record, Head-to-head record,
Points scored, Coin flip.
- In playoff games, there are no tie games. If there is a tie in any game prior to the
Championship game, the win will go to the higher seeded team. If there is a tie in the Championship game,
tie-breakers are used in this order: 1)
Team with the highest scoring QB wins, 2) Team with the highest scoring RB
wins, 3) Team with the highest scoring WR wins, 4) If still tied at this point,
Co-Champions will be declared.
Prizes are the same as last season: Champion = $400, 2nd Place = $175
and 3rd Place = $125.
Now in regards to which teams are in and which teams are out, here is what is known at this point. The two teams with 9 wins (American BadAss and Scottish Rebels) will qualify for the playoffs. It looks like getting to 7 wins should be enough to qualify. This essentially means the next six teams in the standings are all still very much alive to get in. J LUV U LONG TIME has the easiest route, already sitting at 7-4 (which may likely already qualify), and sprouts at 6-4-1 not very far behind. One more victory from either of those teams should be enough to get in. For the next two teams, Big Sack No TDs (5-5-1) and Luck of the Irish (5-6), finishing the season by winning 2 of the last 3 games should be enough to qualify. For NASCAR Café Honey Mustard and Wyld Ass Monkeys, it’s likely going to take 3 victories to get in. NCHM sits at 4-6-1 and WAM is 4-7, so running the table would get them to 7 victories. As mentioned, 7 victories is the mark which should ensure a playoff berth.
But here is where it could get interesting… in spite of 1st to Worst and Joe’s No Pats only having 2 victories, I’ve run scenarios where both could still qualify. There is one scenario where three teams end up tied for both Wildcard spots at 5-8-1. This three-way tie would be between NASCAR Café, Big Sack No TDs and Joe’s No Pats, so it would come down to the head-to-head matchups and points scored. Currently Big Sack No TDs holds a big lead in points (1,055) with Joe’s No Pats at 882 and NASCAR with 804. So BSNTDs would hold the advantage in that scenario, but it would be for two Wildcard spots.
For 1st to Worst, there is a scenario where
three teams end up tied for the last Wildcard spot at 5-9. In this scenario, the tie would be between Wyld
Ass Monkeys, Luck of the Irish and 1st to Worst, so it would again
come down to the head-to-head records and points scored. Currently Wyld Ass Monkeys have 970 points
scored, Luck of the Irish has 923 and 1st to Worst has 812. So as it currently stands, it’s looking like
quite a longshot for James to defend his championship, but there is still a
chance. Just like Lloyd Christmas said, “So
you’re telling me there’s a chance? Oh
YEAH!!”
Next week I’ll have full scenarios for teams still in the
hunt to make it in.
TIME TO GO ALL IN WITH THE LIONS
In terms of fantasy scoring by NFL teams, there are the
Lions and the Ravens and then everyone else.
As a team, Detroit is averaging just over 100 points per week, and
Baltimore is averaging 97.3. Cincinnati,
the next closest team, is averaging 86.3 points per week. (BUF is 4th with 84 points per week, and it really drops off after that.) But Detroit was on a different level in Week
11, scoring 164 points which shattered the record this season of 144 points
(also held by Detroit). Check out the fantasy
lineup you could’ve had by just playing Lions this week:
QB – Jared Goff = 37 pts
WR – Amon-Ra St. Brown = 31 pts
WR – Jameson Williams = 18 pts
RB – David Montgomery = 21 pts
RB – Jahmyr Gibbs = 17 pts
TE – Brock Wright = 6 pts
K – Jake Bates = 12 pts
DEF – Detroit = 12 pts
TOTAL = 154 pts!!
(@Joe – I’m thinking “Joe’s Lions” could have a nice ring
to it! Some food for thought for next season... Lol)
BEST BENCH(es)
Completing the double-double this week, we have a double Best Bench to give
out this week! In a weird coincidence,
the winning point improvement possibility this week is the same as it was last
week… 34 points. The first team snagging
it this week made it a back-to-back Best Bench as it goes to Joe’s No
Pats! Joe needed a half roster swap to
get there: S. Darnold for R. Wilson +14,
Z. Flowers for T. McLaurin +8, Pittsburgh for Kansas City +6, and N. Harris for J.
Taylor +4. This is Joe’s 2nd
Best Bench this season. (I don’t think I
had mentioned it last week, but Joe getting Best Bench last week was his first
time since Week 6, 2021! Quite a solid
run there sir!)
The second Best Bench goes to… 1st to
Worst!! This marks the 3rd
Best Bench for James this season, as he also got it back in Week 5 and Week
8. James also needed a half roster swap
to get there: B. Nix for J. Daniels +16,
D. Njoku for TJ Hockenson +9, D. Swift for C. McCaffrey +5, and Baltimore for
Miami +4. Only two teams have not
secured a Best Bench this season… we shall see if they can hold on.
Six NFL teams are on byes coming up in Week 12, so get
those waivers in and make sure your roster is set!
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