Highest Scoring Team ($15)
THE GROOVERS
Coach Hunt
198.35 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Hype Zone
Coach Ewoldt (3rd time this season)
Mark Andrews - 45 pts
To play fantasy football is to know true agony. You can experience the highest of highs but also the absolute lowest of lows. Whether you’re the Scallon Express, the pre-season favorite, losing the #1 overall pick in Week 3, and going from 2-0 to 2-3; or The Real Slim Brady, who somehow trades his way into Saquon Barkley, to join his stud David Montgomery, and rocket to 2nd in the power rankings, only to have them both suffer injuries; fantasy can be wildly cruel. Luckily for both coaches, all three RBs should return in a few weeks.
Then, there’s being up 28 points heading into Monday Night, with your opponent’s only remaining player a TE who has only scored that many points once in his 3+ year career, giving you a 99% chance of winning, only to watch as that TE catches 11 passes, for 147 yards and a 4th quarter touchdown and an overtime touchdown to put up 44.7 points, the highest of any player this week. Since 2019, only 3 TEs have held that honor, and only one has had more points, Darren Waller’s 49 point performance in Week 13 of last season. To be on the receiving end of such an improbable loss, is emotionally devastating. For Ewoldt and the Hype Zone; however, GET HYPED.
With Jesse getting edged out by Qualley 151-159, Ewoldt now finds himself in a tie for first with Jesse in X-IA, at 2-3.
Then there’s TC, who is averaging the 4th most points in the league this season, and has the 3rd best overall win-loss at 48-27, but just lost his 2nd game in a row, 125-164 to Jack’s Technetium Tempest. TC, despite his offensive potency, slides to 1-4 on the season, and the frustration there is palpable.
The Real Slim Brady got absolutely rocked by THE GROOVERS, 91-198, who have exited the stratosphere, and that puts them in a 3-way tie for lead of the DD&B, with Jack and Qualley. Hunt’s win makes him the only 4-1 team, but still a game back on Drew, in the BSC, who has played the easiest schedule in the league (his opponents have averaged just 100 PPG), and remains 5-0 with a win over the Express this week.
The other rocket this week, Brady’s Boat Bucks, got a great win over division rival Outlaw Soldier, 195-149, creating quite a situation in Cul-de-Sack, as with the TC BEING SO WEIRD ABOUT IT loss, and Curtis’s Lot Lizards getting a win over Aaron’s team 112-97, the entire division is 3-2.
The Cul-de-Sack and X-Iowa have solid weeks, while the Boy Scout Cyclones falter. BSC falls to 3rd, as CdS and X-IA slide up.
Qualley goes 3 for 4 in back to back weeks, and claws his way to 10 points on the season, tying 3 others for 2nd place behind Drew, who is still up 3 points.
“The thing about rock bottom is it sucks. ”