Highest Scoring Team ($15)
TC Schefter
Coach TC
129.61 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
La Bamba
Coach Jesse
Tyreek Hill - 45 pts
Another football season rolls around and yep, the Jets are still cursed. A wild opener all-around, as Rodgers tears his achilles, the Bengals get stomped by the Browns, Chiefs get bested by the Lions and the Cowboys make the Giants look like a college program.
It was also the worst opening week of the NFL offensively since 2001.
Which of course led to the lowest fantasy for a week ever in the Iowa Fantasy League’s history, and 3rd lowest ever once adjusted for the fact that for different scoring setups we had in prior seasons. Once you’ve done, that there’s only two lower scoring weeks, 2015 Week 11 and Week 14.
Week 1 is normally flukey, but this was unusually so, and it contributed to some grinder fantasy matchups.
The lightly auto-drafted Course Rangers proved to the Shirt Brothers why RBs still matter, with Ewoldt’s RB1&2 outscoring Jord’s 41-12. Jord tried to make up for it in the WR department, but it wasn’t enough, losing 80-95, and the Course Rangers will start the season 1-0.
Drew and his Anabolic Spudsman win in stupid fashion, as Josh Allen literally threw the game away for the Bills and Chris’ Scrantonicity All-Stars. At one point in last night’s game, Chris had like a 90% chance to win, but then the gunslinger managed 4 turnovers, netting -13 points, and gifting Drew the victory, 80-87.
La Bamba and the Des Moines Football Team kicked the season off with some fireworks, and Tyreek posted 45 points, nearly willing Jesse’s squad to victory, but he couldn’t get enough help elsewhere, 4 of his players scoring 6 points or less and the well-rounded, and frankly, well-coached DSM Football Team continues their trajectory from last season, winning 120-111.
Our reigning champ Curtis came storming back against his matchup against Dierks’ Heathens, with TuTu and the Niners’ DST going off, and nearly sent the Commish’ to the hospital after a greedy 22.2 points from Tony Pollard in SNF. By the grace of Vince Lombardi, that was 0.14 points shy of Dierks’ Heathens 118.14 points, and the Commish’ would hold on, beating IFL’s 3-Peat Pick ‘Em Champ for the 2nd year in a row. This is the 5th narrowest victory in IFL history.
Thought TC had finally lost a step? Well TC Schefter scored most in the league, teeing off against Austin’s Goffpocalypse 130-114, unaffected by the low scoring all-around. Diggs and Olave are going to be a formidable duo, but he will have to deal with the loss of his #4 draft pick, JK Dobbins, who tore his Achilles.
Papa Jord’s division picks up right where they left off - on top. The Boy Scout Cyclones start the season in the gutter.
Chris dethroned Curtis last year, and they both come out strong in Week 1 of Pick ‘Em, but so did half the league. Maybe they’ll finally have a little competition?
