Highest Scoring Team ($15)
The Course Rangers
Coach Ewoldt
151.42 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Badassmailman
Coach Aaron
Saquon Barkley - 34.2 pts
Welcome back, gentlemen. Often with these posts, I interweave our personal lives and ongoings, and generally are a celebration thereof, but this week, we have cause to both celebrate and mourn, as our brother John was blessed with his second child but also lost his father late last week, a flummoxing emotional situation I can’t begin to comprehend, and our brother TC and my wife Ellen also lost their cousin. Fantasy football feels pretty silly at times like this, particularly writing a weekly recap about a fantasy football league, but if this provides even the briefest escape from the struggles of our real lives or even the smallest bit of joy, then maybe it’s not all in vain.
Now, onto this silly fantasy football league. As is tradition, Week 1 was pretty sloppy, but at least not without some scoring this year. In fact, the average fantasy team in Week 1 scored 111.3 points, compared to 98.08 last year.
As predicted, our Game of the Week was a Duncan landslide, despite Joe Burrow's anemic start to the season. Hey Darnold! crushed Drew’s Dumb Team 130-109, and yeah, I’m thinking this is Duncan’s year. So buckle up, Boy Scout Cyclones!
Week 1 was also not shy about hitting us with our first nailbiter either, as Jesse’s Aspen Dummies were relying on the hands of Garrett Wilson to lead his comeback over Qualley’s DSM Football Team, but alas, the Jet would come about 1.5 points short. Crazily, Garrett’s 12 points were almost entirely on the very first drive that the Jets scored, so it looked like Jesse would win handily, but Qualley’s defense stonewalled him after that. The Jets will play much easier defenses moving forward, so things still bode well for the Aspen Dummies, despite the loss in the opener.
The other MNF game to keep an eye on was the defensive grinder between TC and Austin, as McConkey Kong Country was relying on a decent game from George Kittle to pull off the comeback on the TCU, who learned just before kickoff they would be without their #1 overall pick CMC. But George’s four catches weren’t enough, and the TCU would move to 1-0. TC assures the press that his team will be fine, but with CMC’s health in question, and a bold trade with Jord where he gave away Jayden Daniels & Cooper Kupp (combined for 60 points this week) to receive Caleb Williams & Malik Nabers (combined for 18 points this week), you have to wonder what’s going on behind the scenes.
The beneficiary of the aforementioned trade thus far, Jord, has to be feeling good after having a disastrous draft in which all of his draft research staff, game theory professors and on-demand masseuses quit out of shame for how poorly it went, then to have them all be bailed out by GM Richie Rich, who may have made the trade of the season. Time will tell, of course, whether that trade will pay off, but for Jord, just having Cooper Kupp on his squad is a win for the Control Room. Though they would face off against a buzzsaw in Week 1, as the Course Rangers would put up a league high 151.42 points, hurdling the Control Room by 30 points. Ewoldt, riding the high of his recent engagement, starts off the season 1-0 with his “lightly” auto-drafted squad.
It’s good to be back, gents. Let’s get this thing rolling!
X-IA has a monster week, all scoring in the top 6; while conversely the Cul-de-Sack has an all-time bad week, all falling in the bottom 6.
Early doings in Pick ‘Em but the Commish’ has his perfect week tripped up by the MNQ, which only the reigning Pick ‘Em Champ Qualley got right, correctly envisioning Jesse would fall short.
