Week 4 in the NFL featured four overtime games,
one of which included an inexplicable re-spotting of a ball to rob Cleveland of
a first down. Also included in the weekend slate, the return of your
Commissioner’s team namesake Jeff Fisher in broadcast booth.
Week 4 in STPS was the highest total point
output the league has ever seen, and also included one of the lowest individual
scores our league has ever seen. Oh, fantasy football...
Team Provost (158.5, 2-2) vs. Dancin’ Dennis
Nedry (112.5, 3-1)
No more dancin’ this week. But it’s not because
he didn’t put up a good score. It’s because Provost did, knocking DDN from the ranks of the unbeaten. Zeke, Saquon, Amari
and Golden went nuts, giving Provost the third-highest score of the week. There
wasn’t much DDN could do. He DID leave 88 points on his bench, including huge
games by Corey Davis and Cooper Kupp, but the major concern could be Jordan
Howard’s 2 points in this one. Running back points are hard to come by, and
he’ll need some support for Gurley.
Scrote Squad (135, 1-3) vs. Pedro Pickles (95,
1-3)
Pickles middling luck continued this week. He’s
got the second-most points against in the first four weeks (behind only Scrote
Squad), and his decision to draft Lev Bell and Shady McCoy in two of the first
three rounds looks like it’s hurting him bad. He’s hoping for some reprieve
from Sony Michel, and if Lev Bell comes back healthy, he could make some noise.
As long as he’s not 1-6 when Bell comes back. Scrote, meanwhile, has been
putting up points the last two weeks. And he left Jared Goff and Calvin Ridley
on his bench. Really, both of these teams could be better than 1-3. Both would
be 2-2 playing against the league average (fun stats like this can be found on
our 2018 Stats sheet).
Death Valley Driver (164, 3-1) vs. The Jeff
Fisher Effect (159.5, 2-2)
This one was a fireball matchup that had JFE
watching the Monday Night game very closely. Neither of these owners would have
lost to anyone else this week, or anyone else in any week of the season to this
point. DVD had the big explosion from Alvin Kamara, and smaller explosions from
Nuke Hopkins and Sterling Shepard, while JFE had blowups from Melvin Gordon,
Brandin Cooks and George Kittle. This game smashed the record for most total
points in a matchup (323.5). The highest previous total was 298.5 in Week 3 of
2015 between Team Arby’s (Ryan) and Peterson Venkman, Phd (in a matchup that
gave us the highest single game score ever).
Hardcore Sacks 2.0 (109.5, 4-0) vs. Panic Time
Squad (95.5, 2-2)
Last week, I pointed out that Panic Time Squad
probably was early in changing his name and shouldn’t panic. Well, I take it
back. Again. When your two RBs combine for a total of TWO points, you probably
ought to panic. And when the FIVE RBs on your roster (granted, one is injured)
combine to not reach double digits, you probably ought to panic. And yet, he
STILL almost pulled it off, partly thanks to a downright terrible day from Drew
Brees. Hardcore got production from everywhere else though, icing the win, and
moving to 4-0 for the first time.
Iron Ryan (104, 1-3) vs. Released Dix On Boobies
(59.5, 1-3)
Well, Iron Ryan got his first win of the year,
thanks to, as he pointed out, a 9-point head start granted to him by Boobies
(heh) and the Vikings D. And then, going into Monday Night, Boobies (heh) had a
legitimate shot at the worst weekly output our league has ever seen. And then
Kareem Hunt rescued him from that embarrassment. I’ll have more on the futility
of Boobies (heh) this week in a minute. For now, we sit here and wonder, “How
in the name of Terry Bradshaw did this team score 143.5 in Week 1? He’s failed
to score even half of that total in a game since. Kareem Hunt scored a whopping
42.8% of his points this week, and if Hunt hadn’t gone off on Monday, we’d
seriously by talking about an all-time futile score.
Masterpiece of Futility
At the end of Sunday night’s games, Released Dix
On Boobies was sitting on a total score of 30 points. The all-time low score
for a week is 40.5, achieved by Cusick in Week 4 of 2015. In the “modern era”
of the league (after we expanded and added the .5ppr), we have now had 9 sub-60
point scores, including in the postseason. Here they are, listed lowest to only
slight less low:
|
SCORE
|
YEAR - WEEK
|
OWNER
|
|
40.5
|
2015 - Week 4
|
Cusick
|
|
48
|
2017 - Week 7
|
Ryan
|
|
48
|
2017 - Week 8
|
Chris
|
|
50
|
2016 - Week 16*
|
Chris
|
|
55
|
2016 - Week 14
|
Nate
|
|
56.5
|
2015 - Week 9
|
Chris
|
|
59
|
2016 - Week 8
|
Kyle
|
|
59
|
2017 - Week 3
|
Pete
|
|
59.5
|
2018 - Week 4
|
Chris
|
*denotes postseason
These are the lowest of the low scores, and
you’ll note that Chris has four of them. (Also note: I threw out the “Kyle vs.
Ryan Kicker Fiasco of 2016”)
Show Him The Money
Not surprisingly, Death Valley Driver finished
as the Tidwell Award winner this week. The Effect’s 159.5 is now the highest
non-Tidwell winning score, besting the previous high of 130 by Pedro Pickles
last year in Week 8.
"I'll take Interesting Scoring for $200, please, Alex"
Pedro Pickles has had a great run of scores in our first 4 weeks. Here they are, in order:
122
121
95.5
95
I don't even know how to "analyze" that, it's just pretty cool to see.
-Commish
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