Week 2, or The Second Week of the Season

After Week 2, we've got two 2-0 teams who look really good, a bunch of 1-1 teams, and then two teams that are 0-2 and are probably looking at their teams in opposite ways.

Team Provost (1-1) kills Death Valley Driver (1-1), 103.5-97
It's the second straight 103.5-point output for Team Provost, but this time it was enough to earn a victory. Saquon and Mark Andrews (Mark Andrews!) were his big time point getters. DVD, meanwhile, got 35(!) from the Patriots defense against the Dade County Community College Dolphins, a major advantage that was offset by a few very defensive games for his studs, and Matt Prater losing a point-and-a-half for him.

Released Dix On Boobies (1-1) smashes The Jeff Fisher Effect (0-2), 134-87.5
Normally, waiting for Odell Beckham to go on a Monday night would be met with a "Oh, I've got a shot." Instead, JFE barely watched Monday Night Football, knowing he'd need 70 points from Beckham to win. TO his "credit", OBJ did his best, posting 27 points. Boobies (heh) had 4 players score in the 20s, who would have beaten the entire starting squad for JFE.

Iron Ryan (2-0) sacks Hardcore Sacks (1-1), 113-78
This is one of those weeks for Hardcore to chalk up to bad luck. His starting QB gets hurt (also out for the season now) and almost every player on his bench would have been a better play than any starter, except playing a lineup like that would have given you heartburn. Iron Ryan, meanwhile, started the same lineup for the second straight week to the same victorious result.

Hooked On A Thielen (1-1) snacks on Pedro Pickles (0-2), 134.5-109
Both QBs in this matchup were the top scorers: the difference came in the other positions. Patrick Mahomes' 30 points were the high in this matchup, but the next 5 highest scores belonged to HOTA. And 20.5 of HOTA's points came from the top target of Mahomes in Travis Kelce.

Hamilton Rod and Gun (2-0) shoots Utah Falco (1-1), 105.5-76.5
Last week, Utah Falco was in the running for the Tidwell. This week, he put up the lowest score in the league, thanks in large part to Christian McCaffrey's 5 points this week (compared to 38 in Week 1). HRG didn't have a player break the 20 point plateau, but only had 3 players in single digits.

The Money Line
Hooked On A Thielen is this week's Tidwell Award winner, barely edging out Boobies (heh) but a half-point following the Monday Night game. Boobies (heh) got 0 points out of his Monday night player David Njoku, while HOTA got 17 from Nick Chubb. Even a single catch from Njoku would have split this pot.

Which reminds me: do we HAVE a procedure for a Tidwell if it's two equal scores? This is at least the second time we've only had a half-point spread at the top, and it seems only a matter of time until we have two equal scores up there. Thoughts?

Put Your Records On
I've been working on updating our League History page, along with our Best Ball stats and our yearly statistics. It's a lot of data entry, and I have less empty time to fill at work, so I apologize that they're getting updated a little slower than in previous seasons. But here are links to the Google Sheets where I track all those fun things:

STPS Complete League History

2019 Stats

Best Ball Sheet

What's in the Best Ball Sheet, Commish?
The Best Ball sheet has a tab for each week of the season. Within each week, I'll track:

1. the best score from the player's your drafted
2. the best score from the players on your roster for that week

For example, Hardcore Sacks dropped Vance McDonald after Week 1. Each week, I'll add McDonald's score into Hardcore's "Drafted Team Best Ball," but leave him off of the team for that week. I'll also show the Best Ball scenario of the guys you had on your roster that week, regardless of whether or not your drafted them.

Also, as part of that, I'll track the percentage of the highest scoring players you played that week. In Week 1, HRG played 100% of the players that would have given him his best score that week. By comparison, Utah Falco, Team Provost and Boobies (heh) played 66.7% of their "best" players.

And then, just for fun, I'll compile the Best Ball score of ALL the free agents we didn't have in our lineups that week. You can see that in Week 1, the free agent team scored 216 points! I'm interested to see if anyone manages to beat that team any week. Based on Week 1, I'd say it's a long shot.

Anyway....We're on to Week 3!