Week 6, or The Later Than Usual Ones

From last week's 6-team 3-2 mess, to this week: FOUR teams at 4-2, four more at 2-4 and two at 3-3. It's a weird set of standings, and it's kind of a weird year in fantasy football. I'm back to the "regular" format this week so...

RECAPS!

Death Valley Driver takes home Tidwell, takes down Utah Falco 161-100.5
Man, that Patriots defense is just killing people. They're averaging TWICE what the Bears defense averaged last year, and they've helped DVD to his 4-2 record. And this week, thanks to 2 TDs from Tyreek Hill, it didn't hurt DVD that he played Darius Slayton, who no one has ever heard of before this week, including NY Giants coaches. Utah Falco is 2-4, but has the 4th most points, thanks in large part to Christian McCaffrey. He's had some bad luck in his opponents, who have scored the most points against him.

Hooked On A Thielen smacks Released Dix On Boobies, 126-102.5
Lamar Jackson reminded the league he's still a thing, and that basically made the difference in this one. All the other position scores were pretty close, but Matthew Stafford wasn't good enough on Monday night (not entirely his fault; more on that later). Both these teams are right where they ought to be in terms of points and record.

Pedro Pickles sacks Hardcore Sacks, 107.5-73.5
It's REALLY tough to win when you have a player go down with an injury before scoring any points (kind of a theme this week) and when your QB throws for 78 yards in an entire game (Sam Darnold threw for 92 on one play this week against the Cowboys). A theme for Hardcore has been bench points this year, but even that wouldn't have saved him this week. Not to take anything away from Pickles, who finally had some luck break his way this week.

Iron Ryan defeats Team Provost 91.5-87
The amount of luck that has gone into this fantasy football season is somewhat astonishing. Despite scoring the second FEWEST points, I-Ry is sitting in possession of a playoff spot. It's somewhat impressive. It does help when you've also allowed the second fewest points against. George Kittle and Dak Prescott did most of his damage this week. I'm also not sure how Philip Rivers and Dak scored as many points as they did, with as bad as their teams looked in their respective losses. Garbage time is a helluva thing, I guess.

Hamilton Rod and Gun tops The Jeff Fisher Effect, 73-65
Oh holy shit. There's not much to say about this matchup. Literally all day Sunday, it looked like this:

It's the second time in three weeks JFE had an opponent put up a putrid score and fail to win. The Effect has the fewest points scored, and it's not close (527.5, next lowest is 612) but also the fewest points against. It's not helping, he's 2-4. HRG is 4-2, is third and scoring and this week might be considered an anomaly, except that it's the second time in three weeks he failed to make it to 75 points. To sum up: HRG is gonna be fine. JFE is in deep trouble.


Money Makes The League Go 'Round
Death Valley Driver is this week's Tidwell winner, his first of the season.


ICYMI
There was some absolutely horrendous officiating on Monday night.

Week 7 is the next one we play. So let's do it!