After all the close matches last week, this week was kind of a let down. The margins were much wider. Only three matches were decided by less than 10 points and seven by more than 20 points. One of the most exciting was Joe Dubya vs. Jolly Roger. Joe held a 49 point lead going into Monday night and still had wide receiver Mack Hollins of the Raiders to play. But it was always going to be tough. Jolly Roger had the Mahomes/Kelce stack still to play, and boy did they play. Instead of letting Clyde Edwards-Helaire score a TD (and helping out the No-Bell Prizes), Kelce kept them all for himself getting four TDs on seven receptions. Combined Mahomes/Kelce scored 60 points.
Hollins just needed a modest 11 points, well less than the 25 he put up two weeks ago against the Titans. But instead he had ZERO receptions on four targets, leading to a big fat 0 fantasy points.
Goose of shame!
Photo by Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
And Jolly Roger completed his comeback to win 133-126.
Power rankings
The power rankings were remarkably stable this week. Only White Hart Bobby Layne managed to move up one spot simultaneously pushing down Dan.
| Team | Change |
|---|---|
| Jolly Roger | - |
| No-Bell Prizes | - |
| Joe Dubya | - |
| Wizard Of Oz | - |
| White Hart Bobby Layne | ▲1 |
| Dan L | ▼1 |
| GS | - |
| Jason | - |
| Westminster Wildcats | - |
| Sweet Lou | - |
| Adam | - |
| TC | - |
Survivor pool
Joe and Mark both played it safe this week taking Buffalo over Pittsburgh and the Bills rewarded them accordingly. Will the managers pick the same team in week 7? Stay tuned to find out.
| Week | Joe Dubya | No-Bell Prizes |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | LAC | LAC |
| 5 | BUF | BUF |
Blunder of the week
Jason failed to start the number two overall fantasy scorer this week, tight end extraordinaire Taysom Hill.
Hill rushed for 112 yards and 3 touchdowns, throwing for another 22 yards and a touchdown. You know, things that tight ends do all the time. Starting Hill would have given Jason enough points to turn two losses into two wins.
Who did Jason start instead? He went with Darren Waller who was injured before he could score any points.
Standings
A big score this week keeps Jolly Roger on top of the standings, but still second (by 0.34 points) in total points scored this season. This place is only 55 points behind that, so it is still anyone’s game.
| Team | Record | Scored |
|---|---|---|
| Jolly Roger | 9-1 | 649.12 |
| Wizard Of Oz | 9-1 | 593.74 |
| No-Bell Prizes | 7-3 | 649.46 |
| Joe Dubya | 7-3 | 585.14 |
| White Hart Bobby Layne | 5-5 | 521.94 |
| Dan | 5-5 | 495.38 |
| Jason | 4-6 | 474.12 |
| Adam | 4-6 | 420.18 |
| Sweet Lou | 3-7 | 411.6 |
| Westminster Wildcats | 3-7 | 408.88 |
| GS | 2-8 | 451.2 |
| TC | 2-8 | 343.38 |
Weekly high scores
- Jolly Roger (152.40)
- Jolly Roger (136.90)
- Dan L (133.40)
- No-Bell Prizes (170.66)
- White Hart Bobby Layne (144.16)
Cover Photo courtesy of Erik Drost CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons