At the beginning of the season if you were to look at Mark and Leland's rosters and tell me these two teams would be the last teams to remain winless and undefeated I would've probably 80-100% agreed with you and I would've been right.....except I would've also been wrong. You see, I had Leland pegged once again as this unstoppable force, gifted with great keepers and great draft picks, while Mark's team had more than a few question mark head scratching moves that weren't to my liking. However after 3 weeks it's MARK'S TEAM that's undefeated and LELAND is the only team in our league without a win. Fantasy Football at it's finest. It's the ultimate game where "on paper" means jackshit because it's all a game of chance and luck. I can however at least come up with reasonable explanations as to how the unbelievable really is actually...believable. Let's start with Leland's team. It's pretty simple. Underachievement. Yup..that's it. No...if this would've happened...or if he had played this guy..nope it's just underachievement as a whole team. Leland is 9th in the league in scoring after 3 games, so it's not like his guys are playing up to their standards and though he's given up the 3rd most points in the league..look at the teams around him, Matt and Mike have both given up 30-40 points more and still have wins under their belts. Albert and Drew...have only given up about 6 points less than Leland and both are 2-1, so Points Against can't really be used a pro argument for Leland. It's just what it is..simple underachievement. Aaron Rodgers hasn't been a monster QB thanks to a knee injury, David Johnson's been a bust for the most part and outside of Keenan Allen, Leland's got too many interchangeable receivers that it's hard to pick the right ones who can blow up (kinda a problem he had last year as well). So yeah..that was pretty easy to explain. So Mark...MARK...1st place..undefeated..HOW?! He totally overdrafted Golden Tate (over guys like Mike Evans and JuJu Smith Schuster) he's already busted on a keeper in Derrick Henry (he sucks), Alshon Jeffrey's been hurt all year and he just lost Jimmy G to an ACL injury. How in the hell has that team not only NOT lost but NOT gotten blown out in every game? Well..and I'm not trying to be a prick, but let's be real, it's certainly not because his team has actually played well as a whole. Mark's got the 3rd worst points in the league, even Leland, 0-3, has more points (by less than a point but still, for the disparity in records, the points disparity should be more than less than a point and it should be Mark with more points). Let's be generous and even say "but Mark only 2 points away from two other guys"..ok fair enough, 2 points basically separate him and Dad but still, that puts at 5th worst scoring team at BEST. Out of 12 teams. No matter how you slice it, it's not good. Mark's team is playing to about the level I expected it to play at. Mark's success has come from the fact that so far, teams are playing below their expectations. So it's not that Mark's team has gone off or anything, it's that his opponents teams have so far "wet the bed" when playing against him. The easier way to measure that? Points Against. Who leads that? Mark...by almost 20 points from the next guy closest. So is all of this sustainable. Is Mark going to keep trucking and Leland failing? When it comes to this crazy game, who knows anything really. It'll definitely be interesting to see how this finishes out..but at the very least..for now...it's not a mystery that can't be solved. Onto the results of Week 3
The Results
Rigmas Forever (2-1) 110.40
Underdawg (1-2) 98.40
I Am Queens Blvd (2-1) 112.84
Rocket Man (2-1) 101.38
Scott's Tots (1-2) 120.70
Channel 4 News Team (2-1) 72.74
Hoosier Daddy (2-1) 104.12
No Soup For You (0-3) 88.60
Trump 2020 (1-2) 123.64
Light's Broken Bots (1-2) 103.26
Shock The Monkey (3-0) 90.04
SCLSU MudDogs (1-2) 69.86
Top 5 Scorers
Drew Brees (I Am Queens Blvd) 43.54 Pts
Cam Newton (Underdawg) 31.60 Pts
Ryan Fitzpatrick (Trump 2020) 29.64 Pts
Patrick Mahomes (Light's Broken Bots) 28.26 Pts
Ben Roethlisberger (Hoosier Daddy) 27.50 Pts
Top 5 Scorers (Non QB)
Alvin Kamara (Rigmas Forever) 26.50 Pts
Adrian Peterson (Hoosier Daddy) 24.00 Pts
Carlos Hyde (Scott's Tots) 23.30 Pts
Mike Evans (Trump 2020) 22.70 Pts
Todd Gurley (I Am Queens Blvd) 22.10 Pts
Top 5 Duds
Kirk Cousins (Channel 4 News Team) 11.54 Pts
Stefon Diggs (Channel 4 News Team) 3.70 Pts
Keenan Allen (No Soup For You) 3.90 Pts
Chris Thompson (Channel 4 News Team) 2.20 Pts
Rob Gronkowski (Light's Broken Bots) 7.10 Pts
Notable Injuries
A.J. Green (Rocket Man)
Jimmy Garoppolo (Shock The Monkey)
Dalvin Cook (I Am Queens Blvd)
Rex Burkhead (Light's Broken Bots)
Leonard Fournette (Hoosier Daddy)
Highest Scoring Team
Trump 2020 123.64 Pts
Lowest Scoring Team
SCLSU MudDogs 69.86 Pts
Biggest Blowout
47.96 Points (Scott's Tots vs Channel 4 News Team)
Closest Game
11.46 Points (I Am Queens Blvd. vs Rocket Man)
Still Undefeated
Shock The Monkey (3-0)
Still Winless
No Soup For You (0-3)
Week 3 Notes: For whatever reason, this win for me felt like the most bizarre, weirdest win I've had in a long while. I don't like checking fantasy scores during the day, and it just seemed like my team was FLAT, and I felt like Dad was crushing it. Like before the 1st halves ended, Dad already had 3 Cam TD's, a Saquon TD and it seemed like Jordan Reed was doing good as well, while I had Blake Bortles SUCKING big time and solid yardage from Kamara and Michael Thomas (but no Td's) but like nothing else outside of a Emmanuel Sanders rushing TD. I just felt like that the whole matchup yet I still ended up winning (thought it got hairy last night with Chris Godwin). I'll take it, but man..what an uninspiring weird win ha. Fun fact..I drafted Russell Wilson in the 5th round in the draft..I still haven't used him. For Dad, the one thing I was worried about (outside of injury which has also killed Dad, with Freeman and Greg Olsen) was how Corey Davis and Amari Cooper would perform. They just haven't been good and with Dad shorthanded he needs them to be. It can't be just Cam, Saquon and Hopkins doing everything. Next week, he won't have Cam, who's on bye and takes on Kenny's team who has life now. Kinda scary for him if you ask me. We'll segue into that matchup as Kenny got EXACTLY what he needed as Albert went from putting up 140+ against me to putting up barely half that this week. Kenny had this in check since Thursday and never looked back and it was DEFINITELY a confidence booster after starting 0-2. His goal was to be 2-2 and it's looking like that's a pretty good possibility when he faces Dad next week ( though just putting this out there...the last two teams to have blowout of the week..went on to be blowout of the week themselves..as the VICTIM). It was just an absolute MISS all around from Albert's team as the Bills just beat the crap out of the Vikings. As the Vikings go down, so does Albert as he has that Cousins/Diggs combo. Last week they combined for like 71 points..this week...not even 15. Chris Thompson was also uninvolved in his matchup so just a terrible overall for Albert. Everyone has those though and I'm sure he'll bounce back (ROTOWORLD) next week when he faces Mike. Speaking of Mike....the points have been there..he's just had a bad schedule. He FINALLY gets win #1 thanks to the Monday Night Heroics of FITZMAGIC and Mike Evans. This team is legit. Mike's 2nd in the league in scoring and it should be a close matchup when he faces Albert this week. Very impressive win for Drew as he beat Eugene's Red Hot Team and he did it without the services of Dalvin Cook. And it wasn't one of those Eugene's team was terrible, he did put up over 100 too, but Drew Brees and his 45 points led the way along with of course Todd Gurley. Eugene losing A.J. Green to injury didn't help matters, and hopefully for his sake it's not a bad injury. It just shows how deep this league is. Most of the teams in this league can beat each other on any given week. Drew gets Matt next week, while Eugene gets a chance to end Mark's undefeated streak. Speaking of Mark, I already went over his team's success at the beginning and honestly there's just not a lot to say here. Mark's the only winning team that didn't put up 100 pts (he barely put up 90) and outside of Jimmy G, Kelce and Golladay..no one else really did anything. He just happened to play Alex. who's team is in just a mess. Injuries have ravaged Alex's team along with Le'Veon Bell's holdout and who knows how long it'll be before this team becomes competitive. It's going to be a long season for Alex unfortunately and it won't get any easier as he takes on Leland who's chomping at the bit for win #1. Speaking of....so Ryan did the one thing that pisses me off more than anything..he played an inactive. Leonard Fournette was ruled out early Sunday Morning and there was plenty of time for Ryan (who even has FOURNETTE'S HANDCUFF..T.J. YELDON) to make the switch. But he didn't and the kicker (which pisses me off more) it didn't matter...he still won with ease. Big Ben has been amazing but surprisingly it was Adrian Peterson and Sterling Shepard that led the way too. For Leland...man..you couldn't ask for a WORSE start. Now losing to teams who leave inactives in. I don't what to say..I do know probably the biggest problem he has is picking his WR's...the WR'S he has are just two similar and all capable of boom or bust games. He had Robert Woods and Mike Williams on his bench this week (50 points right there). It's going to be a guessing game every week and he needs to hope to hit and play the right ones. He needs this matchup with Alex BADLY as that should be an easy win but who knows the way this season has gone. Ryan will play me, and since I badmouthed his decision to play an inactive Fournette, I can see Karma biting me in the ass and me losing to him.
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