The preview called week 2 the week the schedule got audited. Benji was projected to lose by 8.9 and won by 64.2, Joe went from 1-10 against the field to 10-1, and the commissioner lost the closest game of the week by 11 with a 17-point receiver on his bench for the second Sunday running.
The eighth-best score of the week, a lineup that captured 75.4% of its own ceiling - last in the league - and a starting running back, Saquon Barkley, who scored 3 on a 17.6 projection, the biggest bust of the week. He also benched Dak Prescott's 29.8 to start Jalen Hurts for 16.2. He bought them for the same price specifically so he would never have to choose, and then he chose. 1-1.
The fourth-best score in the league, enough to beat eight of the eleven lineups he was not playing. Mahomes scored 29, Stefon Diggs 21.7 on a 10.3 projection, and he drew the second-best score of the week. Jake Ferguson's 20.3 on the bench would not have saved it either; the margin was 19.7.
Josh Allen threw three touchdowns and ran for two, 40.8 points in a league that pays 4 for a passing touchdown, and Davante Adams added 39.7 on a 15.5 projection, the biggest overperformance of the week at 24.2 over. A 94.3% lineup, the best-managed in the league. Benji moves up three seeds to first, and nobody else went unbeaten against the field.
Three receiving touchdowns on an 18.5 projection, the best single performance in the league. Jonathan Taylor added 29.2, which is the two-stars half of the running joke doing its job. The preview's audit found Joe sixth on a 1-10 all-play; he answered with 10-1 and the third seed.
DJ Moore started at wide receiver and scored minus 0.1. Denzel Boston sat on the bench and scored 20.5. The game of the week was lost by 19.6, so that single swap wins it. Two-time champions do not usually need this explained to them, which is why it is in an award and not a footnote.
A tight end 17.1 over his projection, on a roster whose quarterback scored 6.2. Amon-Ra St. Brown's 35.2 did the rest. The 2018 champion is 2-0, second seed, and has the second-most points in the league at 272.8, which is the ring the draft awards page forgot, still working.
Malik Nabers was projected 14.9 and scored 1.1. Sam lost by 14.9, to the autodraft bot, which is the kind of coincidence that feels personal. Dontayvion Wicks scored 12.4 on the bench. Two weeks into a title defense, and the champion is eleventh of twelve.
No other starting defense in the league scored more than 8. It was Mario's second-highest scorer, behind only Christian McCaffrey's 22.6, and it arrived the same week he benched Brock Purdy's 28.5 to start Jayden Daniels for 14.7. Stairway to Seven sits seventh for the second week in a row.
Sam LaPorta scored 17.2 on the bench behind Kyle Pitts' 2.7, but the best possible lineup from this roster was 93.3 and Mario scored 102.1, so no swap was going to do it. Jaylen Waddle's 21.8 on a 12.2 projection is the bright spot. Twelve weeks of regular season left, and the team name is still the best in league history.
The week 2 preview noted that Uriel had fixed his week 1 mistake by moving Jadarian Price into the flex, for a projected gain of 0.4. Price scored 5. Parker Washington, on the bench for the second week running, scored 17.
A 12-point swap in a game lost by 11. The commissioner wrote the tool that computes this, and it is not taking his side.
Top 7 make the playoffs. Ties broken by total points scored.
| Seed | Team | Record | PF | PA | Streak | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ▲3 | Suzaku Benji |
2-0 | 296.0 | 223.0 | W2 |
| 2 | – | Firebreathing Platypuses Oriol |
2-0 | 272.8 | 230.3 | W2 |
| 3 | ▲3 | Photofreak Joe |
2-0 | 246.7 | 196.3 | W2 |
| 4 | ▼3 | Potatoe Yael |
1-1 | 277.9 | 295.5 | L1 |
| 5 | – | Obsidians Misa |
1-1 | 255.9 | 260.4 | L1 |
| 6 | ▼3 | Seitseman Toño |
1-1 | 247.1 | 242.0 | L1 |
| 7 | – | Stairway to Seven Mario |
1-1 | 234.1 | 255.0 | W1 |
| 8 | ▲2 | Dan Robot Dan Robot (bot) |
1-1 | 223.1 | 223.4 | W1 |
| 9 | ▲2 | Windwaker Jordi |
1-1 | 209.9 | 223.6 | W1 |
| 10 | ▼2 | Balrogs Uriel |
0-2 | 212.5 | 232.3 | L2 |
| 11 | ▼2 | Mean Machine Sam |
0-2 | 210.2 | 248.0 | L2 |
| 12 | – | Terrible Towel, Mediocre Picks Tayler |
0-2 | 148.0 | 204.4 | L2 |
What you scored against the best lineup available from the players you already owned. 100 percent means nothing was left on the bench.
| Team | Scored | Best possible | Left behind | Rating | Biggest miss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suzaku Benji |
163.5 | 173.4 | 9.9 | 94% | Rachaad White (14.3) over David Montgomery (4.4) |
| Photofreak Joe |
144.4 | 153.5 | 9.1 | 94% | Jonah Coleman (14.8) over Chris Godwin Jr. (8.8) |
| Firebreathing Platypuses Oriol |
131.9 | 144.2 | 12.3 | 92% | Tank Bigsby (12.0) over J.K. Dobbins (3.6) |
| Obsidians Misa |
124.7 | 136.7 | 12.0 | 91% | Jake Ferguson (20.3) over Isaiah Likely (8.3) |
| Mean Machine Sam |
92.2 | 105.4 | 13.2 | 88% | Dontayvion Wicks (12.4) over Malik Nabers (1.1) |
| Seitseman Toño |
112.3 | 132.9 | 20.6 | 85% | Denzel Boston (20.5) over DJ Moore (-0.1) |
| Terrible Towel, Mediocre Picks Tayler |
76.4 | 93.3 | 16.9 | 82% | Sam LaPorta (17.2) over Kyle Pitts Sr. (2.7) |
| Stairway to Seven Mario |
102.1 | 125.5 | 23.4 | 81% | Brock Purdy (28.5) over Jayden Daniels (14.7) |
| Balrogs Uriel |
88.8 | 109.4 | 20.6 | 81% | Parker Washington (17.0) over Jadarian Price (5.0) |
| Potatoe Yael |
99.3 | 130.5 | 31.2 | 76% | Jared Goff (29.8) over Baker Mayfield (12.2) |
| Windwaker Jordi |
99.8 | 132.4 | 32.6 | 75% | Dak Prescott (29.8) over Jalen Hurts (16.2) |