Oriol and Dan Robot both scored 127.3, and Oriol won on the hundredths. Misa posted the high score, 168.2, in a 309.2-point shootout that Yael lost with a perfect lineup. Joe is the last unbeaten team at 5-0, after the tenth-best score of the week.
A lineup rated 100%, the only perfect one in the league: every player who should have started, started. Jahmyr Gibbs scored 37.7 and Jared Goff 28.9. It would have beaten eight other teams, and it drew the one that scored 168.2. Four finals, no rings, and now a perfect Sunday with a loss attached. Potatoe deserves better from this universe.
The tenth-best score of the week, and it drew the eleventh. Joe started Roman Wilson at flex, listed out, for 0, with Ollie Gordon II scoring 14.8 on the bench, the same Ollie Gordon II he benched last week for 18. None of it mattered. 5-0, first seed, and the only unbeaten team left.
Three starters over 30: Puka Nacua 37.7, Isaiah Likely 32.4 on a 12.9 projection, and Christian Watson 32.3. Last week RJ Harvey scored 19.3 on Misa's bench. This week he started and scored 0.7, with Jacory Croskey-Merritt's 14.2 on the bench. It cost nothing. Up two seeds to fourth.
21 over his projection, the best performance and the biggest overperformance of the week. Last Sunday the commissioner benched Maye's 24.2 for Kirk Cousins. This Sunday he started him, scored 163, and still sat Rhamondre Stevenson's 17.5 behind Cam Skattebo's 7.1, a bench regret for the fifth week running. Up two to fifth. He would like it noted he got the quarterback right once.
Both teams scored 127.3. Oriol's real total was a fraction higher, and the 2018 champion is 4-1 and third because of it. On the other side, Dan Robot started DeVonta Smith, projected 0, for 0, for the second week in a row, with Matthew Golden's 18.3 on the bench. A bot that lost by two hundredths of a point with an 18.3-point fix on its own roster has no way to know, and that may be the kindest thing about being a bot.
Last week the spotlight noted that every healthy 49er in this league played for somebody else. This week Toño started the 49ers D/ST, it scored 19, and he won by 63.6 against a team starting Brock Purdy and Christian McCaffrey. Bucky Irving added 31.5 and Tyler Warren 21.4, and the lineup rated 98.8%. Up two to eighth.
Projected 126.8, scored 79.9. Jordan Love scored 23.3 on the bench behind Brock Purdy's 14.2, and Pat Freiermuth 21.5 on the bench behind Juwan Johnson's 5.6. The best lineup available was 111.5, which would still have lost. Stairway to Seven is now eleventh, with nine weeks to climb four steps.
The second-best managed lineup in the league, and 1-10 against the field. CeeDee Lamb was the biggest bust of the week, 2.9 on a 19.1 projection, one Sunday after his 41.3. The one miss was at quarterback: Dak Prescott 12.6, Jalen Hurts on the bench with 13. After three weeks of starting the wrong one, Jordi switched, and the other one won by 0.4.
The defending champion is on a two-game win streak, and this one ended one of the two unbeaten starts left in the league. Malik Nabers scored 29.1 on a 13.6 projection, which covered T.J. Hockenson's 1.7 at tight end. 2-3, tenth, and one more of these makes the 0-3 start a footnote.
132.2 points, the fifth-best score of the week, and a lineup that left 1.3 on the bench. Jayden Daniels scored 30.3 and George Pickens 28. The rookie drew Drake Maye's afternoon and the commissioner's 163, and is 0-5 with a lineup that beat seven others. The record will catch up with the decisions.
Every score in these reports is printed to one decimal. This week that was not enough. Oriol and Dan Robot both went into the books at 127.3, and ESPN, which keeps a second decimal, says Oriol scored more.
Both sides left more than enough on the bench to settle it: Oriol's best lineup was 145.6 and Dan Robot's 146.6, the bot's slightly higher. The difference is that one of them can blame the other. Oriol is 4-1. Dan Robot is 2-3 and still holds the seventh seed, the last one into the playoffs.
Top 7 make the playoffs. Ties broken by total points scored.
| Seed | Team | Record | PF | PA | Streak | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ▲1 | Photofreak Joe |
5-0 | 595.3 | 491.6 | W5 |
| 2 | ▼1 | Suzaku Benji |
4-1 | 632.4 | 516.5 | L1 |
| 3 | – | Firebreathing Platypuses Oriol |
4-1 | 627.1 | 586.5 | W1 |
| 4 | ▲2 | Obsidians Misa |
3-2 | 651.6 | 646.8 | W1 |
| 5 | ▲2 | Balrogs Uriel |
3-2 | 627.2 | 577.1 | W3 |
| 6 | ▼2 | Potatoe Yael |
2-3 | 651.4 | 692.9 | L1 |
| 7 | ▼2 | Dan Robot Dan Robot (bot) |
2-3 | 631.5 | 583.4 | L2 |
| 8 | ▲2 | Seitseman Toño |
2-3 | 606.9 | 595.1 | W1 |
| 9 | ▼1 | Windwaker Jordi |
2-3 | 549.3 | 593.2 | L1 |
| 10 | ▲1 | Mean Machine Sam |
2-3 | 537.6 | 607.5 | W2 |
| 11 | ▼2 | Stairway to Seven Mario |
1-4 | 561.8 | 656.3 | L3 |
| 12 | – | Terrible Towel, Mediocre Picks Tayler |
0-5 | 455.3 | 580.5 | L5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potatoe Yael |
141.0 | 141.0 | 0.0 | 100% | — |
| Windwaker Jordi |
95.5 | 95.9 | 0.4 | 100% | Jalen Hurts (13.0) over Dak Prescott (12.6) |
| Terrible Towel, Mediocre Picks Tayler |
132.2 | 133.5 | 1.3 | 99% | Kenny Gainwell (5.8) over TreVeyon Henderson (4.8) |
| Seitseman Toño |
143.5 | 145.2 | 1.7 | 99% | Cameron Dicker (6.0) over Brandon Aubrey (5.0) |
| Suzaku Benji |
111.8 | 114.0 | 2.2 | 98% | Colston Loveland (3.9) over Dalton Kincaid (1.7) |
| Balrogs Uriel |
163.0 | 173.4 | 10.4 | 94% | Rhamondre Stevenson (17.5) over Cam Skattebo (7.1) |
| Mean Machine Sam |
113.3 | 123.6 | 10.3 | 92% | Dontayvion Wicks (11.3) over DK Metcalf (5.3) |
| Obsidians Misa |
168.2 | 185.0 | 16.8 | 91% | Jacory Croskey-Merritt (14.2) over RJ Harvey (0.7) |
| Firebreathing Platypuses Oriol |
127.3 | 145.6 | 18.3 | 87% | Blake Corum (16.2) over Rome Odunze (5.0) |
| Photofreak Joe |
104.5 | 125.2 | 20.7 | 84% | Ollie Gordon II (14.8) over Roman Wilson (0.0) |
| Stairway to Seven Mario |
79.9 | 111.5 | 31.6 | 72% | Pat Freiermuth (21.5) over Juwan Johnson (5.6) |