Joe scored 155.4, the best total of the week by 38.4, and is 6-0. Toño scored 40 with three starters on 0. Three games were decided by three points or fewer, and the commissioner won one of them with a perfect lineup against his own autodraft bot.
The fifth-best score of the week, and a 2.8-point loss. DK Metcalf scored 20.3 on the bench while A.J. Brown started at flex and scored 5.7, a gap of 14.6, which is the game five times over. The best lineup available was 128.9. The defending champion's win streak ends at two, and the bench has the receipt.
The tenth-best score of the week won by 49.8, because the twelfth-best score was across the table. Josh Allen, the highest-projected player in the league at 25.1, scored 18.3. Emeka Egbuka scored 17.8 on the bench behind Denzel Boston's 2.5. None of it mattered. 5-1, second seed.
Projected 119.4, scored 155.4. Tre Tucker scored 26.7 on a 10.3 projection, the biggest overperformance of the week, and Carnell Tate 19 on 10.9. The one miss: Tyler Shough scored 27 on the bench behind Matthew Stafford's 16.9. It cost nothing, which is how this season has gone for Joe.
Two rushing touchdowns on Monday night and 9.5 over his projection. The preview said the game of the week would go to whoever fixed their lineup first: Mario benched Justin Jefferson and Chase Brown, both on bye, started Luther Burden III for 17.5 and Alvin Kamara for 14.9, and won by 41.3. 10-1 against the field, and up three seeds to eighth.
The only perfect lineup in the league, and it scored 99, 5-6 against the field. Bijan Robinson was the biggest bust of the week, 7.3 on a 23 projection. The commissioner beat his own autodraft bot by 3.1, and the bot started Jake Bates on a bye week and sat DeVonta Smith's 20.5 behind Drake London's 10.2. That one swap alone would have beaten him. He would like it noted that he won. It is noted.
Germie Bernard scored 25.7 on the bench while Ladd McConkey started and scored 2.7. The Chiefs D/ST scored 15 on the bench while the Rams D/ST started and scored 3. A 76.4% lineup, the second-worst of the week, and a 2.8-point win. Last week Potatoe set a perfect lineup and lost. The universe is not fair, but this week it was at least balanced.
Patrick Mahomes scored 10.5 and Puka Nacua 14 on a 22.8 projection, and Stefon Diggs scored 16.4 on the bench behind Josh Downs's 8.7. Isaiah Likely's 21.9 and James Cook III's 24.3 carried it. Up a seed to third, two points from being the rookie's first win.
Three starters scored 0: DJ Moore, Tyler Warren and Efton Chism III. Bhayshul Tuten scored 24.7 on the bench, and Cameron Dicker's 6 sat behind Brandon Aubrey's 1. The best lineup available was 71.6, which still loses by 18.2. Two rings, and a Sunday that is best left to the ledger.
The 1.0-point favorite in the game of the week lost by 41.3. Mark Andrews scored 1.4 at tight end, and Xavier Worthy's 14.3 sat on the bench behind Garrett Wilson's 8.4. The lineup rated 92.8%, which is a decent decision on a bad roster day: the best available was 81.6.
For five weeks the knock on Joe was the schedule: undefeated, but below .500 against the field. This week he scored the most points in the league against every one of the eleven other lineups, and the argument got noticeably harder to make.
Joe is now first in the power rankings as well as the first seed, now by a full game over Benji at 5-1. Eight weeks left for somebody to find the answer.
Top 7 make the playoffs. Ties broken by total points scored.
| Seed | Team | Record | PF | PA | Streak | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Photofreak Joe |
6-0 | 750.7 | 590.4 | W6 |
| 2 | – | Suzaku Benji |
5-1 | 722.2 | 556.5 | W1 |
| 3 | ▲1 | Obsidians Misa |
4-2 | 763.0 | 755.9 | W2 |
| 4 | ▲1 | Balrogs Uriel |
4-2 | 726.2 | 673.0 | W4 |
| 5 | ▼2 | Firebreathing Platypuses Oriol |
4-2 | 725.9 | 741.9 | L1 |
| 6 | – | Potatoe Yael |
3-3 | 764.5 | 803.2 | W1 |
| 7 | – | Dan Robot Dan Robot (bot) |
2-4 | 727.4 | 682.4 | L3 |
| 8 | ▲3 | Stairway to Seven Mario |
2-4 | 678.8 | 732.0 | W1 |
| 9 | ▲1 | Mean Machine Sam |
2-4 | 647.9 | 720.6 | L1 |
| 10 | ▼2 | Seitseman Toño |
2-4 | 646.9 | 684.9 | L1 |
| 11 | ▼2 | Windwaker Jordi |
2-4 | 625.0 | 710.2 | L2 |
| 12 | – | Terrible Towel, Mediocre Picks Tayler |
0-6 | 564.4 | 691.9 | L6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balrogs Uriel |
99.0 | 99.0 | 0.0 | 100% | — |
| Terrible Towel, Mediocre Picks Tayler |
109.1 | 110.8 | 1.7 | 99% | George Holani (8.0) over Tony Pollard (7.8) |
| Photofreak Joe |
155.4 | 165.5 | 10.1 | 94% | Tyler Shough (27.0) over Matthew Stafford (16.9) |
| Stairway to Seven Mario |
117.0 | 125.9 | 8.9 | 93% | Jakobi Meyers (13.3) over Michael Wilson (7.2) |
| Windwaker Jordi |
75.7 | 81.6 | 5.9 | 93% | Xavier Worthy (14.3) over Garrett Wilson (8.4) |
| Firebreathing Platypuses Oriol |
98.8 | 107.0 | 8.2 | 92% | Blake Corum (14.0) over Tyler Allgeier (5.8) |
| Obsidians Misa |
111.4 | 123.1 | 11.7 | 91% | Stefon Diggs (16.4) over Josh Downs (8.7) |
| Mean Machine Sam |
110.3 | 128.9 | 18.6 | 86% | DK Metcalf (20.3) over A.J. Brown (5.7) |
| Suzaku Benji |
89.8 | 109.3 | 19.5 | 82% | Emeka Egbuka (17.8) over Denzel Boston (2.5) |
| Potatoe Yael |
113.1 | 148.1 | 35.0 | 76% | Germie Bernard (25.7) over Ladd McConkey (2.7) |
| Seitseman Toño |
40.0 | 71.6 | 31.6 | 56% | Bhayshul Tuten (24.7) over DJ Moore (0.0) |