Week #2

Week 2 reversed several Week 1 stories without completely erasing them. Dec moved from 5th to the weekly win, Prof surged from 8th to 2nd, and Ball improved by 43.75 pts, while the two Week 1 leaders slipped to 3rd and 6th. The biggest drama came on Monday night: Dec was projected to finish in the middle of the pack before Davante Adams (Dec) exploded for 31.75 pts in the final game and carried the team all the way to 1st. Old still leads the season at 18-2, with Dec close behind at 16-4 and Adm and Bas at 14-6. Josh Allen (Adm) had the week's highest player score at 41.5, while Jared Goff's 32.75 (Old), Devin Lloyd's 31.5 (Dec), and the Carolina defense's 29 (Old) were all wasted on the bench. Dec's championship odds moved from 10% after Week 1 to 14% after this win, another sign of how much the first-place finish changed the early picture.

The Decepticons jumped from 5th place in Week 1 to the Week 2 win with 173.25 pts. Patrick Mahomes II scored 29.75, Jonathan Taylor had 25, and Trey McBride (15) and Harrison Butker (14) kept the lineup moving, but the late hero was Davante Adams as mentioned above.  The irony is that the Dec coach did not even want to start D Adams, he was backup but Z Flowers' injury moved Adams into the starting lineup.  Some injuries work in ways that we cannot always foresee.  That said, Dec still left 45.75 pts outside its best possible lineup due to other coaching decisions, but the result moved the team to 16-4 and changed the entire ending of Week 2.

ProfessorMJ made the biggest rise in weekly ranking, climbing from 8th place and 122.5 pts in Week 1 to 2nd place with 164 pts. Dak Prescott led the team with 35.25, the New England defense added 25.5, and Dalton Kincaid scored 17.75; Kyle Hamilton's 14 also gave Prof an important performance in the secondary. Malik Nabers managed only 1 pt on MNF which is why Prof lost the week #2 at the last minute.  The other starting WR George Pickens only scored 8, while Jaylen Waddle (14.75) and Christian Watson (11) were both wasted on the WR bench. Those were the main missed opportunities in a lineup that still reached 88.53% coaching efficiency. Because the weekly projections slightly favored Nabers over Waddle and had Pickens and Watson nearly even, the WR choices were defensible before kickoff. Prof did not steal 2nd place with lucky lineup guesses; it got there because several selected starters delivered, and now sits 12-8 after two weeks.

OldNo7 followed its Week 1 victory with 3rd place and 155.5 pts, enough to retain the league lead at 18-2 with 327.75 total points. The starting WRs carried the offense: Jaxon Smith-Njigba scored 35.75 and Amon-Ra St. Brown added 28, while rookie Josiah Trotter followed his big opening week with another useful 13. The more important QB story was not merely Caleb Williams' 5 pts, but that he was injured during the game and could not finish. Jared Goff's 32.75 was on the bench so perhaps he will be valuable during Caleb's absence.  Old's coach benched the Panthers D at the last minute in favor of the Bears D which did not turn out well, the benched Carolina defense exploded for 29 while the Bears scored 10.5 pts.  This call alone was the difference between 1st place and 3rd place.  Old had the week's lowest coaching efficiency at 67.83% and a league-high 73.75 pts between the actual and maximum lineup. Finishing 3rd despite that much unused production says plenty about the roster's ceiling, while Caleb's health is now the more important Week 3 concern.

The BeaudoinBrothers improved from 6th to 4th with 152.75 pts, but once again the strongest production was mixed with several very low starter scores. Matthew Stafford rebounded from his 2-point Week 1 with 31.75, CeeDee Lamb scored 27.5, Travis Kelce added 20, and Brandon Aubrey had 13. David Montgomery and D'Andre Swift combined for only 9 pts, while Jayden Reed's rock bottom 1 pt game was because he was injured very early in the game. Tre Tucker's 18.75 pts and Chuba Hubbard's 11.25 pts were wasted on the bench. Beaud reached 12-8, but its 75.06% Week 2 coaching efficiency leaves it last in the PQBFL's two-week coaching-efficiency table at 73.1%, a much more troubling fact than the 4th-place finish by itself suggests.

The Admirals slipped from 3rd to 5th despite Josh Allen posting the highest individual score in the PQBFL this week at 41.5 pts. Starting RB Jahmyr Gibbs supplied 17.25, Parker Washington had 12.75, rookie Jonah Coleman scored 10.75, and Alex Singleton added 10.5, but too many other starters stayed in single digits for Allen's huge day to produce a blue finish. Unlike some of the teams above, there was no possible help forthcoming on the bench: none of the backups scored more than Kaden Elliss with only 9, while several possible defensive or TE substitutions offered small gains rather than one major missed score. Adm therefore finished with the league's best Week 2 coaching efficiency at 89.91%, leaving just 17 pts outside the maximum lineup, and also leads the two-week Leaders table at 84.4%. That distinction matters: 5th place was not the result of a broadly mishandled lineup, but of a good set of choices that needed more production beyond Allen. The Admirals remain 14-6 and have opened with two solid weeks even if Week 2 felt like a missed chance after such an exceptional QB score.

The GloriousBastards dropped from a 171.75-point 2nd place in Week 1 to 6th with 133 pts. Brock Purdy gave the starting lineup 28, Ja'Marr Chase rebounded with 23.75, and Sam LaPorta added 13.5, but Derrick Henry's 13.5 was the only starting RB score above 8 and Mike Evans had just 5.5. Bas left useful production on the bench from Demetrius Knight Jr. (13), Garrett Wilson (12.75), Bhayshul Tuten (11), DeForest Buckner (10.5), and Xavier Watts (10). Several of those backups could have raised the total, but the projections generally supported the actual starter choices, and 82.48% coaching efficiency was not a disaster. The larger concern is that a lineup with Purdy and Chase doing their jobs still finished at the league median because the production around them was ordinary - this is not impressive for the team which was and remain league favorites. Bas remains 14-6 after two weeks, so this is a step back rather than an early crisis.

BetterBallers finished 7th for the second straight week, this time with 127.75 pts. James Cook III led the selected offense with 18.75, TE Terrance Ferguson provided a valuable 13.5, and the defensive starters were steady behind Pittsburgh's 11.5, Leonard Williams' 11, and Drue Tranquill's 11.5. Lamar Jackson scored only 14.5, however, while MarShawn Lloyd and Luther Burden III each had 4.5, leaving the offense without the high-end result needed to move up the board. The biggest wasted bench points were defensive: Quentin Lake scored 20.5 and Greg Rousseau had 16. Lake carried a modest projection advantage over starting DB Cooper DeJean, while the projections favored Ventrell Miller over Rousseau, so there was one reasonable pregame alternative but not a wholesale failure of selection. Bett is 8-12 and has been competitive in both weeks, but two consecutive 7th-place finishes show that the lineup still needs more difference-making offense.

WaxOnWaxOff improved from 10th to 8th, but 123.5 pts still left the team well outside the top half. The defense kept Wax competitive: starters Will Anderson Jr. and Budda Baker each scored 16.5, Blake Cashman added 13, and the Denver defense had 11 for a total of 64 on defense, which was the PQBFL's highest score of the week for this group of 5. The selected offense did almost nothing comparable. Joe Burrow's 19.75 was respectable, but Justin Jefferson scored 5.75, Michael Wilson 2.75, Colston Loveland 1, and the two starting RBs combined for 18.25. George Kittle's 14 and Josh Downs' 10.5 were on the bench; the weekly projections narrowly favored Loveland over Kittle and clearly favored Wilson over Downs, making the losing choices understandable rather than careless. Wax did move two places upward, but after scores of 103.25 and 123.5 the offense has now struggled twice, leaving the team at 4-16 and making the low floor more than a one-week surprise.

The Ballers finally escaped last place, rising from 79 pts in Week 1 to 9th with 122.75. Sam Darnold and Kyler Murray were both out injured, leaving Deshaun Watson as the only available QB, and Watson responded with 23.5. The Los Angeles Rams defense scored 16.5, Nick Bolton added 14, Aidan Hutchinson had 11, and Omarion Hampton improved to 13.5, but Quinshon Judkins, Jameson Williams, Brian Thomas Jr., and T.J. Hockenson combined for only 17.5 which is a catastrophic result for a quartet of key position players RB-WR-WR-TE. Nakobe Dean's 16 was wasted on the bench and could have improved the IDP flex, but the Ballers left only 14.5 pts outside the maximum lineup, the smallest gap in the league, and finished 2nd in Week 2 coaching efficiency at 89.44%. That makes this a roster-production problem more than a coaching problem. The score and two-place improvement are encouraging, but at 2-18 Ball still needs much more from its WRs and TE to climb out of the bottom group.

FlyingElvis fell from 4th place in Week 1 to 10th with 119.5 pts. Starting WRs Stefon Diggs and Chris Olave each scored 19.25, the Seattle defense added 16, Chase McLaughlin scored 12.5, and Jeffery Simmons had 12, so there were enough useful results to keep the total respectable. The problems were concentrated in important positions: Drake Maye scored 5 which was his second straight awful performance and has doomed FE all by himself so far.  Maye ranks QB 28 out of 30 in the PQBFL so far.  Also Dallas Goedert only had 1, and starting RBs Ashton Jeanty and Travis Etienne Jr. combined for 13.75. Daniel Jones (9.75), Mark Andrews (8.25), and Aaron Jones Sr. (10.5) all produced better scores from the bench. Andrews and Aaron Jones also carried modest projection advantages before the games, so those were genuine alternatives rather than pure hindsight. FE still owns an 8-12 record after the strong opener, but Week 2 showed that the WRs cannot carry the lineup when QB, RB, and TE all miss together.

FlyEaglesFly finished 11th with 118.25 pts, only 1.25 behind FlyingElvis but still a drop from its 9th-place opening. Philadelphia faced a weak Tennessee defense, so FEF had every reason to expect a big day from its Eagles stars, but Jalen Hurts scored a pedestrian 16 and Saquon Barkley fell flat with only 2. Only DeVonta Smith could capitalize with 23.75, while Dalton Schultz scored 19, and Christian McCaffrey added 16.5, but the selected kicker, defense, rookie, and college player combined for only 14.5. Better scores from Tyler Nubin (14.5), Xavier Worthy (11.25), Jalen Coker (11.25), and Blake Corum (9) were on the bench. Nubin over the IDP flex was the clearest projection-supported opportunity, while most of the other better outcomes were less obvious beforehand. The favorable matchup makes the low Hurts and Barkley production especially painful, and FEF is now tied with Ball at 2-18 after two bottom-three finishes.

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