Week #6
Week 6 was by far the season's lowest scoring week as bye weeks
kicked into high gear. The league averaged only 119.3 pts, and
FlyingElvis won with 154.5, the lowest winning score of the year.
After 6 weeks we have now had 6 different weekly winners. The
bigger change came in the standings: the GloriousBastards' first
bottom-three finish dropped them from 1st to 3rd, while the
BeaudoinBrothers moved into the lead at 51.5 rank pts and OldNo7
climbed to 2nd at 50. Only 3.5 rank pts now cover the top three,
even though Bas still leads the league in cumulative scoring.
ProfessorMJ took 2nd this week, Beaud edged Old by half a point for
3rd, and the Ballers lowered their own season basement to 68.
FlyingElvis won Week 6 with four top-four positional performances
spread across the lineup. Drake Maye threw for 235 yards and three
TDs, added 24 rushing yards, and scored 27.75, the highest starting
QB score of the week. Jeffery Simmons supplied 18.5 with two sacks,
two tackles for loss, two QB hits, a forced fumble, and a recovery.
Matthew Golden caught six passes for 104 yards and a TD for 17,
while rookie Carnell Tate added 14.5 on six catches, 70 yards, and a
score. It was about time for Tate to wake up, his score of 14.5 was
more than double his previous average of 6.4 pts per game from weeks
1-5. Those four starters produced 77.75 pts, just over half of
the winning total. FE's second best RB Aaron Jones Sr was on bye
which created a roster hole, but the varied production around it was
enough to give FE its first weekly victory and lift the team.
FE remains 8th overall with 34 rank pts but is now much closer to
teams ahead rather than teams behind.
ProfessorMJ reached 139.5 and 2nd behind the week's best running
back score and second-best receiver score. Ken Walker III ran for
128 yards, caught two passes for 11 more, and scored twice for
25.75. Malik Nabers caught 12 passes for 165 yards and added a
tackle for 21.25. The runner-up finish came with a rather loud
bench: Tyler Shough scored 30.25 while Dak Prescott scored only
eight as starter, and Kyle Pitts Sr. scored 19 on the bench while
Dalton Kincaid scored 8.75 in the starting lineup. The pregame
projections favored Prescott and Kincaid, so this was not obvious
sabotage, but hindsight still found 32.5 pts in those two switches
alone. Prof moves up into 4th overall with 44 rank pts. The
draft follies of going naked with only one DL, one K, and one team
defense will bite sooner rather than later in a year where Prof is
competitive, exactly as predicted in the post draft summary.
The BeaudoinBrothers took 3rd this week by half a point without a
single 20-point starter. Five Week 5 starters were on bye this week
so depth was needed. Matthew Stafford led the offense with
18.25, Chuba Hubbard and D'Andre Swift each scored 17, and CeeDee
Lamb added 12.5. The defense supplied the same sort of depth: Nate
Landman scored 10, Kamari Lassiter 9.5, Roquan Smith nine, Maxx
Crosby eight, and rookie Arvell Reese 7.5. Trevor Lawrence's 29.75
on the bench could have made the margin more comfortable, and one
could argue that while regular starting DB J Battle was on bye, the
starter should have been Travis Hunter who exploded for 19.75
pts. But it was the first time he was materially used on
offense so it was a hard call to make. Nonetheless, beating
both Old and Bas carried Beaud into the overall lead at 51.5 rank
pts.
OldNo7 finished only half a point behind Beaud despite replacing
four Week 5 starters who were on bye, including Amon-Ra St.Brown.
The defense did most of the heavy lifting. George Karlaftis scored
16 with a sack, two tackles for loss, three QB hits, and two passes
defended; Carson Schwesinger also scored 16 with 13 combined tackles
and a forced fumble; and rookie Josiah Trotter added 13.5. Jaxon
Smith-Njigba led the offense with 12 catches for 134 yards and 18.5
pts. Old captured a league-best 92.8% coaching efficiency, which
matters more here than a speculative bench complaint. The 136.25
total was enough for 4th this week and 2nd overall at 50 rank pts.
WaxOnWaxOff followed its Week 5 eruption with a resilient 130.25 and
5th while four previous starters sat on bye. Joe Burrow, Justin
Jefferson, Blake Cashman, and LaNorris Sellers were all on bye and
the COL problem was especially cruel because designated backup Ahmad
Hardy was injured and Wax had no third option, leaving an
unavoidable zero. In such a tight week where Wax only finished 9.5
pts behind 2nd place, the incomplete lineup stung. Jordan Love
still scored 17, Germie Bernard produced 20.25 on 11 catches, 87
yards, and a TD in a surprisingly good rookie performance (he only
had 19.75 pts total in weeks 1-5 combined), and George Kittle added
14.25. Chris Boswell made four field goals, including kicks from 52
and 58 yards, and even recorded a tackle on the way to 13.5. Wax
climbs to 6th overall with 38.5 rank pts to settle in the middle of
the standings.
FlyEaglesFly's 121.75 was the team's season high and also first time
out of the bottom three, this time with 6th place. The injury chain
had to move past Jalen Hurts and Baker Mayfield before installing
Aaron Rodgers, who threw for 253 yards and two TDs but also an
interception for 15.25. Christian McCaffrey led the lineup with
18.5, and Jamien Sherwood scored 17.5 with 11 combined tackles, a
forced fumble, and a recovery. FEF did not submit a starting lineup
so DeVonta Smith was benched with 16.75, instead starter Rome Odunze
scored a weak 4.75. FEF remains 10th overall, now with 18 rank
pts.
BetterBallers's previous best results were in weeks #1-2 with 7th
place both times, and returned to that spot this week after three
straight weeks in the red in weeks #3-4-5. Three Week 5 starters
were on bye, and the double whammy at QB was Lamar Jackson's injury
so the starter defaulted to Jacoby Brissett who scored only 4.25,
but James Cook III carried the offense with 153 scrimmage yards and
a TD for 20.25. Luther Burden III added 12.75 on eight catches for
95 yards, and Pittsburgh's defense scored 13. Juwan Johnson's zero
and MarShawn Lloyd's one kept the total at 111. Bett's 7th
place this week keeps the team at 9th overall with 25 rank pts.
The Decepticons started a roster full of highly ranked names and
scored a very underwhelming 108.75 from it. Jonathan Taylor produced
151 scrimmage yards and a TD, but a lost fumble reduced him to 17.
Patrick Mahomes II threw for 272 yards without a TD and with an
interception, finishing at 8.75. Boye Mafe's bye created a goose egg
at the DL position because Myles Garrett was injured so this
probably cost Dec one rank against Bett. The bench had more painful
answers elsewhere: Bryce Young scored 21.75 behind Mahomes, and
rookie Sonny Styles scored 14.5 on the bench behind starter Denzel
Boston's 1.75. It is worth noting that after 5 weeks Boston was the
best offensive rookie in the PQBFL (ROO4) immediately ahead of S
Styles at ROO5, but after this week the situation has flipped and
Styles is now top 4 and Boston has dropped. This means the
PQBFL's top 4 rookies so far are all defensive players, a stunning
result (Trotter - Old, Rodriguez - Beaud, Reese - Beaud, Styles -
Dec). Dec slips to 5th overall with 41 rank pts.
The GloriousBastards lost in 2025 due to inconsistency and this week
brings back nightmares and flashbacks. Bas did not necessarily
expect a stellar week with Jamarr Chase on bye, but so many other
stars happened to have bad weeks all at the same time in a
horrifying result for the PQBFL favorites. The real damage
came from league RB3 Bijan Robinson and league RB4 Derrick Henry
combining for only 8.25, what was that? Henry even lost a
fumble and Bijan had negative receiving yardage. On MNF the
Purdy - M Evans connection had potential to salvage the week but
both fell way short of the projection against the subpar defense of
WAS, at home to boot so Bas sunk below much weaker teams. One
of the few bright spots were Isaiah Likely who caught six passes for
99 yards, a TD, and a two-point conversion for 19.75, in replacement
for LaPorta who was on bye. Also Kansas City's defense scored
16.5. Bas finished 9th with 106 and had a league-low 69.4% coaching
efficiency. Jayden Daniels, Bhayshul Tuten, Emeka Egbuka, and Tyler
Bass all offered upgrades on the bench; Bass alone outscored Tyler
Loop by 11. The league's highest-scoring team is suddenly 3rd
overall at 48 rank pts after beating beat handily by Beaud and Old.
The Admirals were missing league RB2 Jahmyr Gibbs and league K3 Evan
McPherson on byes, then received only 11.5 combined from
replacements Rachaad White and Nick Folk. Josh Allen remained
productive with 19.5, Alex Singleton scored 16, and college leader
Brad Jackson added 11.5, but six starters scored four or fewer.
Folk's one extra point was at least more productive than the rookie
replacement: Nicholas Singleton scored zero as a healthy scratch.
Even if Adm had picked the perfect starting lineup they would have
reached only 129.75, the second-lowest roster ceiling of the week,
so this was more than a selection problem. The 99.75 total leaves
the Admirals 10th this week and 7th overall at 36 rank pts.
The Ballers' sunk even lower this week and it was not a matter of
starting the wrong players, it is rather that the available points
(starters or backups) could fit in carry-on luggage. Eight rostered
players were on bye, previous starter Quinshon Judkins was injured,
and a whopping four starters produced a big fat zero. Nakobe Dean's
13 and Nick Bolton's 11 were the only scores above 10, while the
entire offense excluding the kicker managed a paltry 25. Yes,
you read that right. The combined score of
QB-RB-RB-WR-WR-TE-ROO-COL was 25, which was beyond nauseating. Brian
Thomas Jr., Najee Harris, Cole Payton, and Cooper Cousins were the
four starters with nothing to show for, heck Najee Harris scoring
zero was even more shocking considering that regular starting RB
Skattebo was benched by the Giants so it was fair to expect a decent
game for Harris. Even with perfect starting lineup at all positions
would have scored only 85.75, still last by a wide margin. The
68-point result is a new season low, and six consecutive
bottom-three finishes have left Ballers last overall at 10 rank pts,
barely better than half of the next best FEF at 18 rank-points.
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