2019 - Week 4 Recap + Power Rankings

Quarter Way Through - Power Rankings

We're a quarter way through the season and since I didn't write a recap last week I thought I'd do a little extra this week with an arbitrary power ranking.

1. Brent - Wanna be a Waller (4-0): Brent is 4-0 with the most points for. He's got the #1 spot locked in pretty solid. He has top 10 players in pretty much every slot. Pat Mahomes, Dak Prescott, Austin Ekeler, Zeke, Michael Thomas, Chris Carson. Pretty much every person on his roster has lit up fantasy news in recent weeks. This will be hard to beat.
2. Mike - Gucci Garopp (3-1): Look, I know River has a better record, but I think Mike's team overall is stronger. His lineup of Alvin, Dalvin, and Melvin has to be the strongest RB lineup in our league. Look for Mike to pass up River in the near future.
3. River - Jabba the Chub (4-0): Beginner's luck. The new guy always slays. Last year it was Brad, this year it's River. His team doesn't have quite the same star studded name recognition as Mike's but has been producing steadily. The reason I rate him lower than Mike is because he had a few outlandish performances that got him to where he is. Russell Wilson going off for 41 and Keenan Allen going off for 37 in the same week, then Nick Chubb going off for 37 will not be sustainable.
4. Jono - 2 Girls 1 Kupp (3-1): The top 4 and bottom 4 drop off in this league huge. It goes from 3-1 to 1-3. There's not much room for interpretations with that kinda record difference. I will say that Jono's points for are 3rd lowest in the league (4 points away from 2nd), so he's here strictly based on record. Looking at his roster, he's got maybe 2 people who have top 10 positional potential. I expect his luck runs out soon and he starts to fall.
5. Sak - Thielen Myself (1-3): Dylan and Sak are pretty much head and head. I think Sak's roster looks slightly better because he's not running a full contingent of Eagles players. Sak has guys like Leonard Fournette, Lamar Jackson, and Mark Andrews who should be top 10 in their position. And dudes like Thielen and Juju who could still turn thing around and be studs.
6. Dylan - The Sixth Wentz (1-3): The Eagles tactic is falling apart. CMC, Golloday, and Mark Ingram look good. The rest of his squad looks pretty flaccid. Maybe the Eagles will start firing on all cylinders and save his team.
7. Justin - Phuck AB (0-4) & Mat - Straight Ass (0-4): Justin and I are both booty. Both teams look OK on paper but have been underperforming across the board. The top spots have almost 200+ more points for than us. We've also been up against over-performing teams. Our points against are all near the top of the league. We'll be competing for the bottom spot regularly.

Week 4 Recap

River - Jabba the Chub (4-0) vs Justin - Phuck AB(0-4)

River continues to win with another freak performance from one of his guys. Nick Chubb drops 38 to help him beat Justin 169 to 121. NE Def is on track to pass Todd Gurley's point total from last year. River's only weakness is at TE, Delanie Walker is inconsistent and he's still hanging onto Hunter Henry for some reason. TEs have actually been decent this years so he could probably find more value there. Justin had as many single digits as he did double digit performances. Guys like Julio and Lindsay will have to step up to redeem Justin's season. Losing Leveon Bell to BYE really hurt him this week. He'll hope to bounce back next week. Only way is up from here right? Wrong, he could fall to 8th and I could surpass him.

Sak - Thielen Myself (1-3) vs Dylan - Sixth Wentz (1-3)

Sak is really Thielen himself this week with his first win of the season. A hearty 153-143 tight matchup against Dylan. He started his week on Thursday with a huge outing from Davante to the tune of 23 points and a solid showing from Aaron Jones with 14 points. He rolled into Sunday with a head start and got 3 more ~25 point performances out of Fournette, Goff, and Lamar Jackson. Goff looks like shit IRL but great for fantasy numbers. Fournette finally doing what people expected him to do. We'll see if the Jags can keep getting that kinda production from him. Sak really needs Juju and Thielen to start acting like WR1s to move up to the next level, but Kirk Cousins and Mason Rudolph may have other things in mind. Dylan had the exact opposite Thursday experience. His 4 Eagles players combined for about the same as Sak's 2 GB players on TNF. Starting Sunday with pretty much the same points and down 2 players was a bad look, however he clawed his way back within 10 points before the end with strong showings from CMC, Golloday, and Phillip Rivers. CMC will be a weekly top 10 and the Lions are looking surprisingly decent, setting up Golloday for a big year.

Mat - Straight Ass (0-4) vs Jono - 2 Girls 1 Kupp (3-1)

I'm not sure if I should take solace in the fact that I could have won this week had I started Cousins and Robert Woods instead of Kyle Allen and Demarcus Robinson. Alas, I did not. Jono beat me readily with 133 points to my 113. Knowing that I could have won this because I tried to get cute is humbling. In retrospect, why the fuck would I start Kyle Allen and Demarcus Robinson. I'm really struggling at QB and Kyle Allen was a hail mary. I finally got the type of performance I expected form Gurley and Conner. However, Gurley's came with no yardage and 2 short TDs and Conner got injured. So that's not looking good. Jono had a very balanced attack with double digits across the board with a few exceptions. Cooper Kupp came back from surgery faster and stronger than before, showing out with 22.4 points while looking like the best receiver on the Rams. Jono kept Chris Godwin on the bench, where he blew up for 35 points. If I could have won with a few adjustments, Jono could have blown me the fuck out with 1 move.

Brent - Wanna be a Waller (4-0) vs Mike - Gucci Garopp (3-1)

In a battle of the upper echelon, Brent walks Mike with 133-112. Two of the powerhouses of our league both underperformed in different ways this week. For Brent, Dak Prescott and Pat Mahomes combined for 26 points. Which is how much one of them usually scores by themselves. Austin Ekeler continued his work as the overall RB1, however Melvin Gordon comes back soon and this ridiculousness should stop. Not sure why Brent picked up Wayne Gallman just to bench him. He popped off on his bench for 25. For Mike, it was WRs that caused his downfall. He got single digit performances from all 4 of the WRs he started. Not much more to say here, he did worse than me. His team will improve at the expense of Brent's team though now that Melvin is coming back. So he can take this L with that in mind.