The long wait is over. Week one of year one of the Rad Dynasty is in the books. Who emerged as our winners and losers? Let's find out. But first: the player of the week goes to Tyreek Hill of the Dolphins, who scored 39 fantasy points this week. 11 catches, 215 yards, and 2 touchdowns. And of course he was rostered by the team I went up against! Speaking of that...
Tbone's Terrific Team (1-0): 128.66
Dynastic Dan (0-1): 117.52
Differential: 11.14
I came into this matchup confident about the outlook of my team. I even talked last week about how my team was so young and had so much potential. But maybe I need to pump the brakes on things. I am not in love with my running backs. Gibbs is a top dynasty prospect, but can he be a giant fantasy contributor in year one? Maybe not. Cam Akers and Khalil Herbert have potential bust seasons written all over them. My tight ends were terrible, although to be fair a lot of people's tight ends sucked in week one. Even though he's young, I worry Kyle Pitts is going to continue to disappoint, year after year. What's with highly touted rookie Michael Mayer getting a freaking goose egg? I'm still optimistic about the rest of my team, but my confidence level is quite shaken by this performance. I don't see my team making the playoffs.
Tbone's team, on the other hand, showed a lot of potential. I thought this might be an easy win, with 3 players in the lineup projected to score 0 points. But Tyreek Hill's massive performance led the way. He, along with Kirk Cousins, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and Derrick Henry, are the cornerstones of the team. The loss of J.K. Dobbins is going to hurt, though.
My Team (1-0): 145.42
Turd Ferguson (0-1): 101.12
Differential: 44.4
This uncle vs brother showdown was the biggest blowout of the week, with My Team knocking out Turd Ferguson by 44 points. Turd Ferguson came into this game favored by .53 points, but ended up taking the brutal loss.
It was just one of those bad luck weeks from Turd Ferguson. Dak Prescott won in a blowout and didn't need to throw most of the game and only scored 6.32 points. Dallas Goedert put up a head scratching goose egg. All of Chris's running backs underperformed, while the receivers did a good job. This is easily a team that could bounce back next week. Hey, they are matched up with my team, Dynastic Dan, and we are both winless. Someone is going to win their first game! The matchup of brother vs brother should be one for the ages.
My Team put forth a solid win, with the running back tandem of Nick Chubb and Tony Pollard leading the way with great games. Calvin Ridley had a great game as well, and Uncle Peter got a huge lift from his defensive players who all had pretty good games. It is hard to see this team slowing down, although they did lose their backup QB Aaron Rodgers to injury this week. Are Jared Goff and Derek Carr good enough to carry this team?
TDs or Bust (1-0): 133.84
Thunder Thighs (0-1) 112.06
Differential: 21.78
The battle of ex-coworkers is the 3rd matchup of the day. This was projected to be a 1-point game, but it ended up turning into a big win for the Ole Dutch.
TDs or Bust won despite a random goose egg from Tee Higgins, which no one saw coming. Perry's running backs carried the load for his team, while Hunter Henry was one of the rare tight ends who actually produced this week. Things look good for this team, although Garrett Wilson's stock is definitely down with Zach Wilson as the Jets QB.
Thunder Thighs could have won this game if their quarterback Lamar Jackson had showed up. He only scored 6.56 fantasy points this week, marking another disappointing start from a fantasy quarterback that really torpedoed their team's chances. Austin Ekeler was the high scorer for the team in the loss. This is a solid team on paper, though, and I can see them bouncing back in week two, where they face off against My Team.
The Killing Fields (1-0): 161.84
Alice in Horns (0-1): 124.58
Differential: 37.26
This was the second biggest blowout of the week, as The Killing Fields took out Alice's Team in what was projected to be the highest scoring matchup of the week (and it was!). This high scoring Survivor Sucks battle earns its way into the history books, for now at least.
Colby Rules All had a mammoth defensive performance, as his players scored like 60 something points for his team. That's crazy. He's lucky for that, as besides Brandon Aiyuk and his 28.9 points, no one really showed up on offense. Patrick Mahomes had an okay game, but scored below his projections. If this team's defense continues to smack opposing teams around, it is only a matter of time before the offense puts it together. This could be a team to watch this year, although as far as dynasty goes, I worry about how old this team is.
Alice's team was riddled by injuries before the week even started. Losing Travis Kelce and Christian Watson was a pretty big blow. And then Joe Burrow goes and has one of the worst games of his career, scoring 3.18 fantasy points, and continuing the trend of surprisingly awful quarterback play in week one. Going up against the projected highest scoring team in the league, Alice's Team had an uphill battle. They played well, though. The running backs looked good. The bold move to start Puka Nacua panned out, as he had a huge game. Alice's Team is stacked with Rams, including Kyren Williams, who had 2 touchdowns, so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Show me the TDs (1-0): 118.71
Bluth Company (0-1): 109.54
Differential: 9.17
Well, the undefeated season is over before it even began. Yahoo's darling Bluth Company (who Yahoo predicted to go undefeated) lost to Show me the TDs in a battle of two of my favorite Vertigo players. It was a really low scoring affair too, as both teams underperformed.
It was just a bad performance all around for Bluth Company. No position player on the team scored more than 10 points aside from Christian McCaffrey. Josh Allen had an awful game at QB with 11 points. Just an all around week to forget about, punctuated by the Drake London goose egg. His team still looks good though, and he's got Breece Hall sitting there on the bench too.
Show me the TDs was lucky to have such a favorable matchup, as he would have lost to most other teams this week. Justin Jefferson and Deshaun Watson led the way, but the rest of the team underperformed. This was a weird week for fantasy, with so many players having such terrible, terrible games. Show me the TDs is looking deep at QB though, as they have Tua Tagovailoa on the bench and he was the highest scoring QB in fantasy this week with 33.14 points.
ned's Rollers (0-1): 142.35
BDB's Jet Setters (0-1): 139.74
Differential: 2.61
The game of the week goes to this matchup that came down to the wire between two old farts from Survivor Sucks. BDB nearly pulled off the upset despite being nearly a 25 point underdog. This game featured two more goose eggs (I've never seen so many in one week!) and more subpar QB play, as the QB's from each team (Jalen Hurts and Justin Fields) had like 15 points each.
BDB was carried by big performances by Aaron Jones, Stefon Diggs, and Travis Etienne. Those goose eggs from Chig Okonkwo and that random defensive player really hurt, in what turned out to be such a close game. Regarding the latter, this is an important reminder why it is always important to fix those crummily drafted Yahoo defensive players before the week starts.
ned's Rollers, like The Killing Fields, who we talked about earlier, were carried by their defensive players and the kicker. That's like 75 points right there. They better hope the offense gets it together, as it is hard to rely on the defense to put up big numbers like that consistently. I think they can. And looking at this team's bench, its future looks bright from a dynasty perspective.
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Week one is in the books! I had a lot of fun, even though my team lost. It was a weird week for fantasy with so many bad, underwhelming performances across the board - notably at QB and TE. Lots of goose eggs, lots of shockingly inept performances. Hard to really take anything away from each team's performance with how weird of a week it was, fantasy wise. Hopefully week one is an outlier and we can have some more high scoring games ahead of us.
But the league is off to a good start, and now things are in full swing, I am just as clueless as ever about who is going to be good this year, who is going to suck, and who is going to win it all. My updated playoff predictions are, in no particular order:
1 TDs or Bust
2 My Team
3 The Killing Fields
4 Show me the TDs
Here is a pic of the standings after week one, for record keeping purposes.
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