The DOLF
Week 1 Power Rankings
| # | Avatar | Manager | Trend | Record | Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike | 6 | 1-0 | Rocketed from seventh to the top spot behind the week's best score. | |
| 2 | Brad | 1-0 | Rode a bloated seven-man backfield to the week's second-highest winning score. | ||
| 3 | Vick | 1 | 1-0 | Blew out Richie by nearly nineteen points, the loudest statement so far. | |
| 4 | Dave | 3 | 1-0 | Dropped three spots despite winning; margin was razor-thin all afternoon. | |
| 5 | John | 1 | 0-1 | Dropped his opener despite the league's second-highest score, tough beat. | |
| 6 | Bubar | 1 | 0-1 | Fell by under three points; scoring depth already looks sturdy. | |
| 7 | Kyle | 4 | 0-1 | Tumbled four spots after falling by eight to Brad's crowded backfield. | |
| 8 | Richie | 2 | 0-1 | Jumped two spots even after the widest defeat of the week. | |
| 9 | Swap | 1 | 1-0 | Won ugly with the lowest winning score; just 28% playoff odds. | |
| 10 | Brandon | 1 | 0-1 | Posted the week's lowest score; early frontrunner for the Sacko conversation. |
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John dropped 140.4 points, the second-best output in the entire league, and still walked out 0-1 after Mike's 143.2 beat him by less than three. Meanwhile Brandon posted 93.5, way below the league average, and still couldn't beat Swap's equally lifeless 98.6 -- the week's two worst scores met in the same building. Brandon and John both come away 0-1 with plenty of season left to fix it.
Jalen Coker's 29.8 rotted away on Brad's bench, but Ashton Jeanty and Bijan Robinson did plenty on the field to cover for it and hold off Kyle anyway. Kyle got big nights from Jalen Hurts and Jonathan Taylor and still lost, the kind of week where the studs show up and the opener slips away regardless. Isaiah Likely flashed at tight end, but the rest of Kyle's lineup never got going.
Josh Allen throwing for 35.5 should have been enough to win, but John left Dalton Kincaid's big tight end output on the bench in favor of Harold Fannin Jr.'s quiet line, and that gap alone outweighs the final margin. Mike got just enough everywhere else to survive. John's tight end call is the one he'll be replaying all week.
Both benches out-quarterbacked the actual lineups: Swap sat Caleb Williams' monster line for Dak Prescott, and Brandon mirrored it by benching Jaxson Dart in favor of a quiet Joe Burrow. Ja'Marr Chase and Jaylen Waddle no-showed on top of that for Brandon, sinking him to the week's low. Swap survives, but shelving Caleb Williams while starting Prescott is a call he'll be asked about all week.
Dave's running back duo of Jahmyr Gibbs and Kenneth Walker III combined for absurd production and did the heavy lifting all by itself. Bubar's night came down to one flex decision: Terry McLaurin barely moved while Deebo Samuel piled up a big line for nothing on the bench, and that gap alone was bigger than the final margin. About as backbreaking a bench call as you'll see in a week one loss.
Derrick Henry's 34.8 did the heavy lifting for Vick, plain and simple. Richie got a monster line from D'Andre Swift, but Kyler Murray was concussed after 11 snaps and left him playing a man down at quarterback all afternoon. Vick banks the win almost entirely off one workhorse back.
Brandon's 93.5 was the week's low, and with a 47.3% Sacko probability already attached, he needs the waiver wire more than anyone. Swap's 98.6 win doesn't inspire much confidence either. John still fields one of the best rosters in the league at 0-1 and needs results to match it, while Bubar, Kyle, and Richie all need wins fast to climb back into a playoff spot before the gap widens.
Gooses Owed
- Brad (1): Colston Loveland, TE, CHI, 0.0
- Kyle (1): Texans D/ST, DST, HOU, -2.0
- Richie (1): Kyler Murray, QB, MIN, -0.5 (exited early)