A Football Life, Week 3

Week 3 was the last non-bye week until the final week of AFL’s final regular season and the next nine weeks will showcase each team’s depth.

Nolan Soter’s Los Pollos Hermanos put up a league-leading 118.4 points in a victory over division rival Evan Ash. Marshawn Lynch led his team in scoring, helping Nolan record his first victory as a member of the league despite being a 17.8-point underdog based on ESPN’s projections.

The six winning teams from Week 3 averaged 104.2 points, down almost two points from last week and five points from Week 1. The six losing teams averaged a dismal 65.4 points, down 9 points from last week and 22 points from Week 1.

Four teams put three players on this week’s scoring leaders list, but nobody managed four players. Danny Hatcher, Cory Puffett, Brandon Saunders and Nolan Soter each had three top-5 players at their positions. Only Nolan managed two in one category, though, with both Pierre Garçon and Victor Cruz as top five starting receivers in Week 3.

The waiver wire play of the week goes to Danny Hatcher, who picked up the New Orleans Saints defense despite two very bad games to start the fantasy season. The Saints gave Danny 9 points to aid in his blowout win over previously unbeaten William Battle.

Check out the review of Week 3 below (team names have been changed to the names of their owners):

Week 2:

Standings:

NFC East	Record	GB	AFC East	Record	GB
Brandon Saunders	2-1	--	Danny Hatcher	2-1	--
Andrew Perez	2-1	--	William Battle	2-1	--
Eric Meyer	1-2	1	Saswat Misra	1-2	1
NFC West	Record	GB	AFC West	Record	GB
Anthony Battle	2-1	--	Cory Puffett	3-0	--
Sean Kennedy	1-2	1	Nolan Soter	1-2	2
William Massimini	1-2	1	Evan Ash	0-3	3

Schedule:

Away	Score	Home	Score
Danny Hatcher (DH)	105.9	William Battle (WB)	35.5
Cory Puffett (CP)	110.1	Saswat Misra (SM)	70.3
Nolan Soter (NS)	118.4	Evan Ash (EA)	77.9
Eric Meyer (EM)	95.2	Anthony Battle (AB)	92.3
Brandon Saunders (BS)	118.1	Sean Kennedy (SK)	64.5
William Massimini (WM)	52.0	Andrew Perez (AP)	77.5

Scoring Leaders (Must be starting on a team to qualify):

QB	Pts	HB	Pts
1. Andrew Luck, CP	34.9	1. Marshawn Lynch, NS	28.6
2. Matt Ryan, DH	25.5	2. Rashad Jennings, EM	27.0
3. Russell Wilson, AB	24.6	3. DeMarco Murray, DH	21.1
4. Colin Kaepernick, AP	22.6	4. Giovani Bernard, CP	19.2
5. Drew Brees, BS	21.6	5. Le’Veon Bell, AP	18.6
WR	Pts	TE	Pts
1. Julio Jones, BS	31.7	1. Martellus Bennett, BS	19.4
2. Antonio Brown, AB	25.0	2. Greg Olsen, WB	14.9
3. Pierre Garçon, NS	24.2	3. Rob Gronkowski, EA	11.6
4. Kelvin Benjamin, DH	20.7	4. Julius Thomas, EA	8.9
5. Victor Cruz, NS	18.7	5. Jimmy Graham, CP	7.8

Game of the Week: Cory Puffett at Saswat Misra

Each team had one player in Sunday’s second time slot, but this game was out of reach by the time the 1:00 games ended. You could blame the loss on Frank Gore and Randall Cobb, but the 39.8-point victory by Cory shows that Saswat would’ve needed a lot more than just good games from those two to pull it out.