A Football Life, Week 2

To give you an idea of just how different scoring expectations are in our league this year, our twelve teams averaged nine fewer points per game than they did last week and this was still the second-highest scoring week in league history.

William Massimini led the way with 140.3 points, his second week in the top quarter of the league in scoring. He won the game of the week against Brandon Saunders, the top scorer from week 1, and earned the top spot in the week’s power rankings. Massimini had a top five scorer at each offensive position and the connection between Cam Newton and Kelvin Benjamin looks like a winning one so far.

Andrew Perez and Eric Meyer rounded out the top three in scoring for week 2. DeAngelo Williams has been holding down the fort and then some in Le’Veon Bell’s absence for Perez. And for Meyer, Matt Forte has been a bellcow and all of his wide receivers have found the end zone at least once.

Massimini holds a firm lead in the AFL East, two games ahead of his three competitors. At least one of them will finally enter the win column this week as Nolan Soter and Adam Perez face off. Massimini will look to fend off 2015 champion Cory Puffett as Puffett tries to get his first victory of the year and avoid a costly 0-3 start.

The 2015 runner-up is having much better fortune. William Battle shares the AFL West lead with Andrew Perez, both teams sitting at 2-0. They will face off in the week 3 Game of the Week for a 3-0 start and early-season bragging rights. Saunders is at .500 while Sean Kennedy, in his return from a one-year hiatus, is searching for his first win. Kennedy has been right at 112 points in each of his first two contests.

The AFL Central looks a lot like the west with two undefeated teams, one winless team, and one team in the middle. Eric Meyer, last year’s regular season champion, shared the division lead with Evan Ash. Meyer will be going up against winless Anthony Battle who has struggled to find a foothold in the three years of our new league format. Ash will look to hold off two-time AFL champion Danny Hatcher who has some good pieces who have underperformed so far this year.

Check out the review of Week 2 below (team names have been changed to the names of their owners):

Standings:

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

Schedule:

Away	Score	Home	Score
Adam Perez (AP2)	116.4	Eric Meyer (EM)	124.2
William Battle (WB)	122.9	Nolan Soter (NS)	85.9
Sean Kennedy (SK)	112.3	Evan Ash (EA)	113.5
Andrew Perez (AP1)	131.8	Anthony Battle (AB)	113.6
Brandon Saunders (BS)	97.3	William Massimini (WM)	140.3
Cory Puffett (CP)	92.5	Danny Hatcher (DH)	95.0

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

QB	Pts	HB	Pts
1. Cam Newton, WM	31.1	1. Matt Forte, EM	32.9
2. Derek Carr, AP1	27.3	2. DeAngelo Williams, AP1	24.4
3. Carson Palmer, DH	24.7	3. Melvin Gordon, WM	21.9
4. Blake Bortles, CP	19.9	4. LeGarrette Blount, AP2	21.2
5. Ben Roethlisberger, BS	19.8	5. Latavius Murray, DH	19.9
WR	Pts	TE	Pts
1. Stefon Diggs, SK	28.7	1. Greg Olsen, BS	20.7
2. Kelvin Benjamin, WM	26.3	2. Delanie Walker, DN	17.3
3. Eric Decker, AP2	21.6	3. Dennis Pitta, EA	14.7
4. DeAndre Hopkins, DH	20.8	4. Jordan Reed, AB	9.5
5. Julio Jones, EA	19.1	5. Julius Thomas, WM	9.1

Game of the Week: Brandon Saunders at William Massimini

After Saunders led the league in scoring during Week 1, he found himself on the opposite end of the highest score in Week 2. Massimini hung 140.3 points on him to lead the league in scoring and clinch their first ever 2-0 start.