A Football Life, Week 3

At this point, there’s not much use in discussing scoring comparisons. The three highest scoring weeks in league history are this season’s first three weeks. It will be more newsworthy when we have a week that falls outside of the top 15.

Eric Meyer continued his early season tear and improved to 3-0 on the season. His is the only team that has scored at least 120 points each of the first three weeks. His victim this week was Anthony Battle, who fell to 0-3 despite having the fourth most points in the league to date. He has undoubtedly been the most unlucky league member. He has faced either the highest or second-highest scoring team every week so far.

Andrew Perez is the only other undefeated team remaining. His team doesn’t have a lot of names you associate with a championship-caliber fantasy lineup, but DeMarco Murray is the top running back in fantasy so far this season and Le’Veon Bell returns to action this week. If Coby Fleener’s last performance is a sign of an increased comfort and familiarity with the Saints offense, Perez will be a tough matchup all season.

With Meyer at the top of the AFL Central and Perez at the top of the AFL West, William Massimini leads the standings in the AFL East. Massimini had a great first two weeks, but his third game was a bit of a disappointment. His three starting running backs averaged nearly 25 points apiece but his three pass catchers averaged only 2.3 points each. With a sub-par performance from Cam Newton and only 10 points from his off-position starters, there wasn’t much Massimini could have done. Still, he holds the lead in his division and nobody else in the East looks poised for a run of any kind.

The top scoring team last week was Adam Perez, whose team posted 145.2 points, led by 35.5 points from Lions wide receiver Marvin Jones. That score gave Adam his first win of the season, and vaulted him from 12th to 6th in the weekly power rankings. Despite the big week, I’m not predicting a winning streak for Adam’s team.

Eric Meyer led the league with four top five positional scorers, notching one at every position.

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

Standings:

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

Schedule:

Away	Score	Home	Score
Danny Hatcher (DH)	139.7	Evan Ash (EA)	79.4
Eric Meyer (EM)	140.2	Anthony Battle (AB)	124.6
Sean Kennedy (SK)	95.7	Brandon Saunders (BS)	104.5
Andrew Perez (AP1)	116.6	William Battle (WB)	112.9
Cory Puffett (CP)	139.6	William Massimini (WM)	106.1
Nolan Soter (NS)	86.1	Adam Perez (AP2)	145.2

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

QB	Pts	HB	Pts
1. Matthew Stafford, CP	28.2	1. Devonta Freeman, WM	30.6
2. Drew Brees, SK	27.9	2. Carlos Hyde, WB	27.1
3. Aaron Rodgers, EM	27.5	3. LeSean McCoy, WM	26.8
4. Matt Ryan, DH	21.4	4. David Johnson, EM	26.5
5. Kirk Cousins, AP2	20.3	5. DeMarco Murray, AP1	25.6
WR	Pts	TE	Pts
1. Marvin Jones, AP2	35.5	1. Coby Fleener, AP1	20.4
2. T.Y. Hilton, DH	27.4	2. Travis Kelce, EM	17.9
3. Doug Baldwin, BS	26.1	3. Gary Barnidge, DH	11.1
4. Jordy Nelson, CP	25.1	4. Jack Doyle, AP2	9.5
5. Mike Evans, EM	24.2	5. Greg Olsen, BS	9.4

Game of the Week: Andrew Perez at William Battle

What better than the closest game to be the game of the week? With even quarterback production, strong wide receiver play for Andrew Perez and strong running back play for William Battle, the difference was the slight advantage at defense and kicker for Perez.