A Football Life, Week 5

Only one starter made it into the top 20 scorers at their position in league history this week. David Johnson had his biggest game of the year, topping 100 rushing yards for the first time in 2016 and scoring two touchdowns for the second time this season. His 34.7 points were good enough to tie for the 11th highest single-game score by a running back in league history, alongside DeAngelo Williams who put up the same number of points in the opening week of this season.

Johnson’s performance helped Eric Meyer to his fourth win of the campaign as all three division leaders have an identical 4-1 record. Eric was the number two scorer of the week behind William Battle, whose 147.4 points where the 11th most scored by a team in a single game in league history. Battle is the fifth unique owner to post an 11-0 weekly breakdown this season. Additionally, Battle had five of his seven position players finish among the top five at their respective positions for the week, one at each of the four offensive positions and a second at running back.

William’s brother, Anthony Battle, is the only owner to have a breakdown of 6-5 or better every week this season, despite his 2-3 record to being the season. Anthony was the third highest scorer this week as he clinched his second consecutive victory, but he trails Meyer by two games in the AFL Central.

While the Central and the West have only one game separating the top two teams in their divisions, William Massimini holds a commanding two game advantage in the AFL East. All four of Massimini’s games had been decided by at least 20 points until this week, when his margin of victory over Andrew Perez was just 2.5 points.

Andrew would have beaten one of this week’s winners, but his luck wasn’t as bad as Nolan Soter’s. Nolan, who fell to 1-4 with his loss, posted a 7-4 breakdown, scoring 119.6 points, which would have beaten both Massimini and Cory Puffett, both of whom won their games.

Puffett, meanwhile, was the luckiest owner of the week, scoring just 85.6 points in his win. He was facing Evan Ash, who was the only owner to score fewer points than Cory in week five.

Sean Kennedy remains the only owner without a win, though he scored more points than four other teams last week. Kennedy’s team certainly is not a playoff caliber team, much less a playoff contender after its 0-5 start, but it will be shocking if they fail to gather at least one or two wins before the regular season ends in nine weeks.

Check out the review of Week 5 below (team names have been changed to the names of their owners):

Week 5:

Standings:

AFL East	Record	GB	AFL West	Record	GB
William Massimini	4-1	--	Brandon Saunders	4-1	--
Adam Perez	2-3	2	Andrew Perez	3-2	1
Cory Puffett	2-3	2	William Battle	3-2	1
Nolan Soter	1-4	3	Sean Kennedy	0-5	5
AFL Central	Record	GB
Eric Meyer	4-1	--
Evan Ash	3-2	1
Anthony Battle	2-3	2
Danny Hatcher	2-3	2

Schedule:

Away	Score	Home	Score
William Battle (WB)	147.4	Danny Hatcher (DH)	108.3
Andrew Perez (AP1)	109.2	William Massimini (WM)	111.7
Cory Puffett (CP)	85.6	Evan Ash (EA)	61.2
Nolan Soter (NS)	119.6	Brandon Saunders (BS)	125.3
Anthony Battle (AB)	132.2	Adam Perez (AP2)	87.9
Eric Meyer (EM)	136.0	Sean Kennedy (SK)	97.1

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

QB	Pts	HB	Pts
1. Tom Brady, AB	31.4	1. David Johnson, EM	34.7
2. Ben Roethlisberger, BS	31.3	2. Ezekiel Elliott, AB	32.1
3. Philip Rivers, WB	27.4	3. Jordan Howard, EM	25.4
T4. Andrew Luck, NS	24.3	4. Theo Riddick, WB	24.3
T4. Andy Dalton, SK	24.3	5. Carlos Hyde, WB	22.6
WR	Pts	TE	Pts
1. T.Y. Hilton, DH	28.1	1. Greg Olsen, BS	22.6
2. Amari Cooper, NS	24.8	2. Delanie Walker, WB	15.1
3. Larry Fitzgerald, SK	23.1	3. Hunter Henry, NS	14.9
4. Tyrell Williams, WB	20.2	4. Dwayne Allen, EM	14.0
5. Antonio Brown, AB	18.3	5. Rob Gronkowski, EA	13.4

Game of the Week: Andrew Perez at William Massimini

In the closest game this week, Massimini had two of his players combine for just two points. Everybody else on his roster showed up though, and the Vikings defense continues to produce fantasy points at a breakneck pace. Meanwhile, Lamar Miller continues to be the bane of Perez’s offense.