2024 Elite Mock 1.0

This is not my rankings but what I think the owners should do. Granted..some of these players I do not like at all but I will keep my bias out of it.

Pick: 1.01

Team: Greg

Player: Marvin Harrison Jr

If Greg didn’t have the first two picks there could be some debate here but Greg having both..he will make the consensus 1.01 pick here with MHJ. Hollywood Brown is now on the Chiefs which leaves a vacated 101 targets. Combine that with the fact the next leading WR was Michael Wilson, who only had 58 targets for 565 yards, and there’s a lot of opportunity here. McBride lead the team in receptions/ targets and yards but both should see 100+ targets and possibly be in line for 1,000+ yard seasons.

Pick 1.02

Team: Greg

Player: Malik Nabers

From a pure prospect, Nabers was always my favorite. Just an all around dynamic receiver  but didn’t get the best of landing spots.  While Daniel Jones was 5^th in accuracy (defined as “when a passer puts the ball on the receiver’s frame so that he doesn’t need to adjust or slow down to make the play and continue after the catch) he was also the 3^rd worst in uncatchable and inaccurate group. Some of this can be blamed on the O-line, which they did address in free agency.  The real ugly here is the giants have not had  even an 800 yard receiver since 2018. But without Saquon there, perhaps they’ll move to a more pass first team.

Pick 1.03

Team: Chad

Player: Rome Odunze

I was torn between two guys here. Chad’s team is very good and doesn’t have a glaring need so taking the BPA makes  the most sense here which to me is Odunze. Although Rome is the BPA here, he may not produce early enough to where Chad is even starting him. The Bears have DJ Moore , signed Keenan Allen and Swift and still have Kmet at TE. While long term Rome could easily end up being the WR1 in this class, he may not provide the immediate impact Chad is looking at 1.03 and to win the Gene. He could go to someone like Worthy/ Bowers but I think he will/should go BPA here and think about the long term.

Pick 1.04

Team Greg

Player: Xavier Worthy

Greg will take whoever Chad passes on here, which is this mock is Xavier Worthy. Worthy gained buzz after he ran the fastest 40 of the combine at 4.21. Historically…this usually means nothing and the fasts players rarely amount to anything, but a lot of those guys don’t have Patrick Mahomes throwing him the ball.  The Chiefs do have Kelece back, Rice is a rising start ( trade?) and signed Hollywood Brown, but with the Rice suspension looming, Worthy has a chance to produce and earn snaps/targets very early on in a high powered offense.

Pick 1.05

Team Greg

Player: Brock Bowers

This is where things get interesting. At this point, Greg’s WR core will be DJ Moore, MHJ, Nabers and Worthy so he may not want to go WR again, but having a surpluss of elite WR’s is a good problem to have. He could go with his RB1 of the class, whether that’s Brooks/Benson. Or he could still go WR, and take another one of these R1 capital WR’s like Thomas/ Pearsall/Legette. Given all that I think Greg takes the clear TE1 in Brock Bowers. While the Raiders isn’t the ideal spot, we see a lot of these TE’s essentially be WR’s. I am not at all concerned about Mayer being there. He had 40 targets the entire year and only got 5 or more one time. QB/WR landscapes change A LOT. Admas is old, Meyers isn’t some cornerstone piece and they no longer have Jacobs. Tight ends typically take a little more to fully develop anyway so this seems like the correct pick.

Pick 1.06

Team: Tizz

Player: Jonathon Brooks

The slide for the 1^st RB to be taken ends here with Tizz taking Brooks at 1.06. Henry is 30 and showed some regression, Sanders is now Brook’s backup and Dillon is flaz. While he does have Charbocow and Dobbins..Tizz could use some RB help. Had Brooks not hurt his ACL, he would probably be doing top 2/3 in this draft. For now there’s definitely some risks but getting the RB1 of the class at 1.06 is good value and fits a need.

Pick 1.07

Team: Josh

Player: Keon Coleman

Coleman has as good of a chance as any rookie in this class to lead his team in receiving and still has good draft capital, being the fist pick in the second round to the Bills. Bills can obviously sustain WR’s in fantasy and no longer have Diggs or Gabe Davis which leaves 241 targets up for grabs. Similar to the Cardinals, it could be their young TE and rookie WR leading the way in all receiving categories.

Pick 1.08

Team: Nick

Player: Brian Thomas

With holes everywhere, Nick will take the BPA (by rankings) and sang Brian Thomas. With Ridley gone,  Brian Thomas could fill in and gets reps quickly.  They did sign Gabe Davis and have Kirk.. but both are just good not great. I’m not the biggest fan of Thomas, but he brings in an alpha frame at 6’4 205 and could be a decent value pick here

Pick 1.09

Team: Greg

Player: Caleb Williams

Greg has AR15 so he probably wont do this, but this is more on principal for what I’ve been saying for year or so. QB’s deserve to be taken in round 1 over the WR6/7 of classes. Maybe since he passed on Brooks at 5, he goes Benson here and still gets a solid RB to build around and that could be a solid play. For me, since Caleb has been the highest hyped QB in our league history, I’m taking him over Benson or the other WR’s people may be eyeing.

Pick 1.10-1:14

Team: Eric

Eric has an absurd 5 picks in a row to close out round 1. Hopefully 2 pan out? In no real order since Eric is picking 5 in a row

10: Ladd McConkey. The senior bowl darling who joins a chargers team that’s very open. Keenan is gone, Mike Williams is gone and QJ had a rookie year to forget. Very good opportunity here for McConkey to produce year 1

11: Trey Benson. For as bad as some of the other landing spots were for the rookie RBS, this is a pretty good spot. James Conner is old and while he does bellcow, this is more of a year 2 play for Eric who isn’t ready to win now anyway.

12: Rick Pearsall… This pick becomes a lot more exciting IF Deebo/Aiyuk are gone which seems to be a done deal at this point. R1 pedigree in an offense whose fantastic at showcasing their talent.

13: Jayden Daniels… Similar to Caleb Williams, you could even argue Daniels has higher fantasy upside given what he do running the ball. If Caleb went to the Giants/ Pats I would have Daniels going 1.09 but the bears are loaded with weapons. Regardless, Jayen should go round 1 and I don’t care Eric has Trev already, who has proven to be a low end QB1 in fantasy.

14: Roman Wilson… If Pittsburgh drafts a WR it’s a good idea to take that WR in you rookie drafts. That’s the scouting.

End of Year Tiers (2013-2023)

Sup league, fans of the elite dynasty podcast, or anyone else who may have stumbled onto this blog. With all the sadness that comes to the conclusion of the fantasy season brings on a new chapter of hope for the league as we approach the peak of the offseason. The draft is just days away and what better time to release the yearly Tiers ranking than now.

For some, this season was a good building block for years to come, a few were total disappointments and one was champion. These tiers will be reflective of the last 10 years, and what that owner has accomplished in that time span. I like to think this is the order from best to worst of the league’s existence thus far. Some of this is recency bias but I’ll try my best to explain why people are in whatever tier they fall into as well as why one team may be above another.

Wow. 10 years. Give it up to our league for having 14 owners enter in 2013 and the same group of obsessed lunatics still remain a decade later. As noted in last years blog, I have implemented a change in my metrics and trying to apply that to my viewpoint of these rankings as well. Prior, your Average Finish (AF) was 2x more important than your Points For (PF). That has now been switched. The only thing you can control is how many points you score. The strength of the conferences change, schedule luck is a real thing, and I think the further the league goes the more PF becomes a better metric of long term success.

Unlike when this started, there is obviously the increase of rebuilding. Teams bottoming out and hopefully cashing in on those draft picks. While this is usually the best route for some teams to go, it will not be used as a factor for my rankings. If you sucked for two years, you sucked for two years. There will be no leeway given for those who were just bad or for those who were rebuilding correctly. I think this is obvious in my previous rankings but just wanted that out there.

Piggybacking on my change of PV vs AF.. I know I’ve been a little AF bias when it comes to actually making these tiers, or picking teams over the other. It was much easier to see how often a team was finishing last, missing the playoffs, etc.. where that wasn’t as obvious when looking at peoples PF. I usually just had it ranked per year and really didn’t look into how often someone was scoring in the top half… or 1st/last. I tried doing that this year as best as i could while also factoring everything else.

Enough rambling, let’s get started.

Tier Elite:

#1 Rogers (previously 2)

Moving up one spot from last year is Rogers, who now reclaims his spot as the best owner in league history and is now the 5th time he has owned that title. This may seem odd, as Rogers is coming off a 10th place finish and has now missed the playoffs the last 3 years, but let’s start with the positives we all know. Three time champion, winning them all in consecutive years from 2016-2018. In that time span, he ranked 1st, 1st and 5th in PF and despite his playoff misses, he still remains 2nd all time in PF. His AF did fall from 3rd overall too 5th overall, and in that time span was 8th, 12th and 8th in PF.. so slightly below average for 2 of those years. Besdies 2021, Rogers has single digits overall in PF every single year and has still made the playoffs 6 times. The margin in this tier is very small, but due to the change in value for PF, the metrics support this move and so does the eye test. Congrats on reclaiming the number one spot… but don’t get too comfortable.

#2 Greg ( previous 1)

Greg moves down 1 spot to the #2 overall owner but is still in good company in Tier Elite. Greg is still in the middle of his rebuild where he will be looking to revamp his team in the upcoming couple of drafts. Sadly this has come at the cost of finishing 13th and 11th back to back years, and his PF ranked 13th and 14th in those two years. Greg is a funny team where his winning seasons are not when he’s at his best. In his three titles he finished 8th, 7th and 4th in PF in those years while not winning when he finished 2nd in 2017, 2nd in 2018 and 3rd in 2020. Overall Greg still has an impressive resume. Three titles, playoffs 7/10 years and is still 2nd overall in AF. Unfortunately, Greg has dropped all the way to 7th in the overall PF. The last two years have hurt and as noted, even when he wins he’s been at or below average for two of them. But that’s how Greg wins..he finds the FA’s you pass up on.. he wins scrappy and is smarter on the weekly matchups than you are. The move down was mostly due to the decline in his PF historically, but the 3 titles speak for themsevles.

#3 Addison (prev 3)

For the first time ever… I have found myself in Tier Elite. It feels good to finally break from Tier Great (and Tier dope last year). Now we will address the Asiata in the room, and that is the 2022 title. I can knowledge and respect the opinions around it and its why I kept myself at three, as I think it can argue I could be higher. There’s really no more to say on it, no opinions will be changed and I will be proceeding as if i am a three time, back to back champion. Congrats to me! With this season I have moved up from 5th to 3rd on PF and remain 3rd overall in PF. Overall I’ve been a pretty consistently good team, making the playoffs 7/10 years, being a top half scorer in eight of those years and seven of those years i was in the top five in PF. Not too shabby. Unlike those above me, I have made the playoffs in the last two years and I think having three titles to accompany being 3rd in both PF and AF is impressive and worthy of this tier. Even you 2.5r’s can agree a move up is justified. But as I said the margin here is think…another playoff run for me and misses by the two above…who knows what may change.

Summary: Rogers moves above Greg for betting a more consistent scorer, as Rogers is 6-4 vs Greg in head to head PF, and Greg being 7th isn’t the best look. I move up tiers due to my 3rd title but remain behind Rogers and Greg for Asiata reasons + I’m still behind Greg in AF and Rogers in PF.. I’m in the middle of both so this felt fine.

Tier Great:

#4 Ducc (prev 4)

For the fourth straight year, Ducc leads off our Tier Great but unlike other years…he is alone. Ducc stands alone in Tier Great because i think he has proven to be above all those behind him by a good margin. For just the second time since 2018, we have an owner who is first in BOTH PF and AF… the first was Rogers in 2019 and now it is Ducc in 2023. He now has the longest active made playoff streak at 4 and has made the playoffs in 9/10 years, which is also a league best. In 2019, Ducc missed the playoffs finishing in 13th place but was still 5th in PF. Ducc has never finished below 5th in PF for 10 straight years and was top three in 6 of those years. Really just a wild run of consistency from Ducc and consistency at an elite (great) level. But like every year, we must mention the only blemish on Ducc’s otherwise pristine resume and that is having no titles. Yes he’s made it to the finals three times.. but has yet to secure The Gene. Just one title and you could argue for Ducc to be in the elite tier with other 3 time winners, but until then you must remain in Tier great, but this time you can bask in its glory alone.

Summary: If you remove titles, Ducc has been the best owner. He belongs to be in Tier Great and I think for now no one else does.

Tier Solid

#5 Tizz ( prev 5)

Leading off Tier Solid is Tizz, who is ranked equivalent to last year but falls from Tier Great to Tier solid. After a dominant four year stretch from 2019-2022, which included two finals appearances and one Gene, Tizz missed the playoffs in 2023. He has now only made the playoffs in that 4 year stretch mentioned and prior was a bad team. From 2014-2017 he was 13th, 11th, 10th and 12th in PF but was able to avoid any last place punishment’s. 2018 was a tough year, as Tizz did miss the playoffs for the 5th straight time but was 3rd in the league in PF. A foreshadow to the league before his dominant run began. Overall, Tizz is 7th in AF and slipped to 4th in PF. Being 4th in PF despite having some of the awful years just shows how good Tizz was at his peak, leading the league in scoring in both 2020 and 2022. Winning is hard, and Tizz can still hold his head high that he is just one of 5 owners to do so.

#6 Josh (prev 6)

Staying at 6th overall and in Tier Solid is Josh. Josh moved up from Flaz up into Tier solid in 2019 and has stayed there ever since. Overall, Josh sits 5th in PF and 4th in AF, pretty good. After four straight years of making the playoffs, Josh’s streak came to an end by coming in 9th in 2023. Despite this, Josh has still made the playoffs 8/10 year which is 2nd best in the league. Josh has also made the finals in 2015 and 2019 but sadly has not cashed in on the gene. Overall Josh is an above average scorer historically, leading the league in PF in 2021 and being in the top half in seven of those 10 years which makes sense given he is 5th in league history in PF. Josh is basically Ducc-lite. He’s always in the playoffs, usually in the top half of scoring, makes the finals multiple times but just can’t get the title. Will he try to rebound in 2023… or blow it up?!

#7 Chad (prev 7)

Rounding out Tier Solid is Chad. Chad historically has been in Tier bad until his 2022 title propelled him up a tier and where he remains in 2023. Outside of Tier elite, we have two owners who historically haven’t been that good… but have a title. Chad has made the playoffs just 4/10 times and finishing last one of those times. Scoring wise he’s been below average 5 times with three of those being in double digits. The last three years have been promising though. Playoffs all 3 years, 8th, 3rd and 2nd in scoring and a title to go along with it. Overall Chad ranks 8th in AF and 8th in PF which is both kinda flaz/bad but still above other owners and as mentioned…the gene. Chad is definitely on the right track to move up but I would like to see those overall numbers increase relative to those above him.

Summary: At first I compared those with the titles and felt Tizz had a stronger resume, given he’s above Chad overall in both PF and AF. I debated Josh above Tizz , due to having double the playoff appearances and three spots above him in PF, but i didn’t want to dilute the value of a title too much to where it doesn’t matter. The metrics also agreed with me here on this order so I feel good with it.

Tier Flaz

#8 Nick (prev 8)

Staying at number 8 but falling down a spot in the rankings is Nick. Nick has been in Tier Solid since 2017 and will be the first time he falls downward in tiers. Nick will also own this tier all by himself. When i looked at the historic numbers, Nick is actually not that bad. Overall, he’s still 6th in both AF and PF, and two of the times he missed the playoffs he was 6th and 5th in PF. Basically the schedule gods prevents him from two more title runs. That being said, Nick has missed the playoffs for 5 straight years which puts him at just making it 5 times as well. In that span, Nick did lead the league in PF in 2015, and was top half in all 5 years ( two of them being 7th). Although Nick had a great 5 year stretch, he has yet to make it to the finals, let alone with the gene. Nicks 2-5 playoff record is the major thing holding him back and the recency bias is too much to ignore. The last three years, Nick is 13th, 12th and 12th in scoring, finishing 13th, 10th and 12th. The rebuild has been…slow and non existent but I will continue to trust Nick as an owner and see if he can not be an embarrassment in 2024.

Summary: Although he’s 6th in both PF and AF, he lacks a title and I don’t feel those rankings are a big enough gap over Tizz/Chad who do have titles. Josh’s resume is much better than Nick in really every facet. I could have stuck him at the bottom of Tier solid, but he needed to be taken down a notch. Agent Flaz.

Tier Bad:

#9 Rigg ( prev 9)

While we don’t have a ton of moment order wise, we do have some shifting in the tiers as the standards for these change. After two straight years of making the playoffs, it does seem a bit mean to bump Rigg down into bad.. but i feel Nick has been better by enough of a margin to warrant this. Perhaps it’ll change next year. The main reason i felt this gap was needed was due to the overall ranks, where Rigg is 9th in both PF and AF. Not great. Rigg has just made the playoffs 5/10 times, but it only one of four owners to have made the playoffs multiple years in a row. Rigg’s scoring has been extremely volatile, as he is only one of three times to finish dead last in scoring two times, but has also been in the top half of scoring six times. Rigg has always been the darkhorse team but has yet to actually win a playoff game, having a woeful 0-5 record. Historically, maybe Rigg is more meh then bad, but we have a new tier coming soon so for now…bad he stays.

#10 Kojac (prev 12)

Kojac remains in tier bad but moves up two spots from 2022 which i think is the biggest overall move upward. Woo! So this year we did have a three way tie for overall finish (historically) with Kojac, Rob and Itzler all having 9.100 averages. I guess going forward I could just split the points three ways but the way I’ve done it is simply who did better this year gets the higher spot. So Rob would be 10th, Kojac 11th and Itzler 12th. To go along with his 11th AF is being 12th in PF. All of this points to being in a lower tier, but he’s still been able to make the playoffs 5/10 times which is significantly better than those ranked lower. Kojac has come in last twice, but did lead the league in scoring this year and has been 3rd, 6th and 1st the last three years. We’re in tier bad so there’s more bad to say than good, but enjoy the rise of two spots.

summary: Both of these teams are bad but have at least made the playoffs 5/10 times. Rigg is 9th in both categories and while Kojac lacks a little in those two i felt the playoff appearances was enough of an edge.

Tier Gross:

Originally I wanted to keep this at Tier bad and rename the above but finding a word between Flaz and Bad was difficult but finding a word between bad and buns seemed easier. Alas, the birth of Tier Gross. This group was also very hard to order.

#11 Weyer (prev 10)

I honestly don’t really know how to order these next three teams. Overall, Weyer fell drastically from 9th in AF to 13th and is 10th overall in PF. Weyer has also only made the playoffs 2 times and has now missed the playoffs 5 years in a row. The bright side is you have never come in last, but you have also never made it to the finals or even win a playoff game. In scoring you have managed to come in the top half three times and never once were you lower than 11th in PF on any given year. The upside isn’t high but you downside isn’t…the lowest it can be. I’m not sure if you belong higher than the two below you but you’re gross and don’t need and further analysis. You’re the most flaz of the gross.

#12 Itzler ( prev 11)

Itzler falls one spot in the ranking and tier with his new home in Tier Gross. The good…Itzlers magical run in 2017 making it to the finals. Itzler has made the playoffs just two times and one of those times was being the 8th seed in the orignal season. Although that seems cheap, he was oddly 1st in PF that year so i guess he deserved to be in. After 2014, Itzler has yet to finish in the top 7 in scoring and is 11th overall in PF. He’s 12th in PF but again he was tied and went just recency bias there. Itzler has also come in last twice, both having the worst and easiest punishment. His team feels like it’s better than the results show, but he did come in last in scoring in 2020 and even this year was just 9th. Idk…It’s a gross resume.

#13 Rob (prev 13)

Staying a 13 and falling into Tier Gross is Rob. Now while i have shown a ton of recency bias, I will am not going to let Rob’s run to the finals this year blind me from how bad he’s been prior. This year was great though. Finished 2nd in the league, 4th in PF and was just 2nd time he’s made the playoffs, the first being 2019. Robs PF overall is 13th and that’s due to the digusting years he had in 2021 and 2022, where he finished dead last in scoring. Prior, Rob had nice years, being 6th in PF in 2017 and 4th in 2019 but the 13th overall in PF, 10th in AF (due to tiebreaker) and just 2 playoffs is..gross.

Summary: It’s all gross. Rank them anyway you want, I don’t care.

Tier Buns:

#14 Eric (prev 14)

Last and least is Eric who has been in Tier Buns since the inception of this blog. Others were with him but have moved onto bigger and better things. Since this began we have seen big moves..like tizz going from 13th in AF to 7th… Or greg slipping from 4th to 7th in PF…all teams have had shifts even if it’s just one single spot in either PF and AF…except Eric. Eric has been 14th in AF and PF from 2018-2023. Eric is still the only team in the league to not make the playoffs, and has never been in the top half of scoring. Eric has been 10th or worse in PF 9 of these 10 years, being 13th twice and dead last twice. To go along with never making the playoffs , Eric has been in last a league high three times. The worst part is, it doesn’t look any better for him in 2024, as his division is very strong and even some of the teams in tier gross have much better rosters. Tier Buns will firmly be occupied by our dear commish for what seems like years to come.

Summary: Eric = buns

2023 Power Rankings Week 3

#1 Chad (prev 1)

Chad’s dominance on the league continues as he’s 3-0 and by far and away the top PF so far. Chad has his worst performance this year which was still good for 170.92. Not really a bad spot in the lineup this week. Jefferson 25, Deebo 23, St Brown 16 and Swift’s resurgence is seemingly here to stay as he followed up his 29.40 pt performance in week 2 with 15.90 in week 3. Elite start for the handsome one.

#2 Tizz ( pre 4)

Tizz moves up 2 spots after a strong 171 pt week 3 which moved him to 3-0. Besides Chad, Tizz has been the most consistent team, scoring 130+ every week so far. This week the matchup was looking kinda closed until Adams went off for 2 tuddys and a 35.70pt week. Sanders finally found the endzone ( 15pts) and rookie Tank Dell had a huge week going 5-145-1 for 25pts. Even a down week for Henry couldn’t prevent a dominant week.

#3 Addison (prev 3)

I stay at #3 and remain 3-0 for the year. My PA has been horrific but I’m around the league average for PF and still like my roster as a whole.  Tyreek remains the WR1 in fantasy and was nice to see Metcalf going for over 100 yards for 15pts. Neither Jacobs or Javonte have a touchdown yet but the most exciting part this week was Achane’s 53pts … on the bench. This is dope but this is also the best game he’ll ever have and it’s his 3^rd game ever. Don’t send deals.

#4 Kojac (prev 2)

Kojac falls to 1-2 despite scoring 127 and 130 in those losses. Not great but not bad. Despite ETN showing up, Ridley has now has back to back bad showings and Devonta smith had his first bad week of the year.  London also did not show up scoring just 4.10pts after 15.70 last week. Kojac seems to have a boom or bust team but he now gets Kamara back moving forward. I still think the roster is very good but needs wins to keep justifying his spot in the Power Rankings.

#5 Rob (prev 7)

Rebuild Rob is now 3-0 after a 139pt win. IT’s early but so far robs best week has just been 152 but that’s still pretty good considering how young his team is and guys will be expected to start slow. No major standouts except for LaPorta, who went off for 19pts and further proving to stop drafting tight ends in round 1 of rookie drafts, let the suckers do it, and get the TE2-3 of the class in round 2.  I think Rob should use some future capital to acquire a higher upside QB than Geno.  Also James Cook been sneaky good, scoring 9.50- 19.60 and 13.70 so far.

#6 Rigg (prev 5)

Always rude to slide someone down after a win but it happens. Rigg wins this week scoring 131pts and moved to 2-1. Herbert had a big game scoring 33.50pts and Mike Evans just continues to have the most slept on HOF career ever. Welcome Chase to 2023, after scoring jut 12pts in the previous two weeks combined, he goes off for 21.10 in week 3. When Barkley is healthy and LF eventually gets signed Rigg will be annoying to deal with.

#7 Ducc (prev 9)

Well… I may have overacted just a bit to the Chubb injury. I moved Ducc down I think 4 spots after that, he took that personally, and lead the league in scoring with 184pts. Leading the way was the wildly veterans of Keenan Allen and Adam Thielen who combined for 63.56. Mckinnon had a very nice game scoring 16.50 and the These Points Matter quad combined for 42.50. Great week all around

#8 Itzler (prev 2)

Itzler falls two spots after his first loss of the season. It wasn’t that bad of a week with Itzler still able to put up 121pts. Tua continues his MVP campaign, scoring 31.66pts and Conner just keeps on bellcowing getting a exactly 20.00 (pretty cool). Other than that…pretty flaz. Pitts did have his best game of the season but that resulted in 6.30pts.

#9 Josh (prev 10)

Tough loss in week 3, scoring 153. The biggest contributer to that was Mostert who put up 43pts in the dog walking that was the Dolphins vs the Broncos. If Dak could have cashed in a bit in the endzone and Williams didn’t have a down game..perhaps this was chad having a brutal 170pt loss.  All in all a good week and a team that clearly has upside.

#10 Rogers (prev 9)

Rogers so far has had the toughest PA and that has resulted in an 0-3 start. Although his highest score is just 133, his opponents have scored 182-152 and 145. Tough. Once again, CMC and Walker were amazing, who combined for 53pts. The last leg of that three headed monster was nowhere to be scene, with Hall rushing for jut 18 yards on 12 attempts. Watson had his best game so far but then every other positions was single digits. Rogers basically needs all 3 of his rbs to play very well to have a chance to win..and even then its not enough.

#11 Eric (prev 13)

Eric gets a slight bump for getting his first win of the year, scoring 145pts. Go eric go. As mentioned prior, Watson had his best game so naturally so did Amari Cooper, who scored 22.10pts. Mike Willliams sacrificed himself so Eric could get his 1^st win, scoring 22.60pts but losing his entire right leg. Mature was way more Mature. Eric still feels in a “push to win now window” but when that window closes…blow it up?

#12 Weyer (prev 12)

Another winless team. Another tough loss for someone, scoring 141 in a losing effort. This was mostly carries by his kicker and defense, who were 35% of this points. Super sustainable. The Ford handcuff paid off as he found the endzone twice for 19.10pts and AJB cried his way to 14 targets which got him 17.60 pts. I mapped it out…if you run from Jetty’s to Ugly Duckling that’s 0.2 miles…so just do that 5 times to prep for last.

#13 Nick (prev 11)

I mean… what happened to you Nick. You were once seen as of the elites…as someone we could look up to and trust your fantasy opinion… Now after having not made the playoffs since 2018, you sit 0-3 and are competing weekly in the venmo bowl. I’m embarrassed we shared an apartment and now you’ve become a team where someone checks their matchup for the week and says “Nice I got Nick this week!”.  Horrible.

#14 Greg (prev 14)

The only thing worse than Nick is Greg.. and Greg is awful.  He started Denver’s Defense….they let up 70. Your last name should be Mulller cause you now have three L’s on the year ( boom fucking roasted)

2023 Week 2 Power Rankings

#1 Chad (prev 1)

2-0 and the 3^rd best start in league history scoring 180+ in both weeks. Big bounce back week for Burrow (although may be hurt again) and Swift lead his whole team with a huge TNF performance scoring 30pts. Besides Goedert (who now has just 5.20 in 2 week) the whole team went off for Chad and that was with leaving Pickens 21pts on the bench. JJ and Deebo 19 each, Gus with a TD and Pollard having a great start to the season with Zeke gone. The clear favorite, early on, for the Gene.

#2 Kojac (prev 2)

Kojac stays at two, scoring 127 in a loss to Chad. The Jacksonville duo that was so great to him last week was a big let down this week, with Ridley and ETN combining to score just 10.60pts. The highlight was the Hurts/Devonta combo which got him 55pts on TNF but then nothing that great after.  This is now 2 weeks in  row Pierce has struggled and Najee is slowly losing his job to Warren. For now I wont overact, and he does get Kamara back soon but those two need to step it up.

#3 Addison (prev 5)

After a dump week 1 a very good bounce back week scoring 165.00. Higgins went from 0 points to a big 2TD game and 25pts.  Lamar chipping in 25 was good to see and Tyreek found the endzone yet again. The biggest story for my team and maybe fantasy so far is Puka Nacua who is getting an absurd amount of targets. He got 20 in week 2, catching 15 of them for 147 yards and good for 22.80pts. The return of Kupp is undoubtedly cut  into this, but if he can maintain flex value that’s a huge boost for me. Also Jacobs got 9.30 pts with negative rushing yards. 9 carries for -2. Sick job O-line.

#4 Tizz ( prev 3)

Tizz moves to 2-0 after a solid 138pt win. Another week which is below average for Tizz standards but 2-0 is 2-0. King Henry continues to never age, getting 25 carries still and 19.50 pts.  Mahomes got almost exactly what Yahoo projected ( 26.80 vs 26.89) and now two weeks in a row Olava has scored 12 or more. Tizz have some interesting bench options as Tank Dell and Jayden Reed has nice weeks. Good bounce back week for Adams as well.

#5 Rigg ( prev 6)

Big week for Rigg scoring 175.00. Lockett 2 tds for 21.90, Evans had another big week with Baker scoring 27pts and Nico Collins is having his 3^rd year breakout who now has 13 catches- 220 yards and 1 TD through 2 games. The chase struggles are more weird than concerning but he may have lost Barkley for multiple weeks. Despite that, Rigg still has the players to keep winning games.

#6 Itzer (prev 8)

Itzler is now 2-0 and second in the league (???????). Itzler wins week 2 scoring a huge 172.62pts. Three of his RBS scored 18+ with Brob leading the way with 29.70pts. Gibbs saw a big more usage and Williams could be missing a couple weeks so its Gibbs szn. Kirk went from 3 targets to 14 for a nice week 2 and Conner continues to be pretty underrated, bellcowing for 23 carries and 18.90pts.  Pitts sucks but the rest of the lineup aint too shabby.

#7 Rob (prev 10)

Rob also moves to 2-0, scoring 152 in a victory. Previously on the bench, Jordan Addison was in the line catching yet another TD and scoring 15.70pts. Bijan looks so so good, scoring 21.10 pts and both his flex with Cook and and Lamb chipped in 19pts each. Rob’s got a solid team and that’s with guys like Burks, JSN and Juedy on the bench. If Geno can be more consistent, perhaps Rob can make the playoffs.

#8 Ducc ( prev 4)

Perhaps an overreaction but Ducc falls the most after week 1 by four spots after a week two loss. The major move is due to Ducc losing Chubb for the season, who was one of if not his best fantasy player behind Ekeler. Ekeler is also hurt but we don’t fully know for how long yet. If Ekler misses time, I think the overall upside of the line is limited and could see Ducc losing some games. If Ekelre comes back soon that changes a lot. Positive…Keenen looks great, Kelece is back and Gabe Davis had a boom week.

#9 Rogers ( prev 7)

This isn’t so much to do with Rogers slipping as it is Rob and Itzler rising. Both those teams are 2-0 and Rogers is now 0-2. Rogers slipped a little this week scoring just 117.80 but back to back weeks ran into teams scoring 150+.  Poo-poo Poouster has scored exactly 5.30 back to back weeks, Breece hall was game scripted out of the Cowboys game and Kelley did nothing as the lead back with Ekeler out. CMC and Walker were the bright spots, scoring 24 and 19.60 and solid job by the IDP, both 10+.

#10 Josh (prev 12)

 Josh moves up two spots after a nice bounce back win, scoring 157 and moving to 1-1. Dak finally needed to pass a little bit and did well scoring 23pts. Terry was actually scary and Waddle did fine. The big win here was his two starting RB’s and why Zero RB in redraft is the only way to go. Mostert rushed for 121 and got 28pts and Kerryn bellcow had a rushing and receiving TD for 27.62pts. I mentioned last week about Williams being the guy or not and well..he is…as the Rams shipped off Akers for 4 deflated footballs and a signed Watch the Gap CD. Also Renyolds two tds?? Josh looking solid possibly and awaiting the return of Kupp and Diaonte.

#11 Nick (prev 9)

Nick falls to 0-2 and has yet to score 120 this season. The lowest of that being this week as he put up just 104.00. The fields desperately need to be plowed with Fields scoring 17pts in back to back weeks. Not good enough. Monty is hurt although ive seen as much as “week” to as little as “day to day” so idk really. I should have feared Moss more, as he lead Nicks team in points scoring 20.50. Dotson has been a disappointment so far and getting just 3.5pts from each IDP is pretty bad. More losses could be piling up for Nick as the training for the Beer Mile begins.

#12 Weyer (prev 13)

Weyer is also 0-2 but at least showed a little bit of life this week scoring 127.00. Hock shows he was clearly worth a mid first back in 2019, scoring 22.10 this week. After a decent workload week 1, Weyer started Ford this week who has a huge game scoring 25.20. We’ll see how much the Hunt signing cuts into this but if Ford can demand 20+ carries that’s huge for Weyer to avoid last. Wilson continues to be QB proof but not great games from his other 3 WR’s, as AJB, OBJ and Godwin combined for 17.60. OBJ is done bro, get over it.

#13 Eric (prev 11)

Moving down to 0-2 and #13 on the PR is eric, who was the low man of the week and shit his pants scoring 95.14pts. Just a whole lot of flaz this week. Lawrence with 12, Moore 5.70 and Njoku 4.80. Mattison only got 5.20 and is now doing be sharing the backfield with newly acquired Akers (4 deflated footballs and a signed Watch the Gap CD). Eric has decent players but for now they have not all come together for a solid week or a win. Although Eric is probably the best runner of the league, his chugging is horrible so he’d actually be fun to see do the beer mile.

#14 Greg (prev 14)

Greg shit his pants yet again scoring just 96 in a loss. Josh Allen was much better and Atwell is also benefiting from the Kupp injury, scoring 11.80 pts. Other than that its puke city with the next highest skill player scoring 8.70. Solid IDPs tho.

2023 Week 1 Power Rankings

#1 Chad

Coming to defend his title, Chad rips off a monster 183pt performance in a week where the league was mostly bad. These Points Matter combined him for a ridiculous 81.50 points and the Aaron Jones trade already paid off giving him 27pts. JJ continues and do JJ things. Even with some duds from Burrow, Swift and Goedert, Chad looks great and it could be Pickens/ Arob szn soon.

#2 Kojac

This is the highest Kojac has ever been ranked since he was a pre-season #7 back in 2017. Kojac had a very nice 140 pts win, with the Jags Duo of Ridley and ETN combining for 40.00. Devonta and Stevenson chipped in with 14.00 and 13.00 and overall was a good start from one of the league favorites.

#3 Tizz

Besides Chad and Kojac, no one really did great. Tizz was 3^rd in the league with 130 which is lower than any single week Tizz had last year in the regular season. The 130.00 was enough to move to 1-0 though, getting a big MNF performance from Diggs who had 21.20. Good to see Olave already having a connection with Carr and despite a possible timeshare, Henry still put up 15.40pts. 

#4 Ducc

With Kelce out, Ducc was forced to start his backup Likely who is likely to never be in his line up again,  scoring not even 1pt. Despite this, Ducc still scored 125, carried by Ekeler and Chubb who combined for 43.50. Brock’s 19 is decent and Hopkins in his new home was still able to put up 12.00 even though Tannehill stunk. 

#5 Addison

As I mentioned earlier, most people stunk so I’m going to not overact. The bad, Higgins, Lamar, Bateman and Waller couldn’t combined for 20.00 points. The Good; Tyreek might get 2k yards as he got me a ridiculous 40 pts in week one. The workload for Javonte was encouraging and i have the WR1 in the league with Puka. Meyer’s not dying would have also been nice but there’s reason for optimism.  1-0 even though I only put up 111.66. 

#6 Rigg

Rigg almost pooped his pants, scoring just 102.12. Rigg still has a good team that will get him wins and possibly into the playoffs. Besides Evans scoring 15.60, his other three receivers in Chase, Lockett and Moore combined for just 9.20 pts. Saquonwas a non factor week 1 (stil got 9.00) , Andrews was hurt and just a lot of single digits out there.  0-1 but will be a team to beat. 

#7 Rogers

Rogers had the 4^th highest PF this week but sadly he ran into the Chad buzzsaw. All eyes will be on Rogers as he famously declined 10 firsts for his 3 bellcow RBS ( everyone knows now Rogers so this isn’t a spoiler). The good news is the 3 RB’s looked good to very good. CMC is a stud (27.6o pts), Hall looked super explosive on MNF (17.20pts) and Walker dominated the carries, out touching Charbonnet 12 to 3. The main issue will continue to be his WR’s but perhaps Shaheed is the saints WR to start, and not Thomas.

#8 Itzler

Itzler moved to 1-0 scoring 113. Monster Tua game, throwing for over 450 yards and getting him 32.44pts. Conner wasn’t bad and Brob commanded a lot of the Washington volume, scoring 15pts. Gibbs will be fine, I still believe in White and I’m still a Pitts believer although I’m being tested on that. If Tua can be an MVP caliber player it will make up for some of the holes in the lineup. 

#9 Nick

The 2023 season did not start off well, with Toney having one of the worst games of all  time scoring 0.6 and costing the Chiefs a W. But, we did see that Montgomery is going to be a big part of this offense even as they continue to work Gibbs in more.  Maybe not long term but Monty will have sustained value this season.  The Fields were gently plowed, scoring just 17.84, and he needs to be a 25+ player for Nick to get some wins. Huge 2td game for Aiyuk, scoring a team high 28.90. 

#10 Rob

Rob is entering year 2 of his seemingly 3 year rebuild (3 firsts next year) and 2023 gets started with a win. Rookies Bijan Robinson and  Jordan Addison both had nice week 1’s scoring 18.30 and 14.10 each as well as Flower who had 14.40 on the bench.  Newly acquired Lamb somehow scored 10.70 and perhaps Rob will be rolling out two Atlanta RBS, having Allgerir score 24 on the bench. Rob has some nice upside and could rise up the PR quickly.

#11 Eric

By week 1 standards, 118 was pretty good for Eric. Pittman showing early he has a connection with their new rookie QB, scoring 20.70pts and Mature had a Mature game scoring 13.00. Couple big games for the IDPS, but some big let down games from newly acquired WR’s Cooper and DJM. Despite the volume, Dillon was incredibly inefficient going 13 for 19 but volume is king. 

#12 Josh

Rough week for Josh scoring only 102. His leading scorer was Jake Elliot with 18 so that’s a sign things didn’t go well. Mostert did well as the teams leafing back (for now) and Doubs had a huge game, catching 2 tuddys and scoring 16.60pts. Dak got game scripted out , terry was not scary and Gibson only saw 3 touches. Although he losses Dianote for a few weeks, he may have found a bellcow in Kyren Williams. If he can be a thing, Josh will get some wins. 

#13 Weyer

Weyer falls to 0-1 putting up just 104pts. There wasn’t anything glaringly good or bad, just a lot of flaz which is typical for Matt. I guess 3.10 for Ford is pretty bad as is 4.70 for OBJ but it was just a lot of people in the 7-11 range. Bleh.  

#14 Greg

All the eyes that move off Rogers will also be on Greg, who famously offered 10 firsts for 3 bellcow RBS ( everyone knows now Rogers so this isn’t a spoiler). The  deal didn’t get done so Greg is still all in on his rebuild. This was fully displayed as Greg was basically that woman on the flight to Barcelona. Total pants shitting. 78pts. AR is dope tho (as expected) and Hill may be a RB1.