Hector finally shakes his ugly start
Chitown daddy's brutal beginning finally produced a win
Week four's lesson was simple: deserve has nothing to do with the standings. Hector finally got the win his record has owed him. Jeff P outscored almost the entire league and still went home with an L. StephanieP escaped with the win anyway.
🏆 WINNER OF THE WEEK — StephanieP (Here Come the Irish)
StephanieP's Here Come the Irish put up the week's best score, 133.48, and still needed every point of it, holding off Jeff P by 4.26 in the tightest finish of the week. She cleared her own projection of 94.31 by enough to take the Overachiever plaque outright, and Will Reichard's 20 points at kicker were the entire margin — pull him and this is a loss.
💀 LOSER OF THE WEEK — Jeff P (The Sonoran Dogs)
Jeff P, you outscored 11 of 13 teams this week and still lost. The Sonoran Dogs put up 129.22, a number that wins most weeks, but Cameron Dicker sat on your bench with 13.5 points while Jason Myers played his way to 5.5. That swap alone flips this game. Add insult: this is a household rivalry — Jeff P against StephanieP — and the series just went to 0-5.
| Final | Margin |
|---|---|
| Here Come the Irish 133.48, The Sonoran Dogs 129.22 | 4.26 |
| Davante’s Inferno 115.8, Wildcats&Wolverines 105.58 | 10.22 |
| ManBearPig 131.26, Pantalones en Fuego 81.98 | 49.28 |
| Sarah's Boss Team 107.32, Little Ditka Energy 100.72 | 6.6 |
| The Snap 118.68, Edred's Expert Team 87.46 | 31.22 |
| T-t-t-t-today Junior! 106.62, Sama's Fine Team 94.84 | 11.78 |
| Chitown daddy 125.2, The Vibes Voyagers 73.76 | 51.44 |
Seven games, one 4.26-point survival, one 51.44-point wipeout — Week four had no patience for the middle.
- 🏆 Top Score: Here Come the Irish — 133.48
- 🚽 Toilet Bowl: The Vibes Voyagers — 73.76
- 🔨 Beatdown: Chitown daddy over The Vibes Voyagers by 51.44
- 😰 Photo Finish: Here Come the Irish over The Sonoran Dogs by 4.26
- 📈 Overachiever: Here Come the Irish, +39.2 over projection
- 📉 Faceplant: Pantalones en Fuego, -25.2 under projection
- 🪑 Bench of the Week: Chitown daddy left Kyle Monangai (27.5) on the bench
- ⭐ Player of the Week: Tetairoa McMillan (38.2) — started by ManBearPig
Half these awards already have context above; Hector's Bench of the Week and Ethan's Player of the Week get theirs right now.
Hector Finally Gets One
Hector's team has started 0-2 six times in eleven seasons, and two of those years still made the playoffs — one of them, 2022, ending in a title. This week, Hector's Chitown daddy finally cashed a win, running over Mark's The Vibes Voyagers 125.2 to 73.76, a 51.44-point beatdown, the biggest of the week.
Call him Tech Daddy if you want — the system finally rebooted. Hector moves to 1-3 and up to rank 10; whether an 0-3 start still finds a playoff spot is a question that doesn't settle for a while, but the math is no longer 0-4.
It wasn't spotless. Hector started Terry McLaurin for zero, with Romeo Doubs' 20.8 sitting right there, but it didn't matter against Mark's roster, and Kyle Monangai's 27.5 stayed glued to his bench anyway. His round-13 flyer, Deebo Samuel Sr., quietly ranks 11th among tracked receivers through four weeks.
Mark's own picks aren't helping: Nabers ranks 28th among 59 tracked wideouts over that stretch, and Nacua sits 32nd. A bench call that sat T.J. Hockenson's 18.4 for Ladd McConkey's zero wouldn't have changed this result, but it still wasn't good.
The Kicker Games
Cristian's T-t-t-t-today Junior! needed every bit of Spencer Shrader's 17.4 points to beat sama by 11.78 — strip the kicker and that game flips.
sama, this one stings more than most. Sama's Fine Team put up 94.84, with Tyler Shough's 17.94 the best number on the roster, and still lost to Cristian by 11.78 — Spencer Shrader's kicker points were the whole gap. The tumble from rank five to rank seven is the real cost here.
kelsey's Davante’s Inferno ran the same play beating Stephanie's Wildcats&Wolverines, Brandon Aubrey's 12.9 covering a 10.22-point margin. It's kelsey's fourth straight win, and it's come with four different defenses in four weeks — at some point that's not scouting, kelsey, that's a tasting menu.
Alex, We Need to Talk About Your Bench
Alex, you had Brian Robinson sitting on your bench for 25.2 points and started Jaylen Wright's 0.7 instead. That single swap turns your loss into a win. You also started Rashee Rice for zero with Rome Odunze's 12.4 right next to him.
Two separate paths to a win, both left on the bench. Sarah's Boss Team moves to 3-1 and rank two, matching the A+ Yahoo gave her draft, and the win flipped her head-to-head series with Alex to 6-5 in her favor.
| # | Team | W-L | GB | PF | Streak | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Davante’s Inferno | 4-0 | — | 478.9 | W4 | — |
| 2 | Sarah's Boss Team | 3-1 | 1 | 471.5 | W3 | ▲1 |
| 3 | The Snap | 3-1 | 1 | 446.9 | W2 | ▲3 |
| 4 | ManBearPig | 3-1 | 1 | 389.7 | W2 | ▲3 |
| 5 | Wildcats&Wolverines | 2-2 | 2 | 492.5 | L2 | ▼3 |
| 6 | The Sonoran Dogs | 2-2 | 2 | 488.1 | L1 | ▼2 |
| 7 | Sama's Fine Team | 2-2 | 2 | 448.2 | L1 | ▼2 |
| 8 | Here Come the Irish | 2-2 | 2 | 426.5 | W1 | ▲3 |
| 9 | T-t-t-t-today Junior! | 2-2 | 2 | 385.7 | W1 | ▲3 |
| 10 | Chitown daddy | 1-3 | 3 | 424.9 | W1 | ▲4 |
| 11 | Pantalones en Fuego | 1-3 | 3 | 407.8 | L3 | ▼3 |
| 12 | Little Ditka Energy | 1-3 | 3 | 406.7 | L1 | ▼2 |
| 13 | Edred's Expert Team | 1-3 | 3 | 400.7 | L2 | ▼4 |
| 14 | The Vibes Voyagers | 1-3 | 3 | 320.9 | L3 | ▼1 |
Edred fell 4 spots to #13 and Here Come the Irish climbed 3 spots to #8 — proof this table still moves fast, and nobody should treat Week four position as a verdict.
Edred's Dead Roster Spot
Edred's Expert Team lost to Drew's The Snap, 87.46 to 118.68, despite Bryce Young's 25.46 — Edred's round-15 pick, now ranked third among tracked quarterbacks through four weeks. The problem is everywhere else: Josh Jacobs, his round-2 running back, has been benched and scoreless across all four weeks and is still rostered.
Edred has made one move since the draft, Justice Hill for Kaleb Johnson in week 2, and it wasn't the one this roster needed. Edred, the Jacobs spot has produced nothing for a month. Is it a hold or a habit?
Brent's Lonely Bright Spot
Ethan's ManBearPig scored the week's second-best total, 131.26, built on Tetairoa McMillan's 38.2 — the Player of the Week — in a 49.28-point rout of Brent's Pantalones en Fuego. Lamar Jackson's 22.88 was the best number on Brent's side, but nothing behind him showed up; the team finished 25.2 points under its own projection, the week's Faceplant. Three losses running now, at rank eleven. It's not time to panic at Week four, but it isn't fixing itself either.
Hector's 0-3 start just proved a bad opening isn't a verdict. Edred, Brent, sama, and the rest of the bottom half are still writing theirs.
Same time next week. Set your lineups.