Josh Jacobs and Jalen Hurts Were The Steals of 2022 – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 12 Update

What is FGW? Go back to the shadows, I mean Go Back To Week 1.

Short Version – FGW is the likely number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team. dFGW is FGW adjusted for ADP.

If you look at the top 12 performers of 2022 so far, and check which rounds they were drafted on average, the list goes like this:

2nd Round, 3rd Round, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 5th, 5th, 1st, 2nd.

Those two fifth rounders: Josh Jacobs and Jalen Hurts.

Jalen Hurts is only the QB3 by FGW so far this year, this has been a great year for QBs. If you apply this year’s FGW scoring system updates to 2021, he would be the QB1 through this point. In fact, only one QB finished 2021 with a better FGW number after 17 weeks (Josh Allen) than Hurts has through 12 weeks this year.

Meanwhile, Josh Jacobs vaulted into the top 10 this past week by turning in a 0.42 FGW – giving his teams an average of 92% chance of winning. It’s only the 7th 0.40+ FGW week of 2022, and the only one by a player drafted outside Round 2 so far.

Let’s see if anyone else followed Josh Jacobs down the vault runway and managed to pull off a Kerri Strug.

Who Won The Week?

Etienne got the Kerri Strug injury part right
  • Josh Jacobs is a surprise this year, sure, but 90% started? Come on, fantasy universe.
  • Justin Jefferson does what Justin Jefferson does because Justin Jefferson is Justin Jefferson.
  • With all these J’s I feel tempted to give props to Jiles Janders.
  • And just like that, everyone suddenly agreed again that Chris Godwin is the real WR1 in Tampa.
  • Justin Tucker could have been in the top 10 had he hit that 67 yarder. Though I have to ask, why don’t any fantasy websites offer decimal point scoring for FG length? At least above 30 yards?
  • Dalton “Buddy” Schultz representing Tight Ends this week. Wait, no Travis Kelce? What’s going on here?
  • Side note – I grew up in a family with a “Dalton” lineage (up to Dalton IV) and we always used Bud/Buddy as a nickname for Dalton. After googling how the nickname is used, apparently nobody else does that? As if William needed another counter-intuitive nickname. Maybe my Great Grandmother just thought it sounded good.
  • Dawson “Buddy” Knox and George “Byron Cobalt Doppelganger” Kittle reminding us why Kelce is so special.
  • I fixed a bug in FGW where Gabriel “Gabe” Davis and Garrett “My Best Buddy” Wilson were mixing their stats with Kicker Gabe Brkic. This is why you don’t hire fatigued dads with day jobs to do your fantasy football stats.
  • I feel like, from a fantasy production standpoint, Dameon Pierce reminded me a lot of Alfred Morris. Under-drafted, strong rookie year, not a real receiving threat, likely to fall off after year 1.
  • Is that 33-year-old Alfred Morris on the list? Oh wait, no, it’s Alvin Kamara. Sorry, I couldn’t tell the difference on film.

Leaderboard Updates

  • And Mr. Kelce’s lead just keeps getting bigger.
  • Kinda cool how Week 5 looks like a bellwether week – if you performed in Week 5, you probably performed all eyar.
  • Thanks to Josh Jacobs, Cooper Kupp now outside the top 12. So much for that.
  • Justin Fields and Kenneth Walker leading started up the “all your value in 2 weeks” club.
  • Drake London not holding up his end of the “Drake & Josh” fantasy team name partnership.
  • DJ Moore with an average week! Thanks, GEQBUS!
  • This list could easily be renamed The Money Pitts after this season.
  • Or this one. This list is The Money Pitts.
  • Is the lack of Allen Robinson performance starting to make it look like Blake Bortles deserved more credit than he got for turning him into a legit fantasy play?

Byron-Cobalt.com Exclusives

  • The Garrett Wilson stat fix helped him launch himself into the JV Starting Lineup.
  • If you were to fill out a full JV lineup, Cole Kmet would be the idea flex. That’s kinda cool.
  • Here’s an exclusive club – players that have hit 1 FGW for both 2021 and 2022: Ekeler, Kelce, Allen, Adams, Henry. Will be tough for JT or MAndrews to join that list.
  • The converse list might be -0.5 FGW for both 2021 and 2022: Jeudy, DeVonta, Mr. Unlimited, Sutton, McLaurin, and A-Rob.

The Full List

  • Seeing Rhamondre, i.e. second stage evolution of Andre who evolves into Deommondre, reminds me that I forgot the best Pokemon-like evolution line in the NFL: Bryce Hall > Bryce Huff > Breece Hall.

Gotta go, for some reason I’m craving a steak. Oh wait I know why:

Come on, not everyone is THAT boring

So for all you Josh Jacobs and Jalen Hurts owners out there, good luck in the December stretch run! And for those of you that took AJ Dillon instead, remember that we’re all (eventually) going down in this ship together. It’s been a privilege and an honor.

Good luck in Week 13!

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