What is FGW? Check out the full lowdown here or watch the video here.
TL;DR – FGW is the number of Head-to-Head fantasy football matchups a player has won his team, on average. dFGW is FGW adjusted for draft ADP rank.
And just like that, Justin Jefferson stopped being a Fantasy Football machine.
Last week I mentioned that Justin Jefferson was about to pass Cooper Kupp for the lead in the All-Time FGW Ranks. Then, something happened that we did no expect…
I’ve been recording and calculating Fantasy Games Won for a total of 39 fantasy weeks (Weeks 1-17, not 18, since 2021, and 5 weeks this year). Here is a chart of the top 20 since the beginning of time…
So yeah, Justin “Jordan” Jefferson may have missed his shot to pass Kupp. Speaking of Kupp, just look how big his lead was before he got hurt last year. Absurd.
Who Won The Week?
- DJ Moore with the DJ Most Points but not the DJ Most Fantasy Games Won. 84% will do that to you.
- Turns out Ja’Marr Chase is always open. Wow, just look at all that talent. Proverbial talent is everywhere.
- Rumors of Etienne’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. I think he’s a 2024 first round RB.
- Kittle with his semi-annual great game! See ya in December for the next one.
- Breece only 74% started. Ouch. He’s only played 12 games in his career so far, but the two against the Broncos have looked like he was playing against a canadian junior high school.
- Fields only 65% started – after being great with timing last year, he’s gonna screw us all this year.
- Dallas Goedert finally giveth. Only one Dallas can giveth each week.
- Allen/Diggs a top 3 stack again.
- Is Sam LaPorta the best rookie fantasy tight end ever?
- De’Von 4chan, oh I’m sorry Achane, ending the ride for a few weeks. He’s gonna go surf the dark web.
Who Lost The Week?
- Jordan Love giving Packers fans a taste of New York/Cleveland QB medicine.
- Aaron JOnes at 49% started on a Monday Night when he’s inactive shows how rough Monday night injuries can be.
- I’m 100% out on Miles Sanders. I’m 75% out on Rhamondre Stevenson.
- DeVonta used to do this in 2021 – the random terrible weeks. Hope this doesn’t continue.
- Brutal injuries for Jefferson and Richardson. Hide Robinson and Stevenson and both my sons.
Junior Varsity All-Stars
- Zack Moss is going to inspire fantasy owners to break the “don’t get cute” rule quite a bit this year. START JONATHAN TAYLOR, DON’T GET CUTE.
- Goff only 17% seems low. Lions are good now.
- Desmond Ridder sounds like he’s 500 pounds in interviews.
- Purdy good game for Brock there.
Leaderboard Updates
- Jefferson missing 4 weeks will be rough. Probably falling out of the top 10.
- Jake Elliott lol.
- Allen being Allen, Kelce being Kelce. Nothing to see here.
- Puka sticking around with Kupp back. Love it.
- Ja’Marr jumped all the way up to the MVP leaderboard with one ridiculous week.
- Kenneth Walker is FGW RB2 ever with a bye week? Achane and Mostert 3 and 4? What the hell is going on? This is the worst RB year I can remembr.
- Alexander Meh-tison.
- Joe Meh-xon.
- 6 RBs in the bottom 8, including Da-meh-on Pierce, Rha-meh-dre Stevenson, Meh-les Sanders, and Jah-meh Gibbs.
- Burrow might claw out OR might burrow deeper. He was down to 17% started in week 5, so his good week didn’t actually help a lot of people. Welcome to fantasy football, folks.
- Dallas still top 3 despite terrible week. Nice job.
- Puka top ‘undrafted’ non-DEF/K. What a year.
- Welcome DJ Moore to the leaderboards.
- Daniel Carlson is still on the list despite being a kicker that you didn’t need to spend a pick on.. Less value than a true replacement so much that he’s bottom 20. He’s so much worse than a replacement player that it’s comparable to Cooper Kupp’s relative value as a 1st rounder that has only played one game.
- Anthony Richardson is the worst good fantasy pick of the year.
The Full List
- Switching back to FGW since dFGW was looking a bit dumb.
Going to end thsi week’s column with a quick story.
My posts are a bit late this week because I’ve been…busier than usual. First, I have to explain that my kitchen sink is kinda fucked up. It’s a double-sink and the drain pipes are off by like 1 mm so they fit but one side pops off periodically, like every 6 months. Leaves a puddle in the middle of the floor like a big wet middle finger. It also seems to time up and pop off only when we’re busy, like it’s watching us waiting for a stressful moment. Oh, the power went out when it’s 2 degrees out? Here, deal with this too!
The flu ripped through the Cobalt household the last two weeks. I was probably patient zero, then my wife and 2 of the 3 kids got it. In the middle of this we also got a late night call from my in-laws because my mother-in-law was temporarily paralyzed for 5 minutes after falling, yet still required convincing to go to the hospital.
Oh, and our washing machine broke. So we had mountains of flu clothes building up over a week. Which was appropriate – because remember how I said 2 of the 3 kids got the flu? The holdout was our 1-year-old, so he got the John Connor treatment. He was like the golden child we could not allow to get sick. Good problem to have, but man, a lot of work.
I was strapping down the new washing machine in the back of the truck – if that machine knew what it was in for, he’d jump out on the way home – when I got a picture text from my wife. That big wet middle finger of a puddle in the middle of my floor.
Why am I telling this story? Well, while I was wiping up the leftovers-scented water, I had a moment of clarity. I realized that no matter how much the house falls apart, or what kind of disease gets sneezed around the kids, I can take comfort in one thing. I did not draft Najee Harris on any of my fantasy teams this year.
Hope Your Team Isn’t Hamstrung
If your fantasy team is leaving you a big wet middle finger in the middle of your kitchen floor, just remember we’re all going down in the fantasy football ship together. It’s been a privilege and an honor.
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