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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.
You know who we haven’t talked about as much in 2023 as we have in previous years? Travis Kelce.
Not referring to in pop culture – obviously, he’s at an all-time high there due to the fact that Taylor Swift is like the most famous person in the world now – but specifically in Fantasy Games Won.
The Travis Kelce “silence” comes to an end today.
Here’s a look at the biggest fantasy weeks since the beginning of 2021, by Fantasy Games Won. Travis Kelce with another notch in the belt here.
Quick aside – I did not expect Lamar to have the top 3 weeks for QBs. Wow.
Kelce has 4 of the top 6 TE weeks since the start of 2021. Given how it’s been spread out over that time, I think it’s clear Kelce has owned Tight End more than Lamar or Josh Allen have owned Quarterback. No RB or WR has demonstrated nearly the dominance of their positions, either. We may as well rename the position Travis End.
It’s not controversial to say Kelce is still dominating Tight End(s). What is controversial is how Kelce has stemmed off Father Time here. My theory is he’s one of the Faceless Men and it’s just a mask getting passed around.
All weeks must die, so let’s relocate the corpse of Week 7 into the temple of Fantasy Games Won.
Who Won The Week?
- What a week for the Kelce + Mahomes bundle. Alexa, add “Stack Rankings” to my blogging to-do list.
- Lamar with his best week since Week 3 of 2022. Welcome back, Lamar!
- AJ Brown with a good AJ Brown week. He’s super hot. But this also means there were Eagles with nothing happening this week.
- When I was in elementary school, I learned that Leif Ericson was named such because his father was Eric the Red. My kids will “learn” that Vikings Jordan Addison, Alexander Mattison, T.J. Hockenson and Jordan Jefferson are the sons of Vikings elders Addi, Matti, Hocken, and Jeffer the Purple. Having impressionable kids can be fun.
- Kamara heard Lamar was back and wanted to come, too. Welcome back, Alvin!
- Waller at 80% started seems high, but remember, Tight End Wasteland.
- Jahmyr Gibbs made like Dennis Green‘s Cardinals and lets his managers off the hook. The Gibbs are who we thought they were!
- D’Onta Foreman is cooking with hot plates. He’s a knockout punch when he has the backfield to himself.
- Puka is back. Hey, did anyone see Cooper? Was he parking the car in the Harvard lawn?
- The Dallas giveth-taketh cycle continue with Dallas Goedert performing with Dallas on bye.
Who Lost The Week?
- Aaron Jones 97% started seems high. This one not due to Tight End Wasteland, probably dye to Bye-mageddon.
- Gabe Davis still 58% started – Bye-mageddon.
- Mostert with a dud. Raheem the Dream (thanks, u/username293739!) was Raheem the Nightmare this week.
- I had to look this up. Joshua Kelley has scored 9.8 ppg when Ekeler plays, 4.2 when he does not. Because of course he does.
- I don’t believe I have filled my Ridley-ductible yet, so I’m going to leave him in my lineup for now.
- Hope everyone enjoyed Calvin Ridley referendum day last week. His Thursday dud meant there was basically nothing else to talk about on Fantasy Football Twitter.
JV (Bench) All-Stars
- Week 7 Call-Ups from JV to Varsity – Foreman and Addison. What a game from Addison, certainly his last time on this list.
- Gus the Bus making his presence known. I think he might own that backfield now.
- We still have to worry about Taysom Hill? Come on. Though the 5% of you that started him, good job.
- How Sutton has fallen. 7% start for a good week. I’m not giving up yet. There’s no way the guy that performed with Drew Lock is done, IMO.
Leaderboard Updates
- Etienne up to RB2. ETN is such a weird nickname. I wish I knew how to Google similar nicknames where acronyms sound like the name, because I could have sworn there were players like this before.
- In the all-up charts I don’t show the undrafted players, but in the race of best value after round 5, Puka making up major ground.
- Not worth an award, though. The undrafted award would probably go to a random kicker or defense every year.
- Najee with a slightly above-average game and 65% started. It’s on Joey B to close the gap to him to avoid LVP.
- Yeah, now would be a great time for Burrow to turn it around. Though it would be unfortunate if Chubb were to win the Robinson Bear Pelt by just getting hurt.
- Round of applause for Kelce! After all that hullaballoo about Jefferson almost passing Kupp, it ends up being our top Travis End taking the top spot away. Nice job.
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