Fantasy Football – Page 7 – Byron Cobalt's Lazy Analysis

Allen Robinson, Captain of the Titanic – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 4 Update

After week 3, the most obviously revelation of the FGW metric was the consistent awesomeness of Cooper Kupp; a player that was relatively unheralded this year compared to his performance. He was consistently great, but not earth-shatteringly so.

On the flipside, after week 4, FGW is confirming the punishing nature of Allen Robinson’s first quarter of 2021. Everyone knows A-Rob has been a lead anchor for fantasy teams so far. No surprise that’s he’s just about fallen to (just about) the bottom of the FGW leaderboard.

Week 4 Winners and Losers

Cooper Kupp Lifts You Up – Fantasy Games Won (FGW) Week 3 Update

Week 3 has seen some quarterbacks get their season on track (Josh Allen, Justin Herbert), some in-game injuries sink some weeks (Christian McCaffrey, AJ Brown), but most notably by FGW measurement…

Cooper Kupp is easily the MVP of Fantasy Football through week 3.

Before getting to that, a look at the Week 3 helped-you-winners and helped-you-losers.

Who won the week?

Week 2 FGW Update: Congrats to all the 2-0 Kyler Murray owners

With week 2 in the books, we now have a Leaderboard to track. But first, let’s break down the week 2 results.

For an explanation on FGW, I wrote that up here: Introducing the Fantasy Game Wins (FGW) Fantasy Football Player Scoring System.

Who won you the week?

Introducing the Fantasy Game Wins (FGW) Fantasy Football Player Scoring System

I’ve always had a problem with using Points Scored as the primary measure of value for players in fantasy football.

This might seem like an odd complaint – after all, the team with the most points wins, right?

But that’s exactly it. The goal of fantasy football is to win, not to score points. And to win, you only need to score more points than your opponent. Playoff tiebreakers notwithstanding, any points you score beyond getting 0.01 more than your opponent are worthless. Same goes for any points scored in a losing effort.

If you’re disagreeing with me so far, you might be thinking: “I know I need to win, but I don’t know what my opponent is going to score in a given week. I’m trying to maximize points scored!”

Almost. You’re trying to maximize the chance that your points scored will be greater than your opponent. Here’s why that’s different.