The JFL has changed forever.
We’ll have our record book, but I’m going to add a “modern
scoring” portion to the team accomplishments page, because clearly, the days of
140 points are of the past.
Certainly, the single matchup record of 186 will take a mighty
effort to even come close enough to smell its awesomeness.
With seven roster spots, compared to the nine used to score
that 186, the JFL is clearly a different place. Even compared to the eight last
year, we’re going to see a huge difference, which is why we’ll restart the JFL
single-season, single-matchup team records.
So, congratulations Graybill’s Generals, you’re the current
record holder for most points in a matchup.
For now, of course.
Graybill was one of four teams to reach 90 points, and his
win against Houserville is refreshing in many ways. One, because it took him
until Week 9 to get that first win. Two, because it came against the team who
had the best chance to load up.
Houserville’s first pick, Jamaal Charles came through,
scoring a team-best 17.3 points, but he was one of only three players to reach
double-digits. You’ll notice I wrote “team-best,” which means his QB scored
fewer than 17.3.
And that’s funny if you read his comments in the Fantasy
Gamecast chat.
“Why do you continue to draft Matthew Stafford??!!” he asks.
Well, maybe because with him, my team has a Super Bowl
title, three playoff appearances and two division titles in four years.
Sunday, he scored another 21 fantasy points. Yes, I’d like
more, but I’ll take it, especially considering how my backup option in the
draft was Eli Manning, the QB you drafted who had just 10 points.
That was still nearly two times the points Adrian Peterson
scored. His 5.8 points made me and parents around the world smile.
Graybill got double-digits from six of seven players to win
this matchup easily 97.8-64 and move into an early first-place tie with the
Channel 4 News Team, who won easily 82.1-56.3 over Noise.
Noise’s third-round pick Nelson Agholor scored just 0.7
points. Note, Mark Ingram, who Craig accidentally drafted and had the drafted
rolled back to fix, scored 13.8 points.
Even if he had that, though, it would not have mattered. The
Browns had negative points, his eighth-round kicker had 4 and Megatron scored
just 4.3.
Aaron Rodgers, on the other side, scored 30.5 and led News
Team who may be 1-0, but has to win like this weekly to keep it up.
Here are some more
random notes from Week 1
FEAR WINS REMATCH,
PICKS THE RIGHT RB AGAIN
Can you believe it? I know it’s early, but Fear has the No.
1 RB in the JFL. Carlos Hyde and his ridiculous spin move went for 168 yards
and 2 TDs in Week 1 to score 30.6 fantasy points and lead Fear back from the
dead against T-Money.
It really looked like T-Money would start 1-0, but those 30 points
helped Fear win 91.3-89.1.
The win came on the 49ers last two drives in the fourth
quarter as Hyde ran for 15 yards on the second-to-last drive and 17 yards on
the final drive.
Fortunately for the rest of the JFL, his other back Latavius
Murray only had 9.4 points. For now, we don’t have to worry about the dual
threat he had in DeMarco Murray and Le’Veon Bell.
GETTING DEZZY, BETTER
SIT DOWN
Chalupa won 86.9-71.4 over the Slackers — thank you very
much — and he did it with only 5.8 points from Dez Bryant. It will be his
season point total about 8 to 12 weeks from now when he returns to the lineup.
By that time, Chalupa will hope he’s in the playoffs.
If not, it will be just in time for Chalupa to decide to not
keep him again.
THE CURSE OF THE JAWZ?
Jawz Attack drafted Peyton Manning in the first round and he
left the draft happy that for once, he had a QB.
After just 7.4 points in Week 1, Manning has made the Jawz
wonder if he’s as dangerous to quarterbacks as Amity Island is to swimmers.
At least he won, and at least on his bench, the No. 2 QB in
the JFL right now is Marcus Mariota. Starting him could be trouble though as
once you jump in the water, you’re dead.
GRAYBILL’S TAKE!
And lastly, I turn it over to my former assistant sports
editor, Dan Graybill. He’s happy to steal the ideas I have for Jargon columns.
This week, he talks tight ends. Enjoy.
Graybill's General Store
It’s
clear.
The
owners of the JFL franchises have to learn to adapt to the new lineup format.
In the
offseason, JFL commissioner/trade vetoer, JimmyJam, changed the TE spot to a
more user friendly flex WR/TE spot. Just five JFL owners played TEs in Week 1.
What
were we thinking? Or were we thinking?
Included
in the top point scorers for the players eligible for the WR/TE spot, five were
tight ends. And exactly one of those players was in their owners starting
lineup. I say again, one.
Congratulations
to Jawz Attack, not that it was much of stretch to put Rob Gronkowski in your
starting lineup. Not only was Gronkowski in the top 10, he was the top point
getting in the WR/TE category, besting (WR) Julio Jones by 0.5 points in the
JFL. Needless to say, unless Gronk’s injury history rears its ugly head, he
will be in the lineup for the entire season.
The
rest, well know, the debate continues.
No. 2
TE point getter – Austin Seferian-Jenkins. Bless you!
Who is
this guy, well apparently he’s Jameis Winston’s binky. Winston struggled in the
battle of rookies, but was able to find Seferian-Jenkins five times, for 110
yds. and two touchdowns. In the end it worked out to 26 points. Unfortunately
for the Toasters, Steve Smith, Sr. occupied the WR/TE spot, to the tune of 3.2
points, in a disappointing effort by the Ravens at Mile High. Had Dottsville
swapped Seferian-Jenkins in, he would have been in the win column, and it
wouldn’t have been as close as it was. (82.5-62.5)
No. 3
on the list – Travis Kelce.
Now,
given that the Chiefs didn’t have a WR score a touchdown the entire 2014
season, this may have been a safe play. However, Alex Smith is the quarterback.
Noise’s WR/TE spot was actually filled by Brandon Marshall, who scored a
respectable 13.4 points. Noise’s other two WR spots were filled by Nelson
Agholor* (.7 pts) and Calvin Johnson (4.3 pts.) Ouch! Even if Noise swapped
Kelce for Agholor, he would have lost, by less than a point. Cleveland’s
defense didn’t help much either.
No. 4
TE point getter – Tyler Eifert.
This
one didn’t really matter; it just would have been more of an embarrassment for
Houserville. Dawson Sucks!
Eifert
picked up 24.2 points as a tight end as the Be(u)ngels dominated the Raiders.
Swapping Eifert for low-point producer Deymarius Thomas (c’mon 2nd
round pick), would have given the Generals 115.1 points and would have been the
only JFL franchise to top 100 points in the week.
No. 5
– Jason Witten.
Choo
still would have been glued to the Sunday night game, but instead of waiting to
see if Odell Beckham, Jr. could make another one-handed grab, he would have
been looking to see if Witten could propel him past Philly Cheese Steaks. The
short answer is, no. It still would have been a loss, 82.9 – 82.5. A better
play would to have had Witten and Blake Bortles in the starting lineup over
Beckham, Jr. and Joe Flacco. No, seriously, Bortles had a better fantasy day
than Flacco. That just hurts, as does the other mountains of points on Choo’s
bench.
What
does all this mean? We’ll find out, its one week, hopefully no one panics like
the Redskins and cuts their kicker after one miss in Week 1. With such
important points left out of the lineups, will more TEs make their way into
starting rosters?
* Microsoft Word
doesn’t not think Agholor is a misspelling, who would have guessed?
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