2025 - Week 2

 

Week 1 Recap

Football is back!

Fantasy football is all about luck. Who needs the skill of researching players, drafting a good team, monitoring waivers, maintaining your roster, and starting the right players when you can just simply play the lowest scoring team of the week?

Bad news everyone, the fantasy data tool I used last year now went behind a paywall. I somewhat incorporated one of the metrics into the “So you think you can Dong?” data (more details below). There is a way to pull our league’s data from ESPN’s API but I can’t seem to get all the data needed. If there’s any technical wizards in our league who is interested in getting that working let me know!

Week 2 Preview

Ah, week 2. The week we either know if good teams are actually good, if bad teams might be okay, and who overreacts on waivers the most based on last week’s results. PS don’t look to see who spent 16% of their budget on Keenan Allen.

This week in the NFL will have some fun matchups. I’m looking forward to Thursday night’s game and it may actually be a good game?! Aaron Rodgers is on pace to throw 68 passing touchdowns this season (crushing Peyton’s record of 55), and possibly MVP. (Jason told me to write that). Joe Flacco returns to Baltimore again and we get a double-header on Monday night! MORE FOOTBALL!

Stats n' Stuff

So You Think You Can Dong?

More data! Now included is my take on “Power Record”. In other words, your team’s record if you played every other team that week. This is kind of a luck metric to see weigh your lineup versus the luck of your scheduling draw for that week. For example, I got a win against Adam however my weekly record would have been 2-7.

For more fun, I’ve added the same metric but based on your best possible score from a perfect lineup and measured how it would fare against everyone else’s best possible lineup for that week. Using me as an example again, you can see I got extremely lucky this week as my best lineup would have gone 0-9.

Power Rankings

All Time Leader Board