Written by Cory Puffett
Published September 29, 2016 to Puff on the NFL
At this point, there’s not much use in discussing scoring comparisons. The three highest scoring weeks in league history are this season’s first three weeks. It will be more newsworthy when we have a week that falls outside of the top 15.
Eric Meyer continued his early season tear and improved to 3-0 on the season. His is the only team that has scored at least 120 points each of the first three weeks. His victim this week was Anthony Battle, who fell to 0-3 despite having the fourth most points in the league to date. He has undoubtedly been the most unlucky league member. He has faced either the highest or second-highest scoring team every week so far.
Andrew Perez is the only other undefeated team remaining. His team doesn’t have a lot of names you associate with a championship-caliber fantasy lineup, but DeMarco Murray is the top running back in fantasy so far this season and Le’Veon Bell returns to action this week. If Coby Fleener’s last performance is a sign of an increased comfort and familiarity with the Saints offense, Perez will be a tough matchup all season.
With Meyer at the top of the AFL Central and Perez at the top of the AFL West, William Massimini leads the standings in the AFL East. Massimini had a great first two weeks, but his third game was a bit of a disappointment. His three starting running backs averaged nearly 25 points apiece but his three pass catchers averaged only 2.3 points each. With a sub-par performance from Cam Newton and only 10 points from his off-position starters, there wasn’t much Massimini could have done. Still, he holds the lead in his division and nobody else in the East looks poised for a run of any kind.
The top scoring team last week was Adam Perez, whose team posted 145.2 points, led by 35.5 points from Lions wide receiver Marvin Jones. That score gave Adam his first win of the season, and vaulted him from 12th to 6th in the weekly power rankings. Despite the big week, I’m not predicting a winning streak for Adam’s team.
Eric Meyer led the league with four top five positional scorers, notching one at every position.
Check out the review of Week 3 below (team names have been changed to the names of their owners):
Game of the Week: Andrew Perez at William Battle
What better than the closest game to be the game of the week? With even quarterback production, strong wide receiver play for Andrew Perez and strong running back play for William Battle, the difference was the slight advantage at defense and kicker for Perez.