Written by Cory Puffett
Published October 16, 2018

The scoring barrage that has been the 2018 season continued in Week 6. We didn’t get a new scoring record but this was the second highest scoring in league history. In fact, despite two teams falling below 100 points we still saw the second highest losing average in league history as our six losing teams averaged 111.4 points.

Danny Hatcher won his 12th career game of the week and second of the season. He has won 16 percent of our league’s 74 games of the week. Andrew Perez fell below 100 points for the second week in a row as he got blown out in his second straight game of the week appearance.

Danny’s 140.3 points tie him for 42nd on the all-time team scoring list.

William Battle, on the other hand, enjoyed his own, much more pleasant, repeat from Week 5. He has led the league in scoring for the second week in a row and for the third time this season. He has now taken the lead from Eric in scoring on the season. His 150.1 points this week is good for the 18th highest score in league history.

William was aided by two 30-point performances by his star running back tandem. Todd Gurley scored 38.3 points, good for 13th on the all-time running back list. This total also edged out his previous game high in the AFL of 38.2 points in Week 3 of the 2017 season. Saquon Barkley, meanwhile, scored 34.7 points, tying him for 31st on the all-time list.

Thanks to a 30-point outing by Davante Adams on Monday Night Football, Stephen April scrapped out his third win of the season, edging William Massimini by just 0.7 points. This is the 19th time in league history a game has been decided by less than a point. Stephen and Will combined for 255.7 points, the second highest combined score in those 19 contests, trailing only a Week 7 game from last season in which William Battle and Viroj Suteerawongsa combined for 259.1 points.

Evan was our second highest scorer with 149.2 points, good for 23rd on the league’s single game leaderboard. He won his matchup against Eric, whose 135.4 points is the second highest losing score in league history. This is the third week in a row we have had a losing team join this top five list.

Eric was given a glimmer of hope by Tyreek Hill’s 35.8 points on Sunday night, good for 13th on the all-time wide receiver list, but that hope was short lived since Evan had Kareem Hunt in his lineup.

Brandon Saunders found himself on the losing end of William’s latest rampage despite 35.8 points from Melvin Gordon, tied for the 23rd best performance by a running back in league history.

Our defensive streamer of the week was Sean Kennedy, who earned 23 points from the Houston Texans defense. Our season leader in defensive scoring is Will Massimini, who is the first owner to reach triple digits. Andrew Perez has just 42 points from the defensive position, less than half of Will’s 106.

Our kicker streamer of the league is Anthony Battle who earned a season record 19 points from New England Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski. Danny leads the season kicker scoring leaderboard with 63 points. Eric is at the bottom of that list with just 31 as he stillrefuses to move on from Chris Boswell.

Eric was our unluckiest coach this week as he lost despite an 8-3 breakdown. Will Massimini had a 6-5 breakdown and also lost in that nail biter against Stephen.

Our luckiest coach was Anthony, who had just a 3-8 breakdown by faced Cory Puffett who was the week’s lowest scorer. Sean also got a lucky win despite a 4-7 breakdown.

Our best coach of the week was Stephen April. He earned his second coaching win of the season. He cost his team 4 points by starting the Eagles defensive instead of the Seahawks but he earned 6.3 points by rolling with Andrew Luck over Alex Smith. That small point total he earned was enough to earn a narrow victory.

William Battle deserves honorable mention this week as he earned 17.7 points with two successful coaching risks, starting Demaryius Thomas instead of Bilal Powell and Brett Maher instead of Cody Parkey.]

Our worst coach of the week was Danny. He failed on two coaching risk, costing his team 25.1 points. He went with Kenyan Drake instead of Latavius Murray, likely not paying attention to the Sunday pre-game reports that, contrary to expectations, Dalvin Cook would not be playing, and Kenny stills instead of Corey Clement.

So far this season, Danny has been our luckiest team with 1.18 wins above expected, followed closely by Brandon’s 1.09 WAE. Our unluckiest team is Will Massimini, who sits at 2.27 wins below expected. After finally earning a win, Anthony drops to 1.18 WBE, which is still good for the second unluckiest team in the league.

Evan and Danny each had three players in the top five at their positions this week. Five other owners had two players each and Sean was the only owner without any such players. Sean overcome that handicap and won his matchup, despite his opponent, Adam, having two such players. Stephen also won his game despite having fewer players on those top five lists than his opponent.

Check out the review of Week 6 and this week’s power rankings below:

Game of the Week: Andrew Perez at Danny Hatcher

For the second week in a row, Andrew found himself on the losing end of a blowout in the game of the week. Danny cost his team more than 20 points with poor coaching and Andrew couldn’t capitalize.