Alex has been on fire recently! Last week, he led off our game-by-game Week 9 breakdown after doubling as the game of the week winner and the week’s scoring leader. Well, it’s déjà vu all over again this week!

Alex doubled again as the Peyton Manning Award and Tom Brady Award winner. It’s now the 26th time in AFL history a manager has won both in the same week and it’s the second time a manager has won both awards in consecutive weeks. The last time it happened was when Eric Meyer beat Will Massimini and Evan Ash to pull off the double back-to-back in Weeks 7 and 8 of his historic 2016 campaign.

This is Alex’s fifth career Tom Brady Award and his second career Peyton Manning Award, bringing his career game of the week record to 2-5 while dropping Anthony to 15-14 in his appearances.

Alex’s 154.86 points rank 45th all-time in the AFL and he was the only manager to record a Top 100 AFL score.

This was a rough loss for Anthony. He was coming off consecutive games with less than 90 points and three straight games outside the top half of the league in scoring. He was our third highest scorer this week, thanks in part to having four Top 5 positional players on offense, including two of the Top 5 starting tight ends, but suffered the unlucky loss.

Not that it would have made up the difference, but Anthony did leave the top scoring kicker on his bench this week as Zane Gonzalez went off for 19.1 points.

It’s the second week in a row Alex beat the league’s #3 scorer after Alex Mayo suffered the same fate as Anthony in Week 9. These were Alex’s first career victories against both opponents after going a combined 0-4 against them in his first three seasons in the AFL.

In addition to his two awards previously mentioned, Alex also earns defensive coach of the week recognition after the Dallas Cowboys went off for 28.32 points against the Falcons.

These past two incredible weeks for Alex come on the heels of his third sub-100-point performance of the season. He now is tied for the second-longest active streak of 100-point games with two of them.

Like Anthony, Eric also suffered an unlucky loss this week. He was the league’s #4 scorer but Sean snuck just ahead of Anthony to claim the #2 position and remain tied for the best record in the AFL.

Honestly, it’s rather remarkable Eric was even among the Top 6 scorers in the AFL this week. Just consider the status of the entire first half of his 2021 draft:

1.11 – Derrick Henry, Ten RB (keeper) IR, Foot

2.2 – Nick Chubb, Cle RB OUT, Covid-19

3.11 – Robert Woods, LAR WR OUT, ACL (IR likely)

4.2 – Julio Jones, Ten WR IR, Hamstring

4.4 – Miles Sanders, Phi RB IR, Ankle

5.11 – Kyler Murray, Ari QB OUT, Ankle

7.11 – Logan Thomas, Was TE IR, Hamstring

8.2 – Tyler Boyd, Cin WR BYE

Somehow, he still managed to put up his first 100-point game in three weeks (almost four, he scored 100.78 in Week 7) and looked like he might win until Darrel Williams went off for 24.52 on Sunday Night Football to give Sean a win by just less than 10 points.

Of course, Eric could have won his game if he had made some different choices. That’s the case in a majority of games in our league considering we very rarely see perfect lineups. But this week, one set of decisions that Eric could have made to win is the set that FleaFlicker would have made.

Eric took three coaching risks, based on FleaFlicker projections. One actually did pay off; rather than pick up Nelson Agholor, who was projected to outscore both of Eric’s starting wide receivers, Eric decided to stick with Elijah Moore in his lineup and add Brandon Bolden to his bench, a decision that earned him 8.4 points.

Unfortunately, he then cost himself 39.66 points with his other two moves. To replace Murray at quarterback he picked up Baker Mayfield instead of Jimmy Garoppolo, missing out on 13.84 points, and then instead of picking up Rhamondre Stevenson, he added and started Mike Davis and cost himself 25.82 points. Those result in Eric earning this week’s Hue Jackson Award.

Now, Sean could have won this game a bit more comfortably considering he left the top tight end of the week, Hunter Henry and his 18.1 points, on his bench (which was also a coaching risk).

Eric, meanwhile, slips to last in kicker scoring this season with 61.2 points after Will Massimini passed him this week. This is despite being one of three managers with a Top 5 starting defense and a Top 5 starting kicker this week. Eric has started Dolphins kicker Jason Sanders in all 10 games so far this season. His bye is Week 14, the second to last week of our regular season.

In the only other matchup between two 100-point scorers, Cory just held off Stephen to win by four points thanks to a wild Monday Night Football.

Entering the final game of the week, Cory led by less than 10 points with Darrell Henderson yet to play while Matthew Stafford and Matt Gay were left for Stephen. There is one play we can definitively point to as the reason this game ended in a victory for Cory, and that was Stafford’s early pick-6.

This offseason we adjusted scoring for the league and one major addition was a 4-point penalty for interceptions returned for touchdowns assessed to quarterbacks, on top of the 2-point penalty for the interception itself. If that penalty hadn’t been added, we would be looking at a tie (pending stat corrections, of course).

Instead, Cory improves to 5-5 while Stephen drops his sixth straight game after starting his title repeat bid with a 4-0 record.

Cory was one of the two managers to join Eric with top five starters at both defense and kicker despite leaving the week’s #4 defense on his bench when the Miami Dolphins scored 20.48 points on Thursday night against the Ravens.

Cory has had a really good season streaming those off positions as he is currently second in scoring at both the kicker and defensive positions.

The biggest contributor to Cory’s victory was a part of his blockbuster trade with Alex mentioned in the intro to this week’s write up. Patrick Mahomes scored 39.84 points, his best game of the season and the 25th highest single-game score for a starting quarterback in AFL history.

Despite another strong defensive performance from the New England Patriots, Stephen jumped over Cory back into first place for defensive scoring this season with 1449.46 points from the position. He also ranks third in kicker scoring, so Cory isn’t the only one enjoying a relatively headache-free season from these positions.

Stephen also cost himself a win due to coaching risks for the second week in a row, once again earning honorable mention in the Hue Jackson Award running. This week, it was his decision to start Jerry Jeudy at wide receiver instead of FleaFlicker’s suggestion, Hunter Renfrow, that cost him 6.58 points and the game.

Enough about the bad coaches from Week 10. Let’s get to our coach of the week, Will Massimini.

Last week, we had to highlight Will due to his poor coaching. He was the Hue Jackson Award winner following the third time this season he had coast his team a win due to coaching risks. We also mentioned that he was 1-for-8 on coaching risks this season.

So, what did Will do with that feedback? He doubled down, or whatever word you would use to indicate he now has half again as many risks on the season as he had entering Week 10.

That’s right, Will took four coaching risks in Week 10. And after only succeeding on one in the previous nine weeks he quadrupled his season total by notching three successful risks this week.

His one fail, the decision to start Pat Freiermuth at tight end instead of Dallas Goedert, only cost him 0.9 points. Even if the penalty had been significant, I can’t fault him for that decision considering Freiermuth was coming off back-to-back performances as the top scoring tight end while sitting on Will’s bench.

The three successful risks netted him 1.06 points (starting Jalen Hurts over Derek Carr at quarterback), 3.1 points (adding and starting Chris Boswell at kicker instead of Robbie Gould), and 9.62 points (adding and starting the Titans defense instead of the Browns).

In all, Will netted a league-high 12.88 coaching points this week. He also is the kicker coach of the week. Chris Boswell scored 12.1 points and was the highest-scoring starting kicker, though there were two rostered kickers who scored more than him this week. One was Gonzalez, who I mentioned for Anthony. The other I’ll get to shortly.

In any case, those successes for Will weren’t enough as he still finished 11th in scoring while Alex notched his 10th straight game with 100 points to start the season. He’s got the longest active streak and nobody’s even in the same ballpark as the second longest active streak is just two games.

Alex didn’t have a terrible coaching week, but he did decide to bench Randy Bullock despite FleaFlicker’s suggestion to start him over Tyler Bass. Bullock was the #4 kicker in the AFL this week, the other kicker who would have outscored Boswell. His 12.2 points sat on Alex’s bench along with Taylor Heinicke who outscored Justin Herbert, an example of a successful coaching risk that could have been.

Alex leads the AFL in kicker scoring with 108.4 points and is the only manager with more than 100 points from the position this season.

Andrew was the only other manager we haven’t mentioned so far who scored 100 points.

William was one of two managers without any Top 5 starters in his lineup and he saw his 100-point streak end at six games. He had had the second longest active streak behind Alex Mayo.

Andrew was one of two managers to enjoy a lucky victory this week as he finished just below league median, 7th in scoring.

He is the luckiest manager of the season against league median with three victories despite finishing among the Top 6 scorers just once all year. Ironically, he lost that game; all three of his victories have come as a Bottom 6 scorer.

Additionally, Andrew is currently last in defensive scoring in the league and he wasn’t helped by the Browns and their 0.8 points this week. It is the fifth time in 10 games he’s gotten fewer than 5 points from his defense and the second time he’s gotten less than 1 point.

In fact, Andrew’s season total of 68.48 points from defenses is the only total in the league under 100 points.

The luckiest winner of the week was Brandon, who finished with 98.84 points to end his 100-point streak at two games.

Evan joined William with no Top 5 starters at any position.

There’s really not much more to say about this one. Brandon is certainly happy to have both Christian McCaffrey and Antonio Gibson healthy. They both produced 20-point games this week.