We’ll start with our game of the week, which was also our second lowest scoring game in Week 8 and our most closely contested game with the margin of victory in Anthony’s favor by less than five points.

With the victory, Ant earned his 15th career Peyton Manning Award, the second most in AFL history, and improves to 15-13 in game of the week appearances while Evan falls to 13-11 in his.

Despite neither team reaching 90 points, Anthony does improve to 6-2 this season and PlayoffComputer puts his chances of winning the AFL Central at 65.6% and his chances of making the playoffs at 78.7%, both the best odds of our league’s 12 managers.

Moving on to the other major weekly award, Will clinched his 11th career Tom Brady Award, breaking a tie with Sean for the fourth most all-time after Sean tied him at 10 last week.

Will’s 166.28 points are the 10th highest single-game team score in league history. His week could have been even better, though, but he left the week’s #2 tight end on his bench. Pat Freiermuth went for 12.3 points, just a tenth of a point behind the week’s top tight end. Apparently, all the league’s tight ends forgot how to be fantasy relevant after the excitement of National Tight Ends Day a week ago.

Stephen suffered an unlucky loss in this one as the league’s fourth highest scorer. He’s also the Hue Jackson Award winner this week after costing his team a league-high 23.58 points by starting Jerry Jeudy at FLEX instead of Michael Carter, the New York Jets running back who wound up being fantasy’s #1 RB with 28.9 points in Week 8. At least that coaching error didn’t cost him the game and he still has the second-best coaching grade in the league this season.

Stephen continues to pace the league in defensive scoring; he’s now up to 118.5 points at the position or 14.8 points per game! Will finally had a good week from his kicker and though he still has fewer kicker points than any other manager in the league, he did pull to within a point of Eric who sits in 11th.

Speaking of Eric, we may as well go ahead and knock out the only game this week that was had a lower combined point total than our game of the week.

The last time Eric finished last in scoring for a week was Week 4 of last season, but at least then he had a respectable 92.7 points. He barely topped 75 points this week and his bad luck with injuries only got worse with the news that Derrick Henry is going to be out for 6-10 weeks, meaning that the best-case scenario would have him back in action for the final game or two of our regular season. He’ll have to do a lot just to still be in playoff position by then, if Henry is lucky enough to need the minimum recovery time.

With his poor outing, Eric’s leading active 100-point game streak ends at 11. Meanwhile, like Anthony, Alex earned a lucky win after falling just under 100 points and just outside the top six scorers for the week.

Sean would have taken over as the league’s active leader in consecutive 100-point games, but he, too, failed to reach the mark after having a streak in the double digits. That means Alex, who scored 100.7 points, takes over as the league’s active leader at eight games. He is the only manager left who has scored 100 points or more in every game this season.

Sean actually is our coach of the week after he earned a league-high 4.04 points with his lone successful coaching risk, and buckle in because this is a bit of a stretch. If Sean was going to add a defense this week, FleaFlicker’s suggestion would have been to add the Atlanta Falcons and start them over the Cardinals. Instead, Sean picked up the Raiders, who were on bye, to stash them for a future matchup, perhaps this week’s against the Giants, and stuck with his Cardinals who outscored the Falcons by that 4.04-point margin.

Like I said, it’s a stretch, but then if he had waited until this week to try and get the Raiders on waivers, there would have been no coaching risk so Sean will be happy to get those coaching points.

Alex is the leader in kicker scoring this season with 92.3 points, though he could be leading by a higher margin after he left the week’s #5 kicker, Randy Bullock, on his bench.

The second highest scoring matchup of the week featured the two managers who are now tied for the second longest 100-point game streak behind Alex Mayo. Cory and William are on five-game streaks of their own now, and Cory got the better of William in this one.

Cory’s 144.02 points rank 93rd in AFL history, thanks in part to his starting kicker and starting defense both finishing the week #1. Cory left the #5 defense, the Patriots, on his bench in favor of the Broncos, who outscored the Patriots by 6.32 points. Meanwhile, Patriots kicker Nick Folk repeated as the league’s top kicker.

William’s run of bad luck continued this week after finishing third in the league in scoring. He’s won one game as a bottom six scorer but he’s now lost three games this season as a top six scorer. In fact, this was his second loss as the #3 scorer this season, so he sits at 2 wins below expected vs league median and 1.3 wins below expected by breakdown.

Somebody had to win this matchup between 1-6 teams and Brandon came out on top this week despite leaving the week’s #5 quarterback, Justin Fields, on his bench. He reached triple digits for the second time this season and Andrew finished as a bottom three scorer for the fifth time in eight weeks.