First and foremost: fuck Sunday morning games.

Gentlemen, let me get the weekly formalities going by offering you all a whole-hearted "YOU'RE WELCOME FOR MY SERVICE". My military service? No, I'm speaking of course about my service to this league and my endless drive to make things better for yall. There I am, diligently at work on a Wednesday afternoon when I get a text from TK asking if the website has trade information on it. There was a log of draft-pick trades, yes, but no more. Well, like I always say, ask and you shall recieve. Also, TK joins Collin and Garrett on the list of folks that actually contributed to the league this year. The rest of yall need to do better.

Trade Log

I've now integrated trade details into the website. There an entire Trades page by itself, which includes a log of trades, an analyzer to see how the traded players did before and after the trade, and the matrix of draft pick trades available. Additionally, your owner pages has a log of any trades you made, and season pages have a log of trades for that season. If you want to know anything else about the trades, let me know and I can noodle on how to get it added.

Unfortunately, right after I found all the player data, the trade data is now what eludes me. ESPN seems to have removed everything about it from before 2018, and I can't know for sure about if players were traded or just dropped and picked up by looking at rosters. My call to action from you all is if, by some miracle, you have any emails still hanging around your inbox about trades from before 2018:

1. Please forward them to me
2. Please take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself why you still have fantasy football emails from over 8 years ago

Now, along with the new pages/additions to pages, I got motivated and redid a TON of the formatting logic on the website. Really simplified it (took the CSS down from ~2500 lines to about 800 lines, for those of you that can apprecaite that) and made it more consistent across pages. You all likely will notice little to no change, but if you do notice something funky looking on the site please let me know and/or send me a screenshot so I can correct.

Recaps

Ok, well now that GUT CHECK is over we are back to our regularly scheduled programming, which does feature 3 rematches. How did Gut Check go though?? Well... quietly. Low scores across the league this week, Mike's top score of 130.6 was the 6th lowest weekly best EVER in the regular season (out of 218, for context), and the lowest since 2018 Week 15 when Austin led the league with 120 points against Garrett.

TK 96.24 - 125.1 Garrett

The 0.08 point loss may have broken TK this year. He falls to 2-8 in H2H matches on the year and, while he can't be eliminated from the playoffs this week, is staring that reality in the face in the near future. Brock Bowers (3.7) and Justin Jefferson (7.7) were two of TK's primary problem children, and even when Josh Allen pulls his weight sometimes its not enough. Garrett put up reasonable numbers, even though Saquon had a somewhat tame 13.1, and the win helps propel the Garrett-Collin coupling to a 3 game lead over JL and Austin with only 10 games to go. TK, it may be time to make a 2026 move my friend. Your pal Jake's door is always open.

Jake 102.32 - 130.6 Mike

I am but a coin, one side wins and one side losses. Flip me, and leave the outcome to chance. 5-5 H2H, 5-5 in Top 5 points, I'm either on or I'm off, no idling for me. I mean look Mike did good, tip the cap to him. JSN is a problem, Drake Maybe is representing the state of NC like a champ, and on days when Derrick Henry and Kenneth Walker don't pull through he's got Nico Collins to pick up the slack. Props to Mike I guess, however, I'm fairly certain there's like laws against this beating a veteran on Veteran's Day weekend, so the authorities will be contacted and, of course, I hope you absolutely suck this weekend because an 0-4 run for me would be pretty tragic. I am optimistic that I'll improve since I won't have two guys shipped across the planet to dance for a bunch of Germans this weekend... fuck those games man.

John Luke 129.92 - 112.36 Nathan

John Luke told me this week, and I quote "I'm still trying to win". Well buddy, looks like you were successful. Well, specifically two of your players were successful. Unlike PITTMAN'S STUPID ASS John Luke saw a monster game from Jonathan Taylor, 52.6 points from 286 total yards and 3 TDs, which is already wild but that combines with Jahmyr Gibbs' 40.2 points for a total of 92.8 points from RB1 and RB2. That's the most ever from those two slots, by a lot. The next highest was Ryan in 2019 Week 5 when CMC and Dalvin Cook combined for 75. Nathan honestly wasn't even out of this game despite that, the rest of John Luke's team kinda sucked, but a negative outing from Bryce Young sunk him and locked in the L. Both these teams can take a breather this week though, as JL goes against last-place TK and Nathan plays 8th-place Garrett.

Austin 96.34 - 127.4 Collin

ALL-TIME RECORD ALERT: and not one of those obscure ones like "most points by RB1 and RB2 combined". Collin has won his 9th consecutive game, moving into sole possession of the 3rd-best streak of all time. The record is held by Mike, who won 11 from 2013 into the start of 2014. Austin tied that record in 2018 when he started 11-0. Collin is now two games away from tying it, but he'll have to win a rematch vs Austin this weekend to get there. Austin had his worst week of the season by far this weekend, failing to break 120 for the first time and even falling below 100. That resulted in his playoff buffer shrinking to only 4 points as a result of parter John Luke's 2-0 weekend. Austin just faced the score bug this weekend, happened to a lot of us. Collin sort of did too, but De'Von Achane just lit it up with 42.5 points to lift Collin's spirits and scores. Round 2 headed yalls way!

Ryan 116.14 - 117.3 Tyler

Woah kind of an electric game here?? Tmo escaped with a 1.16 point W thanks to Jordan Love being featured in perhaps the worst MNF game I've ever watched two offenses play. Honestly Tmo looked dead in the water entering the game, Jodan Love only needed 8 points (which he'd gotten every single week so far). Ryan was only in that position because his RB1 and RB2 pulled an inverse JL and combined for 6.5, pretty horrible, but Jordan Love embodied the game and the league as a whole this week by playing boring and uninspired football, and Ryan came up short just like the Packers did. Not only was the W huge for Tmo, he also managed to eke out a Top 5 point with a score of 117, which if you all recall my analysis from Week 4 you'd know only happens about 20% of the time. So clutch for Tmo to pull within 1 point of a playoff spot. Even more clutch for Tmo is that he turns around and plays Ryan again, who sits at 9th place and, while not in as dire a situation as TK, does not look like he'll be competing for a trophy this year. Ryan.... YOUR PAL JAKE'S DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN.

Power Couples

2-0 for Garrett and Collin man. I don't want to cheer for Austin but like... maybe we do something here yeah?