El Tri Fantasy Football, Week 4 Power Rankings

Eric and Omeed have been trading insults since they were kids, and week 4 gave Eric a receipt he can laminate: 155.08 to 79.42, a margin of 75.66, the largest anyone has put on anyone this season. CeeDee Lamb took a 13.65 projection and returned 32.80. Emanuel Wilson posted 25.50 on an 11.08 projection. Alvin Kamara added 20.30 against a 9.19 projection. Eric leads the league in points at 565.44, averages 141.36 a week, and has been the week's top scorer twice, more than anybody. The price list on his roster is the best joke of all: Lamar Jackson cost $13 and has produced 79.08 points, the best value he bought, while Christian McCaffrey cost $60 and has produced 66.00, which makes the expensive running back his worst purchase and the cheap quarterback his best. His floor of 120.82 is the highest in the league, so the ugly Sunday that everyone else gets handed keeps skipping his house. Andrew's 1-0 comes next, a 3-1 team the formula trusts about as far as it can throw a kicker. Eric's 67.74% shot at the top seed does not need any help, but he will take it, and then he will tell his twin brother about it in detail nobody asked for.

Four injured starters, the most in the league, four more flagged for week 5, and Mike's response has been zero dollars of FAAB and three transactions all season. The man who can get a week of mileage out of a sore ankle has decided real injuries will sort themselves out. Week 4 did not require the effort: C.J. Stroud 23.08, Zay Flowers 21.80, Tee Higgins 21.20 against an 11.27 projection, George Kittle 15.00, and Spencer Shrader kicking 16.00 like it is a weekly chore. The final was 148.68, a 33.70 win over the commissioner. Jeremiyah Love turned a 14.17 projection into 6.00 and nobody in the box score noticed. His roster strength of 146.71 leads the league and his ceiling of 159.73 leads it too, a strange pairing with a medical chart this long. Chris Olave at $35 has returned 72.60 and stands as his best buy. Quinshon Judkins at $19 is the worst thing on his ledger and still went for 18.60 on Sunday, which tells you how little there is to complain about here. He will complain anyway. Luke's Monty Hall Problem is next, a team that has touched its roster twice since the auction, so week 5 becomes a contest to see which of these two can refuse to manage harder.

Chris Bell started in the flex and scored 0.00. Kyle Monangai scored 27.50 from the bench, in sweatpants, with his phone out. Max's week 4 lineup graded at 73.82% against the best lineup visible after the fact, the worst mark anyone posted this week, and he lost 108.02 to 133.38, a margin of 25.36, which is smaller than the number sitting on his bench. Javonte Williams did his part with 28.80 on a 13.25 projection. Jahmyr Gibbs came back 15.70 against 23.79, and Dalton Kincaid contributed 1.20, which at tight end counts as sabotage. The undefeated start is gone and the streak reads negative one. He has left 82.90 points uncaptured across the season, 11th in the league, and he still has Josh Allen at $27 producing 111.96 points, the single best use of money on his roster. Bryan's Jamo to the Dome comes next, and the archive is grim: Max's accounts are 6-13 against Bryan's across seasons going back to 2013. Thirteen losses to the same guy is a lot of going home for a man who claims to go big.

Two players cost Daniel $50 apiece at the auction. Kenneth Walker III has returned 104.10 points and went for 30.40 on Sunday. Omarion Hampton has returned 42.70. Same money, two separate lives, and the ledger calls Walker his best buy and Hampton his worst. The rest of week 4 happened at the position his team is named after: Parker Washington 1.50 against a 12.79 projection, Josh Downs 3.10 against 11.01, Tre Tucker 6.40, and Romeo Doubs putting up 20.80 from the bench, the worst start/sit call of Daniel's season. Final score 105.52 to 127.58, second loss in a row. A man who will not rehab a knee is not going to rehab a receiver room. He is going to start the hype, wait on the comeback season, and tell you the process was sound. Brock Purdy's 19.62 and Walker's 30.40 were the entire offense; everything else was filler. His flex slot sits 10.44 above par, the strongest spot on his roster, meaning the one lineup hole where he can start anybody is the one hole working. Jacob's Sell The Team is next, the lowest-scoring team in the league. Daniel will either win by forty or lose while explaining a trade offer that nobody on the other end has opened.

Bryan has had 548.60 points thrown at him, more than any team in this league, and his average opponent is scoring 137.15, the toughest slate anybody drew. His two wins add up to 3.08 points of margin. His two losses add up to 90.22. No team's rank has swung more than his 3.75 over four weeks, because the formula cannot decide whether he is a contender or a man standing in the wrong doorway. Week 4 followed the pattern: Nico Collins 27.30 on a 12.64 projection, T.J. Hockenson 18.40 on a 7.10 projection, the Seahawks defense chipping in 12.00, and then Garrett Wilson 4.20 against 13.23, Davante Adams 5.20 against 13.19, Matthew Stafford 9.68, and Chase McLaughlin kicking 2.00 like he was being charged per point. That is 114.98 and a 33.70 loss to Mike. Thirteen transactions and $48 of FAAB say the commissioner is working the problem; the standings say the problem is the calendar. Davante Adams at $15 has given him 62.00 points and stands as his best buy, so the shopping has not been wasted. Max's Trailer Park Boys are next. Bryan will win by a point or lose by forty. The middle outcome stopped being available to him in week 1.

Kyren Williams turned an 11.88 projection into 31.70, which covered for Stefon Diggs at 6.00 and Christian Watson at 6.20 and made 127.58 to 105.52 look like a comfortable afternoon. Mero paid $39 for Kyren and has 79.20 points out of him, the best piece of business on his roster. The surrounding picture is cozier than he will cop to: 395.80 points against, the fewest in the league, and an average opponent scoring 98.95, the softest schedule anybody has been handed. Two straight wins, seventh in the standings, and a 53.83% shot at the playoff field. Amon-Ra St. Brown went 11.50 against a 16.49 projection out of the flex and the Packers defense handed over 10.00, so the margins were carrying freight. The leftovers are the concern: 72.74 points he could have captured with perfect hindsight across four weeks, 10th in the league, with a week 3 call where Jadarian Price started for 0.70 while Luther Burden III sat on 16.30. Jason's Weenie Hut Jr. is next, fresh off a win nobody saw coming. Mero should enjoy this schedule while it holds, because nothing else in his life has held up this well, including the shoulder.

One win. Four weeks as the league's test case for cosmic indifference and Vincent finally banks one, 125.54 to 103.50, built on Bijan Robinson's 27.20 and Puka Nacua's 23.20. Then the usual tax: Rashee Rice started and scored 0.00 against a 12.13 projection, and Joe Burrow posted 23.72 in street clothes while Tyler Shough threw for 15.94 in the lineup. Vincent has made 14 transactions, more than anybody in the league, which is what a man does when he drafts a roster with no depth and then spends September shopping for a bench. Right now $48 of what he paid at the auction is sitting outside the lineup he would start today. Bijan at $66 has returned 98.40 and is the finest thing he bought. Puka at $63 has returned 33.10 and is the worst, and both of them played well on Sunday, which should give you a sense of the overall weather. His luck delta of -0.30 remains the worst mark in the league. The Snakes come next, Drew and Omeed on one screen, two-thirds of his enemies list in a single matchup, against a team on a three-game skid. If that one goes sideways too, he can go back to watching birds, who at least show up when they are projected to.

Andrew is 3-1 and ranked eighth, which is the formula calling him a fraud in front of everyone. His all-play mark of .432 sits eighth. His luck delta of +0.32 is the highest in the league, his expected wins sit at 1.73, and a 3-1 team comes out of the simulations with a 37.56% shot at the playoffs. Then Jacob, the lowest-scoring team in the league, shoved all his chips in and Andrew did what Andrew does: 93.98 to 122.30. DJ Moore 2.20 against a 10.84 projection, Kalif Raymond 1.60, Brycen Tremayne 4.20, Jason Myers kicking 5.00, and Bryce Young scoring 21.46 from the bench behind Jared Goff's 20.48. The team he drafted has produced 342.30 points, dead last in the league, while his waiver work has produced 293.38, first in the league, so the man is running somebody else's roster and running it better than his own. Derrick Henry at $55 pays rent at 87.30 points. Travis Etienne Jr. at $34 has returned 25.40 and is the worst thing on his books. Eric's Fall of the House of York is next, scoring 141.36 a week, and Andrew's accounts are 12-14 against Eric's across every season since 2011. Two rings on the shelf and a 3-1 record the formula refuses to believe.

A.J. Brown cost Jason $40 at the auction and has produced 4.10 points this season. That is not a slow start, that is a green fee. And yet here he is: 133.38 points, a 25.36 win over Max, and two spots of climbing. Chuba Hubbard went 25.40 on a 15.07 projection, Jonathan Taylor added 22.20, Sam LaPorta turned 8.98 projected into 18.40, and Ka'imi Fairbairn kicked 16.00, while Ja'Marr Chase managed 4.20 against a 16.54 projection and got carried off the course by the rest of them. Taylor at $60 has returned 81.20 and is the best buy on the roster. Jason has spent $54 of FAAB, second-most in the league, hunting for the rest of the lineup. The standings stay rude: 425.32 points for, ninth, an average of 106.33, ninth, and a 16.28% playoff chance, the sort of number you post on a par-3 course and then never mention again. Mero's Don't Look Brock in Anger is next, winners of two straight. Jason has never taken this league down. Beating the guy with the gentlest schedule in it would be a reasonable place to start the campaign.

The reigning last-place administration opened week 4 with Ladd McConkey at 0.00, Travis Kelce at 2.50, Emeka Egbuka at 2.30 and the Chiefs defense at 1.00, then finished on the receiving end of 155.08 to 79.42. The 75.66 margin is the worst beating of the season and it arrived from Eric, who has been waiting a long time to do that to Omeed. Brian Robinson Jr. scored 25.20 from the bench while Cam Skattebo started for 7.10, the worst lineup call of their year. Three losses in a row, the longest active skid in the league. Two separate weeks as the lowest scorer in the league, more than anybody. And $55 of auction money is parked outside the lineup they would start today, the most of any team. Justin Jefferson cost $53 and has returned 38.40, the worst purchase on the roster. Omeed will explain the McConkey decision with the confidence of a man who has never sat through a full Chargers broadcast, and Drew will nod along because he has to live with him. Vincent's Dijon Likely on my Glizzy is next, run by a man who has spent four weeks looking for somebody to take it out on. The Snakes carry an 11.34% shot at the bottom finish for a second straight year, a topic on which Omeed will have no comment.

Luke has made two transactions. All season. He has spent nothing of his FAAB, still holds 14 of the players he drafted, and $197 of his original auction spend remains on the roster. He bought a team in August and has not opened the app since, which fits a man who blows his whole budget in the first hour of the draft and then sits there watching everybody else shop. The roster he still holds has returned 2.81 points per dollar of everything he paid, the best rate in the league, and the team has scored 407.76 points, 11th. Week 4 gave him Patrick Mahomes at 17.00, Carnell Tate at 17.00 off a 9.65 projection, Rhamondre Stevenson at 16.90 and Cam Little kicking 14.00, which ought to be the backbone of a win. Then Trey McBride 6.60 against 13.75, Bucky Irving 6.10 against 14.67, David Montgomery 4.30, and the Bills defense at 1.00. A 103.50 and a 22.04 loss to a team that had not won a game. Bo Nix scored 13.56 from the bench for good measure. Mike's Prime Sutton is next, the highest ceiling in the league at 159.73, and Luke sits with a 14.78% chance of finishing last. His team name has never made sense to anybody, but the door he picked has a goat behind it.

Tetairoa McMillan scored 38.20 against a 13.50 projection, the biggest beat of anybody's projection in week 4, and Jacob got his first win, 122.30 to 93.98. He paid $26 for McMillan and has 61.50 points out of him, the best money on the roster. The worst is a story the whole chat already knows: Saquon Barkley at $53 has produced 21.00 points this season, the poorest return on real money anybody in this league has gotten. On Sunday Jacob started him for 1.50 while Ollie Gordon II scored 17.00 on the bench, so the $53 running back is costing him twice now, once at the auction and once a week after that. He has spent $86 of FAAB, the most in the league, and only $90 of his draft spend survives on the roster, the least of anybody, with nine drafted players left standing. He has rebuilt most of this thing by hand and it still averages 90.88 a week, the lowest mark in the league, with a 70.83% chance of finishing twelfth. Daniel's Wideout Roulette is next, two straight losses and a receiver room in pieces, which counts as a genuine opening. One win in four weeks, and Jacob will celebrate it like a parade.